• “A kinder, gentler flavor of rebellion against God”

    Next time in English, please

    The list of horrible things religious right characters have said about the tragic school shooting last week is getting too long and, frankly, boring. But there was this one that I want to add, just because it is  so baffling.

    Here we have pastor/home schooling activist Dave Buehner saying something I can’t quite make sense of:

    The liberals are proposing that we as a nation follow a kinder, gentler flavor of rebellion against God. They’d like a rebellion that stops a little short of murdering kindergartners. They want the rebellion that involves gay marriage; they want the rebellion that embraces rape rap and abortion and a media that is in utter defiance against the law of God. That’s the kind of society they want; they want a society that’s in rebellion but not that much rebellion.

    Proof that religion can make you totally deranged.

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