Exclusive: Ralph Reed Launches New Values Group: 'Not Your Daddy's Christian Coalition'

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Ralph Reed proves conclusively that there is no God

Otherwise, Jack Abramoff's cabana boy would be smitten with thunderbolts (or at the very least a bad case of hemorrhoids) every time he gets up on his hind legs and starts preaching to us pagans. A personal God as envisioned by evangelicals wouldn't stand for that sort of blasphemous insolence for a minute.

And anyway, I thought Ralph was off "humping those corporate accounts" as he so eloquently described his private enterprise endeavors. I guess those plans didn't work out and he's had to fall back on the God business. Times are tough.

A change of heart

I strongly disagree with the notion that Christians are free to do whatever they please and that they are already "covered by the blood" of Christ. There is no forgiveness of sins without a change of heart and a change of action. Those who go contrary to the ways of God must repent; there is no such thing as a Christian who does evil and expects he is justified in it. If such people exist (and they do), they are not Christian.

As for the Christian Coalition, it seems to be a political body. I am not inclined to support it unless it is truly governed by the principles of the Bible. It seems, however, that it is against abortion. This is one thing in the Christian Coalition's favor. Opposing the murder of America's next generation is certainly praiseworthy.

The arguments for abortion are not even lucid. One argument for abortion is that churches want the babies to live in order that the babies might possibly grow up to pay tithing. Hm. Let's see how valid that argument is. Think about it for a minute. Unborn babies are a potential source of income IF they choose to be Christian and IF they are diligent enough to pay a 10% tithing their entire lives? This argument isn't even worth considering. Christians are for preserving the lives of unborn babies, period. They are not greedily planning that someday the children might become diligent, tithe-paying Christians, which, I might say, is something of a rarity.

As far as churches being tax free, I am sure there are abuses. But I do not find this fact a legitimate excuse to try to tax people for their belief in God.

Hate

"Hate Bill" Favoritism

If "hate bill"-obsessed Congress can't protect Christians from "gays" as much as it wants to protect "gays" from Christians, will Congress be surprised if it can't protect itself from most everyone? If "hate bills" are forced on captive Americans, they'll still find ways to sneakily continue to "plant" Biblical messages everywhere. By doing so they'll hasten God's judgment on their oppressors as revealed in Proverbs 19:1. (See related web items including "David Letterman's Hate, Etc.," "Separation of Raunch and State," "Michael the Narc-Angel," and "Obama Avoids Bible Verses.") Since Congress can't seem to legislate "morality," it's making up for it by legislating "immorality"!

No religious test for public office

Founders mandated there shall be no public test for public office. One reason for this is that public servants decide what happens to tax revenue. Congress became packed with Christian extremists who continue religious tax exemptions, vouchers. etc. They yell "under God" when they say the pledge. They unpatriotically cast aside founding principles. Recently, many Christian public servants are exposed to be corrupt. They learned and acted on the Bible lesson that says there should be a "Fall Guy," or a "Whipping Boy" always standing by to take punishment for Christian wrongdoing. When public servants make their vow of office, and put a hand on the Bible, it means they expect to be FORGIVEN for their crimes and corruption. The Bible and other holy books teach nasty, guilt-escaping, amoral values

Faith and No Freedom for fertile people.

Reed, with the Bible figuratively implanted between both ears, makes a salaried soft job for himself in a new voting bloc he calls "Faith and Freedom." But he and his fellow-Creationists seem to be gathering legal chains and ropes and duct tape to prevent pregnant women from going anywhere near abortion surgeons. He is Scripturally supposed to be looking forward to being "bathed in the blood of Christ." But, as a male, he won't be bleeding to death after being poked with the bent end of a wire coat hangar. He says he's Christian, but F & F sounds exactly like Islamic law that says women stay home unless a male relative drives them around like bedroom furniture.

Where are fertile men who resent having Reedites boss them around? Why isn't there a National Abortion Rights For Men Action League? NARMAL?

New Party Needed--The Abolish Tithes Party

All faiths invent church laws that have been enforced on entire populations. Those laws always exist to create tithers, keep tithers and increase number of tithers. Ban-Abortion church law says nobody can abort a conception that could live and become a believer, giving 10% of lifetime income to a church. On 40K a year over forty years, at 10%, that's $160,000. Corpses don't tithe. That's why church laws ban suicide or attempted self-destruction. Dr. Kevorkian spent years in jail because that church law was enforced against him. I wrote to him in prison about it, but don't know if he got my letter. In Florida, Catholic Gov. Jeb Bush interfered in the Schiavo case, trying to make the state enforce that church law. Conversion is a financial transaction. It shifts the money value of the tithe from one batch of preachers to another. If preaching were free, clerics would go out of business, along with sellers of buggy whips and mimeograph machines. There would be no more religious tax exemption that lets churches escape taxation and lets them steal from public treasuries. I'm not young enough to start an Abolish Tithes Party. But hasten the day.

Results of Reed-aided Bush campaign

Reed helped in the crooked 2000 election that made Bush Commander-in-Chief. That led to Bush giving no-bid contracts to his pals in Cheney's Halliburton. Our taxes were wasted to enrich "destroy and rebuild--defense industry" corporations. Disease toxins and poisons were sold to Hussein by U.S. companies in 1985-1990. They included anthrax. Then Hussein was blamed for using those things to kill Kurds. Many nations refused to be part of the Coalition. Congress was conned into funding the Iraq war. I want Obama to stop worrying about being criticized and put an immediate end to U.S. occupation. There's something creepy about bailing out companies that MADE VEHICLES used in Mideast oil wars by both presidents Bush. Should we praise Reed, who publicizes his Christianity, for having a part in putting Christian Bush in control of all our weapons, being used against non-Christians? Religions say they're "the light of the world," but bodies of interred war-dead are in very dark places, are they not?

Dollar value of potential tithes payer

Pro-Life churches put a dollar value on each conception. They think each one is a potential tithes-payer, but only if it is not aborted. Most churches request a ten per cent lifetime tithe. Let's see what that would be on a steady annual income of

$40,000. One year is .10 x $40,000 = $4000. Over forty years, it is $40,000 x 4000, which is $160.000. That's a lot of money. If the person pays extra fees for weddings, baptisms, confirmations, funerals and church school, income to the church from one believer is REALLY a lot of money, I'm not claiming Pro-Life exists because of this connection between fertility and church income, but it's fair to think about it. Especially when churches get income tax exemptions and property tax exemptions and that makes taxes higher for the non-exempt.