Fearmongering
This is all in reference to a letter to Christians published by Focus on the Family speculating what kind of hell-hole America will turn into should Barack Obama take office. The letter is on their website here:
http://focusfamaction.edgeboss.net/download/focusfamaction/pdfs/10-22-08_2012letter.pdf
You can also get to it from their Election Coverage section.
If you don’t want to read it, it includes a fictional letter written after four years under Obama. Here are some of the things it speculates will happen:
- Gays will receive bonuses for enlisting in the military
- Open displays of Christianity will be banned in schools
- Hardcore pornography will be aired on daytime network television
- Guns will be outlawed, which will dramatically increase inner-city crime
- Terrorists will carry out attacks on four U.S. cities
- Gas will cost $7 per gallon, and the Democrats will be happy about this increase
- Liberals will shut down conservative talk radio
- Barnes & Noble and Amazon.com will stop selling Christian books due to a campaign of vandalism and hacking attacks from the gays
Toward the end, the letter states that electing Obama was “a mistake that changed the course of history.”
I’m not even going to attempt to argue against this. I think it stands on its own well enough. There are two really sad things about this, though:
- It gives sensible conservatives a really bad name
- It will probably work, to a significant degree
You can tell Focus on the Family how you feel here. Just please, please, please don’t give them any encouragement in thinking that they’re suffering persecution for their faith.
November 2nd, 2008 at 10:37 pm
After some criticism, they defend their letter here:
http://www.citizenlink.org/CLNews/A000008554.cfm
November 3rd, 2008 at 6:25 am
The problem with trying to argue this in any kind of cogent way is that the extreme conservatives will view ANY criticism as Satan working against them. Even if other Christians say, “Hey, we love Jesus too, but you’re being ridiculous,” they’ll just assume those critics are secret gay communist Satan-led Christians.
I’m just really sick of hearing that liberals are going to quash religion, take our civil rights away (does that make Bush a liberal?), make every teenage girl get an abortion, and turn all America’s children gay. And I’m sick of hearing that the ACLU is full of liberal activist lawyers. If a private citizen were being harassed at work, denied a vote, or bullied in his community for being Christian, the ACLU would have that man’s back.