The national Republican Party officially adopted an anti-Agenda 21 plank in its platform last month. "We strongly reject the UN Agenda 21 as erosive of American sovereignty, and we oppose any form of UN Global Tax," it reads.posted by tonycpsu at 9:15 AM on November 15, 2012 [5 favorites]
Proposed new rule: if you're going to say anything at all about the United Nations, anyone in the room has a right to ask you about how the UN is structured.Standard commie sharia atheist structure.
False Witnesses
Confronted with the runaway success of such an absurd and over-the-top claim, the reflexive response is to think something like, “Wow, a lot of people really are gullible and stupid.” But again — and this is my point here — this has nothing to do with either stupidity or gullibility. The widespread promotion and pretend-acceptance of this rumor cannot be adequately explained by stupidity. It can only be attributed to malice.
This story, as with the many others like it, is spread maliciously. The people spreading it are not fools. They are not suffering from a mental defect, but from a moral one. They have chosen to bear false witness, and they do so knowingly.
False Witnesses 2
That's as pure a distillation as you will ever find of the nightmares and bogeymen that terrify the religious right, complete with the attempt to justify those fears because those people are really Satan-worshipping baby-killers.
Perhaps the deepest fear lurking in that e-mail has to do with the persecution complex of American evangelicals we've often discussed here before. The fear here is not that Christians in America might face persecution, but rather the fear of what it might mean that they don't. The supposed effort to prove that there are ENOUGH CHRISTIANS … TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE is an expression of the fear — or the recognition — that the people sending and resending this e-mail are not CHRISTIAN ENOUGH TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE. They're shouting because they're frightened — truly frightened of the truth about themselves, which is always far more frightening than any fear of what might be lurking outside ourselves in the dark.
They Need Help
They need help. They need, frankly, liberation.posted by ob1quixote at 1:31 PM on November 15, 2012 [10 favorites]
The weird rumor about Target or the even weirder rumor about P&G are somewhat trivial examples of this, but basing your life on things that aren't true, that aren't real, is a kind of bondage. In simpler, more pragmatic terms: Unreality doesn't work. It is unsustainable. It is a recipe for unhappiness.
The reason I've been writing about/obsessing over things like the P&G rumor or the usefulness of Snopes is that I'm trying to figure out how to liberate the captives of unreality.
The Young Turks Know Agenda 21- Part 1 of 8.
Cenk used 1 sentence on his TV program to describe Agenda 21. That is ridiculous!posted by ob1quixote at 3:17 PM on November 19, 2012
Michael Shaw is an expert on Agenda 21. http://www.freedomadvocates.org/
Perhaps Cenk would like to debate Rosa Koire of Democrats against Agenda 21.
The Young Turks Know Agenda 21
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