{"id":8680,"date":"2005-09-08T14:09:26","date_gmt":"2005-09-08T21:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/09\/08\/nothing-to-worry-about-here.html"},"modified":"2005-09-08T14:09:26","modified_gmt":"2005-09-08T21:09:26","slug":"nothing_to_worr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/09\/08\/nothing_to_worr.html","title":{"rendered":"Nothing to worry about here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For all of those who are concerned that George W. Bush is a radically conservative Christian, a Born Again theocrat, a Dominionist, etc., etc., etc., be not concerned:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cuttingedge.org\/news\/n1398.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">real fundamentalist Christians know that Bush is actually just faking it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Among the proof:  he supposedly was &#8220;born again&#8221; under the influence of Billy Graham, who everyone knows is paganist Mason and member of the Illuminati.  And, of course, Bush supports those ecumenist apostates like Focus on the Family and Promise Keepers.  And, of course, there&#8217;s his secret Black Magick association with Hitler &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>No, really.<\/p>\n<p><small>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/j-walkblog.com\/index.php?\/weblog\/posts\/is_george_bush_going_to_heaven\/\" target=\"_blank\">J-Walk<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For all of those who are concerned that George W. Bush is a radically conservative Christian, a Born Again theocrat, a Dominionist, etc., etc., etc., be not concerned: real fundamentalist&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":131657,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/27\/donald-trump-and-the-end-of-the-compassionate-conservative.html","url_meta":{"origin":8680,"position":0},"title":"Donald Trump and the end of the Compassionate Conservative","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 27-Sep-16 5:15pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Economic conservatism -- low taxes, low spending, low regulation trick-down economics, and leadership by oligarchs -- has been a key element of the Republican Party for many, many decades. But only in this year's GOP Presidential Candidate has it been stripped of even the veneer of public service, of faith-based\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":130952,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/06\/29\/on-the-naming-of-radicals.html","url_meta":{"origin":8680,"position":1},"title":"On the Naming of Radicals","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 29-Jun-16 12:52pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Lumping together people is sometimes useful, but (especially when intended in a negative way) is more often harmful.For those who insist that \"Radical Islam\" (etc.) is the best way to refer to members of Hezbollah and al-Qa'eda and ISIL and a variety of other groups that (a) operate out of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":129897,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/23\/aspirations-for-an-american-theocracy.html","url_meta":{"origin":8680,"position":2},"title":"Aspirations for an American Theocracy","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 23-Feb-16 7:26am","format":false,"excerpt":"The irony of Dominionist \/ Reconstructionist theology is how thoroughly belies the unintentionally ironic accusations by some on the Right that Islam is not a religion but a political system, as it permeates all of society and dictates how it should run. 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