by Matt Barr

Religion of peace

Andrew Sullivan, whose use of the term "Christianism" to marginalize people who are a little too religious for him was rudely interrupted by the London bombings (a week seemed long enough to lay low), offhandedly accuses Christians of advocating genocide today:

[Robertson] believes, as do most members of the religious right, that the world is soon coming to an end, and that the unification of Israel is integral to that story-line. (The Jews who don't accept Christ will all die in a second and more extensive Holocaust, orchestrated by Jesus.)

Sullivan's warning, published less than a month after September 11, not to "condescend to fundamentalism," it should be noted, meant fudemantalist Islam. Christians: Have at it.

Right before Sullivan went completely around the bend, he was a vocal critic of those who ignored the murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh by Islamic "maniacs." I wonder if for each day he is not slaughtered by a fundamentalist Christian for today's slur he'll appreciate the irony?

He was only talking about a small, fringe element on the religious right, you moron. Not so much. Same link:

It's also absurd to describe Robertson's views as somehow out of the mainstream of contemporary Christian fundamentalism, or Republicanism. His 700 Club reaches more people than most CNN shows and has more viewers, as Laurie Goodstein points out, than CNBC or MSNBC. That's why establishment conservative Fred Barnes was on the show last week; and why Karl Rove checks in with Robertson over judicial nominees. Moreover, the only reason anyone got mad at his statement about Sharon is because somone at PFAW is paid to listen. Do you think any of his 800,000 "Christian" viewers would be in any way discombobulated? This is their faith.

Describing Jesus as "an unrelenting mass murderer" in the Left Behind series, Sullivan quotes this passage:

[When Jesus speaks at the end of time,] Men and women soldiers and horses seemed to explode where they stood. It was as if the very words of the Lord had superheated their blood, causing it to burst through their veins and skin ... Even as they struggled, their own flesh dissolved, their eyes melted and their tongues disintegrated.

Hasn't Andy ever seen Dogma?

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