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The Spectacle Blog
The atheists are thrilled.
God has been removed from the Democrats’ platform.
And no less than Illinois Senator Dick Durbin says removing God is “carping on a trifle.”
As reported on the CNN Political Ticker:
David Silverman, president of American Atheists, said the exclusion of “God” in the Democrats’ document was a step forward in including non-religious Americans in the official party stance.
“We are obviously happy that the Democrats are taking these positive steps,” Silverman wrote. “We are looking for the inclusion of everyone and we are hopeful that that inclusion will continue to the point that we can depend on Mr. Obama to repeal the faith based initiatives and reinforce the separation of church and state.”
“It comes as a pleasant surprise,” he added. “It is something that we have been pushing for and is certainly a positive step. But it is only one step and I would like to see action more than words.”
If the atheists are thrilled, Illinois Senator Dick Durbin was nothing but defensive and angry.
Fox reported last night that the Democrats had removed the solitary reference to “God” from their platform. This was followed by a Bret Baier interview with Senator Durbin, the Senate Majority Whip and a close Obama ally.
As seen here, Durbin quickly became upset when Baier began to question him on the fact of “God out of the platform.”
Durbin instantly snaps that if “the narrative” of Fox News is that “the Democrats are Godless people” they ought to know better. God is not “a franchise of the Republican Party,” he snarls. A startled Baier politely persists as Durbin demands “present your evidence.” Baier immediately recites the times God was mentioned in past platforms…once in 2008, seven times in 2004, four times in 2000…only to have Durbin angrily interrupt. “So what’s your question…..you are carping on a trifle.”
Great television, yes.
But I would suggest there was considerable reason for Durbin’s sudden outburst.
This is the political party that has acquired a reputation in the last 50 years as being increasingly anti-religion. Well aside from issue positions on such things as partial-birth abortion or school prayer (the first favored, the second not), not to mention the constant hate-campaign against the “Religious Right,” God has been dumped in the Obama-era from such routine things as a Thanksgiving proclamation in 2010 and a Thanksgiving address in 2011.
The impression is well out there that Democrats hate religion. In fact, that they have an ill-concealed contempt for it. And Durbin knew instantly his party was self-sabotaging.
So to sum up.
God is out of the Democrats’ platform. The atheists are thrilled. Durbin thinks God’s removal a “trifle.”
Amazing.
ncatty| 9.5.12 @ 1:35PM
Dick Durbin is the type of Democrat who wants it both ways. He is consistent in his insincerity. At least with "Pitchfork Tom Harkin" there is no dissembling.
RCV| 9.5.12 @ 1:56PM
If this is the best the GOP can do, they deserve to lose, and big.
Truth to Power| 9.5.12 @ 4:40PM
You need to move to Greece where they believe they can kick the can down the road indefinitely too. For you the party is coming to an end. Say hi to the pretend wife and kids.
Kingofthenet| 9.5.12 @ 2:22PM
I can't WAIT for the day when a Religious Person is looked at like there is something wrong with them on Job Interviews and Politicians who really are devout hide it least they appear unbalanced.The day is coming Free Thinkers
Dai Alanye | 9.5.12 @ 2:28PM
As they become more desperate the Dems also become less rational.
JD| 9.5.12 @ 2:58PM
If someone says the same thing about a man who likes having sex with another man, you vehemently condemn him. How hypocritical.
And hateful.
Teflon93 | 9.5.12 @ 3:01PM
Will that day come before or after someone teaches you grammar, punctuation, and capitalization?
spike59| 9.5.12 @ 4:11PM
i bet you can't even see the irony in your idiotic post...
Paul McGrath| 9.5.12 @ 6:23PM
On September 1, 2012, under the blog post titled, "Michelle Malkin is a Racist Like Me," by Quin Hillyer, Kingofthenet wrote this:
Kingofthenet| 9.1.12 @ 1:38PM
Michelle practices YELLOW Journalism, I would say the SLANT to her work is obvious. I would not pay even 5 dollar, for her 'work' because it never leaves me with a HAPPY ENDING.
Teflon93 | 9.5.12 @ 3:00PM
Now it is clear: one cannot serve God and Obama both.
Kelly Staples| 9.5.12 @ 3:23PM
Which "god" are we talking about?
mike 3/505| 9.5.12 @ 3:38PM
The one, true God.
Teflon93 | 9.5.12 @ 4:24PM
To her, that's Obama.
Pelleas| 9.5.12 @ 4:06PM
...and.."god" is running for WHAT position, in this FEDERAL ELECTION Campaign, exactly??
If this is the BEST The Republic Party can whine about, The DemoCRATIC Party will win by a LANDSLIDE..!!
Nick| 9.5.12 @ 4:13PM
Finally, lefty democrats have made it known, officially, how much they reject God, and hate those who worship Him faithfully.
Also, the head of the democrat party, Debbie Blabbermouth-Putz, was caught on tape lying through her teeth, yesterday, denying what she said about Israel's ambassador to the U.S., Michael Oren.
This convention is making it abundantly clear that the democrat party is throwing Israel under the bus, by not mentioning her in their platform, either.
Well, Is-ra-El does mean "one who struggles with God." I guess the democrat plank writers were just being thorough, huh?
Pelleas| 9.5.12 @ 4:28PM
"Finally, lefty democrats have made it known, officially, how much they reject God, and hate those who worship Him faithfully."
NO...The DemoCRATIC Party KNOWS that religious belief-of any sort- has NO PLACE IN Party or Government Policies-or in ThePublic Square/Sphere.
NO ONE in the Dem Party has EVER said ANYTHING demeaning about religion or beliefs--as long as those beliefs are kept where they belong--in the Church/Shul/Mosque/Temple/ of one's choice..or in the privacy of one's family and friends..nothing more, nothing less...
Nick| 9.5.12 @ 4:50PM
I guess that leaves out the Polio Prince (FDR), huh, tinker-bell?
He led the nation in prayer with a radio broadcast on June 6th, 1944. (Not that you would know what that date means, anyway.)
Try reading the inaugural addresses of President Washington & Lincoln, while you're at it, heathen.
And, remember, God loves you, no matter what perverted acts you've committed. He will forgive you of ANYTHING, if only you will ask for His forgiveness.
(Kudos, for not spewing obscenities & profanities in your reply, by the way.)
Pelleas| 9.5.12 @ 5:09PM
To refer to FDR a "the Polio Prince"-whether you liked/disliked/hated/ the man, is so beneath contempt, that you are not even worth me wasting my breath on any profanities on you...
Your (wrong" accusation of any "perversions" on my part, coupled with your filthy name-calling of a person who suffered with, and overcame a life-threatening disease, loses you the tiniest scintilla of any sort of respect for your vile ideas...
Nick| 9.5.12 @ 5:48PM
I dislike him, immensely. I "hate" no one, since I am a Catholic and a follower of Christ.
You, and your liberal comrades, have written much worse on this website. Much worse.
Plus, have you forgotten algore's derogatory "extra chromosome right-wing" comment, which brought much pain to those with family members suffering with Down Syndrome?
Or, when Nina Totenberg wished that someone in the late Jesse Helms' family would get AIDS?
Spare me your lefty indignation, tinker bell, okay?
Are you going to condemn the Polio Prince for leading the nation in prayer?
Or, will you admit that your view, that God has no place in the public sector, is stupid?
Pelleas| 9.5.12 @ 6:16PM
What happened in 1944--(AND YES, I KNOW that was D-Day).. may or may NOT have much to do with the way the Nation and our leaders think about Religion, in 2012.
If i were alive , in those days..I MIGHT have taken issue with "national prayer"--especially as I don't recall any national prayers being said about the millions of people who were in the process of being gassed and burned, at the same time, in German Concentration Camps..
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BUT- prayer might have been a natural reaction, in THOSE DAYS, for our own fighting men and women, at that time---whether or not it is something I agree with...
ESPECIALLY , as the World was in the Middle of a WORLD WAR
AND
Do you REALLY think that Your other dubious "claims" of people calling others names about their illnesses gives YOU carte-blanche to do the SAME?
How VERY "Christian" of you....!
Nick| 9.5.12 @ 6:49PM
Give me a break! No one believes that you knew the date of D-Day.
"[...] [I]n those days [...]."
In those days? It was 70 years ago! There are veterans of that war still serving in Congress, brainiac. (See Daniel Akaka & Frank Lautenberg.)
And, it doesn't matter what you would have done, Pelleas. Christians & Jews can, and should, mention God whenever they feel like. Or, anyone else who professes a belief in God.
You don't like it? TOUGH!
"Do you REALLY think that Your other dubious 'claims' [They're not dubious. I can provide many more, if you'd like?] of people calling others names about their illnesses gives YOU carte-blanche to do the SAME?"
Yes, I do. Perhaps you haven't heard? Conservatives no longer bring knives to gun fights. We fight your evil fire with righteous fire.
Besides, as I've already stated, your democrat party voted THREE TIMES to keep "God" and "Jerusalem" OUT of the plank, and it was railroaded through anyway.
Your party still panders to those who worship God. How does that make you feel?
Kingofthenet| 9.5.12 @ 7:50PM
Nick, think about THIS... God rescued his 'chosen' people while under slavery in Egypt, yet a mere 70 years ago it couldn't give a shit that 6 million of them died the worst possible death....what chance do you think YOU got?
Nick| 9.5.12 @ 8:00PM
Don't practice theology without a net, KooK.
You might kill yourself.
Kingofthenet| 9.5.12 @ 8:05PM
Nick, I was an Atheist for a long time until...I realized I was GOD!
Nick| 9.5.12 @ 8:09PM
Check with Occam, to be sure, KooK, but, I believe that is a form of paranoid schizophrenia.
You need meds, STAT!
Nick| 9.5.12 @ 5:57PM
Looks like it's all moot, Pelleas.
The democrat party apparatchiks just rammed through a floor vote that put "God" and "Jerusalem" back in the party platform.
What spineless worms these lefty hacks are, huh?
Bwah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!!!!!
Pelleas| 9.5.12 @ 6:33PM
The only "spinlessness" is yours--referring to a President of The United States as a "Polio Prince"--NOTHING can forgive that-especially as FDR did everything in his power to NOT call attention to his disability.
YES-- I am less than thrilled at the about-face that the powers that be, at The Democratic Convention have made in this "god" and Jerusalem issue-- BUT I AM NOT a doctrinaire Democratic--and find much to condemn them for, as well..
Nick| 9.5.12 @ 7:27PM
The democrat party looks like a bunch of incompetent fools, Pelleas.
They showed their hatred of Israel and of God THREE TIMES, for the entire world to see.
By the way, the Polio Prince would have hated Israel too, had he not vapor-locked in the arms of some whore in Warm Springs, GA.
FDR did send all of those Jews aboard the St. Louis to their deaths, when he refused to allow it to dock in the U.S., remember?
RCV| 9.5.12 @ 6:24PM
Nick, as much as I like and admire you on many things, your reference to FDR as the "Polio Prince" is really not a good reflection on you. It's pretty offensive, politics notwithstanding. You're better than that, at least I'd like to thinks so.
Nick| 9.5.12 @ 7:08PM
I'm sorry, RCV, but, have you NOT seen the vile, disgusting things Pelleas (and others) has written in his past comments? Plus, I've used "Polio Prince" many, many times.
I would never use it in a reply to you, though.
You know my rule, I show respect in the same manner as I receive it.
When the leftists posting here stop saying vile things about conservatives like Ronaldus Magnus, Sarah Palin, Paul Ryan, etc., I will stop using my colorful monikers, okay?
Rich D| 9.5.12 @ 5:06PM
I see - some speech is proscribed.
Pelleas| 9.5.12 @ 5:21PM
YES--"SOME" speech is WRONG"--MAKING FUN OF A PERSON WITH AN ILLNESS. is close to the top of that list--my ANYONE with common decency...
Rich D| 9.6.12 @ 11:42PM
I said proscribed - are you in favor of precensoring speech? This was in response to your original rant that religious speech does not belong in the public square. Can't you follow the indentations?
Stan Redmond| 9.5.12 @ 8:12PM
And the DNC sponsored Muslim outreach for Jumuh? Did that belong?
The demoCRATS can't keep track of their pandering.
Pelleas| 9.5.12 @ 5:28PM
"my "should have read "by"
BTW.. I wonder how you would feel , if "someone" were to ever refer to Ann Romney as "the M.S. Princess"?--( not that I would ever do such a vile thing..but-"tit for tat", eh?)
RCV| 9.5.12 @ 6:22PM
Well, Jeffrey, you and atheists will be unhappy to learn that God is back in the DNC platform.
Paul McGrath| 9.5.12 @ 6:28PM
Figuratively speaking, of course. Wink, wink. Nod, nod.
Nick| 9.5.12 @ 7:18PM
See my reply to Pelleas, RCV, from above.
The democrat party voted three times to REJECT the amendment that would have recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, and the "God" language from the '08 convention plank. THREE TIMES!
For all the world to see!
All they have managed to do is tick-off pro-Israel voters AND far-left marxists/atheists like Palleas. Oh, and pro-Palestinians like Jackboot the Nazi.
Yesterday, the national debt passed the $16 trillion mark as the democrat convention opened.
Then, Debbie Blabbermouth-Putz lied through her teeth on live t.v., about what she said about the Israeli ambassador to the U.S.
Not a very good start. Sorry.
M A Todd| 9.5.12 @ 7:01PM
The
atheistPresident of American Atheistareis thrilledFIFY
As an atheist I am not thrilled nor am I saddened by this, similarly I am neither thrilled nor saddened by the Republicans consistent invocation of "God" in their speeches. I honestly couldn't give a toss. I do get mildly annoyed when it is implied that only those of the Judeo-Christian faiths can be good and virtuous members of society, however I am not insulted, my annoyance is akin to that which I experience when Liberals promote economic fallacies.
Nick| 9.5.12 @ 11:44PM
Drudge, as usual, has the perfect headline:
THEY BOOED PUTTING GOD BACK!