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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-31-04 03:44 PM
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Shrub's "Left Behind" Code Language
When Shrub started the "No Child LEFT BEHIND" crap, I didn't make the connection. I'm slow.

Later, when different news items popped off about the Fundie "Left Behind" phenomenon, the connections started creeping into my consciousness.

Today, at the Unknown Soldier ceremony, Shrub sez something like, "There's a tra-disssshhh-ssshhhunn ... in the military, that no soldier is ... LEFT BEHIND ... on the battlefield..."

Am I making too much of it? Seems to me that every time he uses the lingo his fundie followers get a zap or a thrill.
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yorgatron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-31-04 04:00 PM
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1. rapture connection maybe?
how many fundies would ACTUALLY make it,about .001% is my estimate
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prodigal_green Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-31-04 04:01 PM
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2. I've read that he speaks in code to fundies all the time.
But since I'm not one, I don't catch all of the references.
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stopthegop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-31-04 04:02 PM
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3. you're making too much of it (IMO)
the usage is valid standing on it's own in each instance
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rumguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-31-04 04:06 PM
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4. interesting - I've never made that connection before
I wouldn't be the least bit surprised that there is some correlation.
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RamboLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-31-04 04:08 PM
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5. I've heard from military "No one left behind" said many times
* certainly caters to the Left Behind Fundies and you can find references in his speeches - but in this instance no, this was not a code phrase.
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wyldwolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-31-04 04:09 PM
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6. I know Bush thinks he's going to kick Kerry's left behind....
...but he's in error.
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robbedvoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-31-04 04:12 PM
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7. I made the connection as soon as I found out about the books
It went like this in my mind: "No child left behind - because we'll "save " them all by forcing all kids in religious schools and this way they'll get raptured away from their heathen parents. Destroy public education, rapture the children.
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taquinas101 Donating Member (185 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-31-04 04:20 PM
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8. Newsweek Has Described Left Behind As A Red State Phenomenon *Link*
So, you are not the only one who has drawn the connection. Afterall, in the Left Behind series, isn't the Antichrist the secretary-general of the United Nations, and isn't his assistant the Pope. Kerry's Catholicism and advocacy of international cooperation would not be endearing to a Left Behind fanatic.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4988269/
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2Design Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-31-04 04:48 PM
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10. Thanks for that link....reminds me of the Heavens Gate and the
Johannsburg, and Waco and all the rest of the out of touch, out of this world, out of touch people. I hope they raise themselves up soon. Bush and co should go to Iraq and get themselves involved personally in the war and maybe they can rise up early.....

This is BS.

At least with HArry potter people realize it is fantasy. This stuff is sick fantasy that is hurting others....
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MisterP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-31-04 09:06 PM
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12. note that it's compared to Lord of the Rings.
The media always pretends equivalency between disparate persons: Jon Stewart MUST be paired with Dennis Miller, Limbaugh with Michael Moore, etc., etc. Exactly the same, just opposite ideologies. Not to be confused with accusations, true or false, of Republicratism.
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drb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-31-04 04:30 PM
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9. The "Left Behind" series is ostensibly designed...
...to "scare the hell out of" non-believers, by telling them how horrible it will be on earth after the rapture..

It's piss-poor as biblical scholarship and even worse as literature. However, it serves well to point out the authors' allegiance to their true god - Mammon.
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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-31-04 08:54 PM
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11. My Own Fundie Friend Thought "Day After Tomorrow" Was a Fundie Thing n/t
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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-31-04 09:26 PM
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13. Research Here
*******QUOTE*******

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4988269/site/newsweek/

Religion: The Pop Prophets

Faith and Fiction: Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins are an unlikely team with a shared evangelical fervor—and America's best-selling writers

.... LaHaye, the golden-ager in polyester, veteran culture warrior and cofounder of the Moral Majority; ....

********UNQUOTE*******

I'm sure SOMEbody didn't know that before...
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