Matt Barber of the Liberty Counsel yesterday on his radio show seemed to advocate for violence by people of faith against “the secularist left” whom he called “bullies.” Barber likened progressive and secular left-wing groups to “paper tigers” and school yard bullies who attempt to intimidate people into silence.
“On yesterday’s episode of the ‘Faith and Freedom’ radio program, Matt Barber stated that groups such as ours and Americans United and the ACLU were nothing but ‘paper tigers’ to whom conservatives must stand up,” People for the American Way’s Kyle Mantyla writes today at their Right Wing Watch blog:
In fact, said Barber, the “secularist left” in general is nothing buy a bunch of bullies who intimidate the righteous and push “religious bigotry” on everyone else. And like all bullies, they just need to be punched in the mouth.
Barber is the Vice President of Liberty Counsel Action and an Associate Dean and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Law at Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University School of Law, and also serves on the board of the SPLC-certified anti-gay hate group, Americans For Truth About Homosexuality, and is the Policy Director for Cultural Issues at Concerned Women for America.
Last month, in direct contradiction to FBI published statistics, Barber falsely claimed there is “no evidence” of mass anti-gay violence but the “specter” of violence against gay people has forced churches into the closet.
Last year, Barber said that “at the heart of modern Liberalism is rebellion toward God, is hatred for God,” and also claimed that gays know in their hearts that there is no such thing as two mothers or fathers and that all they really want is to destroy the American family.
Also last year, Barber said gays are terrorists and want to put conservatives in jail.
Unsurprisingly, Barber is one of several dozen anti-gay pundits tracked by GLAAD’s Commentator Accountability Project (CAP). See his entry here.
Transcript and video via Right Wing Watch:
They’re bullies. And we know that we people stand up to the bully on the playground – the bully on the playground intimidates, that’s what he does, intimidates people into silence, into fear, into avoiding the bully. And oftentimes the bully is the paper tiger and when the righteous individual who is being bullied defends his or herself and punches the bully in the mouth, guess what, the bully more times than not has a glass jaw, falls down and then everyone on the playground says “whoa, the bully was a weakling after all.”
That’s the secularist left. The secularist left are bullies. They try to bully and intimidate and push religious intolerance and religious bigotry on everyone else.
Of course, ironically, Barber and his ilk are the true bullies, and are responsible for contributing to an environment of homophobic hate that leads a great number of LGBT youth and teens to suicide.
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Under this same logic, can I say that the radical left is calling for the eradication of all religion? Dawkins certainly seems to think it's nescessary.
Don't contribute the statements of a few loud individuals to the majority of a group. That kind of stereotyping is rallied against when it's applied to the LGBT community, so what makes it all right to do it the other way around?
Regina Schwartz, Talmudic Scholar at Princeton Theological Seminary wrote "When ever belief is instilled, sooner or later, violence is always the result". She is correct.
Ironic.
Do you think that statement could apply to things such as political parties as well?
religious inculcation, in order to be successful, must take place in Infancy, prior to Individuation. This is done by a process which I call Psychological Circumcision , the permanent severing of One form One's Self.
The conduit of inner conversation, once severed, is replaced with the communities fairly tales as the gate keeper of personal inner conversation. This is true for all religions on the earth. It is an act of violence against the Self. ( Dr. Alice Miller " The first act of Violence against the Self is the concept of a god." ) Against the innocent pre "Individual" Self.
These acts of violence end up buried in the unconscious mind from infancy. It is the true source of all human suffering. As life continues all acts of violence stem from this first act of violence against the innocent infants mind.
So, political violence( any violence) is transferred violence starting way back in the political individuals life, in infancy.
So the short answer is yes. It all has a rather Freudian ring to it. Is this your own belief or the statements of someone else? If it's the latter, quotations would be nice.
It is my own work, the quotes are noted, Alice Miller and Regina Schwartz. it has been the core of my life work since the age of 4. Psychological Circumcision is my term.
Belief by it's definition is always false. It is choosing a conclusion not supported by the premises. The facts do not support the conclusion, hence the result: eventually admit falsehood in conclusion or demand the belief be supported through violence.
Mattie just placed himself on the short list at the FBI.
Interesting conclusion, but in that case, this sort of statement would apply to all moral beliefs as well, not simply religious. Morality being a construction of society, ideas such as right and wrong have no basis in empirical thought or fact. They are simply what is held to be acceptable at the time, as is evident by mercurial nature of right and wrong.
Regardless of that, this kind of statement is a little broad brush. Should it hold true, agnostics would be the only non-violent people on the planet. Given that both religion and atheism have nothing in the way of proof for their tenets, it should follow that all those who believe in such things would be violent. Considering that the majority of human beings on the planet hold some belief either way, we'd be seeing much more violence if it was the inevitable result of belief.
the period from 30 days prior to birth to about 36 months are the core raw unconscious mind for every individual. All information is processed equally, without import. There is no filter, for a future atheist child, as that form of thought has yet to be developed. However the damage done by one's communities fairy tales are ever present, and the assault is is carried out on every child in every community.
For religious to atheist to violence, the Federal Bureau of Prison Stats has every person on death row , ( yes including that some are innocent) claim to have been raised where the head of the household was described as EXTREMELY Religious, attending church 2 or more days/evening at church. AND the more violent the crime the more religion in the childhood of the aggressor.
the period from 30 days prior to birth to about 36 months are the core raw unconscious mind for every individual. All information is processed equally, without import. There is no filter, for a future atheist child, as that form of thought has yet to be developed. However the damage done by one's communities fairy tales are ever present, and the assault is is carried out on every child in every community.
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