{"id":4663,"date":"2008-08-12T16:29:25","date_gmt":"2008-08-12T23:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/08\/12\/jesus-is-just-all-right-with-me\/"},"modified":"2008-08-12T16:29:25","modified_gmt":"2008-08-12T23:49:13","slug":"jesus-is-just-all-right-with-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4663","title":{"rendered":"Jesus is Just All Right With Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michele Bachmann talks. <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2008\/08\/gop_rep_to_environmentalists_j.php\" target=\"_blank\">Hilarity ensues<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We like to <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com\/mn06\/\">keep track<\/a> of the, er, intriguing sayings of Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, the Christian Right champion from Minnesota. But this latest is really out there &#8212; Bachmann says we don&#8217;t need pesky environmentalists like Nancy Pelosi around, because <em>Jesus<\/em> already saved the planet!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[Pelosi] is committed to her global warming fanaticism to the point where she has said that she&#8217;s just trying to save the planet,&#8221; Bachmann <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onenewsnow.com\/Politics\/Default.aspx?id=210502\">told<\/a> the right-wing news site OneNewsNow. &#8220;We all know that someone did that over 2,000 years ago, they saved the planet &#8212; we didn&#8217;t need Nancy Pelosi to do that.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/moderateleft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/bachmann_and_bush_kiss.jpg\" title=\"bachmann_and_bush_kiss.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/moderateleft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/bachmann_and_bush_kiss.jpg\" alt=\"bachmann_and_bush_kiss.jpg\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"1\" width=\"137\" height=\"149\" hspace=\"3\" \/><\/a>Wowie wow wow wow. That&#8217;s some hardcore wingnuttery right there, right up there with the time she spied on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eleventh-avenue-south.com\/archives\/000491.html\" target=\"_blank\">GLBT rally at the state capitol<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/dumpbachmann.blogspot.com\/2005\/05\/he-said-she-said-they-said.html\" target=\"_blank\">got &#8220;attacked&#8221;<\/a> by evil lesbian secret agents in a Scandia restroom, or <a href=\"http:\/\/moderateleft.com\/?p=2997\" target=\"_blank\">kissed George W. Bush<\/a> after the State of the Union, or revealed <a href=\"http:\/\/moderateleft.com\/?p=3156\" target=\"_blank\">the secret plan to partition Iraq<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/moderateleft.com\/?p=3828\" target=\"_blank\">explained how awesome it was<\/a> that Minnesotans all have to work second jobs just to get by, or told us that <a href=\"http:\/\/moderateleft.com\/?p=2751\" target=\"_blank\">Jesus had hand-picked her to run<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The sad thing is, not only is Bachmann&#8217;s statement scary to anyone who&#8217;d like the government to behave as if the Rapture isn&#8217;t coming next Tuesday (which, even if you think the Rapture <em>is<\/em> coming next Tuesday, is still solid policy), but it doesn&#8217;t even make any theological sense. In Christianity, Jesus doesn&#8217;t come to save planet Earth, he comes to save the souls of humanity. If Jesus had come to make Earth a pristine place, all he would have had to do was get rid of the humans. I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s what he had in mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michele Bachmann talks. Hilarity ensues: We like to keep track of the, er, intriguing sayings of Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, the Christian Right champion from Minnesota. But this latest is really out there &#8212; Bachmann says we don&#8217;t need pesky environmentalists &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4663\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,28,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservative-zaniness-right-wingers-etc","category-environmental-issues","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}