Michele Bachman said the rapture was coming in 2006

[dawn9476]

thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/07/18/264811/bachmann-predicted-world-end-2006/

[anniebgood]

The more I read of this whackadoodle the more I wonder where the moderate voices of the Republican Party is? She's dangerous and she is vicious, she's meaner than Palin. It's really sad to think that she thinks she can be elected. Wonder how the VF/ATI crowd views her since she is really "an educated, ebil lawyer"?

[dawn9476]

The more I read of this whackadoodle the more I wonder where the moderate voices of the Republican Party is? She's dangerous and she is vicious, she's meaner than Palin. It's really sad to think that she thinks she can be elected. Wonder how the VF/ATI crowd views her since she is really "an educated, ebil lawyer"?

My guess is they are like Tony Perkins from FRC. They love her but because of patriarchy, they could never vote for her. That is why Tony Perkins and a lot of far right religious nuts are encouraging Rick Perry to jump into the race.

[Guest Anonymous]

The mere fact that she is still here is proof enough that it didn't happen.

[Rachel333]

She's still crazy, but that article's headline is misleading. It's more like "In 2006, Michele Bachmann predicted the world would end." She didn't actually say it would end in 2006. It's pretty typical for Evangelicals and fundies to talk about the world ending soon. I've always hated that kind of talk, ever since Left Behind scared the shit out of me when I was 7 or 8. Do you really need to be so happy about everyone dying?

[Austin]

The more I read of this whackadoodle the more I wonder where the moderate voices of the Republican Party is? She's dangerous and she is vicious, she's meaner than Palin. It's really sad to think that she thinks she can be elected. Wonder how the VF/ATI crowd views her since she is really "an educated, ebil lawyer"?

There are fewer and fewer moderates in the GOP. The extremists are drumming them out, which I think will bite them in the ass in the end. Even the most ignorant gov't-hating-tea-partier is only going to go along with so much of the BSC (not saying all tea partiers are ignorant). Even the most bigoted people I know don't suggest or campaign for gay people to be executed or imprisoned.

The extremists of the GOP are overreaching and the rest of the party is allowing them to do it for the moment. I have heard republicans here in Ohio begin to question the radical agenda of the kooks in their party who seem to be running the show. I've heard a number of GOPers express discomfort over the "heartbeat bill" recently passed in Ohio which outlaws ALL abortion after a fetal beating heart is detected. A lot of anti-choicers are not comfortable forcing 12 year old incest victims to bear children. I think there will be a backlash within the GOP soon. I only hope they wake up before the crazees are able to do too much damage.

[MamaJunebug]

Miss Bachmann was not in accord with Lutheran doctrine if she was trying to scare folks with the 'end times' talk.

We Lutherans think about the rapture and the end times about as much as most casually observant Jews think about the afterlife.

Which is to say (in what my numerous Jewish friends have told me) not very much. We believe the end of the world will not happen until all people have heard the Gospel, the Good News of Christ's redemption of us.

That's not going to have happened any time soon.

We do speak of being in the end times on occasion, and we point out how the people of Bible times also considered themselves in the end times, because the work of Jesus was finished when He ascended into Heaven.

Evidently, the end times are now. Are they urgently upon us? Well, there's no real reason to wait to receive the gift, but there's certainly no reason to try to scare people to death unless you want ....

.... oh, yeah. Anyhoo, that part about Miss B resigning from her Lutheran church? Pretty meaningless, IMNSHO.

[Clementine]

I am surprized that a crazy fundy lady can be elected in Minnesota. I thought they were more liberal there, or am I wrong...?

[Austin]

I think you're right that Minnesota is generally a little bit more liberal, but I think I remember an FJer saying that her district is gerrymandered in such a way that she continues to win. Horrifyingly.

[Brainsample]

She's still crazy, but that article's headline is misleading. It's more like "In 2006, Michele Bachmann predicted the world would end." She didn't actually say it would end in 2006. It's pretty typical for Evangelicals and fundies to talk about the world ending soon. I've always hated that kind of talk, ever since Left Behind scared the shit out of me when I was 7 or 8. Do you really need to be so happy about everyone dying?

I agree. She made a general statement about the "last days" from a standard Dispensational associated eschatology that has been around for more than a century and is held by the majority of evangelicals since the John Nelson Darby Bible gained ground after it's first publication in 1867 . I listened to the prayer, and it is no different than the prayers that I heard nearly every Sunday at our church throughout the '70s and '80s.. It wasn't vexing or fear-mongering but a general and standard synopsis of the belief that we are in the last age before Christ returns, a prayer prayed in '06, not about '06.

Now what is more disturbing, I think, is this statement by the author:

During the prayer session Bachmann asked God to expand the anti-gay ministry of Bradlee Dean. Dean has been described as “Bachmann’s Jeremiah Wright†since his radical statements pose a political problem for the candidate. Dean has repeatedly called for gays and lesbians to be put in prison and has said executing gays is “moral.†He also directs his invective at Muslims and Democrats.

I'd like to know how closely affiliated with this guy she is (Did she attend a conference on how to curtail and "deal with" homosexuality?), and I'd like to know how much and what a percentage of her family's charitable giving goes to this guy. And does she know anything about these provocative teachings propagated by this Dean fellow? She may not have any idea about them.

I know that we give money to organizations concerning a particular mission, but we don't share any agreement on other peripheral aspects of the group's theology. If that were the case, we'd never make any charitable contributions these days. What's nice is that many ministries will let you earmark donations for one project -- like the Salvation Army does with disaster relief. You may not want to pay for their Sunday services, but you'd be happy to give funds for disaster relief. I'd like to know what she gave to them, for what purpose, does she support the whole ministry, and would she consider dropping the guy from her list of supported charities after having been made aware of the hateful things said about certain groups of people?

[Brainsample]

I am surprized that a crazy fundy lady can be elected in Minnesota. I thought they were more liberal there, or am I wrong...?

John Piper ring a bell? Isn't his church in Milwaukee?

[doggie]

The mere fact that she is still here is proof enough that it didn't happen.

I wish she was raptured.

[Brainsample]

I'm still all for shipping the fringe and the hate mongers off to their own homeland. IF they put up money too, we might consider helping to raise funds. Look how easy it was for Doug to get his 50K to go to Europe!

[Black Aliss]

The more I read of this whackadoodle the more I wonder where the moderate voices of the Republican Party is?

There are still some moderate Republicans but nowadays we call them Democrats. Take Obama, f'rinstance. His policies are essentially identical to those of a moderate Republican of the 80's and early 90's and considerably to the right of Nixon and Eisenhower.

[Brainsample]

There are still some moderate Republicans but nowadays we call them Democrats. Take Obama, f'rinstance. His policies are essentially identical to those of a moderate Republican of the 80's and early 90's and considerably to the right of Nixon and Eisenhower.

This was true of the "W" and Gore platforms as well. They didn't look all that different from one another during the campaign. And everyone is to the Left of JFK now.

[Cassandra]

I just hope these types of news stories keep coming up. I intend to make sure the people I know read them.

The best way to get rid of this crazy bitch is to dig up all of her past insanity and make it public. I cannot believe how popular she is.

At least the quiverfullers won't vote for her because she's a woman and she should be at home :|

[Austin]

There are still some moderate Republicans but nowadays we call them Democrats. Take Obama, f'rinstance. His policies are essentially identical to those of a moderate Republican of the 80's and early 90's and considerably to the right of Nixon and Eisenhower.

lol - So true. Which makes it all the more laughable that those on the right call Obama an ebil liberal/socialist. Thirty years ago, he would have lined up better with the other side of the aisle.

[gustava]

Bill Clinton was the first Republican for whom I voted for President .... lol

[browncoatslytherin]

John Piper ring a bell? Isn't his church in Milwaukee?

milwaukee is in southeastern wisconsin, not minnesota.

[Childless]

I think most Republicans have lost their minds. I've never seen a group so hell bent on destroying this country. The tea baggers won't be happy until everyone is living in poverty and no one can afford a trip to the doctor. Just what we need, a country where children have to dig through trash cans in order to eat everyday.

[Austin]

I think most Republicans have lost their minds. I've never seen a group so hell bent on destroying this country. The tea baggers won't be happy until everyone is living in poverty and no one can afford a trip to the doctor. Just what we need, a country where children have to dig through trash cans in order to eat everyday.

What's amazing to me is how all of these people can appear to be conned into voting against their own best interests. Their hatred of government in all forms trumps most other concerns, it seems.

[darareaksmey]

I do think Bachmann is as crazy as a bedbug, but I think she is peaking mighty early and I don't know that she'll be around making a lot of noise next summer come convention time. Something has got to happen to stimulate the non-lunatic fringe of the GOP to come up with a more mainstream candidate. She could not win the presidency.

[QueenNocturne]

What's amazing to me is how all of these people can appear to be conned into voting against their own best interests. Their hatred of government in all forms trumps most other concerns, it seems.

What's even more ironic is that many tea baggers I've come into contact with have this over-blown view of American exceptionalism. Or, at least, America would be exceptional if they had their way. Which makes you wonder what they're smoking if extreme income equality, anarchy, and a complete erosion of our civil rights is their view of "exceptional."

And I think I just hit the cap for use of the word "exceptional" for this week. :lol:

[Cassandra]

I do think Bachmann is as crazy as a bedbug, but I think she is peaking mighty early and I don't know that she'll be around making a lot of noise next summer come convention time. Something has got to happen to stimulate the non-lunatic fringe of the GOP to come up with a more mainstream candidate. She could not win the presidency.

I sincerely doubt she'll get the nomination, but honestly I feel that her way of thinking is too dangerous to be tolerated even at this level.

[Guest Anonymous]

What's amazing to me is how all of these people can appear to be conned into voting against their own best interests. Their hatred of government in all forms trumps most other concerns, it seems.

I have to wonder if they realize that they are acting as sock puppets for the ruling class-banks, oil companies, name-your-own bottom feeder. In any con job, there's the person perpetrating the con, and the con-nee who needs to believe the snake oil he/she is being sold. If some of the (slightly) more intelligent ones DO realize as much, then they're not only venal but cynical and heartless as well.