{"id":3428,"date":"2011-03-29T15:12:56","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T19:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/?p=3428"},"modified":"2011-03-29T17:58:08","modified_gmt":"2011-03-29T21:58:08","slug":"gingrich-fears-an-atheist-country-dominated-by-radical-islamists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2011\/03\/gingrich-fears-an-atheist-country-dominated-by-radical-islamists.html","title":{"rendered":"Gingrich fears an atheist country dominated by radical Islamists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, former House Speaker and presumptive 2012 Republican Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich was addressing Cornerstone Church, a\u00a0megachurch in San Antonio, Texas, led by the Rev. John Hagee, an influential leader among American evangelicals.\u00a0 It was there <a href=\"http:\/\/religion.blogs.cnn.com\/2011\/03\/28\/gingrich-fears-atheist-country-dominated-by-radical-islamists\/comment-page-60\/\" target=\"_blank\">he expressed<\/a> his worry that the United States could become \u201ca secular atheist country, potentially one dominated by radical Islamists.\u201d\u00a0 There were no reports of his head exploding from the apparent contradiction.\u00a0 In fact, the line was met with cheers and applause from the group.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 291px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/religion.blogs.cnn.com\/2011\/03\/28\/gingrich-fears-atheist-country-dominated-by-radical-islamists\/comment-page-60\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"Newt Gingrich\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnn\/2011\/images\/03\/28\/c1main.gingrichcornerstone.jpg\" alt=\"Newt Gingrich\" width=\"291\" height=\"164\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Newt spreads fear to a receptive audience<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One has to wonder if Newt somehow managed to actually envision a secular theocracy bent on opening up a big can of Jihad on God himself. I strongly suspect he stayed up all night on Saturday trying to figure out how to include gay pacifist baby killers into the speech as well.<\/p>\n<p>This is a blatant and egregious example of the <a href=\"http:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2011\/03\/fear-sells.html\" target=\"_blank\">fear selling<\/a> I wrote about yesterday. Guys like this have given up on even the pretense of rationality.\u00a0 This is simply stringing together buzzwords that don&#8217;t even form coherent sentences.<\/p>\n<p>Look out!\u00a0 Terrorist, homosexual, Nazi, socialist, intellectual elite, sprout eating, flag burning, tree hugging, liberals are coming to steal your money and murder your children! Oh, and I have a bridge to sell you too. Friggin&#8217; idjits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One has to wonder if Newt somehow managed to actually envision a secular theocracy bent on opening up a big can of Jihad on God himself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[118,76,21,117,90],"class_list":["post-3428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-religion","tag-2012-elections","tag-christians","tag-conservatives","tag-fear-mongering","tag-words-matter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3428"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3436,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3428\/revisions\/3436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}