{"id":7648,"date":"2010-01-14T05:37:46","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T13:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=7648"},"modified":"2010-01-14T12:22:15","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T20:22:15","slug":"our-very-own-pact-with-satan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7648","title":{"rendered":"Our Very Own Pact With Satan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Guest blogged by Frank Schaeffer<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/PatRobertson_HaitiSatan_011410.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">It&#8217;s clear that America&#8217;s Founding Fathers must have made a pact with the Devil. How else to explain the curse America is so obviously under today? I want to go even farther <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/01\/13\/pat-robertson-haiti-curse_n_422099.html\">than Pat Robertson<\/a> and tell it like it really is!<\/p>\n<p>(Disclosure: back in the 1970s and 80s before I quit the evangelical right, I was on the 700 Club with Pat 6 times, given my late father Francis Schaeffer was a founder of the religious right).<\/p>\n<p>What else besides a punishment for a satanic pact could explain the following?&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sarah Palin, who got a heartbeat from the presidency and who believes that health care reform means there will be death panels and that she needed to have witches cast out in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/max-blumenthal\/the-witch-hunter-anoints_b_128805.html\">a Pentecostal ceremony<\/a> before she&#8217;d run for governor<\/li>\n<li>A whole subculture of American <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7643\">rooting for the &#8220;End Times&#8221;\u009d<\/a> and Armageddon<\/li>\n<li>Pat Robertson who explained 9\/11 and now the tragedy of the earthquake in Haiti, as results of God&#8217;s wrath and\/or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/01\/13\/pat-robertson-haiti-curse_n_422099.html\">satanic dealings<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Dick Cheney who betrays his country (and common decency) by saying our country is less safe because we have a Democrat for president<\/li>\n<li>Rick Warren who coddled the &#8220;Christian&#8221;\u009d leaders in Uganda who <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7556\">want to kill gays<\/a> (until Warren got called out and backtracked)<\/li>\n<li>The &#8220;Family&#8221;\u009d and other Washington &#8220;Christian&#8221;\u009d groups working overtime to turn America into a theocracy<\/li>\n<li>The evangelical hate machine working to deny gays their right to marry<\/li>\n<li>The Roman Catholic hate machine aiding and abetting the evangelicals<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7487\">Tea Party goofs<\/a> who hate our government and think that &#8220;Hitler&#8221;\u009d is president<\/li>\n<li>Private armies of <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/8446987.stm\">murdering &#8220;Contractors&#8221;\u009d<\/a> who are above the law<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Christians&#8221;\u009d attending the funerals of service men and women and screaming God hates fags and America<\/li>\n<li>A bunch of Congressmen more loyal to their theology than to the Constitution of the United States<\/li>\n<li>A military <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.buzzflash.com\/interviews\/065\">besieged by evangelical zealots<\/a> trying to use the military chaplains and academies as an evangelistic spring board by &#8220;witnessing&#8221;\u009d to hapless soldiers<\/li>\n<li>Tax free churches deforming American politics<\/li>\n<li>Franklin Graham who is now taking the heretofore nonpartisan Billy Graham organization to the extreme hate-filled right, even getting old and out of it Billy to sign a letter endorsing Palin\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The list is as endless as we have fringe crazies, who turn out to not be so &#8220;fringe&#8221;\u009d given they now are the Republican just-say-no obstructionist  Party.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, we seem cursed all right!<\/p>\n<p><center><em><strong>* * *<\/strong><\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/FrankSchaeffer_bio.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\"><i><b>Frank Schaeffer<\/b> is the author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0306817500?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=tbb-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0306817500\"><\/i>Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back<i><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=tbb-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0306817500\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/030681854X?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=tbb-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=030681854X\"><\/i>Patience with God: Faith for People Who Don&#8217;t Like Religion (or Atheism)<i><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=tbb-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=030681854X\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>.<\/p>\n<p>His previous articles at <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\">The BRAD BLOG<\/a> can be <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?author=117\">read here&#8230;<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest blogged by Frank Schaeffer It&#8217;s clear that America&#8217;s Founding Fathers must have made a pact with the Devil. How else to explain the curse America is so obviously under today? I want to go even farther than Pat Robertson and tell it like it really is! (Disclosure: back in the 1970s and 80s before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":117,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,446,300],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-haiti","category-republicans","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7648"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=7648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}