{"id":3236,"date":"2013-11-21T23:39:26","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T04:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/?p=3236"},"modified":"2013-11-21T23:39:26","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T04:39:26","slug":"for-gods-sake-religious-rights-collective-apoplexy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/2013\/11\/21\/for-gods-sake-religious-rights-collective-apoplexy\/","title":{"rendered":"For God’s Sake: Religious Right’s Collective Apoplexy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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First draft of Gettysburg address<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Another day, another display of Christian Right’s victimhood complex. At the request of<\/a> a documentary maker seeking to put together a movie on the address , the President recited the first<\/a> draft of Abraham Lincoln’s (truly moving, I should say) Gettysburg address, \u00a0which, as it happens, makes no reference to any God. While after the clarification of this point some of the right wing outlets retracted the story, hard core<\/a>\u00a0Religious Right is continuing to fume.
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\nThis is just priceless.<\/p>\n

The version known by most Americans reads, \u201cWe here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain \u2013 that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom \u2013 and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.\u201d<\/p>\n

President Lincoln wrote at least five copies of the famous speech. All begin \u201cFour score and seven years ago,\u201d but two of the five do not include the words \u201cunder God.\u201d President Obama read the \u201cNicolay copy,\u201d which historians consider a first draft of his remarks.<\/p>\n

The words \u201cunder God\u201d occur in the best known version, the\u201cBliss copy,\u201d\u00a0which is carved on the Lincoln Memorial. It is also on display in the Lincoln bedroom of the White House.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Curious, though, that the two godless copies happen to be\u00a0the earliest two.\u00a0<\/em>No random distribution here: God definitely was an afterthought.<\/p>\n

But for the professional whiners of Religious Right, this is too good an opportunity not to drool over:<\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Obama’s omission of ‘under God’ is an insult to the entire Christian population of the United States,\u201d Christian radio host Bryan Fischer of\u00a0AFR Talk\u00a0said. \u201cEverybody –\u00a0everybody<\/em>\u00a0– who recorded the Gettysburg Address included the words ‘under God’\u00a0except President Obama<\/em>.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Indeed Fischer’s outrage<\/a> is priceless, be sure to have popcorn ready before you watch.<\/p>\n

Obama as “deliberately insulted the faith of 300 million Americans,”\u00a0Fischer said. “There’s no way this was not deliberate and intentional. So, to me, this is just more evidence of President Obama’s anti-Christian bigotry. He is a Christophobic bigot; he has an intolerance, he has a dislike, he has an animus for Christianity”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n