Another M.O. of wingnuts (especially the fundy kind): Never, EVER back down. Say something completely wrong and/or loony? Don't apologize. Turn that fucker up to 11! Apologizing is weakness. Only pussies apologize.

The guy's a Confederate Baptist for chrissakes, what do you expect?

the "southern" Baptist Church was founded in 1859 to defend the divine right of slavery and the treason of the South. They haven't changed in 150 years.

Jaw dropping insanity seems to be the hot plate of the day for the delusional Right! -Kevo

I see this as the religious right trying out a new culture war issue. I think the leadership of the SBC, just like Fox News, exists primarily as a propaganda mouthpiece for the Republican party.

I have to admit, I find it fascinating to hear the wingnuts declare that Adolph Hitler is fully responsible for the German healthcare system, even though it was established before he was born. I guess Hitler had a time machine, just like Obama does -- yet another similarity that proves that Obama is Just Like Hitler!

He also uses a common trope of the loonie right, the magic words "and could ultimately lead to".

Gosh, it must be hard for those people, living as they apparently do on the postage-stamp-sized flat spot at the top of so, so many slippery slopes.

When I was a little boy playing games in the backyard, we would 'make pretend', and we used the magic words "let's say" to make any possible imagining temporarily true, and we fought Nazis and space monsters and all sorts of bad guys. Even at the time we knew it wasn't 'for real'.

And, when I got older, I grew out of it.

Land argued that the philosophies of some of those pushing health-care reform "bear a lethal similarity in their attitudes toward the elderly and the terminally ill and could ultimately lead to the kinds of things the Nazis did.

Ahhh, I was wondering why the the Obama administration was buying up all the cattle cars. Now it all makes sense. Kudos to Land for foiling Obama's Nazi plot to ship one half of our seniors out to Kansas to be gassed and the other half to be experimented upon for "medical effectiveness" research.

Their will be riches in Heaven for men like Land I assure you. For example, weeping and gnashing of teeth for all eternity comes to mind.

even a quick read of the history of christendom reveals the many times that "the church" has devolved from a gospel of love into a gospel of hate -- given its legacy, this leader of the Southern Baptists really has a short distance to travel to indict those 1000s of 'christians' as a people with hate in their hearts.

sweet jimmy carter could never stomach the hate (he went with lust on occasion, or so he says -- but left the church recently because of its essential misogyny -- how's that for irony?).

just saw him last night in the moore film. it was surreal to hear what he said 35 years ago. prophetic, and anti-Baptist fer sure.

As one who delves about in the bowels of conspiracy theory, it is, ahhh.... disconcerting, at best, the depth to which today's medical/pharmaceutical/industrial complex is rooted in Nazi science.

For those who wish to know, it's very Illuminating.

Isn't it time to stop treating Richard Land as any kind of religious figure anyway?

why...a leader in the Southern Baptist Convention who is a batshit-insane asshole.

There's a surprise!

Land, like an increasing number of right-wing Republicans, is like a bratty little boy who has just figured out which bad words make mommy and daddy mad. So he repeats them over and over until he gets a slap-down that justifies his persecution complex.

It's incredible that adults like Land are willing to compare -- in public -- a public health care option with Nazism and the development of a Master Race. What an embarrassment to the Republican Party. How low they have sunk. They are rapidly becoming the laughingstock of the world. People the world over are just shaking their heads and shunning them.

No wonder only 20 percent of Americans say they identify themselves as Republicans.

Like Catholic Donohue, Baptist Land is a prime recruiting tool for atheism.

-Keep up the good work, fellas!

The real slippery slope is that, once you've compared Democrats to Nazis, there's no going back. As of now, there's a significant slice of this country's political leadership that's decided to opt out of rational debate. How did we get to this point?

one more reason why the fastest growing religious group in america has a membership that says they have "no religion."

TCinLA:

A small thing but in the interest of historical accuracy: The SBC was founded in 1845.

Otherwise, you are completely on target.

It's simple. You cannot be considered "pro-life" and oppose health care reform.

To oppose health care reform is to participate and support the mass murder of 45,000 Americans every year. Maybe that's exactly what these unreconstructed Confederate traitors want: they still want to kill Yankees.

"...they till want to kill Yankees." Toutatis @ 4:45 PM.
And are more than willing to take whatever casualties required...

Land "still believes there are connections to be made between some underlying philosophies held by the Germans and others in the first half of the 20th century, and certain elements under discussion in the health care reform debate today

Oh, bloody hell--he's been reding Jonah Goldberg!

Will someone please ask (is it Mr. or Dr.?) Richard Lang what any of this has to do with religion or (Southern Baptists are Christians, I guess) with the teachings of Jesus Christ?

Seems like he's gone far away from his fields of specialty. Why are his opinions more valid than my neighbor who is a plumber?

He's not speaking ethically when he brings up Hitler and Nazis. He seems to be on the wrong committee. What strings were pulled to get him there?

This man is counterfeit.

Why is it that all these so-called leaders of churches, open their mouths and immediately prove they are NOT Christian. They give Christianity a bad name.

Land will not support anything that helps those whose ancestors were slaves. He's one of America's modern bigots, blaming God for his despicable views.

Scream early.
Scream often.
Scream loudly.

That's why God created the internet.
It's a scream vent. It allows our individual scream, and the screams of our civilization, to harmlessly vent into the ether.

It is astonishing to consider that Land is a graduate of Princeton University.

"It is astonishing to consider that Land is a graduate of Princeton University."

Like a crazy person can't graduate from Princeton.

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