When Ben Carson suspended his campaign, I was very disappointed. He was the only candidate about whom I could satirize more than Trump. I have never heard two politicians with more outlandish beliefs than these two men.
Because Carson was a surgeon, who obviously spent years in universities and medical school, I originally believed that he was intelligent and well-informed. We all make mistakes.
When he said that “prison creates homosexuals,” I spat some 12-year-old scotch across the room. When he claimed that climate change was a hoax I nearly choked. After I heard his belief that evolution is untrue, I wanted to check his history of education. When he said that the pyramids were actually “grain silos,” I knew he must have been making it all up. The joke was on me.
Wednesday, in a desperate effort to join other failed Republicans in “Hillary Bashing,” Carson attempted to link Ms. Clinton with Saul Alinsky, a former community organizer. He said that Alinsky wrote a book in which he offered allegiance to Lucifer.
“Recognize that this is a very famous book — ‘Rules for Radicals’ — and on the dedication page, you acknowledge Lucifer in an admirable way saying he’s the original radical who gained his own kingdom,” Carson told CNN’s Chris Cuomo on “New Day.” “What I am saying is that we are talking about electing to the presidency an individual who embraces someone who obviously is not someone who is consistent.”
Clinton wrote her 1969 Wellesley undergraduate thesis on Alinsky — though she’s said in her own book that she had “fundamental” disagreements with him,” according to an analysis of Carson’s comments on Politifact.
Carson asked, “So are we willing to elect someone as president who has as their role model someone who acknowledges Lucifer?”
Okay, here goes. I have never been accused of being politically correct, and I’m damned proud of that fact.
Those of you who read me frequently, and I thank you, are fully aware that I do not believe in the fairy tale which is Christianity. Therefore, I also disbelieve in Lucifer, the Devil, or whatever some child’s imagination created and called him or her. I join over 65 million other Americans who refuse to join cults which call themselves ‘religions.’ I do not need someone telling me how to live my life. I have a conscience and was raised with a clear understanding of right and wrong.
I fear the Christian religious right, and the men who join them such as Carson who seek to revoke the first amendment, and allow a single religion to interfere in our government.
It is because of Christian leaders that abortion and same-sex marriage have mistakenly become issues in election. Both have protection under the Bill of Rights, and should be left to the individuals involved. Freedom of Speech means freedom from religion if I so choose.
I missed this ‘messed up’ old man who is crazier than his orange idol. I haven’t been able to laugh in a long time at Trump. With Carson in the picture once again, I look forward to having many more reasons to chuckle and guffaw.
Op-Ed
By James Turnage
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