{"id":95196,"date":"2015-12-18T18:52:54","date_gmt":"2015-12-19T01:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=95196"},"modified":"2015-12-18T18:53:35","modified_gmt":"2015-12-19T01:53:35","slug":"13-to-12-of-republican-polled-reject-reality-and-church-teaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2015\/12\/13-to-12-of-republican-polled-reject-reality-and-church-teaching.html","title":{"rendered":"1\/3 to 1\/2 of Republicans polled reject reality and Church teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\u2026when fantasizing about mass murder<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb\u2026 Agrabah? While U.S. airstrikes in Syria continue to dominate foreign-policy headlines, the Republican electorate won\u2019t so easily forget about another Middle Eastern menace. According to a\u00a0new poll<\/a>\u00a0from Public Policy Polling,\u00a030 percent of Republican voters nationally support bombing Agrabah<\/a>. Just 13 percent are opposed, while the rest remain unsure.<\/p>\n

Agrabah, for the record, is not actually a real country. It\u2019s the name of the magical kingdom where the Disney movie\u00a0Aladdin<\/em>\u00a0takes place.<\/p>\n

Results of more serious questions from the same poll are too depressing\u2014more than a quarter of Republican voters think Islam should be illegal in America; almost half support the creation of a national database of Muslims; and \u201clooking back,\u201d only 49 percent think Japanese internment camps during WWII were a bad idea.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

You can be as deaf, dumb, and blind as you like as you cheer for whichever kill crazy authoritarian wants to bomb and jail whoever, just so long as you wear a Precious Feet pin to take away the sins of the world.<\/p>\n

This is what the anti-abortion-but-not-prolife ethos has brought us to. \u00a0And I can no longer count the number of Catholics who don\u2019t understand why a Catholic should be bothered about this. \u00a0What does mass murder have to do with the faith, Mark? You\u2019re too political! It\u2019s not like the proposed anonymous victims are unborn (usually) so what\u2019s the big deal? \u00a0Only liberals bother about carpet bombing people after they are born. \u00a0Go Cruz Missile!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2026when fantasizing about mass murder: Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb\u2026 Agrabah? While U.S. airstrikes in Syria continue to dominate foreign-policy headlines, the Republican electorate won\u2019t so easily forget about another Middle Eastern menace. According to a\u00a0new poll\u00a0from Public Policy Polling,\u00a030 percent of Republican voters nationally support bombing Agrabah. 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