This is the ninety-fifth installment in The Sounds of Fundamentalism series. This is a series that I would like readers to help me with. If you know of a video clip that shows the crazy, cantankerous, or contradictory side of Evangelical Christianity, please send me an email with the name or link to the video. Please do not leave suggestions in the comment section. Let’s have some fun!
Today’s Sound of Fundamentalism is a video clip of Duck Dynasty patriarch Phil Robertson comparing women who have abortions with ISIS.
First, one must drink the Kool-aid of whacko belief. Then any fellow in a beard is a wild man of deep wisdom who gets a mic IF he is on the right side! Nevermind that abortion is a fundamental right of people who find themselves with unwanted pregnancy and responsibly abort before the fetus is viable. Nevermind that the wild of man of wilderness wisdom would see us go back to back alley coat-hanger work and would not care a hoot for women who began a pregnancy by misadventure, by violence. All that matters is the wild man’s pontifications about LAW! He would gladly remove the protection of the law from women. More hate that parades as caring and love.
There is nothing “wild man” about Phil Robertson. He is a college-educated businessman who has found a profitable niche for himself and his extended family by pretending to be rednecks. It’s all, or at least mostly, an act, and it works. What the Robertsons think about politics, abortion, or anything else, when they’re not on camera is anybody’s guess.