Christian evangelicals are plotting to remake America in their own image
Filed Under (Bad News, News, Stupidity) by Ian on 11-12-2007
Tagged Under : christians, evangelicals, government, takeover
It gets better every day. Sigh.
Meet the Dominionists — biblical literalists who believe God has called them to take over the U.S. government. As the far-right wing of the evangelical movement, Dominionists are pressing an agenda that makes Newt Gingrich’s Contract With America look like the Communist Manifesto. They want to rewrite schoolbooks to reflect a Christian version of American history, pack the nation’s courts with judges who follow Old Testament law, post the Ten Commandments in every courthouse and make it a felony for gay men to have sex and women to have abortions. In Florida, when the courts ordered Terri Schiavo’s feeding tube removed, it was the Dominionists who organized round-the-clock protests and issued a fiery call for Gov. Jeb Bush to defy the law and take Schiavo into state custody. Their ultimate goal is to plant the seeds of a “faith-based” government that will endure far longer than Bush’s presidency — all the way until Jesus comes back.
“Most people hear them talk about a ‘Christian nation’ and think, ‘Well, that sounds like a good, moral thing,’ says the Rev. Mel White, who ghostwrote Jerry Falwell’s autobiography before breaking with the evangelical movement. “What they don’t know — what even most conservative Christians who voted for Bush don’t know — is that ‘Christian nation’ means something else entirely to these Dominionist leaders. This movement is no more about following the example of Christ than Bush’s Clean Water Act is about clean water.”
** Holy insight, Batman! God is The Joker. **
Twittering about an alleged god, gods, maybe a divine committee in charge of the universe is unimportant and uninteresting.
The minimum standard god enthroned by U.S. courts (”in god we trust”) or the god of some double-thinking scientist, or the god of Kant simply can not be assumed to be “the” divinity claimed by each big-3 monotheism.
I can have opinions about a fictitious character “Hamlet” as presented by Shakespeare in his play, ‘The Tragedy of Hamlet.’ I can also have opinions about a mythological being “God” as presented in the synoptic gospels of ‘The New Testament.’
All I know about these characters is what I can read in pages directly devoted to them. I can no more find “God” by doing astronomical research than I can disinter “Hamlet’s” bones in a chapel at Elsinore.
When Nietzsche said, “God is dead” he added a gloss — “the belief that belief in the Christian God has become unbelievable.”
** the obscenity of comic book monotheism **
The almighty lords of dualism: Yahweh, God, Allah are the moral equivalents of a comic book super-villain. God is The Joker. Sacred comix nonetheless enjoy fanatical cult followings. Geeks parsing Batman. All theology is third-rate fan fiction.
Don’t however mistake political ideology for religious belief. Wherever political ideology reduces to politico-theology, secular society fails. To the true believer: Secularism corrupts. Tolerance capitulates to evil. Only the pure (= self-righteous ideologues) are saved.
Holy text is merely pretext. Ideology masquerading as religion bamboozles the masses, the media. Telemullahs there, televangelists here.
Real terrorist threats in the US: xians undermining the Constitution, trashing biological sciences, and perverting education to suit a totalitarian ideology of social control and cultural domination.
The disgusting Bushite wannabe dictatorship represents only a failed prototype.
Homegrown christo-fascists threaten the life of the Republic far more than all so-called Islamo-fascists combined.
bipolar2
c. 2007