The 10 Most Dangerous Religious Right Organizations (A Leftist's take)

WND ^ | 10/04/2012 | Simon Brown

[SeekAndFind]

(Church & State Magazine) — The movement known as the Religious Right is the number-one threat to church-state separation in America. This collection of organizations is well funded and well organized; it uses its massive annual revenue and grassroots troops to undermine the wall of separation in communities nationwide.

Americans United staff members have carefully researched this movement, and here are the 10 Religious Right groups that pose the greatest challenges to church-state separation. Most of these organizations are tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the tax code, but the financial data includes some affiliated 501(c)(4) lobbying organizations operating alongside the main organizations. The figures come from official IRS filings or other reliable sources.

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[ETL]

The NUMBER ONE most dangerous LEFT "religious" organization/movement:
BLACK LIBERATION THEOLOGY

The Real Story Behind Rev. Wright's Controversial Black Liberation Theology Doctrine
Monday , May 5, 2008
FoxNews/Hannity's America
[special Friday night edition--original airdate May 2, 2008]

(some key excerpts)

["(Jose) Diaz-Balart is the son of Rafael Diaz-Balart y Guitierrez (a former Cuban politician). He has three bothers, Rafael Diaz-Balart (a banker), Mario Diaz-Balart (a US Congressman) and Lincoln Diaz-Balart (also a US Congressman). His aunt, Mirta Diaz-Balart, was Fidel Castro's first wife."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jose_Diaz-Balart]

JOSE DIAZ-BALART, TELEMUNDO NETWORK: "Liberation theology in Nicaragua in the mid-1980's was a pro-Sandinista, pro-Marxist, anti-U.S., anti-Catholic Church movement. That's it. No ifs, ands, or buts. His church apparently supported, in the mid-'80s in Nicaragua, groups that supported the Sandinista dictatorships and that were opposed to the Contras whose reason for being was calling for elections. That's all I know. I was there.

I saw the churches in Nicaragua that he spoke of, and the churches were churches that talked about the need for violent revolution and I remember clearly one of the major churches in Managua where the Jesus Christ on the altar was not Jesus Christ, he was a Sandinista soldier, and the priests talked about the corruption of the West, talked about the need for revolution everywhere, and talked about 'the evil empire' which was the United States of America."

REV. BOB SCHENCK, NATIONAL CLERGY COUNCIL: "it's based in Marxism. At the core of his [Wright's] theology is really an anti-Christian understanding of God, and as part of a long history of individuals who actually advocate using violence in overthrowing those they perceive to be oppressing them, even acts of murder have been defended by followers of liberation theology. That's very, very dangerous."

SCHENCK: "I was actually the only person escorted to Dr. Wright. He asked to see me, and I simply welcomed him to Washington, and then I said Dr. Wright, I want to bring you a warning: your embrace of Marxist liberation theology. It is contrary to the Gospel, and you need, sir, to abandon it. And at that he dropped the handshake and made it clear that he was not in the mood to dialogue on that point."

Source: The Real Story Behind Rev. Wright's Controversial Black Liberation Theology Doctrine:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354158,00.html
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Obama's Church: Gospel of Hate
Kathy Shaidle, FrontPageMag.com
Monday, April 07, 2008

In March of 2007, FOX News host Sean Hannity had engaged Obama’s pastor in a heated interview about his Church’s teachings. For many viewers, the ensuing shouting match was their first exposure to "Black Liberation Theology"...

Like the pro-communist Liberation Theology that swept Central America in the 1980s and was repeatedly condemned by Pope John Paul II, Black Liberation Theology combines warmed-over 1960s vintage Marxism with carefully distorted biblical passages. However, in contrast to traditional Marxism, it emphasizes race rather than class. The Christian notion of "salvation" in the afterlife is superseded by "liberation" on earth, courtesy of the establishment of a socialist utopia.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=30CD9E14-B0C9-4F8C-A0A6-A896F0F44F02
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Catholics for Marx [Liberation Theology]
By Fr. Robert Sirico
FrontPageMagazine.com | Thursday, June 03, 2004

In the days when the Superpowers were locked in a Cold War, Latin America seethed with revolution, and millions lived behind an iron curtain, a group of theologians concocted a novel idea within the history of Christianity. They proposed to combine the teachings of Jesus with the teachings of Marx as a way of justifying violent revolution to overthrow the economics of capitalism.

The Gospels were re-rendered not as doctrine impacting on the human soul but rather as windows into the historical dialectic of class struggle. These "liberation theologians" saw every biblical criticism of the rich as a mandate to expropriate the expropriating owners of capital, and every expression of compassion for the poor as a call for an uprising by the proletarian class of peasants and workers.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=460782B7-35CC-4C9E-A2C5-93832067C7CD
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Malik Zulu Shabazz, chairman of the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (NBPP):
"We believe in a Black first philosophy and a Black Liberation Theology."
http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/article_1858.shtml

[The Sons of Liberty]

The 10 Most Dangerous Religious Right Organizations (A Leftist's take)

They'd better watch out for us

Pork Eating Crusaders!

I, for one, am fed up with the lefties and the muzzies and I don't turn the other cheek!

[reg45]

Conveniently ignoring the Islamists who want to impose Sharia law on the United States.

[ETL]

“my pastor...He’s a friend and a great leader. Not just in Chicago, but all across the country.”

"God D*** America, U.S. to Blame for 9/11"
--Rev Dr. Jeremiah Wright, Obama's pastor for twenty years

"America’s chickens... are coming home... to ROOST!"

[BitWielder1]

I'm shaking in my boots...

Please remind me, how many terror attacks have these organizations committed lately?
How many stonings, beheadings or honor killings?
How many embassies stormed, ambassadors killed?
How many rockets have they launched on their neighbors.
How many tons of enriched uranium do they have.

A round number will do.

[JustSayNoToNannies]

Focus on the Family [...] frequently plays a key role in fighting gay rights and restricting abortion at the state level.

"Church-state separation" = murdering babies.

[KC_Lion]

Kc Lion's List

1. The Muslim Brotherhood

2. The Muslim Brotherhood

3. The Muslim Brotherhood

4. The Muslim Brotherhood

5. The Muslim Brotherhood

6. The Muslim Brotherhood

7. The Muslim Brotherhood

8. The Muslim Brotherhood

9. The Muslim Brotherhood

10. The Muslim Brotherhood

[hosepipe]

THE most dangerous left wing organization is

1) The White House..
2) The US Senate....
3) The US Supreme Court..
4) The Justice Department..
5) The Joint Chiefs of Staff..
6) The FBI...
7) The CIA...
8) The NSA...
9) The main stream media..
10) Almost every academic institution..

[Mrs. Don-o]

Just to have the info in summary form:

1. Jerry Falwell Ministries/ ­Liberty University/Liberty Counsel
Revenue: $522,784,095
Run by Jerry Falwell Jr.

2. Pat Robertson Empire
(Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN)/ Regent University /American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ)
Revenue: $434,971,231
Attorney Jay Sekulow heads ACL

3. Focus on the Family (plus political affiliate CitizenLink)
Revenue: $104,463,950
Jim Daly is now president of Focus

4. Alliance Defending Freedom (formerly Alliance Defense Fund)
Revenue: $35,145,644

5. United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
Lobbying Expenditures: $26,662,111
Ad Hoc Committee on Religious Liberty led by Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori

6. American Family Association
Revenue: $17,955,438
Operates nearly 200 radio stations nationwide.

7. Family Research Council
Revenue: $14,840,036 (includes FRC Action)
"Leading Religious Right organization in Washington."
Headed by Tony Perkins.

8. Concerned Women for America
"Anti-feminist"
Revenue: $10,352,628 (includes 501­(c)­(4) affiliate CWA Legislative Action Committee)

9. Faith & Freedom Coalition
Revenue: $5,494,640
Claims 500,000 members and affiliates in 30 states.

10. Council for National Policy
Revenue: $1,976,747
Membership is by invitation only, and the group seeks no media attention, nbut shows that even organizations with modest budgets can have a significant impact. Heritage Foundation Vice President Becky Norton Dunlop currently serves as CNP president, with Phyllis Schlafly and FRC’s Tony Perkins also taking leadership roles.

[Alex Murphy]

The "10 Most Dangerous Religious Right Organizations" in order of annual revenue (and thus presumably in order of political influence):

1. Jerry Falwell Ministries/ ­Liberty University/Liberty Counsel
2. Pat Robertson Empire
3. Focus on the Family (includes its 501(c)(4) political affiliate CitizenLink)
4. Alliance Defending Freedom (formerly Alliance Defense Fund)
5. United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
6. American Family Association
7. Family Research Council
8. Concerned Women for America
9. Faith & Freedom Coalition
10. Council for National Policy

I'm kind of amused that James Dobson (and no one else) was identified as a "Fundamentalist Christian". More than half of the description of Focus on the Family is given over to Dobson, only to conclude that "Dobson left the organization in 2010 but remains active on the political scene".

I'm also a little surprised to see no mention of the moniker "Dominionists" anywhere in the article. It was all the rage in 2008.