Secularists Strike Back - How the Liberals Will Promote ‘Blue’ Churches

[Cue the Darth Vader theme] ACW II isn’t over. 48% of the U.S. did not have an epiphany and conversion experience after President Bush’s election. The Liberals will strike back. Their front ranks will be filled with clerical collars. ‘Blue’ churches like Blue states will be the base for counter-attacks on ‘value voters’ on many fronts. The blue churches are the Religious Left – mainline Protestant churches with declining membership, lapsed, cafeteria Catholics and secular Jews. And all the other Pagan faithful who are ‘spiritual not religious’, Wiccan, Vegan, etc.

The Liberals will come back hard, because they’re infuriated that their moral inferiors, Bible-believing Christians and Jews, were the margin of their defeat – in the name of morality. They can’t believe that it isn’t enough to own the Democrats, most of the Judges, colleges and universities, K-12 government schools, the mainstream media, the non-profit foundations, Hollywood and most big corporations. Despite all, the peasants didn’t vote the values of the Liberal trinity – Race, Class and Gender.

Right Religion. Religion and religious leaders will be applauded if it’s the right religion. Expect to see a lot more leftist, Liberal clerical collars at Democrat events, in the media and promoted by Hollywood. Likewise, the Black churches still serving on the Democrat plantation will be exalted as paragons of virtue.

Liberals will marginalize Protestant Christian Evangelicals. Especially, Southern Baptists and the Assembly of God. First, Liberals will call them Fundamentalists and liken to the Muslim Fundamentalists. Even though an Islamist will kill Liberals’ families and cut off their heads, while a Baptist will get on his knees to pray for Liberals and rise to eat fried chicken. Second, the Liberals will point out the many southern accents of Evangelicals. The accusation in the Heartland and the West will be there is exclusiveness akin to racism in saying that all religions are not true and equal – it’s those Southern bigots again.

Capture the Language. Value voters are told they voted for ‘fear’. How clever to call resistance to judicial tyranny, that imposes partial-birth abortion, cultural cleansing of Christian heritage and homosexual marriage, ‘fear’. Values voting was courageous faith over fears. There will be more attempts, however false, like ‘pro-choice’, ‘tolerance’, etc., to make Christian speech, metaphors and concepts serve Secular Humanist masters and their Modern Paganism.

More Moral Values. The Liberals may legitimately finesse some Roman Catholics away with an anti-capital punishment value. Also, Liberals may emphasize the Pope’s resistance to pre-emptive wars like Iraq. But, for the most part, there will be yard sale on moral values. Old ideas will be sold anew. Poverty, the environment, affirmative action, health care, immigration, multi-culturalism, and the aforementioned capital punishment and war and peace issues will all become morality issues. It can convince Americans who are Biblically illiterate.

Exploit Failures. The inevitable failures and setbacks in the next four years during the decades upon decades unfolding of WW IV will be blamed on the Christian Evangelism mindset of President Bush and the NeoCons (read anti-Semitism). Any economic down turn, oil crisis, hardship for unemployed and uninsured illegal immigrants, etc. will be held up as hypocrisy to moral values. The Liberals will mock every tragedy as a testimony to the failure of Christian morality.

Camouflage the Truth. The Liberals won’t show themselves as Liberal Puritans. They will hide behind the Sissy Christians of the Apostate Christian congregations. The very persons, who preach ‘Christian’ morality, follow the teachings of totalitarianism. The line of thinking that flows Diocletian-Rousseau-Voltaire-Hegel-Marx-Darwin-Nietzche-Lenin-Freud-Stalin-Hitler-Mao-Castro-Pol Pot is the path of pagan reasoning, which is Human Secularist Totalitarianism. This ‘Humanist’ Totalitarianism is a killing cousin to Islamist Totalitarianism.

The Liberal Puritans are the intellectually arrogant and temperamentally authoritarian descendants of Cotton Mather. The stronghold of Liberal Puritanism is witch-burning Massachusetts. The Christian Evangelical majority is the South and West. The Evangelicals inherit the tolerance of Cavaliers, who lost the English Civil War to the Puritans, and the fierce independence and personal, Bible-based faith of the Scot-Irish, Scot, and French Huguenot Calvinists.

The final irony is how Christian Evangelicals are more motivated by love. Liberal Puritans can’t tell the difference between our passion and their hate because their words are the overflow of their hearts. Who will burn a dissenter at the stake? The Blue churches who say Biblical Christian speech is hate speech and a crime? Or, Red churches who send missionaries, who are martyred regularly, to Muslim countries?

James Atticus Bowden has specialized in inter-disciplinary long range 'futures' studies for over a decade. He is employed by a Defense Department contractor. He is a retired United States Army Infantry Officer. He is a 1972 graduate of the United States Military Academy and earned graduate degrees from Harvard University and Columbia University. He holds two elected Republican Party offices in Virginia.

Being an adherent of mainline Protestantism, I am always on the lookout for religions that practice tolerance and diversity. In order to find the tolerance I seek, I often have to look far afield from Western traditions. Recently, I have become interested in a sect which I believe may well be the most tolerant religion in the unhappy history of our little planet.

Some of the things that have impressed me about this sect are:

There is no dress code.
There are no dietary restrictions, although excessive consumption of alchohol is discouraged.
This sect appears to embrace every form of artistic expression and every genre of music, incorporating most of them into their worship.
This sect encourages education and sponsors a considerable number of educational institutions for all ages.
The sect encourages its members to decide for themselves whether artistic or academic content is offensive. When faced with offensive content, the sect advises its members to avoid providing direct financial support for such content.
This sect welcomes and treats equally people of all races.
This sect welcomes and treats equally people of all national origins. Although there are some adherents of this sect in North America, Europe and Australia, the sect seems to be growing most rapidly in Asia, Africa, and Latin & South America.
Although most adherents to this sect acknowledge certain natural gender roles, male and female adherents of this sect receive identical religious training, mix freely during all religious functions, and fully participate in all parts of worship.
The sect recognizes no natural religious hierarchy. Local groupings of the sect are governed as participatory democracies with consensus strongly prefered to voting. Local organizations sometimes affiliate themselves with one or more regional, national or international organizations to accomplish larger goals, but such associations are purely voluntary.
Members who fail to adhere to the sect's behavioral guidelines are disciplined by being gently asked asked to change the behavior. Although members may be denied positions of authority within the sect because of their behavior, no one is asked to leave the group unless their behavior becomes disruptive to others.
Local organizations who find their beliefs and practices to be at variance with larger associations usually voluntarily form new national associations.
The sect has a canon of ancient scriptures which they believe to be a truthful description of human events over the last 5000 years. Though scholars vary on precise dating, most of this canon was committed to written form 2000-3000 years ago. Because these writings describe human events from the ancient world, some of these writings describe violent behavior. Without questioning the truthfulness of these writings, theologians within the sect universally condemn any suggestion that the violent behavior should be repeated in our own time, noting that while God has not changed, the way in which people are able to interact with God has changed because of God's actions.
Although children are beloved by this sect and the nature of their potential is honored with dedication ceremonies, and communal responsibility to oversee the religious instruction of the children, membership in the sect is limited to adults who freely and publicly choose to join.
While it is difficult to make universal assertions about any faith, it is a fundamental tenet of all branches of this sect that no one may be converted to membership in this sect through threat of force. In over one hundred years since this sect has identified itself as a movement, not one person has been killed, tortured or subjected to economic ruin by the sect because they choose not to join or to leave the sect.
While many religious groups shun former members, most adherents of this sect prefer to continue associations with former members in the hopes that they may some day freely choose to return.
This sect encourages members to develop strong friendships both within and outside the sect.
This sect normally advises its members to comply with all local laws. The only time this sect ever comes into conflict with local authorities is when local authorities restrict their right to worship freely.
When they are able to participate in secular government, members of this sect generally advocate participatory democracy with decision-making authority granted to local governments whenever possible.
When they are in positions of authority within secular governments, members of this sect generally make policy decisions which are consistent with their individually held moral and religious beliefs.
There is no known instance of this sect attempting to seize power by armed force in any nation or region.

I'm sure you'll agree that this group has an impressive record of tolerance and diversity that those of us who grew up being exposed to Western values could learn from. From what I've discovered, I believe I would like to learn more about this strange sect called Fundamentalist Christianity.

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