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The Christian Right Seeks Dominion On the Road to Political Power and Theocracy
publiceye.org ^ | 9/9/06 | Sara Diamond

Posted on 9/10/2006, 12:43:09 AM by GeorgiaDawg32

The past two decades have seen a growing symbiosis between the mass movement of evangelical Christians and the Republican Party. Since the 1968 presidential election, when nearly 10 million Americans voted for segregationist Alabama Governor George Wallace, the Republicans have worked to broaden the class base of their party downward. That has meant following Wallace's lead in using issues of race, crime, and "morality" to attract white middle and lower middle class voters.

In the mid-1970s and 1980s, Gallup poll surveys showed that one-quarter to one-third of the US population identified itself as "born-again" evangelicals. Most of them have become politically active only since about 1980. Certainly not all are right-wing, but their numbers are large and numbers win elections. In June 1994, a New York Times poll revealed that about 9 percent of a national sample identified themselves as part of the Christian Right.

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To: GeorgiaDawg32
Let's hope so ... following Ann Coulter's advice - invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.
21 posted on 9/10/2006, 1:32:37 AM by BW2221
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To: muawiyah
The woman writer is rather strange ~ she ends her tale of woe by complaining about lies told about homosexuals.

Moses wrote Genesis. This is why such people will jump up and down screaming when the Ten Commandments are displayed or the Creationist idea of monogamy from the book of Genesis is introduced. The latter (Genesis) also ruins the illogical and non-biological arguments of homosexual monogamy. In a secular sense, homosexuality is an idolatry of perversion. It is in no way an anatomical function of the human organism, but a phantasmagoric creation from within the mentally disturbed human mind, a social psychosis, naked and on full exhibitionist display.

This is the whole crux (pun intended) of their attack on creationism - - they are really frustrated by Genesis, but cannot destroy the axiomatic state of procreant human biology, it does not fit their religious agenda.

Homosexual monogamy advocates seek ceremonious sanctification of their anatomical perversions and esoteric absolution for their guilt-ridden, impoverished egos.

Neither of those will satisfy their universal dissatisfaction with mortality or connect them to something eternal. With pantheons of fantasies as their medium of infinitization, they still have nothing in them of reality, any more than there is in the things that seem to stand before us in a dream.

Homosexual deviancy is really a pagan practice (and a self-induced social psychosis) at war with the Judaic culture over what is written in the book of Genesis (1:27, 2:18).

This is exactly what the National Socialists were at war with... so, when someone uses the term "Gaystapo," they might not realize how close to the truth they really are. (Also, consider their eugenic breeding programs.)

Many will seek ceremonious sanctification and esoteric absolution in some type of marriage rite, but that still fails to give them a connection to the eternal in both a religious and temporal, procreant sense - - the union does not produce offspring.

Dissatisfaction with inevitable mortality only feeds the impoverishment of the ego further. Homosexuals really hate human life; their whole desire is rooted in the destruction of it...

22 posted on 9/10/2006, 1:42:57 AM by Sir Francis Dashwood (LET'S ROLL!)
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To: BW2221

Which could be a serious error in judgment should all those Moslems get converted to, for example, the Congregationalists or the Liberal wing of Presbyterianism.


23 posted on 9/10/2006, 1:45:07 AM by muawiyah
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To: meowmeow

And your comment that Tibet was "the world's largest Theocracy" before Maoism, is based on what?


24 posted on 9/10/2006, 1:46:07 AM by Wuli
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To: aberaussie
They want high quality schools; they think the public schools are failing not for lack of resources but because kids can't pray or read Genesis in biology class.

Moses wrote Genesis. This is why such people will jump up and down screaming when the Ten Commandments are displayed or the Creationist idea of monogamy from the book of Genesis is introduced. The latter (Genesis) also ruins the illogical and non-biological arguments of homosexual monogamy. In a secular sense, homosexuality is an idolatry of perversion. It is in no way an anatomical function of the human organism, but a phantasmagoric creation from within the mentally disturbed human mind, a social psychosis, naked and on full exhibitionist display.

This is the whole crux (pun intended) of their attack on creationism - - they are really frustrated by Genesis, but cannot destroy the axiomatic state of procreant human biology, it does not fit their religious agenda.

Homosexual monogamy advocates seek ceremonious sanctification of their anatomical perversions and esoteric absolution for their guilt-ridden, impoverished egos.

Neither of those will satisfy their universal dissatisfaction with mortality or connect them to something eternal. With pantheons of fantasies as their medium of infinitization, they still have nothing in them of reality, any more than there is in the things that seem to stand before us in a dream.

Homosexual deviancy is really a pagan practice (and a self-induced social psychosis) at war with the Judaic culture over what is written in the book of Genesis (1:27, 2:18).

This is exactly what the National Socialists were at war with... so, when someone uses the term "Gaystapo," they might not realize how close to the truth they really are. (Also, consider their eugenic breeding programs.)

Many will seek ceremonious sanctification and esoteric absolution in some type of marriage rite, but that still fails to give them a connection to the eternal in both a religious and temporal, procreant sense - - the union does not produce offspring.

Dissatisfaction with inevitable mortality only feeds the impoverishment of the ego further. Homosexuals really hate human life; their whole desire is rooted in the destruction of it...

25 posted on 9/10/2006, 1:46:21 AM by Sir Francis Dashwood (LET'S ROLL!)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

"Sara Diamond holds a doctorate in sociology, and teaches that subject and journalism at several California colleges. She is the author of Spiritual Warfare: The Politics of the Christian Right (South End Press, 1989), and Roads to Dominion: Right-Wing Movements and Political Power in the United States (Guilford, 1995). Portions of this chapter previously appeared in different form in her columns in Z Magazine and The Humanist."

And people wonder why our colleges are so screwed up.


26 posted on 9/10/2006, 1:47:39 AM by Wuli
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To: olinr

Great post. I'm very proud to declare that I'm of the Christian Right that liberals hate so much.


27 posted on 9/10/2006, 1:49:09 AM by Phibes
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To: muawiyah
If they become Catholic, there could be some very long confessions, "Bless me father for I have sinned. I participated in three honor killings last week, I cut off my neighbor's hand when he picked up a soccer ball in my front yard, I sent my 8-year old to blow up a bus with his Osama autograph model suicide belt ...."
28 posted on 9/10/2006, 1:49:13 AM by BW2221
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To: BW2221
LOL ~ on my word~!

Are there sufficient priests, or will the Vatican have to "commission" some Pentecostals to fill in.

29 posted on 9/10/2006, 1:50:58 AM by muawiyah
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

The question is this: Whom do you believe most represents your interests?... democrats and the super nanny-state, or God?


30 posted on 9/10/2006, 1:52:23 AM by Tax Government (Defeat Islamic imperialists and their democRAT cheerleaders)
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To: Wuli
And people wonder why our colleges are so screwed up.

The university system started as divinity schools...

31 posted on 9/10/2006, 1:53:31 AM by Sir Francis Dashwood (LET'S ROLL!)
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To: goldstategop
Liberals hate Christians.

Actually, Liberals hate Christ. They deny Jesus. They fear The Truth and The Way. They will do anything, say anything, support and side with anyone who opposes Jesus.

Bottom line.

32 posted on 9/10/2006, 1:54:36 AM by NewLand (Always Remember September 11, 2001)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

What a bunch of hog wallow.

I'm about as intense an Evangelical/Pentecostal Conservative as one might find.

I don't know of anyone who wants a theocracy in our Republic.

It might be argued that our eschatology sees one in the future--sure--when the whole world is one at Christ's doing. But that's not our doing. Doing something like that in man's ways and strengths would be about as evil as could be. No thanks.

WHAT WE DO WANT--IS THE PROTECTION THE CONSTITUTION PROMISED US. FREEDOM OF RELIGION IS NOT THE SAME AS FREEDOM FROM RELIGION; FREEDOM FROM THE SLIGHTEST OFFENSE FROM THOSE WHO BELIEVE DIFFERENTLY. SHEESH.


33 posted on 9/10/2006, 2:00:55 AM by Quix (LET GOD ARISE AND HIS ENEMIES BE SCATTERED. LET ISRAEL CALL ON GOD AS THEIRS! & ISLAM FLUSH ITSELF)
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To: muawiyah

Lots of Pentecostals will be needed.


34 posted on 9/10/2006, 2:01:37 AM by BW2221
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To: Darkwolf377

Thank you!


35 posted on 9/10/2006, 2:32:20 AM by scott7278 (The War on Terror includes defending the homefront from the MSM.)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

We have never ever in this country had a theocracy. Why the hell do they think we would have one in the future. These folks are loons.


36 posted on 9/10/2006, 2:50:55 AM by Khepera (Do not remove by penalty of law!)
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To: Khepera
We have never ever in this country had a theocracy. Why the hell do they think we would have one in the future. These folks are loons.


It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.

Robert A. Heinlein, Postscript to Revolt in 2100, 1953


37 posted on 9/10/2006, 2:57:07 AM by Coyoteman (I love the sound of beta decay in the morning!)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32
RAWWWWWWRRRRRR!!! It's twue! It's twue!!!

:-D )))

I see articles like this and I feel like the Jewish guy in the old joke who liked to read anti-Semitic propaganda just to see how much power he had.

38 posted on 9/10/2006, 2:58:32 AM by RichInOC (God really doesn't use the ZOT as often as He's entitled to, does He?)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32
The Christian Right Seeks Dominion On the Road to Political Power and Theocracy

Apparently, there are NO OTHER groups in the world seeking political power...

39 posted on 9/10/2006, 3:28:26 AM by Onelifetogive (* Sarcasm tag ALWAYS required. For some Freepers, sarcasm can NEVER be obvious enough.)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

I grew up in a fundamentalist Christian church. In retrospect, I abandoned them for the same reasons I don't embrace liberalism/socialism/communism. They tried to prevent temptation - no lipstick, no dancing, no alcohol, no nothing that might appeal to the sensual aspect of humans.

The companion group, I'll just say communism, doesn't trust the individual to make the "proper" decisions either, the government must dictate it.

And that is how I see it.


40 posted on 9/10/2006, 3:49:21 AM by Mind-numbed Robot (Not all that needs to be done, needs to be done by the government.)
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