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lunadelcorvo) wrote2010-08-24 02:33 pm
lunadelcorvo) wrote2010-08-24 02:33 pm
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Updated: Reference links for RR/Tea Party Politics
New Apostolic Reformation & The Tea Party
Right-Wing Crazies Who Fight Witchcraft and Demons Are Taking Over a State Near You (Series on the Tea Party and the Righ, AlterNet)
The New Apostolic Reformation Takeover of the Tea Party
Prayer Warriors and Palin Organizing Spiritual Warfare to Take Over America
Resource Directory for the New Apostolic Reformation (Talk to Action)
Christianization of Military
Review of Infiltrating the U.S. Military: Is the Religious Right Engaged in a Seditionist Bid to Takeover America?
Article On Heavy Evangelical Penetration Of US Military
Christian Embassy from Wikipedia
Onward Christian soldiers: Conservative fundamentalists converting U.S. troops
U.S. Soldiers Punished For Not Attending Christian Concert (Talk To Action)
The Family, America's Theocratic Mafia
Sex and power inside "the C Street House," Jeff Sharlet
Jesus plus nothing: Undercover among America's secret theocrats by Jeff Sharlet
Inside "The Family": Jeff Sharlet Speaks About His Unique Look at American Evangelicals
Blackwater/XE & police, etc.
Blackwater private mercenary army is in U.S. heartland
Blackwater Training local police forces
Police hire Blackwater mercenaries, refuse free training
Olberman on Blackwater charges by former BW/XE employees
Blackwater founder charged w/murder
Blackwater founder charged w/arms running
More on charges against Prince/Blackwater
Blackwater founder charged w/ prostitution
Military Commission Act, 2006
Bush To Be Dictator In A Catastrophic Emergency: Military Commissions Act
SourceWatch: Military Commissions Act of 2006
Making Martial Law Easier
US Northern Command (US Military on US soil)
Rewriting American History, HR 888
Think the "Christmas Resolution" was Bad? Check Out H. Res. 888
Changes in Texas curriculum include removal of Washington, Chavez, others
The Department of Defense -- Bringing Historical Revisionism to a High School Near You
Texas Debates Adding Religion to U.S. History Curriculum
Why the Christian Right Distorts History and Why it Matters
C-Street and the Myth of the Christian Nation
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And 'separation,' yeah, you nailed it. (see icon)
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and I love that icon. BTW, I made a blog for my own political rantings on IJ, if you're interested. I'd love to have your opinion. =)
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Feel free to gip the icon; I made it with the idea that anyone who wanted it was welcome to it!
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It's open for everyone to see, I've just kept personal information out of the mix. =)
Totally snagging that icon, then :D Thank you and I will make sure you're credited! :D
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If you think that sounds extreme, believe me, I wish it were. There are groups, Christian groups according to them, who want exactly those things, and make no bones about saying so. A man who owns a company of well funded and well armed mercenaries describing himself as a 'Christian Crusader,' charged by God with eliminating Muslims from the globe and bringing the Kingdom of God to rule over the earth should scare anyone. A group that, on the one hand declares their express plan for achieving world dominion, but on the other, openly declared that their own illegal acts don't matter because "normal rules don't apply to them," should scare anyone. Groups and individuals willing to distort the truth as badly as we are seeing in this health care reform insanity (i.e. Palin's 'death panel' nonsense) in order to topple the legitimately elected leader of this country should scare anyone.
Now you, and many others may be quick to say that these are not 'real Christians,' or that real Christians would not do those things. But none of us can know what these people really believe. What we do know is that they do what they do in the name of Christianity, and even well-meaning real Christians follow and enable them in the name of Christianity. They say they are fighting for and with God, for and with Christ, and I have no choice but to deal with them in those terms.
It isn't the religion itself that I have a problem with. I will admit that, having studies the history of Christianity, and watched closely the things that have been done by and in the name of that faith in my lifetime, that it seems to me that Christianity (again, as with any religion, especially a monotheism) has an inescapable mechanism of power, of control.
When a system of thought, be it a religion or anything else, outlines both an urgent need and the only solution to meeting that need, it claims power, by virtue of the fact that it controls the one thing which it itself established as the thing everyone needs. If one company both identified a new, fatal, all but incurable disease, and held the only antidote to that disease, would they not find themselves in a position of unbelievable power? We might hope they would not choose to grasp at that power for their own gain, but look at history; humanity will always grasp at power.
Whether there is value in Christianity, or any religion outside that mechanism of power, I can't answer. But I do know that when religion and government mix, bad things happen. I know that right now, I see a possible future where America is a theocracy, a religious totalitarianism, and where gays, people of color, people of other religions, or of no religion, have no place. I see a place where women are once again oppressed, where rational thought and free inquiry are taboo, where history is rewritten to endorse the views of those in power. That's the world Orwell saw when he wrote 1984, and that's not the world I want my son to inherit.
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I worry about the opposite. I worry that I'm going to wake up in a world where there is no place for Christians. That my religious freedoms/rights will be taken away, and I will have to choose between believing in Christ and living.
Thank you for explaining. I know there are CRAZY "CHRISTIANS". I am not that kind of Christian. I don't want to take anything away from anyone else, I just want to be free to do what I want to do. As a Christian, it would be amazing if all of my friends turned to Christ, but I don't want to FORCE them to. That's POINTLESS. Religion should be a personal choice... the government should have no say in it. Isn't that what the constitution protects/supports?
Again, thank you for explaining. I love you, sweetie!
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At best, we want it out of politics, out of health care, out of public schools - because until it is, it's not fair to anyone. But that's a far cry from trying to ban it. As I said, there are folks, (lie me, to a degree) that worry if religion and true equality can ever really live side by side, and some of us have our doubts. But it's a balance I'm only too happy to attempt, and I, like even the most dedicated anti-theist I can think of, will defend to the death everyone's right to think freely, regardless of *what* they think!
The problem is, when both the 'Crazy Christians' and the non-crazy ones quote the same book, use the same ideas, and claim the same worldview, it's tough to tell them apart. What we need is more Christians like you speaking out against the Crazy ones....
*hugs*
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