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The Religious Right has infiltrated our political system to bring America more toward a theocracy. Our individual rights are being diminished by those who want to tell us what we can and cannot do in our bedrooms, what to teach our children, who we can or cannot marry, what women can or cannot do to their bodies and promoting their particular religion within government.
The secular community does not have near the funds to push back against a political system bolstered by billions of dollars from the religious community, partly because their ’cause’ is linked to an emotionally-based idea that their religion is the ‘right’ one, all others are ‘outsiders’ and there is only one God – theirs. They place their personal value in an alternate source. Therefore any individual right can be discriminated against for the cause of the greater good – making this country 100% Christian and replacing the Constitution with sharia-like Biblical laws. We see this today with abortion restrictions from Ohio to Florida to Texas. The idea of changing our secular nation into this theocratic one is called Dominionism.
Dominionism is a tendency among Protestant Christian evangelicals and fundamentalists that encourages them to not only be active political participants in civic society, but also seek to dominate the political process as part of a mandate from God.
The Reverend Tim LaHaye co-authored Mind Siege: The Battle for Truth in the New Millennium, published in 2000. The best-selling book issues a call to arms for evangelical Christians to battle against secular humanism. Mind Siege declares that secular humanism is a “religion,” and issues marching orders to evangelical Christians to gear up for an all-out battle to root secular humanists out of public life; their bottom line is that “No humanist is fit to hold office.”
Barry Goldwater said: “Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they’re sure trying to do so, it’s going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can’t and won’t compromise. I know, I’ve tried to deal with them… There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs. There is no more powerful ally one can claim in a debate than Jesus Christ, or God, or Allah, or whatever one calls this supreme being. But like any powerful weapon, the use of God’s name on one’s behalf should be used sparingly. The religious factions that are growing throughout our land are not using their religious clout with wisdom. They are trying to force government leaders into following their position 100 percent. If you disagree with these religious groups on a particular moral issue, they complain, they threaten you with a loss of money or votes or both. I’m frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in ‘A,’ ‘B,’ ‘C,’ and ‘D.’ Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me? And I am even more angry as a legislator who must endure the threats of every religious group who thinks it has some God-granted right to control my vote on every roll call in the Senate. I am warning them today: I will fight them every step of the way if they try to dictate their moral convictions to all Americans in the name of ‘conservatism.'”
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Corrupting the Cross and the Constitution
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