Question: How do you convince Americans that theocracy is better than democracy?
Answer: Tell evangelical Christians that they are being persecuted.
Question: How do you get enough votes to repeal the First Amendment?
Answer: You can't. There aren't enough evangelical Christians.
Question: How can you establish theocracy without changing the constitution?
Answer: Get judges to interpret the First Amendment as establishing a theocracy.
Question: How can you get judges to interpret the First Amendment theocratically?
Answer: Elect them, bully them, and elect people who will appoint theocrats.
Question: How do you get the votes needed to elect theocrats?
Answer: Tell evangelical Christians that they are being persecuted.
Question: How do you change the judiciary when filibusters screen out theocrats?
Answer: Put an end to filibusters.
Question: How do you get Americans to support ending filibusters?
Answer: Tell evangelical Christians that they are being persecuted.
Yesterday's Washington Post made it clear that Bill Frist wants to pass the quiz. Ending the filibuster will make him the evangelical favorite for being the next GOP Presidential candidate.
Today's New York Times makes it clear that Frist and theocratic leaders will be working side-by-side to convince America's evangelicals that a vote to block theocratic judges is a vote "against people of faith."
9 comments:
Wow. Scary stuff, boiled down very concisely.
I agree with the first commenter. This is scary stuff. I am surprised that more is not being said in the media about this dangerous event that is soon to happen in KY.
If Catkiller Frist becomes the next president, I'm renouncing my American citizenship.
I've read this blog for a little while now, and it just seems to me that there is a lot of bitterness here. I'm not necessarily endorsing anything or anybody who disagrees with you, but your tone and demeanor in this space is just angry and bitter.
You accuse the evangelical fundamentalists of being only concerned with Republican politics, but you seem just as beholden to the Democrats. Why can't Christians just be Christians without having a party affiliation?
Molecules of fear hang dense in the air we breathe. So many of your questions and answers have to do the propogation of fear on both sides. We cannot and will not work for a better world until an attitude and rhetoric of hope replaces the current atmosphere.
Certainly, I have no love for the fundamentalist mindset. The rigidity and dysfunction of evangelical politics is something to cause concern, but I wonder if there is a better way than buying into the fear. Just don't know what that is yet...
grace and peace
Niebuhrian,
Your comments sound balanced and sane, but they remind me of comments I once heard from those who used pendulum metaphors.
Here's a link Broken Pendulums don't swing.
Scary indeed, the way you present it is truely making me ponder what it is to be free in Christ, democracy, theocracy and being a republic......
Sun Tzu said: "If you know not yourself or the enemy you will succumb in every battle. If you know yourself, but not the enemy for every battle you win you will lose a battle. If you know the enemy and yourself then you will be victorious in every battle."
Too many people want to be nice and give the moral mafia the benefit of the doubt. They have no doubt in their mind, they want to control yours. Blogs like this and others that warn and educate concerning the thugs that want to have absolute authority in this country are not spreading fear they are stating cold hard facts,if the facts are frightening then that is cause for alarm and action. Bonhoffer and the other religious leaders that warned Germany about the nature of the Nazi's were thought of as cranks, kooks and alarmists. When the war was over they were recognized as modern day Casandra's. For once let's learn from history and not let them set up concentration camps filled with political prisoners falsly accused of terrorism, homosexuals, athiests, doctors, scientists, or anyone else who refuses to bend the knee to their religion of conformity.
Thanks for adding your voice to the masses of Christians who don't support a narrow, radical, evangelical government!
I've been watching the fundies creep into the highest levels of govt. for years, and the attempt to subvert the democratic process and the constitution is as alarming as anything else I've seen.
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