Monday, May 02, 2005
Demons!
Apparently that is what the religious right really is, demons. At least if you attended "the two-day conference at City College of New York called 'Examining the Real Agenda of the Religious Far Right,'" as reported in the Washington Times. (HT: Hugh Hewitt)
Check out a few quotes
Nothing like a straw man to battle....
Check out a few quotes
"This may be the darkest time in our history," said Bob Edgar, general secretary of the left-leaning National Council of Churches...The Depression, either world war, The Civil War were far better days than these. No hyperbole here. Let's move on.
The United States is "not yet a theocracy," Joan Bokaer, founder of TheocracyWatch.org, said Friday night, but she argued that "the United States is beginning to fit the model of a reconstructed America."Call me when we are tearing down statues of Buddha or gassing Jews. But here is my fave
Tax cuts combined with increased funding for faith-based social programs and decreases in welfare spending, Ms. Bokaer said, were examples of "the theological right ... zealously setting up to establish their beliefs in all aspects of our society."
Speakers outlined such concepts -- others would say conspiracy theories -- as Christian reconstructionism and dominionism to a crowd that Mr. White said does "not understand the further reaches of religion."Who makes this stuff up? I spend a lot of time in church and reading Christian literature and I have never heard of this before. "Impose Old Testament law?" - getting out from oppression by OT law is the very heart of Christianity.
Dominionism is the theory that the account in Genesis in which God gave man dominion over the earth has become a political teaching advocating that Christians gain and hold power. Christian reconstructionism is the theory that Christian conservatives intend to impose Old Testament law in America.
Nothing like a straw man to battle....
