If you are like most Americans, you’ve been scratching your head over the last decade or two asking yourself what the hell has happened to your country. After reading about the recent poll numbers showing that churchgoers approve far more often of torture than do their non-church-going friends, I started doing a little bit of serious research into this matter.
I stumbled into an absolute cess pool of “Dominionism” and “Christian Nationalism” that still has me wanting to bow down before the porcelain god and lose my supper. If you can stomach it, do some reading. You will discover that a group of Christian fanatics has deliberately hijacked your country and attempted (and is still attempting) to turn it into the most repressive of theocracies.
Said idiots have even tried to rewrite history, claiming that our founding fathers were exclusively Christian. Off the top of my head, I can name three who weren’t. Two were Deists, and Ben Franklin, the old goat, was a member of the naughty Hellfire Club. Jefferson converted a time or two to a relatively mild brand of Episcopalianism, but he always came back to Deism. I think his flirtation with Christianity was probably just good for business. So the very idea that we were founded as an exclusively Christian nation is just ridiculous.
Personally, I have a difficult time believing that any woman buys into this Dominionist garbage. Submit to your husband? Sorry, gents, but I’ve yet to meet a male that could run his own life efficiently, let alone mine. These groups supposedly aren’t opposed to birth control – not like the Catholics are – but they don’t want to talk about it either, not even in countries where the birth rate is actually killing folks left and right. It certainly seems that keeping the little lady barefoot and pregnant is the only way they know to keep her under control. And spreading disease in poor countries is one way to keep them from ever becoming a “problem” for you.
Unfortunately, I’ve studied enough psychology to recognize a massive male inferiority complex when I see one. And that tracks on the torture issue as well – apart from clinical sadists, the only folks who would derive satisfaction from torturing a helpless prisoner would be those who were feeling awfully helpless themselves at the time. Torture must have been very empowering for a certain type of crippled personality.
Incidentally, John Ashcroft was an Assembly of God type, which means he was definitely a Dominionist. Assembly of God and Pentecostal churches were among the first to accept Dominionist philosophy right after the turn of the last century, and they were followed by most of the evangelical and charismatic churches. Personally, I am not surprised. Any group that calls falling down in the floor, foaming at the mouth and making unintelligible animal noises “speaking in tongues” is collectively fruitier than nutcakes in my admittedly biased view.
Back to Ashcroft, the poor SOB was so totally threatened by femininity that he spent $8,000 of taxpayer money to drape the bare breast of a classical statue of Lady Justice. You’ve really got to feel sorry for a heterosexual guy that goes through life worried that he might catch a glimpse of female skin.
Kind of reminds you of some Muslim fanatics you’ve read about, doesn’t it. Brand just doesn’t matter – a nut is a nut is a nut . . .
Fanatics have always been the most dangerous of human beings. Fanatics account for Muslim extremists blowing themselves up with disturbing regularity and trying to take a lot of folks with them. Fanatics recently bombed Gaza back into the stone age, creating even more Muslim extremists just itching to don high explosive fashion. Fanatics are the reason Steve Rosen, caught red-handed in espionage against the United States of America, has just walked free to do it again – by fanatics in this case, I refer to the “Amen” corner of Congress and the White House, those folks who believe that Israel can do no wrong at all, no matter what, not ever – it makes one wonder what sort of guilt is behind this blindness.
Fact: Of all our so-called allies, Israel has the most active and damaging espionage program against the United States. Fact, not fiction, and incontrovertible. But Israel can still do no wrong.
I don’t hate Jews at all. I don’t hate anybody at all these days, and Jews least of all. Hell, I literally grew up around the entertainment and apparel industries – kind of hard indeed to hate those folks when they helped raise you. But I never met a single individual who could do no wrong – and as for a whole nation, let’s not even go there.
The fanatics few want to talk about in this country are actually part and parcel of the “Amen” corner problem, because right along with Pat Robertson, those Dominionists and Christian Nationalists think we just have to prevent one single acre of the Holy Land from falling into Muslim hands, and they are cheerfully willing to shed many gallons of American blood to prevent it. Of course, they find it easy to ignore several million Palestinians who absolutely have to live somewhere, and given the xenophobia endemic to this sort of Christian, it is likely they have some sort of “final solution” in mind for those poor unfortunates even if the Israelis don’t.
How ironic, and how tragic.
And it is ironic indeed that this very hard right wing crew has just handed over western civilization to some of the most rabid socialists imaginable. Genuine conservatives and small government folks can’t stomach these religious wingnuts at all, and so the GOP has self-destructed messily from the inside – and it has done it almost overnight in historical terms. As a political party, the GOP is completely washed up. Finished. John McCain’s choice of fruitcake Sarah Palin for a running mate only drove a stake through the heart of an already rotting corpse.
No doubt the GOP is hoping that Obama’s socialist programs will worsen things economically in the United States to the point that the populace will accept anything else. Hell, Rush Limbaugh suicidally stated on national radio that he actually wanted Obama to fail. On the other hand, I do think this is a once in a lifetime opportunity for advocates of genuine freedom to fill a power vacuum at the very top of American politics, and I hope Ron Paul is listening.
If we libertarians can get our act together – and getting libertarians to work together has been compared to herding cats – but if we can get our act together in the next four years, we have a real chance now to change the landscape of American politics forever.
I, for one, simply will not live in a Christian theocracy. I am a practicing Pagan, and my life wouldn’t be worth two cents in such a regime, so I will fight these idiots to my dying breath – with words if I can, and with blood if necessary – and I absolutely guarantee I won’t die alone. Not all Pagans are pacifists. Not all Pagans are liberals. I might add that gentle martyrdom is just about the brain dead dumbest idea the Christians ever came up with – right up there with “turn the other cheek.”
Perhaps it is time for the worst domestic enemies of our Constitution that have crawled out from under slimy rocks at any time in the past two centuries to find that out.
Posted under Civil Rights, Freedom, Politics
This post was written by Kate on May 2, 2009
