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[Segami]

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[cliffordu]

1. The Dominionists are the most dangerous of religious extremists in this country.

Please do our nation a favor and study them and their goals.

your life and the lives of your children might depend on it.

[calimary]

2. +1,000,000!

[AsahinaKimi]

5. Yes, they are

and if many of them got into government we would truly see this country become a Christian Nation, right before our eyes. I wonder how many would gather to stop it, if it did?

[white_wolf]

8. They love to quote the Founders in the Platform

so here are a few they missed. I'm sure it was an accident, I mean these people would never engage in intellectual dishonestly. :sarcasm:

Thomas Paine: 1. "Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst." 2. "Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half of the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we call it the word of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind. 3. "All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit." 4. he study of theology, as it stands in the Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on no principles; it proceeds by no authority; it has no data; it can demonstrate nothing; and it admits of no conclusion."

Thomas Jefferson: 1. "In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot ... they have perverted the purest religion ever preached to man into mystery and jargon, unintelligible to all mankind, and therefore the safer engine for their purpose." 2. "Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear. 3. "I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology." 4. "Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the Common Law."

John Adams: 1. "This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it." 2. "I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved-- the Cross. Consider what calamities that engine of grief has produced!"








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[flamingdem]

7. How can so many crazies get so far in government

.. I mean their world view is cracked so how can they function and appear to be normal?

I think they use it as a framework to gain power primarily.

[Segami]

11. You hit the dangerous truth on the nose.

[bbgrunt]

3. and with regard to Scott Walker:

"Like Palin and many others, Walker was raised in a Dominionist Baptist church in Colorado Springs, CO where his father was a minister. He adheres to the same religio-political tenets. He is public speaker to a group called the Christian Businessmen’s Connection that is a front group for the Family/Fellowship that Jeff Sharlet writes about.

This group also has ties to the Council for National Policy, a secret cabal of Dominionist and uber-conservative profiteers that has secret handshake meetings off the beltway near D.C.; it was founded by Tim LeHaye of the “Left Behind” book series and the Rapture and the End Times. There is far more information that links Walker to known Dominionist groups and patrons, but this gives you a good firm idea of the extent of his connections."

[white_wolf]

4. This article prompted me to read up on the Constitution Party.

I'm on their site and reading their platform as I type this. Their freaking preamble begins with a paragraph long prayer to Jesus. Such religious extremism so openly in a political party is disturbing.

[flamingdem]

6. Wow, the nutjobs have a nut religion nt

[upi402]

9. k/r Mike Malloy

talks about these zealots frequently. Every faith has them and Christians will need to police their own or we all pay the price.

[white_wolf]

10. No. I'm not letting them post their crap without being called out.

I'm emailing them those quotes of mine and a copy of the Treaty of Tripoli which clearly says the government of the united states was in no way founded on the christian religion. It was passed under Washington and signed into law by John Adams.

[Brother Buzz]

12. Katherine Yurica's essay, The Despoiling of America, is an essential companion read for background

Perhaps a bit dated, but still pertinent.

http://www.yuricareport.com/Dominionism/TheDespoilingOfAmerica.htm