US Government Apparatus Being Morphed Into Theocracy. Expect Public Policy To Reflect Bible.

[TheMastersNemesis]

While we are paying attention to all the mayhem, our institutions are bing morphed into establishing policy that represent the beliefs of the radical religion right. With the lessening of LGBT protecting and the idea that "life starts at conception" becoming public policy are the clearest signs that this is the trend that is developing.

It is becoming more obvious that there is deep infiltration of radical religionist within our government and perhaps our military.
The rumors of prayer sessions for cabinet members should be a red flag. It looks like Trump is willing to give the radical Christian right everything it wants.

[Sophia4]

1. Which part of the Bible?

[haele]

2. It's part of "the Christianist Bible". The one that their preachers enshrined in their hearts.

What's odd is that the physical book they waive around has the very same words in it that the one you find in book stores and hotel rooms - or even in your own church pews - that you might use to bolster your own faith. It's just their particular version of Christianity and it's interpretation of the Bible, both New and Old Testament.

As a side discussion - I've noticed that both types of Christianists - the Dominionist and the Prosperity Gospel followers never discuss how their own Devil or Satan can quote scripture, how people can be fooled by those with pious lies. Not do their sermons discuss false profits - err, false prophets as those are actually written and warned about in the Book they supposedly use for spiritual guidance.
Instead, they can be depended on to rail false prophets - the ones that might actually try to help the poor and troubled, who live by the red letter words in their bibles instead of cherry pick weapons to be used against a particular preacher's critics or "enemies" in the quest to attain tangible "blessings" in various offshore bank accounts and investments.

They also seem to have a problem living in a great big world that is just a speck in an even larger Universe that their creator is supposed to have made.

I liken most of the Christianist followers to kids in their first year of High School that desperately want to be in with the Kool Kids Klique.

Like kids whose parents have "left them in charge" for the weekend, they'll give into the peer pressure that these preachers with their compliant spouses, mansions, personal planes and sincere appearance of blessed "Godlyness", and let those selfish bastards party in their minds, twisting and trashing the place along with looting anything of value - leaving the followers broken and empty, having to explain to their parent/creator how the f*** they could allow this to happen to everything that creator did to provide for everyone.

It's sad, but like school bullying; no one seems to want to be in charge of reining them in. They can be aggressive assholes, and no one will say boo.
No one calls them out, or even just gets in their face, other than those the Christianists can paint as enemies because the accusers or victims are sufficiently different than them.
Just "tut, tut", and it's someone else's responsibility they're breaking both the normative rules that enable a stable society to interact and thrive - and in many cases, laws. And after they've gathered up enough power to change the rules to favor them and their particular little organizations over all others, there will be nothing that can be done to save their victims.

The march to Theocracy may be slow in the beginning, but it's pretty obvious those pushing for it can see their finish line, their "Pearly Gates of Power". They want the world to be smaller and meaner, so they can be in control. And they'll defy their own creator for that power - Milton pegged it. They would rather Reign in Hell than be equals in "heaven" with everyone else.

Deny that at the peril to your own beliefs.

Haele

[Sophia4]

3. If you read the portion of the Bible that contains the Jewish laws, you live one way.

If you read the portion of the Bible in that reports that Jesus says you can break some of the laws, it's quite another.

For example, eating pork. Against Jewish law. But Jesus supposedly expressly said that eating pork is OK. It's kind of odd that that particular law was discussed by Jesus at all in my opinion.

It's pick and choose time when people start literally following the Bible.