Christian Right: The True Totalitarians of America

Excellent!! Very well done and indubitably astute!

The Christian right, the Jewish right, the Muslim right, and all the other people who believe they are right including the political left.

Even though I'm in another country, these people are scary.  They are no better than the Taliban trying to impose their truths on everyone.  Just because I have a belief and hold it as true and good and right, does not mean I AM right.  It means I've found my answer.  I still have to remember I could be wrong, even if a bunch of people agree, and humans have to experiment to find the right path.  Folks with faith all think their right, but there is a lot of disagreement all the same.  What I believe and what the guy next door believes may be radically different even while we both hold those truths to be self evident!

I cannot sit here and watch you dogs postulate this subterfuge. First off, most of the founding fathers were God fearing, Bible reading people and to deny such a thing is to overlook an important piece of OUR history. George Washington and Samuel Adams are just to name a couple that also happen to have been the president of the United States of America, which means the majority of the people sided with them. Samuel Adams even said that it is impossible for any God fearing, Bible reading people to succumb to slavery for the Bible is the basic foundation for human freedom. Sure Samuel Adams doesnt exactly have a spot clean record, but hey we are all human and every single person on the face of this planet makes mistakes, not one besides Jesus Christ has ever been a perfect man. Now most religions have stemmed from the Bible, but if something stems from the truth, then what has stemmed will be taken to be the truth no matter what has been added to it therefor causing people to be double minded and believe 2 concepts to be true even though there can only be one truth. Now I seek the truth just like anyone else so I must point out another fallacy in your statement. You said that our forefathers came to America to escape the European Christian control, but what you FAIL to mention is that they were being oppressed by CATHOLIC control and last time I checked, true Christians despise the Catholics because the Catholics have distorted the Bible so that they can take control. The idea of the Pope goes against the Bible itself, and yet people love this idea. The Catholic priests force the congregation to call them father, but yet Mathew 23 states that no man should be called father, except the Father (God). (and that doesnt mean you cant call your dad father because he is your father, but they refer to the place of authority that calls themselves father. Just as men are not to be called Rabbi, but the Jewish religion, which most people believe are the chosen people do this exact thing. So you can see why Bible reading people will shun those beliefs that are not the truth just as society has shunned religion because people love to believe a lie, especially the ones they tell themselves. I was one of them. Its so difficult to see when you are trapped in the mental slavery because if you knew you were being enslaved, you wouldnt be enslaved anymore, therefore creating a paradox of some sort.

Now I do wish to go off onto a tangent because I know that most people reading this are more than likely believers of evolution. Now correct me if I'm wrong, but evolutionists believe that first is was single-celled organisms that evolved into more complex. So their order of events are: creatures that lived in the water (where first life appeared), birds, then land animals, then man. Well congratulations, you believe exactly how Biblical people believe for in Genisis 1, God said "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the great expanse of the sky" on the 5th day, then on the 6th day he created the creatures that walked on land and the livestock and man. Now we do not know what 1 day to God is to man. It could be a month or it could even be 1 million years, we simply do not know, but what we do know is that the order of events for creationers is: creatures of the water (the Bible never specifically mentions fish but yet that is how we are taught, creatures can be bacteria, crustaceans, fish, sharks, anything that lives in the water which we know is where life was first), birds of the air, and then creatures of the land, and finally man. Now I believe that once we were put here, we then evolved from that point on, meaning that God could have created those single celled organisms first and those then evolved into the fish and mammals of the sea. But yet both sides are hounded for their beliefs even though the share so much in common. People hate to bring science into religion, I love it. I love science, I love history. Gen 1:1 states all 5 manifestations of the unknowable to man. "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth" In the beginning - time, God - energy, created - force, heavens - space, earth - matter. The Bible also states the earth is round. It also took The Bible for archaeologists to discover the lost city of Jericho. Did I mention that the Bible also stated that the number of stars is innumerable? But yet until technology allowed us to peer deep into space, man had thought to have counted all the stars in the sky, but we are just now learning in the past 30 years that there are too many stars to count and The Bible knew this 2000 years prior!? You cannot argue the vast amount of logic in The Bible, but just because a couple of your personal beliefs differ from The Bible, you disregard as relevant even though it is the only book to have withstood the testament of time and the only piece of recorded history that has over 2000 ancient documents that agree with The Bible and not all are in the same language mind you. It wasn't The Bible that created this chaotic world we are in, but it is the people who misuse its intent, for the Law of God is good if used lawfully and righteously. Hitler is a prime example. He used the concepts that were meant for the good of mankind to push his own personal agenda. Is it not better to fear the Master that is the Lord of us all who is not of this earth than to fear something that IS of this earth such as a man or the law that man creates? (Our own government is something most people fear. people fear doing wrong in the sight of politicians and the government) And if man is flawed, then is his judgement not flawed, is his laws that he feels are just not flawed? Then what do we hold to be the truth if everything we think is flawed? We cannot hold ourselves to standards of our own for if we did, then we are the only right person and everyone else is wrong and that would assert us in a place of authority over everyone else which means that there will be rebellion and chaos such as we have today, so is it not better to hold ourselves to a standard that is not our own or anyone else's but the Lord God Almighty?

". You said that our forefathers came to America to escape the European Christian control, but what you FAIL to mention is that they were being oppressed by CATHOLIC control and last time I checked, true Christians despise the Catholics because the Catholics have distorted the Bible so that they can take control."

Not true. England was Anglican, not Catholic. Germany, which provided the bulk of immigrants to America, was Lutheran.

"Its so difficult to see when you are trapped in the mental slavery because if you knew you were being enslaved, you wouldnt be enslaved anymore, therefore creating a paradox of some sort."

The biggest mental snares being made these days by the Christian Right as they continue to lie to people about everything and make them believe that scientists, to whom America owes most of what it has, are fools and sinners, and people claiming such things are not.

" So their order of events are: creatures that lived in the water (where first life appeared), birds, then land animals, then man. Well congratulations, you believe exactly how Biblical people believe for in Genisis 1, God said "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the great expanse of the sky" on the 5th day, then on the 6th day he created the creatures that walked on land and the livestock and man. Now we do not know what 1 day to God is to man."

Then explain why there are new bacteria out there that eat nylon, a material that did not exist until 1938.

"Did I mention that the Bible also stated that the number of stars is innumerable? But yet until technology allowed us to peer deep into space, man had thought to have counted all the stars in the sky, but we are just now learning in the past 30 years that there are too many stars to count and The Bible knew this 2000 years prior!?"

It also said that the earth is a circle rather than a sphere and that there was a mountain that looked over all the kingdoms of the world.

What you might find of interest is that Hindu religion has a tradition of swamis who have done exactly what Jesus has done and died and resurrected; that many of Jesus's teachings were identical with those of Buddha, who lived 600 years prior; and that there is a record of a man named Issa coming to India from the West around the time of Jesus in order to study their teachings.

Further, that ancient world was full of miracle-doers, and that before there was Christianity there was a myth of Mythra who died, resurrected after three days, and was going to come back to judge the living and the dead.

The Christian Right line on all such things is that they come from Satan. Which means that to believe that line is to damn everyone and everything other than oneself. And that is indeed a totalitarian stance to take.

 Part of the Native American Indian removal Acts in the 1800 and 1900's included kidnapping little children to be removed from their tribes and forced to go to missionary Christian schools where too many were molested and beaten for even singing traditional spiritual songs in their own language.  Today Native people still struggle to have freedom of religious.  As far as Thomas Jefferson and other slave owners "having a child" with a slave, I would hardly call the forced rapes of  young African girls by the founding fathers as an acts of anything but cruelty.  Historically Christianity has always been synonymous with the ability to own land.  This gave the Christian right the excuse to take land away fromnon Christian 'pagans or heathens".  This excuse has helped cause the extermination of millions of Native people and the theft of the lands in the U.S. and so today we have what is left of our Native American population struggling to survive on reservations and in the cities.  Thank you for this good article I hope people continue to learn and  undo the damage that has been caused in the name of Christianity. A good place to start is to allow freedom of religion.

I love your article!  I live in Texas, so I certainly enjoyed posting this on FB page today. Thank you!  It spares me having to argue with them.  I'll just refer them to your article!   I feel like we've returned to the days of the Salem Witch Trials, cross burnings and public lynchings.  These people create hell on earth...certainly not heaven!  They have destroyed our state, our country...even as they loudly and stupidly proclaim that Obama is the one who is destroying everything.  I've said the motto for Rick Perry has to be:  "Keep Texas stupid, so I can keep my job."   The 2010 Texas GOP Platform is frightening!  What is more frightening is that when I posted it, no one negatively reacted to it.  One of the proposals:  "we support lifting the restrictions on corporal punishment for foster children."  These are the people who say Obama is the antichrist and Hitler, when Obama is the one who has given rights to children and to gay people to be treated as human beings.  Keep up the great work!