In 1799,
a
second Great
Awakening of Fundamentalist Orthodoxy swept the
country, and lasted for another 30 years, until 1830. These Christian
revival movements appear to have had the opposite effect on the
population, as the next five decades ushered in a period of some of
the most anti-Christian activities in our history; including the
deliberate genocide of the Native American peoples, and the evils of
slavery.
In the
past such paroxysms of religious fervor were caused by zealots that
were active long enough to fill their coffers with loot. Based on
past experience, we might have to tolerate the current
Christian-Nationalist
Great Awakening
for at least 20 more years; that is unless they achieve their
political objectives; which are more infinitely more dangerous than
their predecessors.
Created
by
Donald Wildmon in 1977 has built an empire of 200 station radio
network, about 100 employees and a monthly journal sent to 180,000
people, largely on the basis of hate propaganda. Has 21 State
Directors, devoted to Anti-Homosexual campaigns.
In
truth, Cameron is the long time house psychologist of the Anti-Gay
movement, and one of the most thoroughly discredited researchers in
America. After losing his job teaching Psychology at the University
of Nebraska in 1980, Cameron began to crank out “scientific”
studies that bolstered the claims of people like Anita Bryant, Jerry
Falwell, ands other early Anti-homosexual crusaders claiming that gay
people were “diseased
perverts” with a program to molest children and
demolish America.
What will
weaken America as a World Power; is not the decadence of Secularists,
Gays, and Liberals but the Superstition, Ignorance, and Intolerance
which these Fundamentalist Anti-Christs are spreading across America
and the world. We cannot compete in the Global Economy under the yoke
of a medieval monolithic culture in which Science is replaced with
sectarian Biblical mythology; and where Civil Liberties and Political
Power are reserved for the “Chosen
or Elect” followers of these corrupt Demagogues.
When
reading about the activities of these so-called Christian
organizations, several features become crystally clear:
The
biblical wrath that the Christian-Nationalists vomit on our society,
is exactly the same as the hate rhetoric which accompanied Pogroms
against the Jews in 19th Century Europe, where Jews
were accused of blood
libel, the accusation that they kidnapped Gentile
children, killed them, and drained their blood to make matzohs!
The
Nazis,
building on similar demonization, said Jews were a mongrel race,
sub-human and associated them with disease, filth, urban
degeneration, preying on white women, usury, and crimes. For the past
25 years the Christian-
Nationalists
have kept up a similar steady drumbeat of demonization of
Homosexuals.
“Our
job is to reclaim America for Christ, whatever the cost… we
are to exercise Godly Dominion and influence over our neighborhoods,
our schools, our government… over every aspect and institution
of human society.”
Dr.
James Kennedy, Coral Ridge Ministries
Christian-Nationalist
Fundamentalist
Kennedy’s
Coral ridge TV and radio audiences number around 3 million in the
U.S. and his Center for reclaiming America, which boasts an E-Army of
half a million, has committed it’s resources to “Save
America” from Judges who support tolerance and
civil rights. In September 2005, the Interfaith Alliance reported on
a Religious Right Conference orchestrated by Kennedy called
“Reclaiming
America For Christ” The Conference was
attended by 1,000 fanatical followers, and featured several
prominent NFC
Republican politicians.
The
Conference opened with an Anti-American oath that eerily expressed
the religious right’s vision for America:
“I
pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the saviour,
crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all
those who believe.”
At
this conference, the Holy
Rep. Tom DeLay of Texas (who had just been indicted
for illegally funneling Corporate money into Texas Congressional
campaigns), made the following remarks;
“Bush’s
Faith-based initiatives are a great opportunity to
bring God back into the public institutions of our country.”
At this
Conference, Republican
Rep. Walter Jones of North Carolina rapturously
declared:
“America
is under assault!…you cannot have a strong nation that does not
follow God.…God, please----God, please----God, please---save
America.”
Jones has
introduced H.R. 235, which would allow houses of worship to
directly endorse or oppose political candidates, turning houses of
worship into campaign headquarters.
Rep.
Catherine Harris (R) of Florida, of hanging chad
infamy, urged the conferees to:
“…win
back America for God.”(and Republicans)
In his
speech, Kennedy called Church-State separation:
“…the
sharpest sword in the devil’s arsenal.”
He then
summarized the Christian-Nationalist’s
avowed mission from God:
“As
the vice-regents of God, we are to exercise godly DOMINION and
influence over our neighborhoods, our government, our literature and
arts, our sports arenas, our entertainment media, our news media, our
scientific endeavors---in short, every aspect and institution in
human society.”
Dr. James Kennedy
Christian-Nationalists
follow the teachings of Rushdoony; who was an extremely Orthodox
Presbyterian minister, and the founder of Dominion
Theology and the Christian
Reconstruction Sect, which would replace the U.S.
Constitution with Biblical Law.
Separation
of Church and State
“The
Government of the United States, is not, in any sense, founded on the
Christian Religion.”
George Washington, Treaty of Tripoli,
1796
Our
founding fathers, who were intimately familiar with the history of
Centuries of religious persecution and religious wars in Europe,
wisely established a Constitution that absolutely
separated Church and State.
This has
stood the test of time, preventing religious strife in American life,
that had been so prevalent in other societies, throughout the history
of European Christianity. Mr. Bush and the NFC
Republicans have, by their actions, shown that they do
not respect this fundamental principal of our Republic.
The
office of the President is not that of Chief Priest of any religious
faith.
“Christianity
neither is, nor ever was, a part of the common law.”
Thomas
Jefferson, Feb. 10, 1814
The
Christian-Nationalist
movement is founded on these cult beliefs of Dominionism,
or Christian
Reconstructionism. Its doctrines are shocking to
ordinary Christian believers, and to most Americans. Journalist
Frederick Clarkson, who has written extensively on the subject,
warned in 1994 that:
Dominionism
“seeks to
replace Democracy, with a theocratic elite that would govern
by imposing their interpretation of Biblical Law.”
He described that some of the ulterior political motives of
Dominionism are to eliminate “Labor
unions, Civil rights laws, and Public Schools.”
“These
people draw near to Me with their mouth; And honor Me with their
lips, But their heart is far from Me. And in vain they worship Me.
Teaching as doctrines the Commandments of men.”
Jesus
Christ, The King James Bible, Matthew 15: 8-9
The most
fanatical goal of Christian-Nationalism
is to create a Christian
state; instigate Armageddon, and usher in the End
Times and the Rapture.
“The
only way you can get Christ back is if you destroy the Dome of Omar
and the infidel structures and build the third temple. And if the
Jews don't build the third temple, Jesus can't give his abomination
of desolation. Once they build the third temple, Jesus comes back and
he brings the raptured church back with him, armed with NRA Uzi and
AK-47s, and they run us all for a thousand years.”
George
E. Lowe: Can “It” Happen Here? Hasn't “It”
Already? A Fascist Christian America, in interview by Buzzflash
In mid
2005, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who helped to give Bush
the Presidency in 2000, went on what has been called a Road
Trip for Christian-
Nationalism. At one stop he gave a speech to a
synagogue, in which he stated that Jews should feel very secure in a
Christian State, and should not be afraid of America becoming a
“Christian
State”. Scalia is reported to be a member of the
extreme right wing Catholic cult, called Opus
Dei.
The
Rapture revelation has created an alliance between many Right Wing
Christians, in particular the Christian-Nationalist
Fundamentalist Crusaders, who firmly believe in
Armageddon, and the so-called Christian
Zionists; even though it's a temporary alliance,
because the Christian Zionists believe that all the Jews will be
destroyed except for 144,000; who will then be
converted to their form of Christianity, in the coming battle of
Armageddon.
“The
chief duty of governments, in so far as they are coercive, is to
restrain those who would interfere with the inalienable rights of the
individual, among which are the right to life, the right to liberty,
the right to the pursuit of happiness, and the right to worship God
according the dictates of one’s conscience.”
William
Jennings Bryan, 1915
Rushdoony,
called the “Ayatollah
of the Holy Rollers” by his critics, has served
the same role of ideological mentor for the Christian Right, as
Alfred Rosenberg did for the Fascist Nazi movement.
Rushdoony
wrote in almost the same terms as Adolf Hitler:
“Supernatural
Christianity and Democracy are inevitably enemies” and
“Democracy is the great love of the failures and the cowards of
life.”
R.
John Rushdoony
Rushdoony
favored racial segregation and slavery, which he felt had benefited
black people, because it introduced them to Christianity. He largely
denied the Holocaust.
Clarkson
wrote that under Christian-Nationalism;
women would generally be relegated to hearth and home. (a lot like
the Nazi Hausenfrau) Insufficiently Christian men would be denied
citizenship, perhaps executed. So severe is this puritanical
theocracy, that it would
extend capital punishment to blasphemy, heresy, adultery, and
homosexuality.
Clarkson
claims that the founders of this cult movement included Rushdoony,
his son-in-law Gary North, Pat
Robertson (700 Club), Herb Titus, the former
Dean of Robertson’s Regent University School of Public Policy
(formerly CBN University), Charles
Coulson, (Watergate Conspirator) Robertson’s
political strategist, Tim
LaHaye, Gary Bauer, the late Francis
Schaeffer, and Paul
Crouch, the founder of TBN, the world’s largest
television network; plus a virtual army of like minded television and
radio evangelists and talk show hosts.
These
heretical Christian
Jihadists believe that Secular
Humanists are the greatest threat to Christianity the
world has ever known.
According
to the Christian-Nationalists,
humanists are the folks who allow or encourage licentious behavior in
America. They are the undisciplined revelers.
Christian
Humanity:
“That
nation is not Christian where the principles of humanity do not
prevail, but the prejudices of race. I expect the Christian not to be
superstitious, but to be distinguished by the clearness of his
knowledge, the strength of his faith, the breadth of his
humanity.”
Henry David Thoreau
Clarkson
observes that, if you put all the enemies of the Dominionists
together, into one single most highly derided and contaminated
individual known to man, and you will have before you an image of the
quintessential Liberal,
one of those folks who wants taxes to be used liberally for the poor
and needy, who desires the welfare and happiness of all Americans,
who insists on safety regulations for workers protection, and who
desires the preservation of genuine Christian values. In other words,
a Liberal!
According
to Dominionists, these enemies of God’s people are Pariahs, and
must be reduced to powerlessness -- or worse, extinction. The Texas
Neo-Conservative Republican platform; reveals that they are not just
talking about these bizarre Theo-political beliefs, as many
Christian-Nationalist
precepts have already found their way into the State Party Platform
and the Neo-Conservative Republican agendas.
“I
lived among them. When the Reagan Administration came in, I was
Secretary of Education Bell's speech writer. I looked around and who
did I see? Gary Bauer as an Assistant Secretary, Bob Billings, one of
the founders of the Moral Majority; another Assistant Secretary.
Civil rights was handed over to Alan Keyes and Clarence Thomas. They
dumped a lot of strange people into the department that had Hal
Lindsey's book, The Late, Great Planet Earth, and the Good
Shepherd's Yellow Pages. They had little cards that they would post
up in the halls saying, "Listen to Jim Baker and Tammy Faye."
They were revolutionaries. And here I am, an American historian,
worried about this, because I was fighting the military fascists in
the sixties. Here we get Christian fascists, and I just couldn't
comprehend it.”
George
E. Lowe, Author, “It Can Happen Here-A Fascist Christian
America”
Like
Nazism, Christian-Nationalism
or Dominionism
dogma, is a form of Social Darwinism. It includes the religious
belief that wealth-power is a sign of God’s election. That is,
out of the masses of people and the multitude of nations, wealth in
and of itself, is thought to indicate God’s approval of men and
nations, whereas poverty and sickness reflect God’s
disapproval.
The
New Age of Cristo-Fascist Faith:
“…the
Corporate State must not be considered solely as a means of good
government. It is also the means of self-expression of the nation as
a Corporate whole in the attainment of its National destiny. It will
be in recovering the “Age of Faith” of Christendom and
the vital energy of Tudor England that we may realize in part the
great future of our nation.”
Alexander Raven
Thompson, Fascist Leader, BUF Pamphlet, London 1936
Worldly
wealth and power are signs of God’s favor. Any attempt to limit
or decrease one’s wealth and power is to disrespect God. On the
contrary, God’s Elect on earth are required to
increase their wealth and power, so as to dominate economically all
people and nations. Any attempt to decrease a persons wealth and
power, such as taxes, to take from the rich and give to the poor, or
to reduce military spending and power, is a direct attack on their
version of God’s plan. It is not sufficient for a man to be a
millionaire, or for a country to have sovereignty within its borders,
this heresy must be delivered to the entire world.
“Now
I have found the word: we modern Germans are something like
Christ-socialists. The battle which we are fighting today till
victory is secured, or to the bitter end, is in the deepest sense a
battle between Christ and Marx.. Christ: the principle of Love, Marx:
the principle of Hate”
Joseph Goebbels, Nazi
Propaganda Chief, Munich 1931
Dominionist
Theology Require Fascist Invasions and Murder:
Rushdoony
wrote that a Dominionist government’s behavior toward its
neighbors must be to:
“invade
their countries, kill their leaders, and convert them to
Christianity.” (the same words used by NFC
Propagandist, Ann Coulter.
To
re-emphasize this Christian-Nationalist
Good Neighbor policy, in August 2005, Christian
televangelist demagogue Pat
Robertson, suggested, on his “700
Club” broadcast, that American agents
assassinate popularly elected leftist Venezuelan President Hugo
Chavez, who has been an outspoken critic of U.S. policies. Chavez, a
Socialist, has shown the true meaning of Christian charity, by making
supplies of Venezuela’s (CITGO) oil available to the most
poverty stricken areas of North America at a 40% discount.
This form of real humanitarianism is foreign to the phony Christian
Prophet Pat Robertson.
“You
know, I don’t know about this doctrine of assassination, but if
he thinks we’re trying to assassinate him, I think that we
really ought to go ahead and do it. It’s a whole lot cheaper
than starting a war…and I don’t think any oil shipments
will stop.”
Pat Robertson
The
Fifth Commandment of God Given to Moses:
“You
shall not murder”
The
King James Bible, Deuteronomy 5:17
Robertson
later claimed this to be a lapsus linguae and offered a
half-hearted apology. However, this slip of the tongue reveals the
true nature of this essentially Anti-Christian
movement.
In 1963,
Rushdoony wrote a Christian
Revisionist historical account called “The
Nature of The American System,” in which he
rejected the separation of Church and State. The authors of the
Constitution, he wrote, intended:
“to
perpetuate a Christian Order.”
Rushdoony
was one of the first to raise the idea of Christian-Nationalism
which by the 21st Century; has become the unashamed mantra
of the CNF
Crusader Right.
Rushdoony
wrote in his book; Institutes of Biblical Law:
“The
purpose of regeneration is that man reconstruct all things in
conformity to God’s order, not in terms of man’s desire
for peace. This purpose and mission involves law and coercion.”
R. John Rushdoony
Dr.
Gary North, son-in-law of Rushdoony and the current leader of the
Christian Reconstructionists, was quoted in an address to a gathering
of Religious Right ministers stating:
“We
must use the doctrine of religious liberty… until we train up
a generation of people who know that there is no religious
neutrality, no neutral law, no neutral education, and no neutral
civil government. Then they will get busy constructing a Bible based
social, political and religious order which finally denies the
religious liberty of the enemies of God.”
Dr.
Gary North
Most of
the CNF Crusader
movement leaders are true believers in
Christian-Nationalism. There is no doubt that these
true believers are seeking Dominion over every aspect of government,
law, education, and the personal lives of the American people. Having
the belief that man is intrinsically evil (the Garden of Eden
Original Sin parable), the Christian-Nationalist leaders believe it
necessary to legislate their puritanical brand of morality on the
rest of us, and make sin a crime, when they create their 2nd
Puritan Christian Commonwealth!
Moral
Values:
In 399
BC,
Socrates was accused of “not
believing in the Gods the city (Athens) believes in, and
corrupting the young.” The first part of the
charge was absurd, because practically nobody believed in the
city’s
Gods; whereas Socrates clearly did believe, very devoutly, in a good
God of some kind.
If
corrupting the young, by teaching them not to accept the irrational
and superstitious views of their elders without question; then
without doubt, Socrates like the Great thinkers of the Enlightenment;
was guilty. The similarity between Socrates, who was put to death for
defying the conventions of his day, and Jesus Christ, is apparent.
Socrates and Christ set us a great example, by the manner of their
lives and deaths, which is at the same time, an inspiration and an
impossible ideal.
“The
Christians had a morality, but the pagans had none. What nonsense;
what of the morality of Socrates, of Zaleucus, of Charondas, of
Cicero, of Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius? Dogmas differ, but
morality is the same among all men who make use of their reason.
Morality proceeds from God, like light; superstition is only
darkness. Reflect reader: consider the truth, and form your
conclusions.”
Francois Voltaire
The
February 28th 2005, issue of Time magazine contained a
story of the Christian-Nationalist
Fundamentalist movement in America. The front page of
this issue was devoted to a chilling symbol of the goal of the
Christian Nationalists. The image was of a Christian Cross in front
of, or over the Stars and Stripes.
“To
be sure, our Christian Cross should be the most exalted symbol of the
struggle against the Jewish-Marxist-Bolshevik spirit.”
Adolf Hitler
Dogma
and Bigotry:
“I
do not prefer one religion or philosophy to another. I have no
sympathy with the bigotry and ignorance which make transient and
partial and puerile distinctions between one man’s faith or
form of faith and another’s—as Christian and heathen. I
pray to be delivered from narrowness, partiality, exaggeration,
bigotry.”
Henry David Thoreau
Since the
beginning of the Bush regime, the country has been inundated with
this aggressive brand of religiosity from theocratic leaders, whose
intolerance equals that of the Taliban and Wahhabi Islamic
Fundamentalists in the Muslim world.
“Adolph
Hitler to thee alone we are bound. In this hour we would renew our
solemn vow; in this world we believe in Adolph Hitler alone. We
believe that National Socialism is the sole faith to make our people
blessed. We believe that there is a Lord God in heaven, who has made
us, who guides us and who visibly blesses us. And we believe that
this Lord God has sent us Adolph Hitler, that Germany might be
established for all eternity.”
Schlungsbrief,
April 1937, Nathaniel Micklem, National Socialism and the Roman
Catholic Church, OUP 1939
One major
issue never raised by the press, is that these
False Messiahs Lie! They actually say stunningly false
things, and it is considered rude to challenge their perversion of
the teachings of Jesus Christ; who they claim to follow. While they
always support War
and Hate;
the Liberal teacher, Jesus Christ, and his most genuine followers,
taught Peace and
Love:
“Lord,
make me an instrument of thy Peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow
Love. Where there is injury, Pardon. Where is doubt, Faith. Where
there is despair, Hope Where there is darkness, Light. Where there is
error, Truth. Where there is discord, Harmony, Where there is sorrow,
Joy. Grand Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled,
as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to
love; for it is in giving that we receive, it is in pardoning, that
we are pardoned, and it is in dying that we are born to eternal
life.”
St.
Francis of Assisi
Unfortunately,
these false prophets have been very successful in
attracting millions of the devout masses of all Christian traditions
to their twisted version of the good news of Christianity; which
requires suspending reason, embracing superstition, and reinventing
Jesus Christ as a stern Old Testament Byzantine Pantocrator Judge,
coming to punish most of us; and to reward the rich, Conservative,
Republican, and bigoted Pat Robertsons of the world.
“You
say you’re supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the
Presbyterians and the Methodists and this and that, and the other
thing. Nonsense. I don’t have to be nice to the spirit of the
Anti-Christ.”
Pat
Robertson, 700 Club
Unlike
the Muslim-Nationalist
Fundamentalists (MNF), the Christian-
Nationalist Fundamentalist (CNF) Crusader
leaders of the U.S. are aggressive in their missionary zeal to
proselytize and convert non-believers, Jews, Catholics, Protestants,
Muslims, Mormons, and all other religious traditions around the
world, to their polluted version of the teachings of Jesus the
Christ.
“There
has been indeed, a disturbing trend toward Fundamentalism in recent
years, among political leaders and within major religious
groups…
…Since I am aligned with god, I am superior and my beliefs
should prevail, and anyone who disagrees with me is inherently wrong,
and the next step is inherently inferior. The ultimate step is
subhuman, and then their lives are not significant.”
Jimmy
Carter, “Our Endangered Values,” 2005
Christian-Nationalism
in Apartheid South Africa
“One
of the most powerful factors in the unification of the developing
Afrikaner nation, and the determination of its national life, was the
Christian Faith. It entailed a belief in God and the acceptance of
his guidance. Free Will and Liberalism were ruled out and had to give
way to conscious and responsible leadership with a specific purpose.
We prefer to style it ‘Christian Nationalism’ The OB
intends, therefore, in accordance with our Christian world-view and
history, to safeguard the biological and spiritual composition of our
people. The miscegenation of races will not be allowed, and all
elements which do not agree with our world-view will be eliminated.
The people may not commit suicide through a Liberal indifference.”
Founding Principles Document of the Ossewabrandwag (OB) the
South African Ultra-Nationalist, White Supremacist, Anti-Semitic
Pro-Nazi Fascist Movement.
The
Age of Religious Hysteria Returns
In 1498,
the Mad Dominican Monk and inquisitor, Savonarola, after he had
devastated the Republic of Florence, and almost succeeded in
establishing a Theocracy; was executed by hanging and burning at the
stake, as he had done to so many innocent victims of his fanatical
religious inquisition.
Like
Savonarola, these American Christian Taliban-like clerics are
demanding an aggressive rebirth of a strain of ancient Christian
zealotry, that arises every few generations and for a while causes
havoc in society.
Their
idea
of Christianity is a backward looking religion, with a nostalgia for
a time that never existed; whose scriptures are incontestable, and
immune to modification, reform, or reinterpretation in the modern
world.
“Religious
“fundamentalists” are a huge popular grouping in the
United States, which resembles pre-industrial societies in that
regard. This is a culture in which three-fourths of the population
believe in religious miracles, half believe in the devil, 83 percent
believe that the Bible is the “actual” or the inspired
word of God, 39 percent believe in the Biblical prediction of
Armageddon and “accept it with a certain fatalism,” a
mere 9 percent accept Darwinian evolution while 44 percent believe
that “God created man pretty much in his present form at one
time within the last 10,000 years,” and so on. The “God
and Country rally” that opened the national Republican
convention is one remarkable illustration, which aroused no little
amazement in conservative circles in Europe.”
Noam Chomsky
The
“Fundamentalism”
these zealots espouse is based on their version of Faith and is
incontestable. For example;
-
All
issues must be viewed as black or white, good or evil, moral or
immoral, with us or against us. There can be no compromises or
cooperation.
-
Since
their beliefs are superior to every other faith or religion; everyone
that does not believe as they do, are ignorant, pagans or worse-
heretics.
-
They
impose their theological beliefs and decisions on everyone
-
Since
their knowledge comes straight from God, they must always be right, and
can never admit a mistake.
-
God
is a man, thus the world must be dominated by men.
-
The
subjugation of women and their followers, by authoritarian males
-
Fundamentalists
are militant, angry and often resort to verbal and physical abuse.
-
They
demagogue emotional issues such as Homosexuality, Christian Symbolism
(Ten Commandments) etc.
-
Their
characteristics are; rigidity, domination, and exclusivity.
-
Political
alignment with the Radical NFC Republicans
Their
sectarian doctrinal bigotry is exactly the same as the extreme Muslim
Wahhabi mullahs, and very similar in its effects, to the political
ideology of the first Fascists.
The
exclusivity these Fundamentalists proclaim; is not supported by the
Christian Bible. Jesus demonstrated acceptance of non-Christians,
including the story of the Good Samaritan and the Roman Centurion,
Cornelius.
“You
know how unlawful it is for a Jewish man to keep company with or go
to one of another nation. But God has shown me that I should not call
any man common or unclean…In truth I perceive that God shows no
partiality.”
Words
of the Apostle Peter to Cornelius, King James Bible, Acts 10:28-35
It is
ironic that even the Muslim Quran contains a more inclusive view of
other faiths:
“Say
ye: We believe in God and the revelation given to us and to Abraham,
Ismael, Isaac, Jacob, and the tribes, and that given to Moses and
Jesus, and that given to (all) Prophets from their Lord. We make no
distinction between any of them and it is unto Him that we surrender
ourselves.”
Quran
(2:136) the Holy Text of Islam
Until
now these bigots have never had a champion in the White house!
Fascism
is For Conservative-Christian-Family-Moral Values:
“The
regeneration of race calls for a policy which neutralizes the damage
which can be caused to its germ plasma by pathological agents; both
physical and psychological, material and moral…What we call
for is a Hispanic Supercaste, ethnically improved, morally robust,
spiritually vigorous. For this we need to stimulate the fertility of
select groups, for in biology quantity is not opposed to
quality…The
regeneration of the race has to be backed up by the regeneration of
the family institution, because the family constituted in accordance
with traditional principles of Christian morality represents a
storehouse of social virtues, a bastion against the corruption of the
social environment, a sacred depository of traditions…Culture
and religion are consubstantial with the Christian family, which
suffuses the atmosphere with a morally purifying influence that
consolidates and preserves racial values.”
Antonio
Vallejo-Nagera, Spanish Fascist Polemicist, 1937, proposed a
resurrected Inquisition to police Spain’s racial laws under the
Falange, 1937
The
common
doctrinal ideology of the Christian-Nationalist
Fundamentalist Crusaders and their
evangelical movement; is in effect,
a Clerical form of Fascism, which has been
properly called Clerical or Cristo-Fascism.
“One
species of Fascism with a time-honored past had a recent revival and
may have a promising future in some parts of the world. This is
Clerical-Fascism, which can take various forms, such as the
confluence of Fascism and Radical Fundamentalist
Religion…Fundamentalism has come to represent a Radical,
Militant, Fanatical movement trying to impose its beliefs on others
by means of force, and thus it is a political movement…The
secular state has come under attack in many parts of the
globe.…Religious Fundamentalists in the United States battle
Secular humanism, and the lunatic fringe engages in acts of
terrorism.”
“Fascism, Past-Present-Future,” by Walter
Laqueur
The
Christian
Nationalists are an extreme threat to the domestic
tranquility and internal security of the United States For simplicity
of identification in this book, they are identified as the CNF
(Christian-Nationalist Fundamentalist) Crusaders.
By 2004,
these CNF
Crusading ministers, had transformed their cult of
Christian-Nationalism into the fastest growing and
most influential religious movement in the U.S. These congregations
attracted non-churchgoers, and proselytized millions of Americans
that had drifted away from the mainline Catholic and Protestant
Christian denominations. The May 23, 2005 issue of Business Week
provided a glimpse into the big business and righteous politics of
these Mega- Churches.
“Woe
to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel land and
sea to win one proselyte, and when he is won, you make him twice as
much a son of hell as yourselves.”
Jesus
Christ, The King James Bible, Matthew 23:13
The
Mega-Churches (2,000 plus people) had grown from 50 in 1980 to over
800 in 2005, with a new Mega-Church
now going up in America every two days. Evangelical Christian Radio
stations were up from 1,089 in 1998 to 2,014
in 2004. Christian book sales reflected a similar growth,
with sales up from $2.6 Billion to $3.3 billion in
2004, as large segments of the American public responded to the
massive Television and Radio evangelizing of America.
The
popularity of these Mega-Churches has been attributed to their
Hi-tech theatrical and entertainment complexes, which deliver a dose
of strict hard line Fundamentalist Christian Dogma of; sexual
repression, theological exclusivity, and religious fanaticism, in an
atmosphere of old bible belt tent revivals, feel good sing-along
Hootenannies, Disneyworld, emotional appeals, and slick multi-media
rock concerts.
These
are the new temples where shades of gray and reflective reason are
banished by old time gospel music, the bright revelation of revealed
truth, and unequivocal doctrine.
“The
Religious and Political Right gets the public meaning of religion
mostly wrong, preferring to focus only on sexual and cultural issues
while ignoring the weightier matters of Justice.”
Jim
Wallace, “God’s Politics,” Evangelical Moderate, Editor of
Sojourners Magazine
These
Theocratic-entertainment halls have none of the symbols of
traditional Christianity, or the reflective atmosphere of a genuine
place of worship, but they have become the American popular notion of
21st Century spirituality, e.g. Business Week reported
that Pastor Bill Hybel’s Willow Creek Community Church in South
Barrington, Ill. shunned stained glass windows, or even a crucifix,
for his 7,200 seat, $72
Million temple, because market research suggested that
such traditional symbols would scare away non-church goers.
“And
when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they pray
standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets, that
they may be seen by men. Assuredly I say to you, they have their
reward. But when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut
your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your
Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.”
Jesus
Christ, King James Bible, Matthew 6: 5/6
At
some
point these ministers had departed from the genuine precepts of
Christianity, and had become prosperous, partisan, political, patent
medicine shows.
With all
the Millions of dollars, and hundreds of thousands of members
involved in these earthly Empires; Christ’s mission of giving
money to feed the hungry, heal the sick, house the homeless, clothe
the naked, and visit the incarcerated, are not precepts of their idea
of Christianity.
There is
no common definition of the CNF
Crusaders movement, except that it typically refers to
fanatical zealots who believe that the Protestant King James version
of the Bible is the Literal
Word of God, which fell from Heaven, all
bound in a leather binding, every last word and period. While they
claim to follow the teachings of the Liberal
Jesus Christ, they actually prefer to follow the Hell
and Brimstone proscriptions of their version of the Judaic Old
Testament. Their vision of God; is the Conservative Orthodox Old
Testament stern intolerant God, of enforced discipline and obedience,
demanding human Sacrifice, and smiting enemies and non-believers.
They
in
fact, reject the words of Jesus Christ and his New Liberal
Covenant or New Testament; which taught a religion of love, free
will, peace and tolerance.
Literalism
Is Un-Christian:
“I
was delighted to hear Ambrose (St. Ambrose) in his sermons to the
people saying , as if he were most carefully enunciating a principle
of exegesis: ‘The letter kills, the spirit gives life’
(2 Corr. 3:6) Those texts which, taken literally, seemed to contain
perverse teaching he would expound spiritually, removing the mystical
veil.”
Saint
Augustine, Father of the Church, “Confessions”, 354-430AD
The
invention of movable type in the mid-fifteenth century by Johannes
Guttenberg, led not only to the Protestant Reformation, but to the
religious wars that followed it; as the sudden proliferation of
competing versions of differing translations spurred doctrinal
controversies and awakened long dormant prejudices between Christian
sects.
The
Protestant King James Bible uses approximately 6,000
English words, to attempt to translate over 11,280
Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek words of the original manuscripts of the
Jewish Torah, the Latin Vulgate and other versions. It is inevitable
that the nuances, shades of emphasis, dialects, and poor translating;
have resulted in a loss of meaning. It has not occurred to them that
the scriptures of the four Evangelists also differ in some ways; and
that the message of the New
Testament is the New Covenant of the first and greatest Liberal,
Jesus Christ. What counts is the spirit
of his message, not the specific words contained in
translations; that can never carry the full meaning of the original
writings.
The
best summation of the spirit of the teachings of Jesus can be found
in verses called the “Beatitudes:”
-
Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs
is the kingdom of heaven;
-
Blessed
are those who mourn for they shall be comforted
-
Blessed
are the meek for they shall inherit the earth
-
Blessed
are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be
filled
-
Blessed
are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy
-
Blessed
are the pure in heart for they shall see God
-
Blessed
are the peacemakers for they shall be called sons of God
-
Blessed
are those who are persecuted for righteousness sake for theirs is the
kingdom of heaven
The King James Bible, Matthew
5:3-10
Included
in the loyal ranks of the CNF
Crusaders movement are many proselytized
Catholics, Methodists, Baptists, Lutherans, Presbyterians, and
previously
unaffiliated converts. These followers have been recruited to these so
called, Non-Denominational
Churches; created by graduates of political
right wing ideological Bible Colleges, and Cristo-Fascist theological
seminaries;
such as those financed by televangelists such as Jerry Falwell and Pat
Robertson.
“For
false Christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and
wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.”
Jesus
Christ, The King James Bible, Matthew 24:24
The very
Conservative Southern
Baptist Convention, with 16.4
million members, separated from the moderate
traditional Baptist Church, over the social issues of abortion,
female ministers, and homosexuality. It announced plans in 2005, to
plant 1800 new
Orthodox or Fundamentalist churches in the coming
years. These Southern Baptist Churches are a major segment of the
Christian-Nationalist
movement. As a result of the split, they have radically changed their
creed to include; vouchers for Private schools, support for a
Constitutional amendment to authorize; mandatory (Christian) prayer
in Public schools, the primacy of the Pastor over lay members, and
other favorite right wing orthodox dogma.
“There
is no such thing in the Constitution. It’s a lie of the left,
and we’re not going to take it anymore.”
Pat
Robertson, 700 Club
Many
Protestant Churches of the American South have a long history of
supporting extreme and Un-Christian Conservative policies and
movements, such as; Slavery, the Pseudo-Christian based Ku-Klux-Klan,
Segregation, Apartheid, Anti-Catholicism, Anti-Semitism, religious
hypocrisy, and strict orthodoxy in their practices. From Virginia
through Texas; these churches in the old confederate states, have
tapped into rich soil for recruiting Christian-Nationalists.
Unfortunately this movement has now spread to the Mountain
States and throughout a large part of rural and white
flight suburban America.
In 2005,
Pastor Ted Haggard of the 11,000 member New Life Church in Colorado
Springs, Colorado was the President of the National
Association of Evangelicals,(NAE) a
Washington DC network of 52
different Evangelical denominations, claiming 45,000 Churches
and 30 Million believers.
They made
up the nation’s most powerful lobbying group on behalf of CNF
causes. Haggard’s ministries followed his New
Life free market approach to the divine.
The
press tends to regard James Dobson as the most powerful evangelical
Christian in America, but Haggard is at least his equal. Whereas
Dobson plays the part of national scold, promising to destroy
homosexuals and Judges and politicians who defy the Bible; Haggard
moves quietly through the halls of the Washington NFC
power brokers. Bush invited him to the Oval Office to discuss policy
with seven other chieftains of the Christian right in late 2003, to
be on hand for the signing of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act.
America’s
Holy Warriors
The CNF
Crusaders movement began to infiltrate the U.S.
military during the Holy Reagan Regime, and has spread throughout the
services.
The
military members of the World War II generation have been called the
“The
Greatest Generation,” and in many ways they were. Those who served
with some of these great patriots also know that they and their wives
who had survived WWII, were a lusty generation; that celebrated the
fragility of life, perhaps with too much drinking, eating, and sexual
freedom.
During
the
period following WWII, Military Officers Clubs were a place to let
one’s hair down, and they frequently did. However, beginning
with the first Holy Reagan Empire, personal conduct in off duty time,
became an important measure of military conduct and promotion.
Fearing close observation of their personal lives, young officers
began to avoid the Officers Clubs altogether, damaging military
Esperit-de-Corps, and turning military service into something akin to
monastic life. To this day they are little more than plush facilities
for formal receptions by the top brass.
During
this time, personal weight also became an obsession for the Officer
Corps. Overweight was out, and thin was in. The new ideal Officer
image looked a lot more like the German SS, and less like the paunchy
Liberal Democratic military officers that beat the hell out of the
elite Axis powers in WWII.
“The
war on Terrorism is a war with Satan”
“America
has been targeted because we’re a Christian nation”
“My
God is superior to that of the Muslims.”
(remarks
publicly given while in full uniform)
Lt/Gen. William Boykin, U.S.
Army
(Evangelical Christian, linked to the Abu Ghraib prison
Torture Scandal)
In June
2005, Lt/Gen John W. Rosa, the Superintendent of the Air Force
Academy, located in Colorado Springs, admitted that born again CNF
Crusaders, (probably some of Haggards followers), had
completely permeated the entire staff, faculty, and cadet corps of
the USAF military academy, and were proselytizing students and
harassing non-fundamentalist Christians; including casting racial
slurs at Jewish students. This is not surprising, since by the 1980s,
during the Holy Reagan Empire, the DOD and the U.S. military had been
infiltrated by many of these fanatical religious fundamentalists.
Some of
the cadets and the Lutheran Chaplain, Captain Melinda S. Morton,
resigned from the Academy over the issue, after they had complained
that Cadets who are not Fundamentalist Evangelical Christians were
being subjected to unwanted proselytizing, and a culture of religious
bias from Evangelicals in the main body of the staff and Cadet Corps.
Sensing a PR disaster of huge proportions, the Secretary of the Air
Force quickly sent Lt/Gen Roger A. Brady to the Academy to conduct a
typical cover-up investigation.
In August
of 2005, Brady gave a typical mixed message, when he stated that his
investigation did not turn up any evidence of religious
discrimination or evidence of systematic Christian Evangelism, among
the faculty (contradicting the Superintendent!), however he said that
the school suffers from a “lack
of awareness over where the line is drawn between permissible
and impermissible expression of belief”
At his Press Conference he also acknowledged there were a number of
cases of “concern”
including seven referred for further investigation. He refused to be
specific, but allowed that some involved professors!
A week
after the report was released; the Secretary of the Air Force
announced the appointment of Rabbi Arnold E. Resnicoff to be an
advisor to the Secretary and the Air Force Chief of Staff, on
drafting guidelines for the expression of faith while on active duty.
Resnicoff, speaking at the press conference, said that the Air Force
is taking on the religious bias issue throughout the service, not
just at the Academy, and they “could
not be taking this matter any more seriously than they are.”
The
Military Code of “Christian-Nationalist” Conduct
On August
10, 2005, the Washington Post’s Dana Priest and Madonna Lebling
reported that the Army had relieved a four-star general of his
command amid allegations that he had an extramarital affair with a
civilian. These are excerpts of their report:
Gen.
Kevin P. Byrnes, 55, led the Army's Training and Doctrine Command at
Fort Monroe, Va., where he supervised the recruitment and
academic programs at 33 Army schools, from basic training to the war
colleges. Byrnes, who several military sources said had a previously
unblemished record, was set to retire in November after 36 years of
service.
The Army spokesmen said that Gen. Peter
J. Schoomaker, the Army's chief of staff, relieved Byrnes
of his command on Monday as the result of an investigation by the
Defense Department's Inspector General. A spokesman said Army
officials could find no case of another four-star general being
relieved of duty in modern times.
Several defense
sources familiar with the case, speaking anonymously because the
investigation is not complete, said Byrnes is accused of having
an "inappropriate relationship," and some described him as
being involved in an extramarital affair. Byrnes, defense
attorney, Lt. Col. David H. Robertson, said the allegation against
Byrnes involves an affair with a private citizen. Byrnes has been
separated from his wife since May 2004; their divorce was
finalized on Monday, coincidentally the same day he was relieved of
command.
“The allegation against him does not
involve a relationship with anyone within the military or even the
federal government,” Robertson said, emphasizing that the
allegations do not involve more than one relationship. “It does
not involve anyone on active duty or a civilian in the Department of
Defense.”
Relieving
a General of his command amid such allegations is extremely unusual,
especially given that he was about to retire.
The
Army has been hurt over the past year by detainee-abuse cases
and has been accused of not going after top officers allegedly
involved in such abuse. Army officials said relieving Byrnes was
meant to show the public that the service takes issues of integrity
seriously. The disciplinary action struck some military experts as
severe, given Byrnes's reputation as a popular general who has been
ushering in systemic changes in Army doctrine and training, a Vietnam
War veteran who served as the commanding general of the 1st Cavalry
Division and commanded multinational troops in Bosnia.
Byrnes
served as director of the Army staff just before taking over at Fort
Monroe in 2002. Byrnes's case comes after two
prominent Air Force Generals were accused publicly of sexually
harassing subordinates, and as the Defense Department is
restructuring its sexual harassment policies.
Neal
A. Puckett, a military defense lawyer in Alexandria, said it may be
unprecedented to have a four-star General relieved of command for
allegations of an affair. He said removing Byrnes from his office is
likely to be the end of his punishment. "Usually there is
no incentive to bring criminal charges, because they are taking his
career and flushing it down the toilet," Puckett said. "There's
not much more that you can do to a high-ranking officer like that.
His legacy is ruined."
In
the new Holy Bush
Empire it is not an offense to permit your soldiers to
abuse, torture, and murder POWs and captives, but committing the sin
of adultery on your own time, is an offense against the new CNF
Military Code of Christian Conduct.
Holiness
had long ago become U.S. Military S.O.P.
Open
Your Own Jesus Franchise
Unlike
other mainline religions, the new miscellaneous Non-Denominational
Churches follow no standard ecclesiastical requirements, have no
hierarchical discipline, and no supervisory authority. They belong to
a loosely organized group called the Christian
Evangelical Assembly, which has no real authority over
each independently operated business. They operate the biggest
Mega-Churches, and according to the Hartford Seminary, they each
pulled in an average of $4.8
million annually, with some of the biggest, like Joel
Osteen’s Lakewood Church, of 30,000 members in
Houston, Texas, getting $55
million in donations in 2004.
They are,
in effect major Theo-Political business operations that pay no taxes!
“It
is written, My house shall be called a house of prayer’, but
you have made it a ‘den of thieves.’
Jesus
Christ, King James Bible, Matthew 21:13
Osteen’s
Church is reported to pay $15
million each year just to produce broadcasts of his
Sunday sermons on National Cable and Network channels. Business Week
reported that, flush with success, he was shelling out a cool $90
million to transform the Houston Compaq Center,
former home of the Houston Rockets, into a church that will seat
16,000 people, complete with a high-tech stage for his TV shows, and
Sunday school for 5,000 children.
These
Mega-Churches were not just another symptom of the American penchant
for supersizing everything, they were a reflection of the greed and
egos of their founders, and of their thirst for the political power
that comes from leading huge compliant memberships.
“They
carried on this traffic prosperously, and the poor people were
thoroughly deceived….the imposters themselves living meantime
in all luxury and gluttony.”,br />Martin
Luther
The CNF
Crusader Christian book market has likewise exploded.
Osteen, whose face adorns the cover of his best selling book “Your
Best Life Now” has sold 2.5 million copies since
its publication in the fall of 2004. Rick Warren pastor of the
Saddleback Mega-church in Lake Forest, Calif. is the author of the
book “The
Purpose Driven Life” which became the fastest
selling nonfiction book of all time, with 23
million copies sold by 2005. This innocuous self-help
book, reflects the exclusivity which devalues all other religions,
including the Abrahamic monotheistic religions; by continuing to
preach proselytizing people of other cultures and religions into
their version of Christianity.
According
to Business Week, some of these political pastors, like Osteen and
the flamboyant Creflo A. Dollar, (appropriate name) pastor of World
Changers Church International in College Park, Ga. preach a
controversial Christian- Nationalism Prosperity Gospel; that endorses
material wealth, and tells followers that God wants them to be
prosperous. In his book Osteen talks about how his wife wanted to buy
a fancy house some years ago, before the money began rolling in. He
is quoted saying:
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