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by ED HEINZELMANIll admit that I hadnt heard that term until this morning. And it was being used in relation to the groups and people who are responsible for pushing through the onerous anti-abortion laws in many of the Republican states including Wisconsin. In that context it made a lot of sense to me.
Obviously when I googled the term a lot of weird stuff popped up. So the articles about Vice President Mike Pence being called a Christian Supremacist were also a surprise. And from my observation of his, what should we say, co-existence with the president, I can understand that label. Of course the vice president defended himself similarly to Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh and State Supreme Court Justice-elect Hagedorn he accused people of attacking his faith. He defended his Christianity. But I dont think anyone was attacking his Christianity. Its that second term the Supremacist thing and I didnt see any mention of that by the vice president. I dont sense any denial there.
Any time Im criticized for my belief in Jesus Christ, I just breath a prayer of praise.
This is a nation of faith, Pence said. Well continue to stand for the things that we believe in.
If Christian Supremacy is a thing it becomes easier to understand the general lack of societal anger around the anti-Muslim policies that continue to come out of the White House, the limited concern around the increasing anti-Semitic attacks around the nation, the twisting of legitimate concerns about the actions of Israel, and our moves to legitimize Israels continued occupation of captured territories. And isnt the continued pressure to institutionalize the tenets in the Bible into US law, a Christian version of Sharia??
Can we allow ourselves to become a nation where we will support the First Amendment Rights around Freedom of Religion as long as its our religion?
Read more: http://bloggingblue.com/2019/05/christian-supremacist/
greyl
(22,990 posts)YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)True Blue American
(17,972 posts)Or just the first part?
As a long time person of faith, I am slowly but surely losing it. Watching how faith is so distorted by so many.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,773 posts)DU worked hard to make such tools available. Use them, shall we?
HuskyOffset
(885 posts)Plus, it's pretty easy:
I also enclose the excerpt inside a blockquote, which gives a nice effect:
DU worked hard to make such tools available. Use them, shall we?
True Blue American
(17,972 posts)Putting an except in is almost impossible with Stylus.
Maybe you could help us with that? When I try it simply copies one word.
Videos are no problem. That may not be the trouble for the poster, for me, it is.
Thanks.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)what many have thought of Christianity all along. Christianity and Islam are the two major evangelical religions out there that historically have had no qualms about enforcing their beliefs, going to war if necessary.
Often, of course, this drive to convert the heathens has been just an excuse for empire building.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,773 posts)The two most salient points about religion are
1) Almost everyone has religion imposed on them by parents and community. Extremely rare to convert in adulthood short of doing so for marriage.
2) Political leaders, generals, despots, elected governments, and dominant personalities have frequently used and abused religion for millennia to control and dominate people for personal gain and power.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)it would be something else. But, here we're talking about a mission to spread the Word by force.
And of course religion is used for gain, as is anything else they can use for leverage.
keithbvadu2
(36,360 posts)Madison also made a point that any believer of any religion should understand: that the government sanction of a religion was, in essence, a threat to religion. "Who does not see," he wrote, "that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other Sects?" Madison was writing from his memory of Baptist ministers being arrested in his native Virginia.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,773 posts)meow2u3
(24,743 posts)White evangelical extremists' first order, if they had their way, would be to outlaw the Catholic faith. They always hated Catholics, despite having used them to shore up support against abortion, to the point that RW evangelicals falsely accuse the Catholic faith of being the "whore of Babylon."
All because those fundies read and understand the Bible the same way a functionally illiterate 2nd grader does.