The Specter of a U.S. Theocracy and Why the People Must Stop It

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The U.S. is not yet a theocracy, but many elements are already in place. And if the Christian fascists are able to fully implement their agenda, the U.S. would be plunged into a high-tech Dark Ages—a nightmarish combination of modern weapons and police-state technology coupled with medieval ideology which has the potential to wreak far more death and destruction than anything history has yet seen.

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The Christian fascists don’t believe religion should be an individual choice. They believe all of society, and indeed the whole world, must be ruled according to biblical law—in short, they believe in a theocracy with no separation between church and state.

Very powerful figures in the U.S. ruling class are proponents of this program. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, one of Bush’s favorites and possible replacement for Chief Justice Rehnquist, has written that "government...derives its moral authority from God. It is the ‘minister of God’ with powers to ‘revenge,’ to ‘execute wrath,’ including even wrath by the sword."

In a speech at Christian fundamentalist Bob Jones University, former Attorney General John Ashcroft declared, "Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal....we have no King but Jesus." He called the separation of church and state "a wall of religious oppression."

(cont) http://rwor.org/a/1263/rise-of-christian-fascists.htm

[Tux]

1. I known this crap since 1995

When Dole was openly supported by fundies who blatantly said on CNN that they wanted creationism and the Bible taught in school and not one student would be allowed to disagree with the "word of God".

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4. However, do you actually think that the overthrow of the

U.S. government for replacement by a theocracy is a real possibility, or do you think it is more just talk as a way of expressing opposition to fundamentalist Christian values.

[jmcon007]

5. The thing that alerted me several months ago

was a comment by some right-wing neocon jerk that the word "democracy" is nowhere to be found in the Constitution. My immediate question to that is "What's your point?"
Personally (and privately) I'm a Christian....meaning I believe in the words Jesus spoke. However, today's neocon version of Christianity is as foreign to me as anything I know.
It's easy, in this context, to see why the monkey and his pals have such disrespect, even disdain, for our Constitutional democracy and the obsessive desire to change it. There is, nor has there ever been, any such thing as a "Christian democracy". It's an obvious contradiction of terms.
I personally don't expect GW to go quietly in 2008. I expect him to declare a national emergency and petition the Supreme Court to "suspend" the Constitution prior to the election. They know that if a democrat is elected President, then this crew will probably be tried for treasonous crimes against the United States once everything is revealed.

[Tux]

6. I had a feeling

That our nation would be based more on the Bible and less on the Consitution.

[NAO]

2. Dominionism, Reconstructionism, "Family Values" (links, resources)

Fundamentalist Radical Clerics such as Falwell, Dobson, and Robertson are not merely medieval throwbacks or misguided religious hacks. They are part of a well organized subversionary movement known as "Dominionism".

Dominionism constitutes a serious threat to American Democracy. These Radical Clerics have developed and are executing a detailed plan to gradually replace the free, secular democratic society of the United States with a Theocracy.

The Swift Advance of a Planned Coup: Conquering by Stealth and Deception - How the Dominionists Are Succeeding in Their Quest for National Control and World Power
http://www.yuricareport.com/Dominionism/TheSwiftAdvanceOfaPlannedCoup.htm

The Despoiling of America: How George W. Bush became the head of the new American Dominionist Church/State
http://www.yuricareport.com/Dominionism/TheDespoilingOfAmerica.htm

Video on the Christian Reconstructionist Dominionist Theocratic Agenda
http://www.theocracywatch.org/av/video_dominion.ram

The Rise of the Religious Right in the Republican Party
a public information project from TheocracyWatch.org
http://www.theocracywatch.org

The Yurica Report - News, Intelligence, Analysis
http://www.yuricareport.com

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3. The Anti-Pat Robertson / Christian Coalition Site

The Anti-Pat Robertson / Christian Coalition Site
http://www.geocities.com/capitolhill/7027/patrobertson.html

This one is a real gem! Loads of links and background material on this dangerous religious fanatic and his theocratic aspirations. Plus material on his shady business dealings.

The Despoiling of America: How George W. Bush became the head of the new American Dominionist Church/State
http://www.yuricareport.com/Dominionism/TheDespoilingOfAmerica.htm