MOSES & THE TEN COMMANDMENTS - GOD'S LAW TO BE THE LAW OF THE LAND: HOMOSEXUALITY , ADULTERY , SODOMY TO BECOME CAPITAL CRIMES
Here’s more on the Radical Religious Right & their attempts to control American government & public institutions .
MILITARY RELIGIOUS FREEDOM FOUNDATION
Tuesday, January 02, 2007
Chris Hedges: America’s Holy Warriors
http://www.mrff.blogspot.com/
Editor’s note: The former New York Times Mideast Bureau chief warns that the radical Christian right is coming dangerously close to its goal of co-opting the country’s military and law enforcement.
The drive by the Christian right to take control of military chaplaincies, which now sees radical Christians holding roughly 50 percent of chaplaincy appointments in the armed services and service academies, is part of a much larger effort to politicize the military and law enforcement. This effort signals the final and perhaps most deadly stage in the long campaign by the radical Christian right to dismantle America’s open society and build a theocratic state. A successful politicization of the military would signal the end of our democracy.
During the past two years I traveled across the country to research and write the book “American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America.” I repeatedly listened to radical preachers attack as corrupt and godless most American institutions, from federal agencies that provide housing and social welfare to public schools and the media. But there were two institutions that never came under attack—the military and law enforcement. While these preachers had no interest in communicating with local leaders of other faiths, or those in the community who did not subscribe to their call for a radical Christian state, they assiduously courted and flattered the military and police
Erik Prince, the secretive, mega-millionaire, right-wing Christian founder of Blackwater, the private security firm that has built a formidable mercenary force in Iraq, champions his company as a patriotic extension of the U.S. military. His employees, in an act as cynical as it is deceitful, take an oath of loyalty to the Constitution. These mercenary units in Iraq, including Blackwater, contain some 20,000 fighters. They unleash indiscriminate and wanton violence against unarmed Iraqis, have no accountability and are beyond the reach of legitimate authority. The appearance of these paramilitary fighters, heavily armed and wearing their trademark black uniforms, patrolling the streets of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, gave us a grim taste of the future. It was a stark reminder that the tyranny we impose on others we will one day impose on ourselves.
“Contracting out security to groups like Blackwater undermines our constitutional democracy,” said Michael Ratner, the president of the Center for Constitutional Rights. “Their actions may not be subject to constitutional limitations that apply to both federal and state officials and employees—including First Amendment and Fourth Amendment rights to be free from illegal searches and seizures. Unlike police officers they are not trained in protecting constitutional rights and unlike police officers or the military they have no system of accountability whether within their organization or outside it. These kind of paramilitary groups bring to mind Nazi Party brownshirts, functioning as an extrajudicial enforcement mechanism that can and does operate outside the law. The use of these paramilitary groups is an extremely dangerous threat to our rights."
The group has burrowed deep inside the Pentagon. It hosts weekly Bible sessions with senior officers, by its own count some 40 generals, and weekly prayer breakfasts each Wednesday from 7 to 7:50 a.m. in the executive dining room as well as numerous outreach events to, in the words of the organization, “share and sharpen one another in their quest to bridge the gap between faith and work.”
If the United States falls into a period of instability caused by another catastrophic terrorist attack, an economic meltdown or a series of environmental disasters, these paramilitary forces, protected and assisted by fellow ideologues in the police and military, could swiftly abolish what is left of our eroding democracy. War, with the huge profits it hands to businesses and right-wing interests that often help bankroll the Christian right, could become a permanent condition. And the thugs with automatic weapons, black uniforms and wraparound sunglasses who appeared on street corners in Baghdad and New Orleans could appear on streets across the U.S. Such a presence could paralyze us with fear, leaving us unable to question or protest the closed system and secrecy of an emergent totalitarian state and unable to voice dissent.
POSTER FOR FILM " JESUS CAMP" INDOCTRINATING CHILDREN TO BECOME AMERICA'S LEADERS IN THE FUTURE THEOCRACY
and from the website :
The Rise of the Religious Right in the Republican Party
a public information project of the Center for Religion, Ethics, and Social Policy
at Cornell University
http://www.theocracywatch.org/index.html
Theocracy is derived from the two Greek words Qeo/j(Theos) meaning "God" and kra/tein (cratein) meaning "to rule." The Reverend Rod Parsley, a champion of theocracy, or what he calls a "christocracy," told his congregation at the World Harvest Church, located just outside Columbus, Ohio, "Theocracy means God is in control, and you are not."
The theocratic right seeks to establish dominion, or control over society in the name of God.
D. James Kennedy, Pastor of Coral Ridge Ministries, calls on his followers to exercise "godly dominion ... over every aspect ... of human society." At a "Reclaiming America for Christ" conference in February, 2005, Kennedy said:
Our job is to reclaim America for Christ, whatever the cost. As the vice regents of God, we are to exercise godly dominion and influence over our neighborhoods, our schools, our government, our literature and arts, our sports arenas, our entertainment media, our news media, our scientific endeavors -- in short, over every aspect and institution of human society.
Twenty-five years ago dominionists targeted the Republican Party as the vehicle through which they could advance their agenda. At the same time, a small group of Republican strategists targeted fundamentalist, Pentecostal and charismatic churches to expand the base of the Republican Party. This web site is not about traditional Republicans or conservative Christians. It is about the manipulation of people of a certain faith for political power. It is about the rise of dominionists in the U.S. federal government.
Today's hard right seeks total dominion. It's packing the courts and rigging the rules. The target is not the Democrats but democracy itself.
According to acclaimed journalist and television host Bill Moyers,
“ True, people of faith have always tried to bring their interpretation of the Bible to bear on American laws and morals ... it's the American way, encouraged and protected by the First Amendment. But what is unique today is that the radical religious right has succeeded in taking over one of America's great political parties. The country is not yet a theocracy but the Republican Party is, and they are driving American politics, using God as a battering ram on almost every issue: crime and punishment, foreign policy, health care, taxation, energy, regulation, social services and so on. ”
POSTER FROM CHRISTIANGALLERY.COM & THE CREATOR'S RIGHTS PARTY -THEY BELIEVE MAN MADE LAWS NEED TO BE REPLACED BY GOD'S LAW
( PICTURES POSTED BY PICASA )
PUBLICEYE.org
http://www.publiceye.org/christian_right
Christian Right
and website:
http://www.theologicalstudies.org/
What is Dispensationalism?
By Michael J. Vlach, Ph.D.
also see:
Jeffrey Sharlet’s earlier article “ JESUS PLUS NOTHING ” detailing the Evangelical organization known as
“ THE FAMILY ”which attracts the rich & powerful not just from the United States but from around the world including some rather ruthless & brutal dictators who though “ born Again”continue in their oppression of their own people believing they are doing so as part of their service to JESUS.
And for more in depth look at the Radical Religious Right & Dominionism & Reconstructionism
Articles On the Rise of Dominionism in America
http://www.yuricareport.com
Dominionism Directory Rise Of Dominionism In America.
CHRISTIAN APOLOGETICS & RESEARCH MINISTRY
http://www.carm.org/index.html
www.carm.org
and check out the website from the Middletown Bible Church
for more on dispensationalism & the literal truth of the Bible & Prophecy & the End Times the tribulation, the Rapture the Anti-Christ
http://www.middletownbiblechurch.org/
Dispensationalism
A Return to Biblical Theology
or
Pseudo Christian Cult
http://users.frii.com/gosplow/disp2.html
and website:
http://www.theologicalstudies.org/
What is Dispensationalism?
By Michael J. Vlach, Ph.D.
and checkout :
Christian Reconstructionism, Dominion Theology and Theonomy
http://doggo.tripod.com/doggchrisdomin.html
Anyway that's it for now,
GORD.
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