American Heathen®

The Republican Party is owned and operated by the Religious Right, and therefore their fundamentalist agenda/world view should be reflected in a manner which best represents these tyrannical demigods and their mindless ilk.  The party is already in tatters following a bitter defeat in the ’08 election, and the leadership is primarily fascist, so why not expose them for who they really are?  I propose that the Republican Party needs to pull the veil from their ideology and show themselves for who they really are, and what they truly represent!

Ladies and Gentleman!  I present to you the new name for the Republican Party!  Please give a warm, skydaddy welcome to… The Christian Nationalist Party!

Love thy neighbor…if they are the “right brand” of Christian.  And, if they aren’t…they will be when we’re done!  And, if they’re a non-believer…well, we can’t say right now.  Once we have the power, all bets are off.

The Delusion within The Delusion

Christians come in a wide range of flavors (33, 800+), but most have no idea just how much they have in common with the extremists of their skydaddy brethren.  What’s more, “moderate” believers are ignorant of the religious players behind the political knives and daggers on the hot button issues of the last 50 years.  Unfortunately,  religious leaders carefully craft agendas for their “moderate” flocks in such a way as to keep them oblivious to the vitriol, bigotry and subversive nature of the real christian quest for dominion.

From wiki:

Dominionism describes, in several distinct ways, a tendency among some conservative politically-active Christians, especially in the United States of America, to seek influence or control over secular civil government through political action—aiming either at a nation governed by Christians, or a nation governed by a conservative Christian understanding of biblical law. The use and application of this terminology is a matter of controversy.

Controversial?  Absolutely.  But, not for the reasons you might think.  The fact is that it IS Dominionist theology that drives the issues of abortion, prayer in schools, gay marriage and “Christian Nation” and a whole host of other claims, into the political sphere.  It is Dominionist theology that creates christian nationalism, the very dangerous idea that the United States is not a secular country, and must be governed by christian beliefs.  But which version of christianity?  That question is an easy one to answer… the EXTREME version.  Christian extremism is not as difficult to arrive at as most believers might think.  All it takes are a few well placed lies, some revisionist history, false quotes,  several rumors,  misdirection and fear, to nudge the believer toward an extremist agenda, as long as they believe the mandates come from a skydaddy and they are delivered by a “man of god”.  The ignorant will follow, regardless of their intuition, regardless of facts and evidence to the contrary.  Even the most skeptical will eventually succumb to the enchanting calls for unity when chided for disobedience to the supreme being.

Christian Nationalism is the soft version of dominionism, the skydaddy light if you will.  Less filling, but chalk full of high fat rhetoric.  It is designed to make it easier for the average christian to taste, swallow and digest through the best in revisionist history and smoother dogma.

From wiki:

Soft dominionism (Christian nationalism)

The term soft dominionism is applied to various Christian Right social and political movements that claim that “America is a Christian nation.” Soft Dominionists also disclaim the existence of the “wall of separation” between church and state. In her book Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism, Michelle Goldberg called this tendency “Christian Nationalism.”[20] Berlet and Clarkson have agreed that “[s]oft Dominionists are Christian nationalists.”[60]

Unlike “dominionism”, “Christian nation” is language that is commonly found in the writings of Christian Right leaders themselves. Proponents of this idea (such as David Barton and D. James Kennedy) argue that the Founding Fathers of the United States were overwhelmingly Christian, that founding documents such as the Declaration of IndependenceConstitution are based on Christian principles, and that a Christian character is fundamental to American culture.[61][62][63] They cite, for example, the U.S. Supreme Court’s comment in 1892 that “this [the United States] is a Christian nation,”[64] after citing numerous historical and legal arguments in support of that statement.[65][66]

Critics[67] argue the claim that the United States is a Christian nation is of questionable historic validity (often pointing out the deist beliefs of some of the founding fathers — Thomas Jefferson’s[68] in particular), is ethnocentric, and reduces secularists and members of other religions (such as Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism) to second-class status. Other critics cite the Treaty with Tripoli (1796) passed by the United States Senate, which assured the ruler of that Muslim state that the United States government “is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion,”[69] and George Washington’s letter to Moses Seixas, in which Washington defended religious freedom for Jews (“For happily, the government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance”[70]).[71][72]

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Beware the Men Behind The Masks!

The christian religion is not immune to man’s lust for power.  No religion is.  In simple fact, it is the lust for power that created  skydaddy’s  in the first place.  How easy can it be to challenge a tyrant/tyrannical government if he/she/it has an all powerful, all knowing super entity on their side?  What better way can there be to wield absolute power over the masses than to convince them that you have been chosen by a skydaddy to lead them?   But, as man has acquired knowledge, the need for a skydaddy has slowly fallen by the wayside, prompting those who crave absolute power to find other ways of convincing the masses that the skydaddy is unhappy without skydaddy chosen leadership.  Some try to soften their stance (apologetics) while others break out the fire and brimstone act (fundamentalism), and yet others find fertile ground somewhere in the middle(everyone else).

The softer side of dominionism is a mask.  It’s the repackaging of fascism to make it more palatable.  Remember, if they can sell the believers the goods, once they have the power, you can bet the farm that these zealots will change the game, the rules, and the playbook.

From wiki:

Dominionism as a broader movement

In the early 1990s, sociologist Sara Diamond[12][13] and journalist Frederick Clarkson[14][15] defined dominionism as a movement that, while including Dominion Theology and Reconstructionism as subsets, is much broader in scope, extending to much of the Christian Right.[16] In his 1992 study of Dominion Theology and its influence on the Christian Right, Bruce Barron writes,

In the context of American evangelical efforts to penetrate and transform public life, the distinguishing mark of a dominionist is a commitment to defining and carrying out an approach to building society that is self-consciously defined as exclusively Christian, and dependent specifically on the work of Christians, rather than based on a broader consensus.[3] (p. 14, emphasis in original)

According to Diamond, the defining concept of dominionism is “that Christians alone are Biblically mandated to occupy all secular institutions until Christ returns”. In 1989, Diamond declared that this concept “has become the central unifying ideology for the Christian Right”[12] (p.138, emphasis in original). In 1995, she called it “prevalent on the Christian Right.”[17] Journalist Chip Berlet added in 1998 that, although they represent different theological and political ideas, dominionists assert a Christian duty to take “control of a sinful secular society.”[18]

In 2005, Clarkson enumerated the following characteristics shared by all forms of dominionism:[19] 1. Dominionists celebrate Christian nationalism, in that they believe that the United States once was, and should once again be, a Christian nation. In this way, they deny the Enlightenment roots of American democracy.  2. Dominionists promote religious supremacy, insofar as they generally do not respect the equality of other religions, or even other versions of Christianity. 3. Dominionists endorse theocratic visions, insofar as they believe that the Ten Commandments, or “biblical law,” should be the foundation of American law, and that the U.S. Constitution should be seen as a vehicle for implementing Biblical principles.[19]

Liberty?  The Constitution?  What are those things?

Scary huh?  And it should be.  Our very survival as a nation is no longer safely secure in the arms of liberty.  Our Constitution is being threatened, threatened with murder in cold blood.  We, the people, now face the possibility of extinction under the crushing blows of  religion’s hammer, wielded by political/religious tyrants who have planted, fed, watered and spread the delusion and lies of a supernatural entity in the quest for absolute power.  What’s more, through complacency, ignorance, self-deprivation of knowledge, and good old fashioned fear, ALL people will ultimately pay the price for the fascism they have wrought, while the tyrants go unchecked, unchallenged, untended.  If the Wall of Separation falls at the hands of revisionist history, lies, deceit – all in the name of Jebus- then you deserve what you get America.  Better check your version of the skydaddy at the front desk.  And, if you’re a non-believer like me…well, you can figure that one out.  It doesn’t take science does it?  Nope.  But, then again, if you are a believer, you already knew that.  If you didn’t already know that, I wouldn’t have to write this.

“When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.”

- Sinclair Lewis, It Can’t Happen Here