----- Original Message ----- From: "The Fool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "xBrin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 5:25 AM Subject: America the Theocracy
> A few Excerpts. Read the whole thing, it's quite long: > > <<http://atlanta.creativeloafing.com/cover.html>> > > America the theocracy > > A band of influential preachers is praying for the power to rule America. > For those who disagree, they have a solution -- stoning. > ... > > Rather, DeMar, a relentlessly logical (if you accept his assumptions) > speaker, excitedly describes a new order, one in which God's trusted > servants reign supreme over the three governments. It's a society in > which only the faithful are citizens, democracy is a distasteful memory, > and the state's primary purpose is assisting in the conquest of the > Planet Earth for Christ. > > This is more than one man's radical dreaming. It's the core belief of a > movement called Christian Reconstruction, and DeMar is its Tom Paine. > Many followers accord him the status of transforming an arcane offshoot > of Calvinism into a political dreadnought -- and of launching that > theological warship at a speech 20 years ago. > > The movement, also dubbed "dominion theology" and "theonomy," has spread > far beyond the right wing of Presbyterian and Reformed churches. It has > penetrated, to some degree, most conservative denominations, including > Southern Baptist. > ... > > The goal, one Reconstructionists feel is now within reach, is a > transformation of America into a religious state whose mission is to > spread the Gospel (as they interpret it). Violence isn't shunned. As Gary > North, the current grand man of the movement, wrote, "In winning a nation > to the Gospel, the sword as well as the pen must be used." Those who > don't buy the plan could flee, or face unbending Mosaic "justice." > > ... > > Recruits to Reconstruction's adopted causes soon find the movement has a > blunt distaste for pluralism and democracy. North wrote in 1982 -- in an > effort to reach Baptists -- "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." > > Freedom, then, will be no freedom. > ... > > Last month, that sentiment reached the national level. The Constitution > Restoration Act of 2004 would acknowledge Christianity's God as the > "sovereign source" of our laws. It would reach back in history and > reverse all judicial decisions that have built a wall between church and > state, and it would prohibit federal judges from making such rulings in > the future. > > The bill was co-sponsored in the Senate by Zell Miller, the turncoat > Georgia Democrat (and United Methodist), and several Republican > colleagues, including South Carolina's Lindsey Graham; in the House, the > sponsors were all Republican, including Georgia's Jack Kingston. > > But the actual drafting was done by Herb Titus, best known recently as > former Alabama Chief Justice Moore's attorney. Titus also represents > Georgia's Barrow County in its effort to put the Ten Commandments in its > courthouse. Titus has more than a little self-serving interest in the > legislation. If passed, it would overturn the rulings that forced Titus' > most newsworthy client, Moore, from the bench. > ... > > As for the Reconstruction economy, it would be a libertarian's dream -- > as long as biblical laws, such as prohibiting usury, were adhered to. > > DeMar said last month, "There's much (libertarian talk-show host) Neal > Boortz and I agree on." Primarily, government isn't needed when it comes > to economic issues. > > Unions would be illegal, as would any government role in workplace > safety. Employers could discriminate for any and all reasons. Minimum > wage, unemployment benefits, Social Security, welfare -- all history. > Adios environmental protection laws, as well as regulation on who can > call themselves a physician or lawyer. > > Public schools are anathema. One of the great successes of Reconstruction > has been promoting home-schooling programs. Home schooling is much > broader than Reconstruction, of course. But Illinois Reconstructionist > Paul Lindstrom has devised texts used by tens of thousands of > home-schooling families. > ... > > The arena that generates the most attention -- and shock -- is dominion > theology's radical plans to make capital punishment part of America's > daily routine. > > Ringgold's Don Boys -- who as a one-term Indiana state official in the > 1970s authored legislation that restored capital punishment there -- > spoke cheerfully of a time when Americans will witness 10,000 executions > a year. And Gary North suggests the method -- stoning -- because rocks > are "cheap, plentiful and convenient." Reconstructionists also favor > other biblical forms of execution -- burning, hanging and the sword. > > Sins suitable for execution are those mentioned in the Old Testament. > Interestingly, although male homosexuals would be among the first in line > for the Reconstructionists' gallows, lesbians would be exempted because > no specific reference to executing them can be found in the Books of > Moses. > ... > > Strong elements of anti-Semitism also are found in Reconstruction > writings. North tells us that it is his movement's "stated goal ... to > preach the Gospel of salvation in Christ to the Jews, until not a trace > of the traditional practices of Judaism remains." > > Even more dramatically, David Chilton, one of Reconstruction's inner > circle, has written, "The god of Judaism is the devil." > > Rushdoony opined about what he calls the "false witness" of Germany's > responsibility for the Holocaust. He dismissed the accuracy of 6 million > Jews being slain, suggesting it was likely only a fraction of that > number, and he shrugs off Josef Mengele's hideous human experiments as "a > few sterilized women and a few castrated men." > ... > > ----- > "As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit > atrocities." - Voltaire > > _______________________________________________ > http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l well I'll make "lidster's list" "Fool" I hope this is a joke.....and if all that stuff passes.. as much as i love this thread... I say world nuke us! Nick "Lidster's List" Lidster _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
