Christianity and Republicans

This question has consumed my rational thoughts as I looked at the demands of the Fundamental Christian movement. Of particular interest to me was the substantial propaganda war they immediately began to publicly wage in the early 1980's or just prior over their assertion that this country was established as a Christian Nation and that they had the right to make it a Theologically controlled nation directly answering only to them but even worse was their belief that they had the God given right to do the same with the entire world. The founders they opt to use to add creditability to their talking points did not believe in their ludicrous claims and actually felt contempt for their selfish and ignorant nature but insured a division between them and their ability to control the population through the misuse of authority.

“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the cause which impel them to the separation.”

This is the first paragraph of the Declaration of Independence. The colorful clause above is the only mention of a deity anywhere in the Declaration of Independence. Jesus, God, Jehovah nor the freedom of Religion are stated as one of the basis for subsequent division from England or a declaratory desire for our Independence. Nowhere does it say in the Declaration of Independence, any of the Amendments (including those offered but not amended), any competent court case that could be found or even the Federalist Papers that this is or ever was a Christian nation or that it was purposely established with the ultimate intention of being a Christian land. This is a concept of the Fundamental Christian Movement.

A typical display of the arrogance perpetuated by this group is seen everyday in a thousand ways with only the simplest of observation. A born again Mr. Paige Patterson on a PBS talk show hosted by Bob Ray Sanders a number of years ago awakened my deep awareness of this arrogance. Mr. Patterson stated that by firmly announcing he was born again and so he was forgiven not only all his past sins but any future sins he might commit. Such foolish self-righteous announcements propelled this man to significant heights in the Southern Baptist Community and to the lowest level on my chromatic degree of credibility.

We can't excuse their almost daily claims of a war being waged against Christianity. Even when all reasonable observations lead to only one absolute principle and that is that they are the only ones waging conflict to ultimately achieve their own personal gains. And I'm not speaking of Muslims exclusively but any political order of religion other than Fundamental Christianity (or should I say their canonical form of Christianity.) They have successfully taken the colorful remark “tail wagging the dog” to new heights.

It reminds me of a letter I read in the Fort Worth Star Telegram written by a J. Conway. In this letter he states in no uncertain terms that “God generously offered us this country and its freedoms.” I would first like to remind Conway that this country is not mentioned in his bible. Had he subsequently studied it he would realize this.

I was very pleased to read the informative letter on May 28 of this year by Mark Stevens in one and the same paper where he reminds Conway that God did not give us this country but we stole it by committing genocide against eleven million American Indians. Had Conway studied history beyond the many distortions we were taught in High School and reinforced through movies proudly shown on Television this would as well have been known.

Beyond the firstly named documents we also have the U.S. Constitution which contains no mention of God or Christianity. It does say in Art. VI “no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust” The first Amendment says “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”

The Presidential Oath of office detailed in the Constitution does not contain “so help me God” nor is there any requirement to swear on the bible. The American treaty with Tripoli of 1797 clearly declares “the government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.” This treaty was made and signed by President George Washington and received positive approval along with John Adams and most others members of the Senate agreeing with it in form and content. In fact the first Europeans to come to the new world were ruthless fighters in search of fortune and traders. When the Mayflower effectively found its way here less than ½ of the 120 on board were of a religious nature.

History clearly reveals to anyone willing to put in a minimum of effort that the majority of our founding fathers were not Christians but known deist, including but not limited to George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, James Monroe, James Adams, Ethan Allen and Thomas Jefferson whom I have saved for last due to some of the statements he has unquestionably made which will be discussed later. Many were as also Freemasons, a secret order which was strongly condemned by the church. Of some of the Presidents such as Washington, John Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson and several others, not one professed a belief in Christianity nor clearly professed to be a Christian.

The oddity of human nature increased enormously when the Fundamental Christian movement began to try using Thomas Jefferson as an example that this is a Christian country. Given the explicit detail that Jefferson was significantly not Christian and by the statements he made it leaves me to genuinely assume that his personal view was that the Christians saw us as blind, when in fact it was they who were sightless. They blatantly showed their ignorance and refusal to seek out the truth even when what they had been instructed in the past seemed so transparently far from true. They displayed all the characteristics of sheep going into the open pin when commanded.

The understanding of the First Amendment comes from Thomas Jefferson in a letter to the Baptist of Danbury in 1812. It was Jefferson who stated that there was to be a strict separation between church and state. “…the legitimate power of government is to reach actions only, and not opinions. Personal religious views are just that: personal.”

In 1814 in a letter to Horatio Spafford, Jefferson said, “In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own. It is easier to acquire wealth and power by this combination than by deserving them, and to effect this, they have perverted the purest religion ever to preaching to man in mystery and jargon, unintelligible to all mankind, and therefore the safer for their purposes.” (George Seldes, The Great Quotations, Secaucus, New Jersey Citadel Press, 1983 pg. 371.)

In a heart warming letter to Mrs. Harrison Smith in 1816 Jefferson wrote, “My opinion is that there would never have been an infidel, if there had never been a priest.” He not only rejected the view that the bible was “the inspired word of God”; he rejected the entire Christian system. In his Notes on the State of Virginia, Jefferson said of the Christian faith, “There is not one redeeming feature in our superstition of Christianity. It has made one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites.” (William Edelen, Truth Seeker, Vol.121, Number 3, pg 33).

The bitter war declared by the clergy against Jefferson in his run for President in 1800 is well documented in Saul K. Padover's biography. Luckily they failed. In pamphlets by William Linn titled Serious Consideration on the Election of a President. Linn charges Jefferson of the heinous crimes of not believing in divine revelation and of a design to utterly destroy religion and introduce immorality. He called Jefferson the true infidel.

Most who now read the inscription on Jefferson's Monument, “I have sworn upon the alter of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man,” think he is referring to political tyranny. But he was speaking of the Fundamental Clergy. So the Fundamental Christians of today have chosen a champion who not only did not believe as they do, or even near, but found them despicable fools with few if any redeeming values.

After the loss of George Washington the Fundamentalist did their best to claim him as theirs until the many letters and statements began to emerge to the contrary.

Concluding an exclusive interview with Dr. Wilson in Remsberg, pg 121-122 Dr. Wilson states “I have diligently perused every line that Washington ever gave in public, and I do not find one expression in which he pledged himself as a believer in Christianity”. Washington's wife herself made a public official announcement that he was a Deist. In the thousands of personal letters of George Washington there is not one acknowledgement of Jesus, nor any mention of him.

The prevailing Fundamental level of ignorance goes much deeper than just their labors to claim as the hero's of their cause those who not only did not believe in them, but found them despicable, greedy and possessing a deep desire for control over the masses. Even more could be said of their new hero George W. Bush. Since so much of this mans deception, disregard for the law, and the looting of our treasury has been in print world wide for the last five and ½ years.

I will as well touch only briefly on two other of their almost heretical issues. One is the use of “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance. This did not come about except under the chaos of McCarthyism in 1954 and their continued display of “In God We Trust” when they flash a Federal Reserve note (money) to help prove their point. But this did not appear on paper currency before 1956. This is long after the Federal Reserve was transferred to the private ownership of select bankers.

This is very clear, no confusion in any interpretation, straight and to the point. “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” Still, as direct as this is, around 200 years after his death the Church publicly declared Jesus as God and as God they worship him. For the first 200 years he was God's representative on earth but then the Pope was given this title and Jesus was raised a level.

So now he is declared God and worshipped as such. A claim so lacking in foundation it's illogical since it is a title given to him by man which he himself was.

But where and how after more than 200 years of ignorance have we progressed? Not very far I'm afraid, in act it's more like a state of regression. Those who follow this line of thought and the blind that follow still to this day openly deny science for the unintelligible words of a book written by men thousands of years before. I once heard someone say that if God did not create man than man would have created God. That is happening now but to a new extreme of greed and arrogance.

A rapidly growing number of Evangelical Christians believe there is a movement underway in American, and indeed the world, that basically requires Christian youth to assume influential leadership roles in the causes of their religious movement. When in fact the political movement is not that of the children being brain washed, no it is the demitted adults that control them.

The Christ Triumphant Church affiliated with both a so called profit named Lou Engle and one Becky Fisher preach messages urging President George W. Bush to have the strength to dutifully appoint “righteous judges” who will overture Roe verses Wade. At the end of the hate filled service the children are chanting, “Righteous Judges! Righteous Judges!”

Fisher stresses the need for children to purify themselves in order to serve in the army of God. She is a strong believer that children are to be in the forefront of turning America back to Christian values, or the middle ages. Her personal ideology is that training needs to be focused on training the children. They are in fact easier to brainwash into one's belief system regardless of how asinine that belief maybe.

Here your children as young as 6 years old will learn the power to be a born again Christian. Here they will implicitly learn to be a political activist with extreme views. Many of these self proclaimed teachers of righteousness have fallen to their own demise. Ted Haggard for example was caught up in homosexual prostitution and methamphetamine use but the illiteracy of his followers still flocked to the court too offer support.

It was only two days after the brutal attacks on Sept.11. 2001 that Jerry Falwell on Pat Robertson's 700 Club laid the blame at the feet of the pagans, abortionists, feminists, gays, lesbians and the A.C.LU., as well as The People for the American Way. To these idiotic statements Robertson responded “Well, I totally concur.”

But then this is the fool who clearly claimed his prayers diverted a Hurricane from Virginia Beach. And we must not forget that Pat Robertson is the founder and president of Regent University; a very well advertised school boasting the very dubious claim that it is an institute of religion. Of which it is anything but. Yet most of the very unqualified, and I said very unqualified members of its graduates work for George W. Bush. The figures that have been exposed to scandal, theft, and other forms of abuse of power is countless.

Very different from being simply people of faith, the large numbers of religious zealots infiltrating our government simply to impose a religious agenda is not only frightening but smells of a conspiracy. Remember these emotional people were trained just for these positions as youngsters, waiting only for some dupe like George W. Bush to take, or steal office.

Gary North, another Christian Fundamental leader caught my attention in the 1980 when he plainly said Christians could gain sufficient power by stealth. “Christians must begin to organize politically within the present party structure, they must begin to infiltrate the existing institutional order.” We have now found this to work and we may soon find our transitional government has become a theocracy rather than a democracy.

Up to now we have covered several of the predominant claims and contrivances that the Fundamentalist is or recently has utilized, but we have not answered the original question of just who does the Far Right Religious political movement actually serve. To do this we must first look at their enemy, Satan. The ones they blame so many of the world's problems on.

In the Hebrew the word Satan is spelled Shin-Tet-Nun and it meant the evil inclination in man. This inclination arouses mans desires and is the core of all his sins for he sinned not by possessing this inclination toward evil but by declining to tightly restrain it. This Satan they genuinely assume will come to utterly destroy the modern world is already here and has been since mans beginnings, with in themselves, not waiting in the shadows for the crucial moment of ambush. With this tendency toward corruption is as well the inclination to do many good works which includes controlling the evil inclination which it is of the flesh and not the spirit. We must take dominion just as God commanded in Genesis.

“…the Lord our God is one. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart…” Notice in this explanation that Jesus provided the scribes he says the Lord our God and you should love the Lord your God. He does not say I Jesus (Eshu in Aramaic) your God is one and he did not say you should love him as God. No, he unquestionably claimed the Lord OUR God. In fact no where does he profess to be God regardless of how the Fundamental Christian movement alters the intention of a verse to fit his or her desired end result. Jesus is not and never claimed to be God.

So just whom does the Fundamentalist movement support? They worship Jesus as the Lord; something he never claimed to be and a position he was not given until over 200 years after his death. So I must come to the reluctant opinion that the Fundamentalist in Christianity worship, and I will use the words of their object of admiration, Jesus, when he said in John 4:22 …”Ye worship ye know not what”. They have over looked the most vital of his teachings. “Do unto the least of these and you have done unto me.” If not we may soon find ourselves attending to the needs and whims of these third century mindless class of Fundamental Christians