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\"THE THEOCONS SECULAR AMERICA UNDER
SIEGE
\"FOR THE PAST THREE DECADES, a few determined men have worked to inject their radical religious ideas into the nation\'s politics. This is the story of how they succeeded.
DAMON LINKER
New York: Doubleday, 2006.
\"WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE ABOUT AMERICA?
\"Do you believe the Catholic Church should be actively intervening in American politics on the side of the Republican Party?
\"Do you believe the federal government should be channeling billions of tax dollars a year to churches and other religious organizations?
\"Do you believe a microscopic clump of cells in a petri dish possesses the same rights that you possess?
\"Do you believe a doctor who performs abortions - and a woman who chooses to have an abortion - should be arrested and charged with murder?
\"Do you believe the public schools should actively teach children to doubt the scientific theory of evolution?
\"Do you believe legally available contraception is producing a \"culture of death\" in the United States?
\"Do you believe that the United States should be a Christian nation?
\"The theocons answer YES to all of these questions.
\"DO YOU?\"
Personally, I cannot agree with every one of them, although there are some things I might tend to agree with.
I am not certain the matter of contraception is clearly defined in terms
of what is acceptable. There is room for
exploration to find out what is the truth in this matter.
As for evolutionism versus creationism or intelligent design in public schools, I personally believe the public schools should not teach worldviews, and evolution and creation alike are worldviews. I think science should teach facts, not unprovable, untestable theories like intelligent design and Darwinian evolution.
It is a dangerous thing when too much ideology is injected into American politics in the name of a particular version of Christianity. It seems politics matters more to some evangelicals when, for example, Reverend Pat Robertson resigned his
ministry credentials in order to run for U.S. President. A Christian minister should always keep his preaching credentials, and it seems Protestantism of this kind is not
very respective of such things, and values
worldly power, and the U.S. Presidency,
more than preaching the gospel of Jesus
Christ.
While a Christian can become a U.S. President, the U.S. Presidency is not an
office of Gospel ministry.
What do any of you think, if anything, on this.
Even as Republican conservative politics is not same as the Church\'s Gospel of Christ, Democratic liberal politics is not the same thing as true Christianity, either.
GOD BLESS AMERICA.
Always, SCOTT HARRINGTON
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The Protestant \"religious right\" in this country tries to get their agenda pushed through by legislative and electoral means because they have failed in the pulpit. I strongly suggest you read Orthodox apologist Frank Schaeffer\'s book Dancing Alone. He expounds on this issue in detail. If they (and us) would concentrate more on teaching through the pulpit and other ways via the church, there would be no need for trying to legislate these things. Public opinion would then be so overwhelming that Congress, the President, and the courts would have to listen.
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Manny wrote:
The Protestant "religious right" in this country tries to get their agenda pushed through by legislative and electoral means because they have failed in the pulpit. I strongly suggest you read Orthodox apologist Frank Schaeffer's book Dancing Alone. He expounds on this issue in detail. If they (and us) would concentrate more on teaching through the pulpit and other ways via the church, there would be no need for trying to legislate these things. Public opinion would then be so overwhelming that Congress, the President, and the courts would have to listen.
IN THE MEANTIME, THEY SHOULD......
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