Politics has entered religion, no way around it. In Ohio the radical right-wing clerics had a little gettogether:Against a large U.S.-flag backdrop and flanked by large projection screens, Ohio Restoration Project founder Russell Johnson brought his 10-city Patriot Pastors tour to the Akron-Canton area Tuesday.And guess who spoke at this shindig, too? No-one else but the one and only Kenneth Blackwell, the man who gave us George Bush. What did he say? This:
A choir and a gospel quartet brought the audience to its feet with praise songs as images of American landmarks, heroes and troops moved across the screens.
Johnson warned that Christians have allowed a ``secular jihad'' to remove prayer, the Ten Commandments and the Bible from public places.
He likened it to Nazi Germany, where church congregations would sing so that they could not hear the passing of trainloads of crying Jews headed for a nearby concentration camp.
Too many Christians lead ``Neville Chamberlain lives,'' Johnson said, referring to the British prime minister who signed a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler.
A picture of Hitler and Chamberlain flashed on the screens.
``We're calling God's people to pray, to serve, to shine and to be salt and light,'' he said.
Johnson criticized the ``handful of our religious friends on the left who have formed an unholy alliance with the secular left'' to challenge the religious exemption of his organization.Blackwell spoke of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s call to be more than observers. He said Christians must ``define, fortify, help shape, influence the mores'' of the culture."They must bring behavior in line with what they say they believe"? Whose behavior? Their own or our behavior?
He said Christians must be on the front line, causing change. They must bring behavior in line with what they say they believe.
Now do you believe me when I say that we are on the road to Margaret Atwood's Gilead?
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Friday, January 20, 2006
God's Campaign in Ohio
This is from Echidne of the Snakes:
This runs so counter to the Bible that I can scarcely believe it. Of course, Hitler thought he was doing God's work too.
ReplyDeleteThe devious genius of the Bible is that you can get anything out of it you want: white, black or any shade of grey in between. Christ was love and humilitiy; Jehovah is hatred and jealousy. J. even crows about it: "I am a jealous god."
ReplyDeleteIt's a wicked powerful system (as we'd say in Maine), cooked up specifically for controlling entire populaces.
Anyway, my guess is that it's the jealous Jehovah meme that gives christians the impetus to force themselves down the throats of the rest of us.