If someone described a group of political leaders as being religious
extremists who actively support capital punishment; the use of torture in the
war against extremists of another faith; the establishment of "black
sites" in other States in which to carry out this practice; and the right for
all citizens to bear
assault weapons, you might picture a bunch of those
bearded criminals out in the deserts of the Middle East, waving their blasphemous
black and white flag while destroying civil liberties and praying for the
Apocalypse. What if some of these
religious extremists also believed in thoroughly basing the nation's laws on
those found in religious scriptures, including the submission of wives to their
husbands, and were convinced of the necessity of taking religion-dictated control
over all the functions of public life:
Business, Government, Media, Arts & Entertainment, Education, Family
and Religion itself. What if capital
punishment was prescribed for any and all "crimes against Family,"
including abortion, adultery, sodomy and belligerent youth disavowed by their
own parents? Wouldn't such extremists be
guilty not only of intolerance but also of wanting to create a theocracy, a State
enmeshed with religion? Wouldn't such
leaders be in the same class with the Taliban?
To top it off, what if they believed that the Second Coming of Christ
cannot possibly take place unless they get control of the Seven Mountains first,
those seven functions of public life listed above, so that they and the
anointed can eventually rule the world alongside an Avenging Christ, a muscle-bound
Jesus who returns to punish unbelievers?
Would such people sound more than a little whacky to you, and hardly Christian
to boot? Yet, dear readers, such people
exist. First they infiltrated the Tea
Party, the movement which destabilized the Republican Party, and they are already
holding positions of enormous power under everyone's nose. No doubt, they helped get Donald Trump
elected. In an old video he said that he
was running for President in order, he hoped, "to get into
heaven." Now we know where he was
coming from. The extremists in his
administration subscribe to a school of religious thought called Dominion
Theology, closely aligned with a more punitive school known as Christian
Reconstructionism. They have been
gaining a foothold in America for the past few decades, in the wake of moral and
ethical degradation on the homefront. The
President's strategic advisor has just used the term "deconstruction"
to describe what the new administration's plans are for the future. Clearly, he is talking about undermining certain
Constitutional guarantees and perhaps even reversing Supreme Court decisions,
in order to rebuild, very possibly, in accordance with the vision of the
founder of Christian Reconstructionism, a certain Rousas J. Rushdoony
(1916-2001) who said, "We cannot use our thoughts and feelings as a
standard: only God's Word is the test,"
and "The only true order is founded on Biblical Law. All law is religious in nature, and every
non-Biblical law-order represents an anti-Christian religion." So, we see, "the anointed elect" or
Rushdoony's "covenant people" believe that "He that is not with
me is against me." To say that our
laws represent an anti-Christian religion (secular humanism) is a very dangerous
stretch. There are other religious extremists
that have their irons in Rushdoony's fire:
Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition, Institute for Christian Economics, the
New Apostolic Reformation (NAR), WallBuilders, the Senate Conservatives Fund, Keep
the Promise Super PAC, Champion the Vote, IHOP, The Call, Christian
Nationalists, ad nauseam. With a
government founded on religion, secretly or not, it will probably become
necessary to install a new Inquisition. What
are the fruits of the labors of these extremists thus far, a month into the new
presidency? Suddenly some of the nation's
most respected news media are under attack, branded daily by their enemies as
"fake news" and lately banned from briefings. Meanwhile, the administration is having an orgy
with huge corporate interests who are counting on unchallenged monopolies along
with major tax cuts. The State
Department is headed by someone whose new boss has often called him "Mr.
Exxon." As far as the environment
goes, well, let God take care of His own creation. These extremists have more pressing things to
think about, such as their own prosperity.
Reproductive health centers have already begun to lose ground, including
those in Africa where contraceptives were supplied for free with U.S.
funds. The new head of the Department of
Education believes strongly in funnelling taxpayers' money into private
religious schools. She is an extremist as
is her brother; he is advisor to the president as well as the founder of the
world's biggest mercenary army which works today even for China. He was also the Vice-President's biggest
financial supporter. The Vice-President doesn't
accept the theory of evolution, so that widespread tampering with the Science curriculum in U.S.
schools is likely to begin. As Rushdoony
said, "The Bible is God's law -- word which must govern every sphere of
life and thought." There are other fanatics
waiting in the wings, neo-Crusaders who are itching to declare more war on the
infidels, immigrants or not. And so what
is that part of the Constitution that this new crop of leaders must strive to
"deconstruct" first? The
Founding Fathers, 90 to 95% of whom were practicing Christians, thought this point
was so important in 1791 that they treated it first in the list of ten
amendments to the U.S. Constitution known as the Bill of Rights. Written by James Madison, the First Amendment
states, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of
religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." In other words, the State cannot interfere in
the affairs of churches and, by the same token, churches cannot strive to
become a State religion. The First Amendment
continues with a few more precious rights:
"(Congress shall make no law) . . . abridging the freedom of speech,
or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to
petition the government for a redress of grievances." There it is, the First Amendment. And the last word. The Founding Fathers of the United States of
America have spoken. Whoever
has ears, let them hear! UN'AMERICANA A VENEZIA
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