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cross-posted at dKos
Yesterday, Kossack RfrancisR wrote about about a fringe fundie outfit that proposes a national registry of atheists. One of the commenters happened to find a link to a creationist, Tom Wills, suggesting that evolutionists should not be allowed to vote, and for good measure should be "expelled from civilized society." Well, I happened to track down the original document--an article in the July/August newsletter of the Creation Science Association of Mid-America. The article, entitled "Should Evolutionists Be Allowed to Vote?", is simply breathtaking in its unhinged nature. Wills argues that believing in evolution makes it impossible to interact with others. - They do not and can not know the purpose for Man. In fact, all of them believe Man has no purpose.
- Therefore, they cannot make informed judgments about how men should behave toward each other, or what would be "good" or "bad" for any group of men to do, or not do.
- Thus, they have no sane foundation upon which to base “laws” or rational for insisting that other men obey the laws.
- Thus, the religion they profess to believe renders them incapable of participating in any decision about what men ought to do. But, that is the purpose of all law.
- Therefore, in a sane society, evolutionists should not be allowed to vote, or influence laws or people in any way! They should, perhaps, make bricks to earn enough to eat.
Just in case you're wondering--this isn't coming from a fringe kook. This is coming from the president of the Creation Science Association of Mid-America. In other words, we have the leader of a mainstream creationist organization saying that evolutionists don't belong in our society. Whether you're a creationist or an evolutionist, this is simply unacceptable. |
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I am a strong evangelical believer. But I have a deep fear of the Far Right. For years, some of us have watch bits of it coalesce.
This is not the evangelical Christian faith I know. It pulls a verse here or there to back up its positions, but rarely is the whole rationale consistent with the biblical context, even within, say, one chapter. Its eschatology (study of the end times,) is badly messed up.
Abortion and homosexuality are hot button issues. So the Far Right is using them to pump up the troops. Many of those troops would scarcely believe it, if told them what they are actually advocating.
I don't condemn the Far Right Christians. They are my brothers and sisters in faith, but they are badly, badly wrong, perhaps fatally wrong. |
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There's a group in our town of Northfield, Minnesota called Transformation Northfield, loosely connected to the ITN and Ed Silvoso. One of their hidden goals is to get people elected or appointed to local public office. |
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Dominionism and how to define it has been an ongoing task for those of us who research and write about the Religious Right. Back in 2005, The Public Eye asked me to sort it out and to provide some contemporary context.
At the time, I focused on the then-still-current controversy about Roy Moore's Ten Commandments monument and the role of televangelist and Christian Right leader D. James Kennedy. Moore's political career has since fizzled out and Kennedy has died, but the broad issues remain the same, even as the players and the political dynamics have changed.
Here is an excerpt from The Rise of Dominionism:
Remaking America as a Christian Nation. |
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Spotlighting The Dark Side Of Tupelo MS AFA, GOProud, Ann Coulter 8-11-11 "Washington, D.C.) – Today, GOProud, the only national organization of gay conservatives and their allies, announced that Ann Coulter was joining the organization’s Advisory Council as Honorary Chair. Coulter’s official title will be "Gay Icon." "Ann Coulter is a brilliant and fearless leader of the conservative movement, we are honored to have her as part of GOProud’s leadership," said Christopher Barron, Chairman of GOProud’s Board. "Ann helped put our organization on the map. Politics is full of the meek, the compromising and the apologists – Ann, like GOProud, is the exact opposite of all of those things. |
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by Mary Tuma, American Independent, Aug. 06, 2011
"Texans filled the pews at Mt. Ararat Baptist Church in Houston Friday night, to join religious leaders and activist organizations in opposing ‘The Response,’ this weekend’s prayer and fasting event hosted by Gov. Rick Perry and the Tupelo American Family Association."
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I am new to your site and am working through a number of articles posted by members. At this stage, I just want to say "thank-you" for the time and care that you people are taking to review issues that are a real concern to me - I appreciate your commitment to both civility and generosity in what you say as I feel that some sites have become too polemical and discourteous.
I am a Christian living in France where we have seen some of the worrying results of USA exported Dominionism and other right-wing phenomena in the local churches here.
I am interested in the dominance of religious broadcasting by a small clique of fundamentalist groups and hope to comment on this later. |
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"Religious schools across the nation are receiving public funds through voucher and corporate tax credit programs. Many hundreds, if not thousands, of these schools use Protestant fundamentalist textbooks that teach not only Creationism, but also a religious supremacist worldview, with a shocking spin on politics, history, and human rights." - from Vouchers/Tax Credits Funding Creationism, Revisionist History, Hostility Toward Other Religions
Does it matter that, as Talk To Action contributor Rachel Tabachnick has documented at length in a new groundbreaking story, state tax money in almost 1/4 of the states in the US can apparently now fund religious schools that teach from textbooks promoting creationism*, which call the Theory of Evolution a lie and link liberal views to an alleged national decline? Or that the UK government, moving in the opposite direction, has just opted to ban government funding for creationist schools? Regardless, isn't the march of atheism and secularism an inevitable trend? |
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[ update: Bradlee Dean's prayer has caused an uproar in the Minnesota legislature, with members already falling over themselves to apologize for the incident. Videos, below, show Dean's prayer, plus a Minnesota legislator apologizing for it.]
He's called the execution of homosexuals "moral" and blamed gays for the Holocaust as well. But, as Bradlee Dean's opening prayer, Friday 20th, 2011, for a session of the Minnesota State Legislature shows, extreme, even eliminationist antigay rhetoric is no problem for many prominent Minnesota politicians. As reported by the Minnesota Independent, pastor Bradlee Dean, whose ministry is supported by Congresswoman Michele Bachmann and brings its hard-rock gospel into public schools, stated on a May 15, 2010 radio show,
"Muslims are calling for the executions of homosexuals in America," Dean said on YCR's May 15 radio show on AM 1280 the Patriot. "This just shows you they themselves are upholding the laws that are even in the Bible of the Judeo-Christian God, but they seem to be more moral than even the American Christians do, because these people are livid about enforcing their laws. They know homosexuality is an abomination." |
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"I no longer conform to and subject myself under the words and authority of the homosexual agenda... I repent for all the people I have recruited to join this army of darkness... I come against the vision of the rainbow that represented a covenant between the devil and me... We curse gay pride to the root and declare that is is nothing to be proud of; it is an abomination in the eyes of the Lord...
We come against the witchcraft that is working behind the scenes of the homosexual agenda."
--- Kimberly Daniels, prayer/confession "To Come Out of Homosexuality/Lesbianism", from her 2009 book Prayers That Bring Change, pages 133-135
On May 17, Jacksonville, FL residents will vote in a special runoff election. One of the candidates for Jacksonville City Council is pastor Kimberly Daniels, whose derogatory statements concerning Jews ("The Jews own everything!", she said in an October 2008 sermon), slavery and Africans ("tree worshipers" according to Daniels) have attracted considerable media scrutiny as well as criticism from human rights groups.
Kimberly Daniels has over the past decade written a series of books with a wide range of theological vilification, which I've covered in two consecutive Talk To Action posts (1, 2.) Although I've noted that Daniels claims to cast out "gay demons", so far I have neglected Daniels' elaborate vilification of homosexuality in her books. |
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