Government Preacher

The radical cleric, Dr. Bob Jones III, President of Bob Jones University, Gave President bush a rousing call to arms last week.

In your re-election, God has graciously granted America—though she doesn't deserve it—a reprieve from the agenda of paganism.

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Don't equivocate. Put your agenda on the front burner and let it boil. You owe the liberals nothing. They despise you because they despise your Christ. Honor the Lord, and He will honor you.

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Undoubtedly, you will have opportunity to appoint many conservative judges and exercise forceful leadership with the Congress in passing legislation that is defined by biblical norm regarding the family, sexuality, sanctity of life, religious freedom, freedom of speech, and limited government. You have four years—a brief time only—to leave an imprint for righteousness upon this nation that brings with it the blessings of Almighty God.

In a similar vein, another radical cleric, James Dobson, of Focus on the Family has been making the media rounds offering his own interpretation of God's Design for the US of A:

Dr. Dobson said he told the caller that many Christians believed the country "on the verge of self-destruction" as it abandoned traditional family roles. He argued that "through prayer and the involvement of millions of evangelicals, and mainline Protestants and Catholics, God has given us a reprieve.

But I believe it is a short reprieve," he continued, adding that conservatives now had four years to pass an amendment banning same-sex marriage, to stop abortion and embryonic stem-cell research, and most of all to remake the Supreme Court. "I believe that the Bush administration now needs to be more aggressive in pursuing those values, and if they don't do it I believe they will pay a price in four years," he said.

Apocalypitic hyperbole is nothing new. But do Democrats really hate Christ? Has God really given us a "reprieve" from "self-destruction" or a "pagan agenda." Whether or not the average Republican believes it, the notion that Democrats are anti-religion is now a central propaganda point for the Republican party. It is a media narrative, particularly now that "values" are supposedly so important to the average voter.

They do this for a reason. In order to advance some of their most radical ideas - using biblical arguments to support amending the US constitution to ban gay marriage, for example - they must first sell the idea that society is under attack. Under attack from whom? The liberals. Mangy haired, heathen Democrats looking to slice the baby right out of your womb because they are pro-abortion. Godless, soul-sucking pariahs who literally spit on the baby jesus as they get undressed for their orgies. Men and women and their children who live in sin, watch nothing but the trash produced by the Hollywood elite, whose lives are living apostasies.

Ultra-Religious Republicans first create the false aura of a nation under siege by the lawless and godless, then respond to it by placing stalwart Christians at every available post. This is done, not as a matter of faith, but as a way to consolidate power. These people believe the separation of Church and State is a myth. As Dr. Jones states above, their goal is to govern by biblical law. Their reach is enormous and real.

There is only one proper Democratic response to this kind of aggressive effort to transform the United States from a liberal, secular republic to a conservative, theocratic republic. That response is to begin to discuss measures ensuring the separation of church and state in terms of full Faith Protection.

The day some government preacher walks into your kid's classroom is the day religious liberty is dead in this country.