Sunday, August 23, 2015
Am I the only person
who thinks that Christian Right is completely ridiculous?
Nowhere in the Bible
is there support for the American system. The Hebrews did not have
democracy; they had kings.
Nor did the Bible
have a positive view of capitalism, with Jesus calling money-changers
thieves.
Nor did most people
in the Bible practice “traditional family values.” Most were
either single or slept with any number of women.
Why did a dogma as
obviously flawed as the Christian Right become as big as it did?
Probably for the same reason that did Communism – another dogma
full of obvious errors. People fall for all sorts of foolishness.
For the bulk of its
history, Christianity did not support democracy, and it
did not support property rights. It supported the divine right of
kings. And the people who fought for democracy and property rights
were attacked by the Christianity of the time.
The people who wear
the cross and the flag at the same time are simply not thinking.
America is not based on Christianity; it is based on 18th
century Enlightenment philosophy, which once again was strongly
attacked by Christianity of the time. It was Thomas Jefferson who
said about these people, “I have sworn upon the altar of God my
eternal hostility against all forms of oppression over the mind of
man.” These same people invoke Thomas Jefferson and America's other
founders while militating against everything for which they have
worked.
I have a high view
of Jesus and any number of other Biblical figures; I do not however
have a high view of hypocrisy, and that is what we see here.
Christian Right simply does not make sense. More people should be out
there exposing these obvious errors, resulting in scrutiny over an
ideology that thinks that it owns America even as it militates
against the best qualities of this great country.
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