http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/12/25/1354077/-Confessions-of-a-One-Time-Religious-Right-Icon?detail=email
The leaders of the new religious right were gleefully betting on American failure. If secular, democratic, diverse and pluralistic America survived, then wouldn’t that prove that we were wrong about God only wanting to bless “Christian America?” If, for instance, crime went down dramatically in New York City, for any other reason than a reformation and revival, wouldn’t that make the prophets of doom look silly? And if the economy was booming without anyone repenting, what did that mean?
What began to bother me was that so many of our new “friends” on the religious right seemed to be rooting for one form of apocalypse or another. In the crudest form this was part of the evangelical fascination with the so-called end times. The worse things got, the sooner Jesus would come back. But there was another component. The worse everything got, the more it proved that America needed saving, by us! Plus, it was good for fundraising.
Some 30 years later, what we helped start continues (I'm sorry!). With the Republicans in control of the House and Senate the question arises, again: where does the American far right find the energy to oppose everything and everyone again and again?
Those three paragraphs are from a piece that appeared at Alternet with the full title of My Horrible Right-Wing Past: Confessions of a One-Time Religious Right Icon and with the subtitle of I was a religious fanatic appealing to political leaders. Today, the fanatics are the political leaders.. The author is Frank Schaeffer, whose father Francis Schaeffer became one one of the major figures in the rise of the religious right. Frank was right there at his side, helping make it happen.
Frank Schaeffer has long ago disavowed his previous past. He has written extensively both about himself and about the religious right.
This is a relatively brief piece that will make clear the agenda that we will be confronting in the new Congress - although to be fair, the Republican leaders of the House and Senate also have to confront it.
i still find it mind boggling how those who claim to be Americans can support a party that cheers for the duly elected Pres. to fail and saying it on nat'l TV by default that is supporting those who intend for you to suffer they thought for 4 years but like most of their predictions they were wrong about that too. but that still doesn't explain why less than half the country voted for opposition to the ideology of a better life for them and instead chose to believe lies and racial rhetoric again i question who exactly Jindal was referring to when he said republicans should not be the party of stupid.
they say that "if you don't stand for something you'll fall for anything", does this also apply here religion is the feeding ground for far too many who wish to take advantage nothing like threatening the soul to help control those who want to believe so bad that they tend to believe anyone who uses words usurped from the Bible. those who would be charlatans don't believe in what they say because if so and they really believe in God and Jesus would they teach the vitriolic and racially divisive ideals that do not support the word with evidently no fear of God?
they say that "if you don't stand for something you'll fall for anything", does this also apply here religion is the feeding ground for far too many who wish to take advantage nothing like threatening the soul to help control those who want to believe so bad that they tend to believe anyone who uses words usurped from the Bible. those who would be charlatans don't believe in what they say because if so and they really believe in God and Jesus would they teach the vitriolic and racially divisive ideals that do not support the word with evidently no fear of God?
