Katherine Yurica has written
a chilling glimpse into the bizarre world that George Bush
and his followers want for the new America. She looks at the
beliefs of Christian Dominionism which is the religious
sect that includes many of the neo-conservatives, television
preachers, and fundamentalists who control much of the modern day
Republican Party. The complex and little understood beliefs of Christian
Dominionism are complemented by their beliefs in a
rigid political order based on the works of Machiavelli and Leo
Strauss where the use of of evil in the pursuit of good is
necessary. In Leo Strauss and the American Right, Shadia
Drury explained the Strauss concept that "those who lead
must understand there is no morality" and religion
should be the tool through which to "manipulate the
masses". Strauss further believed that fear was perhaps
the most powerful political tool to use to work hand in hand with
religion. Drury writes "political order can be stable
only if it is united by an external threat; and following
Machiavelli, he maintains that if no external threat exists, then
one has to be manufactured". With their belief that
Bush was chosen by God to lead perhaps not just America but the
whole world, they forsee the day where soon Social Security,
Medicare, Medicaid, and minimum wage laws can be abolished and an
American theocracy can replace that outdated Constitution.
In his last year on earth Johnny Cash was haunted by a dark dream of the unleashing of evil. It caused him to use
every ounce of the strength of his dying body to finish the gothic and
mysterious song The Man Comes Around.
Before he died he never really explained what the song was about.
It started to get a little air play in the dark days as war with
Iraq was imminent but never really made the charts. Some
reviewers considered it the greatest song he ever wrote. Many
speculated the dream he was describing was about the final days as
described in the Book of Revelations which leads to the rise of
the Antichrist and Armeggadon. Others thought perhaps he might have meant
someone else.
This article is the documented story of how a political
religious movement called Dominionism gained control of the
Republican Party, then took over Congress, then took over the
White House, and now is sealing the conversion of America to a
theocracy by taking over the American Judiciary. Its
the story of why and how the wrath of God Almighty
will be unleashed against the middle class, against the poor, and
against the elderly and sick of this nation by George W. Bush and
his army of Republican Dominionist rulers.
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One ought not to say to those whom one wants to kill, Give
me your votes, because your votes will enable me to kill you and
I want to kill you, but merely, Give me your votes,
for once you have the power of the votes in your hand, you can
satisfy your desire
Women would be generally relegated to hearth and home.
Insufficiently Christian men would be denied citizenship, perhaps
executed. So severe is this theocracy that it would extend
capital punishment [to] blasphemy, heresy, adultery, and
homosexuality.
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For Dominionists, perhaps the single most important event in
the last half of the twentieth century occurred when the Reverend
Jim Jones proved that the religious would follow their leader to
Guyana and even further, to their deaths. That fact could
hardly have escaped the notice of even the dullest of politically
minded preachers. Indeed, Jim Jones surreal power over
his congregants leaps out from the grave even today. If a man
desired to change the laws in Americato undo Franklin
Delano Roosevelts New Deal for instance, and allow
corporations the unbridled freedom they enjoyed prior to the
Great Depression (which included the freedom to defraud, pillage,
and to destroy the land with impunity on the way to gathering
great fortunes), what better way to proceed than to cloak the
corruption within a religion? If a few men wanted to establish an
American empire and control the entire world, what better vehicle
to carry them to their goal than to place their agenda within the
context of a religion? Jim Jones proved religious people would
support even immoral political deeds if their leaders found a way
to frame those deeds as Gods Will. The idea was
brilliant. Its framers knew they could glorify greed, hate,
nationalism and even a Christian empire with ease.
Put all the enemies of the Dominionists together, boil
them down to liquid and bake them into the one single most highly
derided and contaminated individual known to man, and you will
have before you an image of the quintessential liberalone
of those folks who wants to give liberally to the poor and needywho
desires the welfare and happiness of all Americanswho
insists on safety regulations for your protection and who desires
the preservation of your valuesthose damnable people are
the folks that must be reduced to powerlessnessor worse:
extinction.
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Freedom is under siege. There is only one free major
political party still left in America. I know the Democrats look
chaotic, unfocused and generally unsmooth and thank God,
unprogramed. Make no mistake, these plain ordinary citizens are
holding the candles that together form the great torch of
liberty. For all their faults, they love America and they love
freedom and they love the Bill of Rights. Americas
independents, its true Conservatives, its sensible Republicans,
and its Libertarians must join hands together with the homely
Democrats and take back America for all Americans.
When The Man Comes Around
by Johnny Cash
And I heard, as it were, the noise of thunder:
One of the four beasts saying: "Come and see."
And I saw.
And behold, a white horse.
There's a man goin' 'round takin' names.
An' he decides who to free and who to blame.
Everybody won't be treated all the same.
There'll be a golden ladder reaching down.
When the man comes around.
The hairs on your arm will stand up.
At the terror in each sip and in each sup.
For you partake of that last offered cup,
Or disappear into the potter's ground.
When the man comes around.
Hear the trumpets, hear the pipers.
One hundred million angels singin'.
Multitudes are marching to the big kettle drum.
Voices callin', voices cryin'.
Some are born an' some are dyin'.
It's Alpha's and Omega's Kingdom come.
And the whirlwind is in the thorn tree.
The virgins are all trimming their wicks.
The whirlwind is in the thorn tree.
It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
Till Armageddon, no Shalam, no Shalom.
Then the father hen will call his chickens home.
The wise men will bow down before the throne.
And at his feet they'll cast their golden crown.
When the man comes around.
Whoever is unjust, let him be unjust still.
Whoever is righteous, let him be righteous still.
Whoever is filthy, let him be filthy still.
Listen to the words long written down,
When the man comes around.
Hear the trumpets, hear the pipers.
One hundred million angels singin'.
Multitudes are marchin' to the big kettle drum.
Voices callin', voices cryin'.
Some are born an' some are dyin'.
It's Alpha's and Omega's Kingdom come.
And the whirlwind is in the thorn tree.
The virgins are all trimming their wicks.
The whirlwind is in the thorn tree.
It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
In measured hundredweight and penny pound.
When the man comes around.
And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts,
And I looked and behold: a pale horse.
And his name, that sat on him, was Death.
And Hell follwed with him.
Rob is the
founder and editor of the news site robwire.com and is a
frequent contributor to rob.dailykos.com
and robnotes.blogspot.com