Kos' front page account of Sharron Angles claim that Reid and Obama are trying to "make government our God" made me wonder what that crazy talk really meant. Because things like this are usually a dog whistle, or, to use another metaphor, just one layer of a big smelly rotten onion of religious craziness.
I quickly found my answer at the website of Christian Reconstructionist RJ Rushdoony, (wikipedia link) and an article that apparently inspired Crazy Sharron.
Every law order represents.... aspect and expression of a religion...in most countries today, and no less in the United States, humanism is the established religion ...the state also is a religious institution.
Any revival of Christian strength will thus precipitate major conflict..It is more than a jurisdictional dispute now: it is religious conflict, and a war unto death.
Sounds like Jeeeesuz needs help from "Second Amendment" solutions.
You really need to read the whole thing to savor the crazy, and browse around the the website to get a sense of what how these people aspire to murder and terrorism
The original constitutional settlement did not propose a "separation of Church and State,
What then is the basic problem? Not only is every church a religious institution, but every state or social order is a religious establishment. Every state is a law order, and every law order represents an enacted morality, with procedures for the enforcement of that morality. Every morality represents a form of theological order, i.e., is an aspect and expression of a religion. The church thus is not the only religious institution; the state also is a religious institution...
Pretty much any secular law flies in the face of God and is apparently blasphemy.
To return to the basic problem today, the real issue is not between church and state, but is simply this: the state as a religious establishment has progressively disestablished Christianity as its law foundation, and, while professing neutrality, has in fact established humanism as the religion of the state.....
... The state has overthrown God and religion
As a result, in most countries today, and no less in the United States, humanism is the established religion of the state and is progressively the source of legal revisionism. ....Christianity is quite logically progressively excluded from state, school and church and has a weak and scarcely tenable position in modern life.
Any revival of Christian strength will thus precipitate major conflict, in that it will constitute a threat to the humanistic establishment. In recent years, few have feared the church, because the church has been impotent and itself an ally of humanism. There are evidences now that this may change.
Unless the state is under the triune God, there is no hope for freedom for either the church or men. If the state is its own god and its own source of morality, then the state can do no wrong, and no man has then the right or freedom to differ from or to challenge the state.
Again, if the state is equated with government, there is then no freedom for man, because freedom is inseparable from self-government under God.
Thus, the Christian community must assert the priority of God’s law-word as binding on all of life, including church, state, and school. Christians must once again take over government in education, welfare, health, and other spheres. Basic to this take-over is tithing.
But religious people can take over if only you keep sending me your Social Security checks.
At times in the past, the conflict between church and state has been an institutional conflict, sometimes for power, and often for very principled reasons of jurisdiction. It is more than a jurisdictional dispute now: it is religious conflict, and a war unto death.
We're talking literal "war" here, this is not metaphor.
The modern humanistic state is history’s most jealous god, and it will tolerate no rivals. Hence, its war against Christianity. In this struggle, however, the state has taken on a power far greater than itself. As the humanistic world powers take "counsel together against the LORD, and against His anointed," planning to overthrow His law and government, "He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the LORD shall have them in derision" (Ps. 2:4). He shall break His enemies with a rod of iron.
It certainly looks like Sharon Angle is a Christian Reconstructionist. A lot of people are on her history, but now she is starting to use explicitly Christian Reconstructionist buzzwords. Christian Reconstructionists want to see an end to any sort of Democracy as we know it, and they assume a lot of people will be killed (presumably by them) in the process.
http://www.goddiscussion.com/...
http://www.lasvegassun.com/...