Stitt thinks he's on a mission from God....
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Multiple concerned Oklahomans alerted the Freedom From Religion Foundation that the day after his inauguration, Stitt and his wife attended an Inaugural prayer service at the First Baptist Church of Moore. During the service, he reportedly declared his mission as a governor to be a religious mission, to “join in with what God is doing in Oklahoma.”
“He is about to unleash Oklahoma. … We’re going to engage the nonprofits and the churches to really heal and solve some of these social issues, county by county, that the government can’t do, no law can do, but our Heavenly Father can do,” Stitt said at the event.
Then, Oklahoma First Lady Sarah Stitt followed with similarly troublesome statements, telling Christians to use their position in elected office to convert people to Christianity: “We are God’s kingdom here on Earth. It is our call to go out into our state and save people and bring people to Him."
Power is used to control and eliminate different viewpoints by means of conversion. Through soft fascism, it is religious fascists who strive to eliminate differing viewpoints to acquire power to control by conversion.
Moreover,
"Fascism is definitely and absolutely opposed to the doctrines of liberalism, both in the political and the economic sphere."
And I think that's Stitt's real mission. "He is about to unleash Oklahoma. … We’re going to engage the nonprofits and the churches to really heal and solve some of these social issues, county by county, that the government can’t do, no law can do, but our Heavenly Father can do,” Stitt said at the event. Bull Stitt.
My muse woke up again, as I remember a sign on the side of the road that said this on a trip.
John 14:6
New International Version (NIV)
6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."
I caught myself thinking ”They say, that Jesus says, ‘I am the way and the truth and the life.’ But what they mean is, ‘I am the only way, the only truth and the only life.’ Furthermore, it doesn’t matter if you accept it, because the results are the same."
Indeed. "Red Jacket Defends Native American Religion, 1805."
Brother, continue to listen. You say you are sent to instruct us how to worship the Great Spirit agreeably to his mind, and if we do not take hold of the religion which you white people teach, we shall be unhappy hereafter. You say that you are right, and we are lost; how do we know this to be true? We understand that your religion is written in a book; if it was intended for us as well as you, why has not the Great Spirit given it to us, and not only to us, but why did he not give to our forefathers the knowledge of that book, with the means of understanding it rightly? We only know what you tell us about it. How shall we know when to believe, being so often deceived by the white people.
I’ve thought for years about how to halt the Religious Right. I can only say tell others who'll listen. I think it’s difficult to get people to listen for the same reason it’s hard to get people to listen about land theft and genocide against the First Nations – it may involve coming to grips with uncomfortable family beliefs and history. Nonetheless, to them, the Christian fundamentalists are in a spiritual war with the devil.
Exodus 15:3-7
The LORD is a warrior; the LORD is his name. Pharaoh's chariots and his army he has hurled into the sea. The best of Pharaoh's officers are drowned in the Red Sea. The deep waters have covered them; they sank to the depths like a stone. Your right hand, O LORD, was majestic in power. Your right hand, O LORD, shattered the enemy. In the greatness of your majesty you threw down those who opposed you. You unleashed your burning anger; it consumed them like stubble.
And since Stitt's on a mission, in what context does he say "that the government can’t do, no law can do, but our Heavenly Father can do,” ? I"m asking because, I won't convert.
I do not want your god.
You say the devil is in the wilderness,
But the greatest peace I have ever known is with the sun shining bright,
The wind blowing on my burned face,
Or the moon shining like the sun on a solstice.
I do not want your god.
You believe the annihilation of my ancestors is divinely authorized.
Even your religious coercions today are still cultural genocide,
As you make darkness bow its head in shame for the choices you make.
I do not want your god.
Every time you say your Devil’s name he comes and dances
Though you say he’s "under your feet."
It’s your Devil, you keep him.
I do not want your god.
And while your Religious Fascism killed my clan,
Who knows not who they are –
I forgive you, the white man,
But I’ll never forget.
I do not want your god.
I may not know where the bones of my ancestors are,
Whose culture your Religious Fascism murdered -
But they breath through me,
I know who I am.
I do not need your god to be free.
I am free of hate,
I am free of fear,
And all I see with your god is hate and fear.
I do not want your god.