Remaking America in Falwell’s Image

[Shallah Kali]

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/remaking-america-falwell%E2%80%99s-image

The Washington Post has a long profile of Liberty University students going all out to help John McCain win Virginia and how the volunteering for the campaign is preparing many for their own eventual entries into politics:

Besides taking a full load of classes, Ayendi has been putting in 40-hour weeks on behalf of McCain. She makes phone calls, canvasses, operates a database of student volunteers, uses Facebook as her bully pulpit and will talk to anyone about how she thinks that Obama's promise to redistribute wealth is an affront to the Constitution. The campaign has galvanized her friends and served as an excellent primer on what lies ahead in their adult lives.

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"If you want to get anything changed around here, you have to go through the courts," Ayendi says. "You gotta be a lawyer."

Totally, Allen agrees. "My goal is not to make laws Christian but to make government as small as possible so you can be as biblically Christian as you so choose," she says.

Both plan on spring internships abroad and then law school. But an Obama victory would not send these them into the wilderness. To the contrary, the fight would begin anew.

I don’t even know what it means to create a country where people are free to be as “biblically Christian” as they choose, but when students from Falwell’s university say that is their ultimate goal for America, I’m pretty sure I’m not going to like whatever it is they have in mind.

[Nay]

1. It would be interesting to find out exactly what they feel is preventing them

from being as "biblically Christian" as they choose. I can't think of one thing that is standing in their way -- for an extreme example, look at the Amish. They live exactly as they feel the Bible requires, and nobody steps in their way. I have to be suspicious of someone who says this, because ultimately it probably means they want ME to kowtow to their ways so they don't feel "uncomfortable."

[ixion]

2. that's exactly what it means

they can go to their camps and roll around on the floor writhing and speaking it tongues all they like. It concerns me not, until they insist that I do the same.

Then we have a problem.

And the thing that is most dangerous about evangelical xians: their core belief that all those who do not think like they do are going to (their version of) hell.

[BR_Parkway]

3. Greed - the Bible, even Jesus calls for "redistributing the wealth"

they don't want to be biblically correct, they want to follow their own paths and have everyone else call it Holy.

[Gman2]

4. They want to CHOOSE their redistribution targets.

Like some of us that want NOT to have any tax money going to war, they want NOT to spend ANY money on cultural war STUFF. Like any money on animal studies or conservation. God takes care of that. The poor. God takes care of that. And when they are feeling full of the holy spirit, it would be nice to spread your own wealth coins as alms to the poor. And THEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY will decide who is pathetic enough to warm their hearts. I have debated to a stall libertarians on this point. People starving, who cares. At least the gov. isnt the one deciding who starves, the genius of the market takes care. They always SAYYYYYYYYY they are for charity. They dont get christian credit for the gov. spreading the wealth. They would rather make a big legacy production of it. Like the Pharisee's they are.