Is the "Christian Right" a market engineered creation?

[jokerman93]

We live in a time when the sophistication of massive social engineering through the media has reached unprecedented levels of precision and pervasiveness. There seems to be an entirely new manufactured breed of Americans out there who've managed to internalized a dangerous equivalence between "True American" nationalism, messianic Christian radicalism and the draconian ideology of the extreme right.

From the point of view of the powerful, when one is able to politically blur the line between the sanctity of a person's soul and the agenda of those that govern -- one has a very, very powerful weapon for mass control.

A religion/politics equivalence in the psyche of poorly informed or minimally educated citizens results in a morally confused, easily manipulated populus.

For example, as some other threads have suggested. The proposed new constitutional “marriage” amendment, as I see it, is really about something much larger than regulating civil union between non-traditional partners. It's not merely anti-gay. It's worse. It's about defining legitimacy and controlling accessibilty to the centers of power in American society.

As an aside, who thinks Gen. Boykin's remarks were an accident? I think his statements were publicized as a calculated nudge and wink to all the Christian radicals out there who are unquestioningly supporting the new political front represented by the Bush administration and it's frankly fascistic policies.

These so-called "Christian conservatives" are people who have no problem with plans that have no tomorrow, and thay are the most likely political base to ensure a neo-conservative re-election.

This is about control by those who've sold their souls to a politically engineered (but merely implied) state religion based on the worst kinds of intolerance and ethnocultural-centricities.

End of tin-foil rant!

[La_Serpiente]

1. Actually

I read the New York Times pieces talking about religion in Europe. This religious scholar felt that the Catholic Church should incorporate competition into its policy because many evangilical churches have used it to their advantages.

However, one thing that this does is steal the integrity from the institution simply because the "greenback" has been injected into it.

So this is a quite difficult balancing act.

[JackRiddler]

2. A fine analysis

Thank you. No need to ever mention the "tin-foil" thing, even in a self-deprecating way. It's become a serious block to thought around these parts.

[Lars39]

3. Some of the breeding ground for the social engineering is in the

fundy homeschool curriculum. History revisionism seems to go right from the think tanks cranks to the fundy publishers. These folks are making a bundle off of that crowd. I think they introduced the books first years ago, then gradually started letting their views hit the mainstream. Then if anyone argues with their "official" version of events, their are thousands who have a *text* to cite. A good example of this would be the biographies of Franklin, and Jefferson(they were Christians). You can argue 'til you're blue in the face that they were theists, but you won't make any headway, 'cause they've got books that show the *truth*. Argh.

[LibertyorDeath]

4. jokerman2004 no tin-foil in sight you hit the nail on the head.

Great analysis of the times we live in.

"We live in a time when the sophistication of massive social engineering through the media has reached unprecedented levels of precision and pervasiveness."

[seemslikeadream]

5. Center for Religion, Ethics, and Social Policy

Cornell University is keeping tabs on the Theonomic Reconstructionists.

"We are talking about Christianizing America. We are talking about simply spreading the gospel in a political context."

"There will be Satanic forces... We are not...up just against human beings, to beat them in elections. We're going to be coming up against spiritual warfare."

"When we win this revolution in November, you will be doing the Lord's work, and He will richly bless you for it."

"We need to find ways to win the war" Karl Rove, told a gathering of the Family Research Council in March 2002. Rove wasn't talking about the waar on terrorism. He was talking about the war on secular society.

www.theocracywatch.org