A Bible-Based Government

[kweerwolf]

What if you long for a world where not only gay marriage, abortion, and safe-sex education are against the law, but so are taxes, assisted suicide, and pornography?

What could you do? Where would you go?

To the state of South Carolina, says Corey Burnell, who, from the small Central Valley town of Valley Springs, has been relocating families to South Carolina for over a year.

Burnell, 30, and his wife Nicole, 28, started a movement called Christian Exodus out of frustration over California laws that they say are too liberal and against the teachings of Christianity.

http://cbs5.com/seenon/local_story_116221309.html

Yipee! Send all the fundies to South Carolina and suggest that they may want to secede from the rest of the country!

[TygrBright]

1. NOT nice... I know some very fine people in SC...

Whose families have been there for many generations. It is a lovely place, even if it does have a bad Woolhat/Wackjob infestation. Would you condemn all the nice folks there to losing their homes and businesses just to establish the Wackjob concentration camp?

disapprovingly,
Bright

[kweerwolf]

3. I was assuming, of course ...

... that all the South Carolinians with IQs above room temperature and family trees that actually branch would move when the "infestation" began. ;-)

[we can do it]

4. They Can Always Sell for Big Bucks To the Religious Bigots -

Just like the beach - there's only so much room available...the place has been redneck heaven as long as I've been alive, anyway. I say send 'em all there...they can have Ohio, too...I will gladly leave here if they decided to take over...it's getting bad enough as it is.

[nashville_brook]

2. i wouldn't move to SC for all the tea in China

and i have family begging me to.

here's more from the story --

Christian Exodus believes in getting its way by moving to a conservative state and then running for elected office -- on school boards, city councils, the state legislature -- then changing laws.

They are looking for people who would be willing to fight for prayer in schools, sex education that preaches abstinence, and making sodomy a crime.
...
Christian Exodus has set its sights on six conservative South Carolina counties, places big enough for its followers to find jobs, but small enough places where change can quickly take place.

By 2014, these political pioneers want enough people in key positions to make a dramatic impact on statewide elections.

[BR_Parkway]

13. Fine, once they are all there, they can be segregated off to practice

according to their religious beliefs without having to interfere with the rest of us - sort of like the Amish communities.

Well, until the money runs out, then they'll need to fire people up outside of their circle to donate.

[valerief]

5. Were people always this freakin' crazy? n/t

[ninkasi]

6. Such a place sounds like hell to me...

I love my gay friends, who are wonderful people, I believe a woman should be able to make a choice about carrying a child to term, and firmly believe in sex education, and leaving end of life decisions up to the individual. I don't know what's wrong with these people, but sound to me like people who are trying to make life as mean and as unpleasant as they can.

The god they worship sounds to me more like the one who welcomes you to the pits of hades, to me. I think they have their signals crossed. I do pity the good people of South Carolina, however, and suggest that these people relocate someplace else, like Pluto, or Saturn. The moon is way too close.

[ladjf]

7. Voodoo Government. Bad idea.

[NMMNG]

8. They can have SC

Let all of the rational people move out and the fundies can relocate to SC and secede, leaving the rest of the nation in peace and relative rationality. I suspect when they're in their little cocoon of fundie perfection and don't have any more crusades to froth at the mouth over they'll get mighty bored though.

[zcflint09]

9. Let them have it

Maybe they can take the rest of the fundies with them...hell, we'll give them a little more space if needed.

[xchrom]

10. jeeezusland here we come, right back where we started from...

[RedXIII]

11. Many of them are in my mind fake Christians....

Because M. Gandhi said "i like your Christ but he is so unlike your christians" or something like that.

[kdpeters]

12. And what's wrong with Mississippi?

Already at or near the bottom of almost any metric of state health, the influx of anti-science, anti-education, drones would have the least impact of any other state. Admittedly, South Carolina is no Eden of enlightenment, you have to know someone just to order a drink, but it doesn't sit at rock bottom over every indicator measured. It will, though. If this mass migration of the ignorami keeps up, it will.

[TechBear_Seattle]

14. Let's just suppose that such a Bible-based government is set up...

I've always been intruiged by the "villain has won" kind of story, mainly because there are so few of them.

Suppose that fundamentalists do manage to take over South Carolina and one or two other southern states. Suppose that they successfully secede from the United States (ignore, for the moment, how they managed it.) Suppose that they have formed a new country based firmly and explicitly on their interpretation of the Bible, a Talibangelical theocratic utopia. They begin passing laws: death penalty for homosexuals, women are reduced to property, church attendance is mandatory, heresy is punishable by death, dissent of any kind is brutally supressed. A few years pass, and the purges are complete. Now what do they do?

Everything they have wanted, they now have. Who would be their enemy? Against what would they strive? How long before their government disintegrates, and how might it happen?

I'm thinking of how other religious communities have fallen away from their utopian visions, from New England (created, remember, as a Puritan theocracy) to small communities like Oneida. Might there be some tragi-comedy in the situation? Some satirical content along the lines of "be careful what you ask for, you might get it?"

Your thoughts, please.

[readmoreoften]

15. I want to donate money to this lovely organization.

Get the fundies out of the rest of America and lump them in SC! That's right. Go. Get out of my America. We should put them all on boats and send them back to their own damn country! (The confederacy of course) Make SC, Georgia, Alabama, & Missisip an island of idiocy and leave the rest of us alone!