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May 24, 2006 Congress shall make no law respecting establishment of religion... This is the first sentence in the first amendment of the constitution of the United States, and it guarantees the separation of church and state. I often see misguided letters to the editor written by religious zealots who claim the constitution doesn't guarantee separation of church and state because these exact words are not what this amendment says. So I always turn the words around and ask this: If there is no separation of church and state, than what is the state religion of the U.S.? This country is not a theocracy, but there are many groups of Christians fundamentalists who want to make it one, and they share some startling characteristics with Nazis. A nickname for Germany is the father land and during the time of Adolf Hitler, women were viewed as little more than vessels for childbearing. The entire bureaucracy of Nazi German was male dominated and so was society. Not only do Christian fundamentalists agree with this philosophy, but mainstream Southern Baptists also strongly believe that the man should be the head of the household, and they oppose equality of women. Their strident opposition to abortion is another example of their subjagation of women. One group of Christian fundamentalists call themselves the Promise Keepers. With a staff of three hundred fifty and a budget of $117 million, they actively support an agenda that seeks to relegate women to a subservient role. The Promise Keepers were founded by Bill McCartney, a former football coach of Colorado University. Is it any wonder that this football team has a high incidence of rape? The Promise Keepers appeal to large numbers of men. Several hundred thousand gathered in 1997 in Washington D.C. and women were excluded from their rallies. They are homophobic, and I wonder about the hypocritical motives of a hundred thousand men who went for a weekend getaway together where no women were allowed. Homophobic men tend to have a high rate of homosexual tendencies. Frankly, I think the Promise Keepers are gay, and they have issues with their own masculinity. Thus, the need to dominate women. One more interesting note about the Promise Keepers. They think black people should emulate Uncle Tom. Like the Nazis, Christian fundamentalists are using the democratic process to gain control of government. They believe in Dominion Theology, the dogma that Christians alone are biblically mandated to occupy secular institutions until Christ returns. If fundamentlists ever gained control, I would expect them to do what the Nazis did--throw all non-believers out of government. The republican party is heavily indebted to Christian fundamentalists, and as a play to ply their votes, they put issues of morality, such as gay marriage, on ballots. Gary Demar, the president of American Vision (www.americanvision.org/aboutus.asp) supports the republican party. He's a fanatic who believes in the death penalty for adultery, homosexuality, and abortion doctors. Republicans actually kiss up to this man when he should be relegated to the fruit and nut farm of slobbering lunatics. Nazis used Jews as scapegoats. Christian fundamentalists have their scapegoat too--homosexuals. Their rallying cry is, "legalize discrimination against homosexuals." I've already mentioned why I find this attitude suspect. Christian fundamentalists share with Nazism the need for the construction of strange psuedo-sciences. The Nazis created an entire phony science based on the crank theory of racial superiority. Supposedly, Aryans were superior and other races (especially Jews) were inferior. Flawed skull comparisons and other unsupported physical differences were used as evidence. Racial superiority was an important pillar of Nazism. Likewise, the nonsensical belief in the literal translation of the bible is the basis for Christian fundamentalism, and they have conjured their own odd psuedo-sciences of creationism and now intelligent design. There are thousands of contradictions in the bible making a belief in the inerrant truth of the bible self-defeating, and yet this is the pillar of their belief system. Learn more about these parallels between Nazism and Christian fundamentalism at www.kingdomcoming.com. I don't share that author's fear of fundamentalism because when push comes to shove the U.S. is a liberal socialist country (though it's not fashionable for people to admit it), and the fundamentalists may be overly influential, but they will never gain full control of government. ------------ About the author Mark Gelbart: My book, Talk Radio, is a black comedy about a radio talk show host who gets kidnapped and psychologically tortured by a loser. www.mark-gelbart.com Email: agelbart@aol.com Comment on this article here! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com and are not allowed to be posted on other websites. ARTICLE THIEVES WILL BE PROSECUTED! |
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