Why do some people believe the U.S. is dominated by fundamentalists christians?

Question

I would agree with this statement if it was a hundred years ago. If this were true abortion would be illegal, no rated R movies or porn, no explicit lyrics in music, no sex education in schools, being gay would be a crime. and this lists could go on and on. Each generation becomes more liberal in their beliefs as a whole. I am not a religious person and do not see this.

Arglbargle- Perhaps whats why?

I would agree that most people claim to be christian but claiming it and living it are two different things

Answer 1

It is about the quest for power not popularity nor religiosity.

It is easy to say these folks are pseudo Christians. They avoid most of the actual teachings of Jesus (mostly because they were radically liberal) preferring instead to invent a sword swinging Jesus, out to wreck vengeance on anyone these freaks oppose.

They are pretty creative with history as well, portraying the founding fathers as being as religious as monks, rather than the near atheistic deist sons of the Enlightenment that they were.

When they got their first bite of power in the frenzy of fear of the Communists, they managed to replace the diversity embracing "E Pluribus Unum" with "in God we trust" and made a lie of the Pledge, with the divisive "under God" before the stuff like "indivisible" and "liberty". But this was only the camels nose under the tent.

First they subverted all the conservative organizations using techniques they had accused the Communists of using. Using the gullibility of those accustomed to trusting their leaders they conquered first the churches, then the Republican party, and now the Government.

At the last minute the Internet happened and folk began to see what was happening and organizing against it. It will be a tough fight and no predicting the outcome.

In an honest election these clowns would be tossed out on their ear, but the Gang Of Pirates, have had their thumb on the scales for some time and will not let the need for more crimes stop them from covering crimes already committed.

These Dominionists are not all of the Gang Of Pirates, and many of their supporters have not yet realized what snakes they are playing with, so they cannot come out of the closet with their agenda yet. When they do your description will sound like a liberal agenda.

For every sort of thought crime from orneriness, to talking about other possibilities of religion, thinking about sex(lust) much less anything like talking about it, being gay or even Black would get you killed by stoning.

Abortion? Just being pregnant without a sanctioned father would be death by stoning as well. There would be such murder across America to make the Cambodia killing fields look like a picnic. That has not happened yet.

But that is not because these folks are far from power, but only because they have not completed their takeover.

Every time another civil right is lost or damaged, every attack on the separation of church and state, every attack on science and reason, even every attack on comity, you will find these folk at the bottom of it.

Even the entire Bill Clinton saga was financed by these folk, mostly through a front called the Rutherford Group that is their wholly owned subsidiary. All the women who claimed that Clinton had somehow attacked them were in fact employees of that same Rutherford Society.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Nah!!! Not that fundamentalists wouldn't LIKE to be dominant. If they had their way, we would.

Fortunately, there are enough people with brains in this country that we can keep them where they belong - in their churches.

The threat of such a thing was much considered by the Founders and by the authors of the Constitution. Jefferson, Franklin, Adams and other were quite specific in their criticism of the "bothersome" Christians.
They made darn sure, with their authorship, that the Christian religions would never have any power in the public forum.

Our current leader would have it so, if he could...here is one of his famous quotes:

"I don't know that Atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God."
— President George H.W. Bush

From Jefferson:

Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed by inserting "Jesus Christ," so that it would read "A departure from the plan of Jesus Christ, the holy author of our religion;" the insertion was rejected by the great majority, in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mohammedan, the Hindoo and Infidel of every denomination.

-Thomas Jefferson, Autobiography, in reference to the Virginia Act for Religious Freedom

Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.

-Thomas Jefferson, letter to Dr. Thomas Cooper, February 10, 1814

Answer 4

Speaking for myself, which is all I can do, I would say that to call the pseudo religious, pseudo corporate psychos who dominate the media and political power structure in this Country "Christian" would be overly generous. They speak little, if at all, from the New Testament preferring twisted misinterpretations from the Old Testament and Revelations to support their push for the Apocalypse. We don't have to be in the middle of another inquisition or dark ages to see ignorance, prejudice, xenophobia and sanctimonious hypocrisy once again gaining ground and overshadowing reason, science and tolerance. The time to fight these forces is now. Not after they've taken a firm hold in all our lives. Do you think the stolen elections of 2000 and 2004, the total incompetence of the Bush administration, the criminal erosion of our infrastructure as a result of the massive tax cuts could all have been ignored if there weren't a strong and profoundly rich group of greedy end timers pushing the cool aid?

Answer 5

Fundamentalist Christians are a branch of the Christian right. These organizations are not content with spreading the gospel, but rather have a political agenda as in people control. They believe in laws/force to "convert" people to their ideology. They DO NOT believe in individual choice. This segment appears to be more power hungry than Christ centered. America has not been a Christian dominated nation sense the year 1963, for your information.

Answer 6

Between the virulent pro-life sector and our very Christian president combined with things like the documentary Jesus Camp. Most Americans are, however, moderate in terms of both politics and religion.

Answer 7

I dont believe it is dominated by "fundamentalist" but I do agree the majority of the population are followers of the Christian faith in one way or the other

Answer 8

I once had a teacher in college say America was a Victorian society. I laughed out loud, and she proceeded to construct her argument in a very serious manner. It was hogwash, but she was completely sincere.

I think Leftists need fundamentalist Christians so as to have a villain. It makes it much easier for Liberals to propagate their own "religion."

They do this with other entities too. Big Oil, Big Business, Corporations, Walmart. They use all these vague terms to "preach" their message. Greed, dirty air, waste, etc. It's all used to make themselves into the "savior." Save the planet, save the whale, save this, save that.

Liberals are fun.

Answer 9

The extreme restrictions you require for proof are not compatible with a modern, industrialized and *free* society--and it would be bad for business. Compared with Europe(not Saudi Arabia), we are very religious.

Answer 10

Because they are Fundamentalist Church Guys with a small Errr ahhh short coming

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