Why does the religious right claim to love freedom/and yet still lobby for a theocracy?

Question

An American theocracy is incompatible with democracy. Yet right after chastising Democrats for not loving freedom enough, they'll turn around and try to legislate biblical beliefs.

Surely others have seen the incongruity here.

What about the insistence to keep under God in the pledge? Or the attempts to make prayer mandatory for all public school students?

Answer 1

For the same reason that the Pilgrims came over here for religious freedom, and then enacted laws which denied anyone else the same right unless they belonged to the same religion.

It's not just the religious right. It's all religions. They all want freedom for THEIR religion, but not for anyone else's. Which is why we have the First Amendment. Also why there are no theocracy bills in Congress, so it's a lot of useless worrying.

The nutcases that want it are just that. Nutcases. And the nutcases that worry about it are just that. Nutcases. Which makes them the exact same as those they would complain about.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

I'm Christian (preferably that and not "religious") and I'm right with God and in my right mind and I love freedom and the history of our nation before it was perverted by a bunch of sexual perverts. (God and I love you!)
I percieve a bunch of socialist leftists anti-Christian whoremonging hatemongers here who prefer anarchy and a country who refuses to retain God in their knowledge (they think it will ease their guilty consciences for how they are living unclean lives - especially those sexual sins they want to become legal but will never be moral and are for the protection of the innocent which most laws are for that purpose), and they are those who don't appreciate the price that either a soldier pays for their freedom or the price that Christ paid for their soul's redemption.
What a sad state of mind. This world's thinking is skewed these days. I'm thinking some of these posters need to have a run-in with a sting operation like Perverted Justice. They just don't understand about law and order and that laws are for maintaining the peace and for keeping a society decent and civilized and the innocents protected. By the way, I'll bring you a Bible while you are in jail even though you don't want them in the schools. You likely prefer condoms and abortions available without parental notifications and the teaching of homosexual/lesbian lifestyles over the wise prevention of STD's, abortions and other myriad of regrets and heartaches that can be avoided through the moral Biblical based common sense abstinance and heterosexual monogomous sex within marriage being taught. There will come a time when you leftist God and Christian hating liberals will want God in your life but will you wait too late to bow your knees and acknowledge that He is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords? I hope not! Repent of your sins while there is still time and make a positive contribution to society that will have repercussions into eternity. Only what we do for Christ will last.
Trying to wipe all traces of God and His people from your knowledge and view will not help you one bit. So, we will stand for freedom and true democracy from the Pledge of Allegiance to Bible and prayer in schools to the Ten Commandments being displayed, to the right to have nativity scenes and programs and to teach our young people that sin never pays, no matter how long or hard satan and his minions try to destroy God from the history and present tense of this once great nation. Sin is a reproach to any nation. The more you try to blame everything onto Christianity, the further into depravity you go and the more the persecuted church will grow. It is almost time for the wheat and tares to be separated.
We are living in the last days and these are the signs of the times where the enemy knows he has but a short time to work and will wear down the saints. I've read the back of the book though and we win by the blood of the Lamb and the Word of our testimony. Won't you come over to the winning side? Forget politics. This is a spiritual war. Time is running out. Will you go to heaven where there is peace, joy and love forever or will you be that wicked servant cast into hell where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth, where the worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched? Choose Christ today!

Answer 4

I have never heard anyone lobby for a theocracy. Legislating biblical beliefs? What, like murder, stealing, perjury? What horrible things to legislate against..........

Having "In God We Trust" on our currency certainly doesn't constitute a theocracy. Again, I am not aware of anyone trying to force anyone in school to pray....

Answer 5

Without the religious right, the republicans would never win an election. They have been given a voice merely because republicans know this and they need them. Many republicans pretend to care about the religious right but don't. Talk radio hosts for instance, continuously pander to religion, but don't display the slightest Christian quality in their demeanor. They are just like the scribes and pharisees of the bible. They talk religion but have no earthly intention of acting it.

Answer 6

Isn't this the same hypocrisy that both The Dragon Lady (Ms. Clinton) and Nancy Pelosi display when they say they are "praying for our country"? Elected officials invoke religion only when the cameras are on and for their own political benefit.
TO JOE S: You're kidding-right? You conveniently give the socialist-leaning democrat congress a pass. Aren't they the ones (Reid, Kennedy, Biden, et al) who are pushing to silence conservative talk radio?

Answer 7

Are you sure that the exact same people are involved in both activities, or are you attributing characteristics of separate parts of the whole to the whole and generalizing?

Edit: Ah, I know I should do this but -
Removing "under God" from the pledge would not be re-writing history, it would be un-re-writing history, to restore the pledge to its pre-1954 form.
Either way, refusing to change simply because it is change is silly.

Answer 8

taking God out of the pledge is trying to re-write history, and most Americans won't have it. you show me one example of any effort to make prayer anywhere "mandatory". free will is the cornerstone of Christianity.

Answer 9

One of them was Thomas Jefferson who tried to ensure the seperation between Church & State.
Those who claim that ideals of 3 centuries ago no longer hold merit, need look no further than the religious right & their place within the Repulican party, as you've pointed out.

Answer 10

the christian-fundamentalists and right-wing fascists can't help but push their FAITH (not fact) onto everyone else. as we've seen since the start of this nation: religious enthusiasm is continuously dropping. in no other country have so many turned away from religion, or gone so far as to completely create a new one.
obviously, FAITH isn't doing it for people these days. we can't wait to be rewarded in the afterlife. screw being meek.