Should Americans fear the rise of religious right?

Question

Being that some of their spokesmen advocate murdering politcal opponets.

Jeff you must be a card carrying 700 club regular, or perhaps a PTL reject.

Answer 1

I'm not certain to what extent this phenomena has already polluted our mostly secular society. I do know that it hasn't been for lack of trying. Any religion that requires the power of government to keep it functioning corrupts both the government and the religion. The entire thrust of Christianity is to 'win the world for Christ'. That means to convert all people everywhere to the Christian faith. But which one? Currently there are at least 700 different flavors of christian faith in the world, many of them at odds with the other. The mirror image of this policy is the movement toward world-wide Islam. One can only imagine the mischief that a clash between these two religions will produce in the future given the strains between 'them' in the east and 'us' in the west already. The best advise I can give to 'christians' is to 'follow Jesus' in spirit. Don't 'build' churches...be the church. Engage in politics a civic exercise, not a religioous execise. There's no 'spirituality' in government. Spirituality is in the heart....not the congress.

Answer 2

The GOP and conservatives LOVE charities and organizations, but they also feel that no one should be forced to give up their income. Conservatives would rather have people support charities rather than government programs. Capitalism = People who work hard are rewarded. Opportunities for all, the sky is the limit. Probably the one modern economic system that is successful. It provides competition, which leads to bigger and better products and technologies that make life easier and more manageable. The market is decided by the consumer. Socialism = In socialistic society the government determines who produces what and how much. This doesn’t work. In a socialistic society there is no incentive to work or produce. Ultimately all socialistic systems have failed. There are a few in Europe that are still struggling, but their economies are falling behind. Eventually because of the failing businesses all of the government benefits will not have the quality as the programs run in the private sector.

Answer 3

First, who advocated the murder of political opponents? Are you talking about one man, Pat Robertson, opining that we should assassinate one other man, Hugo Chavez? Second, Chavez is not a "political opponent," except for certain people in Venezuela. As for us Americans, he is a NATIONAL opponent. And everyone, regardless of ideology, should view him that way because he hates us.

Next, there is no "rise of the religious right"; those in that group have always been here and, except for 1976 when many supported Carter, have always voted the same way. You might as well ask if we should fear the "rise" of the female or black voter. These groups have always been with us and their strength hasn't waxed or waned much in recent times. Thus, there can be no rise because there has been no marked change in their degree of power.

Answer 4

I would fear it, but actually I think the Religious Right is in decline. All the 'mainstream' candidates this year are shying away from the Christian Right. Abortion is being played down as an issue, prayer in schools and the ten commandments and all that are being de-emphasized as issues.

Mitt Romney, afraid that his Mormon beliefs might be an issue for Christians, made a speech in which he said all the things he thought Christians wanted to hear, like for instance the old lie that our founders were all fundamentalist Christians and -meant- the US to be a theocracy. But the speech hurt him. My guess is that lots of Christians hadn't been paying attention--and why should they this early in the process?--and once they learned Romney was Mormon he lost their vote.

This created an opening for Gov. Huckabee. Huckabee is the 'Christian' candidate now but his version of Christianity varies from the Reagan/Falwell/Robertson orthodoxy. So he's skating on thin ice.

I think the importance of religion on politics is -less- now, not -more-. I think this largely has to do with Bush's screw-ups. If God told Bush to invade Iraq, and to put unqualified cronies at the heads of all his departments, and to ignore the incredible corruption in his own administration, then maybe we don't want a president who takes orders directly from God after all. 8^)

Answer 5

Which ones advocate the murdering of political opponents? There is nothing to fear here. I fear Capitalism more.

Answer 6

The religious right is what is gonna create a third party candidate, which willl help my candidate, Hillary Clinton win.

Answer 7

America should fear any individual that condones murder. There are examples of bad people saying stupid things and endorsing inexcusable tactics in every realm of political ideology. Your implication that anybody on the religious right would support this is totally absurd.
With an accusation such as this I would think you might give us all a hint what you are basing it on.
What scares me is that people like you have the right to vote.

Answer 8

Should we fear the rise of the Religious left? (a.k.a Muslims?) Its the same thing, in every situation there will be the radicals who everybody maintains a cautious distance. But that doesn't mean you shun the whole group.

Answer 9

they already have risen, now they decline

religions days are numbered on this planet

if you want to know where america will be in 20 years, look at

europe right now - maybe some day we will be 20 years

ahead of the rest of the world.

Answer 10

Sure, and not fear the opposite, like CAIR and the ACLU. We are okay with pedophiles and leaders of the ACLU trying to "protect" our rights. There are many leaders of the aclu that have sex crimes on their record. And now CAIR is pushing their propaganda and I really think they are more of a problem than the religious right.