uuuhhhhhhhhmmm... because God was ABANDONED and SHUNNED by the RATS???
Posted on 04/01/2006 7:02:16 PM PST by Nicholas Conradin
Now that the GOP has been transformed by the rise of the South, the trauma of terrorism and George W. Bush's conviction that God wanted him to be president, a deeper conclusion can be drawn: The Republican Party has become the first religious party in U.S. history.
We have had small-scale theocracies in North America before -- in Puritan New England and later in Mormon Utah. Today, a leading power such as the United States approaches theocracy when it meets the conditions currently on display: an elected leader who believes himself to speak for the Almighty, a ruling political party that represents religious true believers, the certainty of many Republican voters that government should be guided by religion and, on top of it all, a White House that adopts agendas seemingly animated by biblical worldviews.
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The Republican Party was founded by abolitionists, many of whom were Christians who opposed slavery for moral reasons.
Abortion is a form of slavery since the mother is designated as the master over the child's life and death.
As the pro-life party the GOP has merely returned to its roos!
Well, I don't know if the GOP can be described as a "religious party", but they have certainly put social conservatism well ahead of limited government and individual liberty on their list of priorities. Instead of the Democrat "Nanny State", maybe we can call the GOP's goal "The Pappy State" - a Big and Growing Government using the Rod of Correction on wayward drug users while letting anyone into the country who agrees to pay into and prop up Social Security and Medicare and delivering sermons on Mandatory Volunteerism in a Southern drawl. ;)
I find it funny that he says the Republicans are the 'First religious party in history' not even noticing that it is the Democrats who are the only party ever to elect a minister President (Woodrow Wilson). It's especially funny, because Wilson actually had the kind of 'God Complex' then he accuses Bush of having.
I think the democrat party did it by default when they evicted god from the discussion as a thought crime and then embraced homosexual based marriage, quota queens, abortion on whim, open boarders and soak the taxpayer politics.
A person of any conscience has no place at the democrat party table.
What utter nonsense.
Evangelicals tend to vote Republican, but black churches belong to the Rats, as do most of the Jews.
Catholic Bishops tend to be extremely left-wing.
There are plenty of Republicans who don't attend church and are proud conservatives.
The whole premise is absurd.
Which party is more into proclaiming Jeremiads, I'd like to know. The enviro-libs have that one down cold. Repent (from raping the earth) or you will be destroyed. The libs have simply extended the Puritan tradition without the religious terminology. They've just replaced it with earth-worship. No one is more self righteous than an anti-SUV activist, etc.
He's just trying to sell his new book...
- Nelly Custis-Lewis (Martha Washington's niece and, later, adopted daughter)
Must have been tough to have a "theocracy" right at the very beginning of our nation. However did we get along without the likes of Kevin Phillips?
Theocracy?????? LOL. We can't even say Jesus on government property. You have to be an absolute idiot to think we are anywhere near a theorcracy.
that cinches it--he is psychotic; there is a paranoid grandiosity here of "being able to figure it all out" that is detached from reality.
Bush has never claimed this or even spoken of it; an out and out blatant lie amongst many subtle lies.
Yes. and don't forget born-again" Jimmah.
hmmm
Over a quarter-century ...the Republican democratic Party has slowly become the vehicle of all three interests taken over by the socialists
This guy's thought processes - are so twisted it's a wonder he doesn't spin off into oblivion. This article is simply a spiel - no other word for it. (Spiel: "an irritatingly long or predictably glib speech, for example, a rambling apology or a prepared sales patter." Encarta)
Utterly ridiculous. God has no stake in the Republican party. He has, however, soundly condemned the Democrat agenda.
uuuhhhhhhhhmmm... because God was ABANDONED and SHUNNED by the RATS???
When the Democratic Party was taken over by secularists, Christians sought a party that would not allow Christianity to be driven from the public square.
Do you mean Kevin or Howard ?
HAR!! These scumbag liberals are STILL beside themselves that Dubya is President.
Ich bin ein Jesuslander...
I'm no fan of the Republicans or George Bush but this guy is out to lunch. There are so many legitimate issues that conservatives can use to criticize Bush and the Republicans; why does this bozo need to go off into fantasy land???
Phillips is guilty of deliberate fear mongering. If we can't beat the Republicans on the issues, we'll make sure we scare secular Americans into thinking Christians are taking over the overnment. If I went to a public meeting and discovered that all the people there happened to be Christians, would it be a Christian meeting or would it just be a public meeting that only Christians decided to attend?
overnment=government
The fact that the Democrat "base" is comprised of athiests, condom-throwers, Hollywood drunks, abortion enthusiasts, and Boy Scout-hating feminists has nothing to do with attraction to the GOP by decent, honest, traditional American families. Nothing at all.
Wilson was not a minister; he was a history professor (PhD in history). He was head of Princeton at one time. His father was a minister, but Woodrow Wilson did not study for the ministry and was never one, himself.
If this guy thinks the Republicans are God's own party, what is he going to say when the Army of the Lord shows up, and prepares the Throne for Christ's permanent return to Earth. Not by natural or violent means, but by simply overwhelming the inhabinabts of this world with the Spirit of love, joy, peace, perfect health, and immortality, in absolute purpose, authority, and supernatural power.
I remember the moving sermon Mrs. Clinton gave us recently.
**I think the democrat party did it by default when they evicted god from the discussion as a thought crime and then embraced homosexual based marriage, quota queens, abortion on whim, open boarders and soak the taxpayer politics.**
The liberals "progressed" to become Marxists.
Between the two major parties...basically by default.
It's a silly discussion, anyway. As I've said before, God is neither Democrat nor Republican. He's a royalist. What else could He be?
Well said.
I'm not religious myself, but I welcome the "Religious Right" into the party. And I wonder why "Religious Right" has become almost a pejorative, whereas the term "Religious Left" is never seen, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Bishop Spong, et al. notwithstanding.
I have always thought of the two sides as "the religious right" and "the godless left".
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
Wilson was indeed a nominal minister. That was not his primary, or even his secondary calling. He was a Ph.D., full professor and president of Princeton University at the time of his election in 1912. Your post discloses a great deal by saying too little.
I agree and not just drugs. The dems are correct when they talk about personal freedom in terms of privacy. The big daddy GOP does want to invade people's privacy and tell folks what values they should hold. There is a parental sense in so many "social" conservatives and they don't care how big government gets in order to achieve their agenda.
Kevin Phillips: Are you drunk, or are your fingers just badly swollen?
That is not quite correct. The Republican president, James Garfield, was a Christian Church minister.
At the risk of actually getting some significant empirical data that verifies the author's premise, before knee-jerking negative response that is comforting to one's ideological orientation, posters here might consider reading the book.
At the risk of actually getting some significant empirical data that verifies the author's premise, before knee-jerking negative response that is comforting to one's ideological orientation, posters here might consider reading the book.
I see no evidence of the GOP being guided by a theoconservative agenda.
It isn't. The trick -- if you want to call it that -- is allowing some people to believe that it is.
This guy is recycling the old myths about Christians hating the environment, etc.
They just don't get it. Evangelicals are split on many issues, from the environment to labor relations to social entitlements, we run the gamut of beliefs.
One thing drove the white evangelical Christians into the arms of the Republican Party: the Sexual Revolution, and specifically abortion.
And if the Democrats don't watch it, they're going to lose black evangelicals over the issue of gay marriage.
Let the liberals flap their jaws about Christians wanting to kill the environment, enslave women, or whatever. They're in denial. It's abortion, stupid. 35,000,000 dead babies trump just about every other concern.
Well said. This is tripe.
You make a HUGE basic error. Those who tell us what we can and cannot do are the misnamed "liberals." A "conservative" won't mind much if you tell an off-color joke, light up a smoke, or enjoy a nice juicy steak. A "liberal," however, will complain to management. Far too many people don't realize conservatives are now the classic liberals (please note tagline).
I know he was a professor, but I would have sworn he was a minister too. Was it just his father?
Either way, the guy did have the "God Complex" that they claim Bush does.
I know he was a professor,but I would have sworn I read he was a minister as well.
Anyhow, it's actually secondary to the point. There isn't much debate that he had the same "God Complex" that they accuse Bush of having. He told a man once that "No power on earth" could have stopped him from becoming President because God wanted it, and to him, that essentially meant whatever he wanted to do was what God wanted him to do.
Yes, I have noticed how muted, say, Howard Dean and Teddy Kennedy are. I've wondered why they shut up and now I know.
No leading world power in modern memory has become a captive of the sort of biblical inerrancy that dismisses modern knowledge and science.
Aside from the ignorance reflected by this description of evangelicals (the vast majority of whom see science as a continuing revelation of the magnificence of God's creation and many of whom are engineers and scientists), what is remarkable about this statement is that it is almost ahistorical. Read almost anything written by important public figures in the 19th and early 20th century (the US was a world power then). The worldview was emphatically biblical.
Then, the notion that women should abort their children with the same seriousness as doing the laundry was unthinkable, the idea that divorce was something to encourage to help women's 'personal growth' and that homosexuals should be a privileged (and hugely public) political class were so far out that there is no record I am aware of that anyone advocated these ideas.
What is odd-man-out historically is present times and our enforced secularism the left brought into the public square since the socialist takeover in the 30's and 40's (together with the new left's goofy ideas about people of color, imperialism pc and so on). We live in a time in which the historically abnormal is regarded as the historic norm and in which decadence is celebrated as virtue.
The last parallel was in the early 17th century, when the papacy, with the agreement of inquisitional Spain, disciplined the astronomer Galileo for saying that the sun, not the Earth, was the center of our solar system.
Right. W has recently jailed hundreds of scientists for disagreeing with him.
Phillips has gone completely over to the dark side. His idea of a Republican majority was based on the party headed by Richard Nixon--who brought us the Endangered Species Act, wage and price controls, and the EPA--socialism lite.
Reagan changed all that and built a completely different majority based on a different coalition and it seems that Phillips has never forgiven him. Our current national party is trying to go back to the Nixon's Socialism Lite (and the Dems are pushing the hard stuff) but the base has changed. And Phillips naturally resents that pushback against the obviously great ideas embodied in Socialism Lite. And, horror of horrors, some of the pushback is based on religious principles.
The idea that W or most evangelical are looking to bring about Armageddon by the war in Iraq is so silly that it needs no refutation--it is just one of the left's talking points de jour, dutifully repeated by Mr. Phillips.
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