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Crony Christianity: Where Christian Organizations Are Funded by Government
American Thinker ^ | 10/13/2014 | Lee Cary

Posted on 10/13/2014 10:46:11 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Crony Christianity challenges the separation of Church and State.

Crony Christianity is the collaborative arrangement between government and Christian faith-based organizations whereby government funds Christian organizations to deliver goods and services that advance the political agenda of the government. Any government.

The crisis surrounding the flood of unaccompanied alien children into the U.S. has promoted crony Christianity.

It is a variation of the spider’s web of similar arrangements, spun between businesses and government, that we call crony capitalism.

The Players

The five players in crony Christianity are:

(1) the bureaucrats who run ecclesiastically-related organizations;

(2) the church laity aligned with the various denominations that underwrite those organizations, in-part or in-full;

(3) officials within government agencies that grant money;

(4) tax-payers who fund government grants; and

(5) the clients who receive aid from the faith-based organizations that operate with government funding.

The Pathway to Crisis

For reasons that remain unclear and widely debated, the Obama Administration has choreographed the influx of tens of thousands of “unaccompanied alien children” (this term typed into TAGGS - Tracking Accountability in Government Grants System – accesses the list of grant recipients) into the U.S. from several Central American countries.

The physical and mental ordeal that the children encountered in their trek to America is a stain on those who encourage and facilitate the migration – on all the sides, of all the borders, involved.

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TOPICS: Moral Issues; Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: cronychristianity; cronyism; government

1 posted on 10/13/2014 10:46:12 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Putin’s influence over the Russian (i.e., Putin) Theocracy/Orthodox Church also comes to mind.


2 posted on 10/13/2014 10:48:55 AM PDT by elhombrelibre (Against Obama. Against Putin. Pro-freedom. Pro-US Constitution.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The Socialists Liberals only Support Seprateion of Church and State if it punishes their enemies...

They have no qualms supporting the Liberal Churches/ liberal treligious organisations....

And the RINO class are happy to eat the expelled vomit of this unholly alliance of the rock band jesus churches and big government....

The Dog returns to it’s Vomit and the Sow returns to her mire...

And the RINOs are the fools who put their bandaged hand back into the fire...


3 posted on 10/13/2014 10:51:33 AM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: SeekAndFind

Finally. Someone is waking up.


4 posted on 10/13/2014 10:52:50 AM PDT by HMS Surprise (Chris Christie can STILL go straight to hell.)
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To: GraceG

And Catholic social services. They pimp themselves out for every foreign third world into America cause they can get the government cash for. They are huge in this business.


5 posted on 10/13/2014 11:03:21 AM PDT by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: DesertRhino

[ And Catholic social services. They pimp themselves out for every foreign third world into America cause they can get the government cash for. They are huge in this business. ]

And for this money the scratch the back of government by lobbying for illegal alien friendly groups from the pupit.

It is sickening.. and the government can censor the churches that don’t fall in line by using the 501c3 as part carrrot, part stick to whip them into their line...


6 posted on 10/13/2014 11:06:25 AM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: SeekAndFind
Crony Christianity is the collaborative arrangement between government and Christian faith-based organizations whereby government funds Christian organizations to deliver goods and services that advance the political agenda of the government. Any government. The crisis surrounding the flood of unaccompanied alien children into the U.S. has promoted crony Christianity.

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7 posted on 10/13/2014 11:07:15 AM PDT by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: SeekAndFind

The very first sentence presumes a lie. And FReepers are taking this article seriously?

There is NO “separation of church and state,” as commonly stated.

Christians should be free to participate in government.


8 posted on 10/13/2014 12:56:43 PM PDT by Theo (May Christ be exalted above all.)
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