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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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.
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?
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