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Conservatism and Christianity go hand in hand.

I spent many years working for national conservative candidates and conservative causes, the latter including a stint helping the Nicaraguan Contras.

I consistently vote GOP, but now consider myself a small "L" libertarian. Why?

As a Deist, I find revealed religions such as Christianity to serve no rational purpose except to dupe the masses in a quest for power. Your precious Bible was created from a collection of fables by the Council of Nicea pursuant to the order of Emperor Constantine. Its sole purpose was to consolidate his power by combining Christian sects with paganism, and making the emperor the representative of the mythical Christ on earth. King James took a page or two from Constantine's playbook, and created his own version for political purposes. The church continued to combine pagan fables as a means to convert natives in the Carribean and Latin America. The result includes Christian beliefs that combine Santeria, Umbanda, and Candomble. Sacrificed any chickens or prayed to an orixa lately with your Christian brothers to the south?

By comparison, Machiavelli was an amateur. The funny thing is that dupes like you continue to believe in the emperor's dream 1700 years after he died. What is not funny is the attempt by Christian leaders to assume power via the GOP using the same stupid collection of fables.

No it isn’t. What you have done is take the passage of scripture over time and taken accounts of people twisting Christianity as King James did for their own purposes in order to distort the whole meaning of faith and take those abuses and then denounce the faith as a whole while making ludicrous, unsupported insinuations that people of faith or that endorse faith are planning something that even Machiavelli couldn’t have conceived of and that is nothing short of lunacy and paranoia.

It is this type of malarkey, this shadow boxing with this exaggerated boogieman called the “religious right” that serves as one big distraction and propaganda reel for the true enemy, which is this creeping socialist menace.

I suppose I shouldn’t mention that we are attempting to ride into power to do what: give people freedom by abolishing income tax, ending social security, and so forth. All of which you conceive to be a diabolical scheme to get power when I’m interested in empowering the people as the founding fathers did. I suppose the fact that America is a Christian nation and the bible was the most cited by the founding fathers really must erk you.

You know, as a scientist, I might agree with you, but as one of those people who heard the Holy Spirit and saw the Light and came back, I have to remark that "there are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

As surprising as it may be to you, the fairy tale is true.