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What the heck is this site goin' on about?

http://theocracywatch.org/

It may not just be because I'm exhausted that I'm not fully catching on.

Is anyone familiar with this site that can put it in layman's terms.

Instead of a billion essays loaded with information?

All I'm getting is that certain religious groups have 'infiltrated' their mindset into the republican party. It this some kind of conspiracy theory against the basics of a republican's sense of morality?

Update:

No, I realize that, but beyond that.

"Why We Should Care

The Covert Kingdom -- Thy Will be done, on earth as it is in Texas

From Joe Bageant www.dissidentvoice.org May 18, 2004

But until progressives come to understand what [fundamentalists] read, hear, are told and deeply believe, we cannot understand American politics, much less be effective. Given fundamentalist Christianity's inherent cultural isolation, it is nearly impossible for most enlightened Americans to imagine, in honest human terms, what fundamentalist Americans believe, let alone understand why we should all care. "

Is the site promoting an understanding of their beliefs?

Or by calling others enlightened saying what a crock of bull the Republican party is?

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  • 8 years ago
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    I don't think anyone desires Pat Robinson as POTUS anymore than we'd accept Farrakhan. Judeo Christian values helped establish this nation, ended slavery and defeated Jim Crow Democrat imposed laws. As you know MLK's real title is Reverend. His doctorate in religious studies. It's not religious domination of the People that is sought. It is the moral good such values imply.

    The fundamentalist theocracy you fear is SUCH a small sliver of either party. One Islamic or Black Liberation. The other Puritanical.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    No religious group has infiltrated my "mind" and they won't either. I know fully well what happens when religion and politics mix; you get theocracies, religious law, like IRAN, the ONLY theocracy in the world under the religion Islam where they had over 500 PUBLIC EXECUTIONS in 2012. You also get far right groups like Christian Identity, the far-right group that spawned TERRORISTS like Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols who did the Oklahoma City Bombing in 1995, killing 165 people mostly young children.

    A FUNDAMENTALIST [you might as well say TERRORIST] is a fundamentalist it doesn't matter what religion they are; you can't reason with any of them. Too many progressives THINK they can REASON with fundamentalists and they DON'T UNDERSTAND the kind of minds they're dealing with yet they waste U.S. tax dollars and the LIVES of SOLDIERS trying to do so.

    Source(s): Republican
  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    "Christian nuts want to make Sharia part of the Constitution, and that site has information supporting that claim."

    Wow, is that stupid and wrong. Christians don't promote Sharia law because it is anti-freedom, and it's not part of our religion, and it's anti-American just like Obama.

    Life isn't always about being gay either, they are a tiny segment of the population and no one should listen to them. And we want stem cell research. Adult stem cells give consistent and good results. Fetal stem cells never yield anything and it is a waste of millions of dollars.

    We can't gave a theocracy. Our Constution forbids it.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    It's pretty clear:

    "This Republican Party of Lincoln has become a party of theocracy."

    U.S. Representative Christopher Shays, R-CT, (New York Times 3/23/05)

    The GOP continues to demand that every American abide by their personal religious beliefs, and force those religious beliefs onto others via legislation.

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  • mark
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    8 years ago

    You don't have to read that website to pick up on that fact. Their presidential candidate was a former Mormon Pastor and the runner up (Santorum) was about as religious as you can be without being in the clergy.

    Many of their policies are driven by religion (RTL, against stem cell, against contraception, anti Gay). The religious right is a force not to be ignored in the GOP.

    And, morality is subjective. While being against abortion can be construed as being moral, ignoring the child that's born is NOT moral. Where's the morality in war, greed, polluting the planet and blowing up abortion clinics.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    It's not a conspiracy theory. The rise of right wing fundamentalist groups has been tracked for years now.

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