I have a vision for America: God formed this nation--his sovereignty ordained its existence--and he wants it back.
America is a Christian nation. Its heritage is comprised of the stories of people of faith, its legal code founded in Holy Scripture, its moral fabric informed by the collective conscience of a generation of God-fearing men. A veritable city on a hill, as the great Ronald Reagan put it, our country is a favorite son of the Creator himself, reminiscent of the people of Israel some 6000 years hence.
...let's be honest. Nobody really believes in freedom anymore. I simply fight to replace one form of tyranny with another. Depose the evil dictator and enthrone a benevolent one. As a Christian nation, America would serve, yes, but it would serve the one true living God. It would proceed in that singular confidence of obedience and that unique assurance of righteousness.
We need God's light to shine on our nation again. To get there, I advocate the following measures:
Use our majority power. What can 50 million American Christians accomplish through a representative government? Absolutely anything we want to. We ought to take a lesson from the Islamic citizens of Western European nations, who move in, settle down, reproduce, outnumber, and change the law to suit themselves. Or consider Iraq: in their first real national election, the Shii majority voted themselves to power and shaped the founding documents to reflect their ideals. Did you know that the National Association of Evangelicals is the third largest organization in America, after the Democratic and Republican parties? The latent power of that many people is staggering. We have a responsibility to connect with, energize, and mobilize the sleeping giant that is the American church.
Change the law. So what should these millions be about the business of? First, legislation. We have majorities capable of electing our own kind in the lion share of the nation's congressional districts, if we can just mobilize them. Once elected, our lawmakers will use America's celebrated political process to affect manifest change in our civil code. God is the author of all good and just law, and it follows that His Holy Word should drive legislation. The Bible's moral injunctions are there for good reason--they have underpinned effective societies for centuries--and the law of our land needs to reflect them.
Certainly, political lightning-rod issues like abortion and homosexuality will be the first to be put in order. That citizens of this nation under God be permitted to continue in such heinous crimes against virtue is anathema, and it obviously will not continue. But there is so much more than that to be done. To think that adultery--one of God's Ten Commandments!--continues rampant and unpunished is an affront to national morality. Extra-marital sex will land you in jail. And, naturally, so will premarital sex. Fornication infects and then corrodes a civilization, and it must be stopped. Only the power of the state, exercised by responsible, upstanding participants in the political process, can end this blight. Sodomy laws will be enforced, vices will be re-outlawed (what a crafty ploy of Satan to overturn prohibition), and your kids will be safely escorted to the county jail before they are allowed to continue their destructive sexually explorative behaviors. Hallelujah!
Change the courts. Once the legislature is re-aligned with the true Founder's intent, we will be in position to start changing the courts. Christian executives will appoint Christian jurors, and Christian legislators will confirm them. Then, whatever scraps of legal nonconformity remain will be tidied up by courts after God's own heart. And, of course, the courts will remain a bulwark against whatever futile legal challenges may arise.
Crush all opposition. With the government restored to alignment with the Giver of life, we will be in position finally to do away with those who oppose the will of God. Organized evildoers will, naturally, be given the opportunity to repent. Should the likes of the many pornographers, the ACLU, and this pernicious paper choose not to accept the gracious gift of redemption, they will simply never be heard from again. Think Gulag.
Rewrite school curriculum. Every morning in the classroom, compulsory reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance--replete with expanded language developing and strengthening our commitment to living out our great nation's destiny under God--will be followed by the Ten Commandments and John 3:16. Bible study classes will be mandatory. History will be re-re-written to tell the true story of our nation's godly heritage.
Establish religious police. A sort of righteous Gestapo will be necessary, of course, to maintain national purity. Rest easy, parents: these well-trained servants of the King will discreetly follow your teenagers on prom night, so as to ensure there never even approaches a chastity infraction. This moral constabulary will likely find it most effective in deterring immorality to institute public corporal punishment. So, you womanizers, liars, and coveters, reform your iniquitous ways or expect to face judgment day. One usually has to be flogged in the public square only once to embrace the law's teaching value.
Create institutions for re-education. For their own reformation, and to maintain civil purity, such egregious offenders as homosexuals will be institutionalized. There they will be re-educated, evangelized, and kept from harming themselves and others.
There, I said it. All the sly, cunning liberal minds who have caught on to our surreptitious designs were right. We want a theocracy. Just close your eyes and picture the utopia.
There's more to read at the link above, but that's the gist of it.
I'm hoping that this was satire...someone's idea of a cute joke. Because if that's real...yikes. Welcome back to the era of SS Troopers, goose-step marching, "Sieg Heil," bad haircuts and even worse moustaches.
Tags: [New Life Church], [New Life Church's plan for America], [fundamentalistic Christians], [fundies in any religion give other religious people a bad name], [Rob Brendle], [National Association of Evangelicals], [National Association of Evangelicals = Nazi Germany]
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