Christians "rising up" aiming to control United States, enforce Christian values

On Sunday, Oct. 12, conservative Christian groups — like the American Family Association (AFA), the Family Research Council (FRC) and other fringe groups — will meet in Washington, D.C. to outline a “national strategic plan that will bear fruit within 30 days and will greatly impact the critical midterm elections.”

The simulcast event, called iPledge Sunday, will feature well-known culture warriors like David Barton, the Benham brothers, Tony Perkins and Mat Staver.

Throughout the month, organizers have been advertising the event with web videos, which warn that “things are going from bad to worse in our nation and abroad.”

“Christians are being beheaded in the Middle East, Israel is being attacked from all sides,” the video says. “And back home, many of our religious freedoms are under severe legal restriction.”

The video asks for voters to take a stand against the “wicked” and against the “evildoers.”

Some of those legal restrictions include the Bible being “banished from our public schools and our public squares,” according to a description that’s included with the video.

And the iPledge Sunday website also points to abortion, court decisions on same-sex marriage, Common Core curriculum in the schools, and rules against pastors politicking from the pulpit.

“The bottom line: If the Church will rise up and vote, we can elect government leaders who will defend the unborn and the persecuted, support freedom of conscience and speech, limit the role of the federal government in education, and appoint judges who support traditional marriage,” the website warns. “The choice is ours.”

Original Quill wrote:

Raggamuffin wrote:

You could say that about a lot of groups who want change though. I don't see why people are obsessing about these particular ones.

There is a future and there is a past.  Obsessing about the past is a waste of time.

Raggamuffin wrote:

Original Quill wrote:

There is a future and there is a past.  Obsessing about the past is a waste of time.

You call it the past, they call it the future.

Original Quill wrote:

Raggamuffin wrote:

You call it the past, they call it the future.

You need to read my book, Why Republicans Lie.

Time moves from right to left, and you can't go back.

Raggamuffin wrote:

Original Quill wrote:

You need to read my book, Why Republicans Lie.

Time moves from right to left, and you can't go back.

Who made that law?

Raggamuffin wrote:............................

I'm not saying that black people and gay people shouldn't have the same rights, I'm just saying that religious people are also entitled to voice their complaints.

Lone Wolf wrote:

Raggamuffin wrote:............................

I'm not saying that black people and gay people shouldn't have the same rights, I'm just saying that religious people are also entitled to voice their complaints.

THESE extremist militant nutjobs that you like to refer to as "religious people" are in fact the looney toon fringe dwellers that can be found in all religions ~ much the same as DVO and her scam-peddling hubby...

THEY are not your typical mainstream religious folk but only a small percentage ~ probably less than 2% of the total 'Christian' population in the US, and maybe only half that in Britain or Oz..

HOWEVER, they do like to make lots of noise and claim to be much larger than the reality. These militant "Christian" sects also have incestuous and creepy links to the likes of other fringe dwellers in similar loopy groups such as the "Tea Party", NRA, KKK, the Daughters of the Mayflower, etc.

AND, however you may like to rewrite and misrepresent the symbol of a burning cross, Raggs', it will forever remain the symbol of the KKK in America..    

Original Quill wrote:The American Family Association (AFA), the Family Research Council (FRC) and "other fringe groups" identifies most of those who are most anti-American.  They include those who maintain a…..

War on Women
War on Blacks
War on gays
War on Democracy
War against the US Constitution
War on Poor
War on Middle Class
War on Muslims
War on our Earth
And perhaps most unforgivable off all,
The War against Truth.

Lurker wrote:I think this thread proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that religion is the root of all evil in the whole world. (and Universe)

Original Quill wrote:

Raggamuffin wrote:

You could say that about a lot of groups who want change though. I don't see why people are obsessing about these particular ones.

There is a future and there is a past.  Obsessing about the past is a waste of time.

Raggamuffin wrote:

Original Quill wrote:

There is a future and there is a past.  Obsessing about the past is a waste of time.

I'd forgotten you'd said that. Why do you obsess about the past when it comes to issues like slavery then?

Gutenberg College wrote:[H]istory does matter. It has been said that he who controls the past controls the future. Our view of history shapes the way we view the present, and therefore it dictates what answers we offer for existing problems.

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The past speaks in a voice audible to those who want to hear and to listen attentively. Establishing what really happened at a given point in history is much like establishing the guilt or innocence of an accused criminal in a courtroom trial. Evidence is presented and witnesses testify. Taken as a whole, the evidence is full of inconsistencies and inexplicable gaps, and so a sorting process begins. Some witnesses are suspected of being liars; their testimony is handled with suspicion. Some apparent contradictions are found to be resolvable. The gaps are filled with plausible conjecture. As this sorting process continues, a coherent picture begins to emerge. That emerging picture, however, will be one of two very different kinds. If in the course of this sorting procedure we have held tightly to our preconceived notions, the final picture will be a reaffirmation of those prejudices. If, however, we have been willing to jettison beliefs that did not seem to have adequate factual support, we may have our initial suspicions rejected.