The 'christian' Right's Founder and Goals

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"Rushdoony’s writings are the source of many of the core ideas of the New Christian Right, a voting bloc whose unforeseen arrival in American politics in 1980 caught the media by surprise. This bloc voted overwhelmingly for Ronald Reagan. Two weeks after Reagan was inaugurated, Newsweek (Feb. 2, 1981) accurately but very briefly identified Rushdoony’s Chalcedon Foundation as the think tank of the Religious Right. But the mainstream media did not take the hint. They never did figure out where these ideas were coming from. Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson were on television, and the media’s intellectuals, such as they are, believe that television is the source of world transformation. Rushdoony in 1981 was almost unknown outside of the leadership of New Right/New Christian Right circles."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north33.html

"Moreover, an employer has aproperty rights to prefer whom he will in
terms of "color" creed, race or national origin."
R.J. Rushdoony, The Institutes of Biblical Law (Nutley, NJ: Craig Press, 1973),
p. 509/510

"Not surprisingly, in Los Angeles on May 27, 1979, a larger number of voters
voted for Thomas Bradley, a colored candidate, because it was the "in thing to
do.""
R.J. Rushdoony, The Institutes of Biblical Law (Nutley, NJ: Craig Press, 1973),
p. 330

"The burden of the law is thus against inter-religious, inter-racial, and inter-
cultural marriages, in that they normally go against the very community which
marriage is designed to establish.
Unequal yoking means more than marriage. In society at large it means the
enforced integration of various elements which are not congenial. Unequal
yoking is in no realm productive of harmony; rather, it aggravates the
differences and delays the growth of the different elements toward a Christian
harmony and association."
R.J. Rushdoony, The Institutes of Biblical Law (Nutley, NJ: Craig Press, 1973),
p. 257.

"Non-Christian thought, when orientated to the future, faces a double penalty.
First, it is past bound. The "civil rights" revolution, for example, has only
the vaguest sense of the burdens of responsibility, which any person thinking
in terms of reality and the future needs to have. Instead, the "civil rights"
revolutionists speak endlessly of past evils, not merely real or imagined evils
of their own experiencing, but all evils which they believe their ancestors
suffered. Similarly, some labor union men, and American Indians, dwell
endlessly on past history rather than present reality. This inability to live
in the present means a radical incapacity for coping with the future."
R.J. Rushdoony, The Institutes of Biblical Law (Nutley, NJ: Craig Press, 1973),
p. 157

"The chuch today has fallen prey to the heresy of democracy."
R.J. Rushdoony, The Institutes of Biblical Law (Nutley, NJ: Craig Press, 1973), p. 747.

(Christian fundamentalists must) take dominion over the US...(abolish democracy) which is actually heresy...(establish a theocratic republic) under biblical law...True to the letter of Old Testament law, homosexuals, adulterers, blasphemers, astrologers, (and for such offenses as) abortion, heresy, apostasy...will be executed."
-Rousas John Rushdoony, President, Chalcedon Foundation, in Christianity Today, Democracy as Heresy, February 20, 1987.
http://www.sjcdc.org/theocracy.html

http://www.politicalamazon.com/cr-quotes.html

People, the 'christian' Right IS Rushdoony.

[caitlyn]

1. Hero of the dominionists

Rushdoony is the hero, the spiritual and political guide, if you prefer, of dominionists, those in the religious right who believe that Christians should have dominion over the U.S. and that this country should be a Christian theocracy.

These are the sort of views that lead to the kind of dystopian society Margaret Atwood wrote about in "The Handmaids Tail".

People have to wake up and realize that the so-called Christian conservatives are the greatest threat to American freedom out there today... and another one of their own is about to end up on the Supreme Court. Oh, and don't think you're safe if you call yourself a Christian unless you are precisely the right sort of Christian.

[mrmonarch]

2. Armageddon and the return of Christ

Speaking of goals of the Christian Right, you may want to read this recent post on the topic.

[Hubert Flottz]

3. Is Jerry Falwell a liar? Do you remember Jerry's Clinton tapes?

Is Jerry Falwell a liar?

For over 25 years the Rev. Jerry Falwell has been spewing forth his
"gospel" of misinformation and vindictiveness over the radio and TV
airwaves. His latest venture in his chosen occupation of TV huckster
(If I take two Vegematics, will you throw in a set of Ginsu knives?)
is a vitriolic attack on President and Mrs. Clinton. It is done through an hour-long informercial in which he hustles two video tapes accusing the President of a variety of crimes.

While many have accused Falwell of stretching the truth or outright
lies, a confrontation occurred ten years ago that set in motion a
lawsuit which would prove in two courts of law that Jerry Falwell
is not a man of his word.

It was Friday, July 13, 1984. Jerry Falwell, who was riding high as
the head of the Moral Majority, appeared in person on a live talk
show, "Look Who's Talking," produced by Sacramento's KCRA-TV. I was
in the studio audience.

During a broadcast of the "Old Time Gospel Hour" on March 11, 1984,
Falwell spoke about the predominantly gay Metropolitan Community Church, of which I am a former minister:

http://www.skepticfiles.org/fw/falwell.htm


Religious right and Clinton
Christian Century, July 13, 1994

PRESIDENT CLINTON has joined the war of words between his administration and religion-based conservative activists, comparing evangelist Jerry Falwell with the money-changers Jesus threw out of the temple. Clinton's remarks, made in a June 24 interview with a St. Louis radio station talk show and reported by the Associated Press, were apparently prompted by Falwell's efforts to use as a fund-raising tool videotapes attacking Clinton's morality.

The Falwell tape, being sold for $43 on his television program The Old. Time Gospel Hour, makes a number of undocumented assertions, including the claim that Clinton ordered the murder of "countless people." It also accuses First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton of sexual improprieties. Falwell's tapes are "scurrilotts," Clinton said. "Remember, Jesus threw the money-changers out of the temple. He didn't try to take over the job of the money-changers."

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1058/is_n21_v111/ai_15650592

NO...THEY(the Reich wingers) "WOULDN'T DO ANYTHING TO UNDERMINE THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES!" Would they?

Falwell, Robertson Stoop
to New All Time Low


JERRY FALWELL: And, I know that I'll hear from them for this. But, throwing God out successfully with the help of the federal court system, throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools. The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad. I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way - all of them who have tried to secularize America - I point the finger in their face and say "you helped this happen."

PAT ROBERTSON: Well, I totally concur, and the problem is we have adopted that agenda at the highest levels of our government. And so we're responsible as a free society for what the top people do. And, the top people, of course, is the court system.

JERRY FALWELL: Pat, did you notice yesterday the ACLU, and all the Christ-haters, People For the American Way, NOW, etc. were totally disregarded by the Democrats and the Republicans in both houses of Congress as they went out on the steps and called out on to God in prayer and sang "God Bless America" and said "let the ACLU be hanged"? In other words, when the nation is on its knees, the only normal and natural and spiritual thing to do is what we ought to be doing all the time - calling upon God.

PAT ROBERTSON: Amen.

http://www.newyorkslime.com/falwell-blame.html

The Falwell connection

A conservative political organization with ties to the Rev. Jerry Falwell covertly paid more than $200,000 to individuals who made damaging allegations about President Clinton's personal conduct, Salon has learned.

The money was paid out over a three-year period, between l994 and l996, by Citizens for Honest Government, headquartered in Orange County, Calif. The payments are detailed in the organization's confidential accounting ledgers and other internal records, copies of which were obtained by Salon.

The payments and the allegations -- some of which were either fabricated or grossly exaggerated -- were part of a covert and sophisticated political propaganda effort to influence public opinion against President Clinton.

One of the allegations, that Clinton protected an Arkansas-based cocaine-smuggling operation when he was governor of that state, spread from local talk radio shows to propaganda videos to the mainstream media, and eventually prompted an exhaustive, multimillion-dollar investigation by the House Banking Committee in 1994. The investigation concluded Clinton had nothing to do with the drug operation.

http://www.salon.com/news/1998/03/cov_11news.html

Jerry and the Reich Wing Conspirators "swiftboated" Clinton from day one!

[Hubert Flottz]

4. Recommended!

These Fools are MAD DAWG CRAZY!

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5. Much of the money they used in 1980 came from Sun Myung Moon

It was Moon's money and organization that got the Christian Right going as a political movement, and supports it to this day.



http://www.iapprovethismessiah.com/

[cally]

6. These folks are crazy

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