Trading on his military career, Flynn is the 'tip of the spear' in explicitly pushing all things American right wing religious extremist looney in this 'most Christian of nations.' He is marching lock step with such as Tucker Carlson and CPAC in their adulation of Hungary and to a lesser degree of Poland, those most Catholic of nations w…
Trading on his military career, Flynn is the 'tip of the spear' in explicitly pushing all things American right wing religious extremist looney in this 'most Christian of nations.' He is marching lock step with such as Tucker Carlson and CPAC in their adulation of Hungary and to a lesser degree of Poland, those most Catholic of nations where white supremacy and state religion hold sway in the populist base and the upper echelons of their increasingly authoritarian governments - and where an independent judiciary exists only as a fiction of government propaganda.
The Founders introduced God, as a character in the narrative of our national genesis, only to give blessing to their overthrow of the Divine Right of Kings and to authorize their revolutionary call for radical equality. Then they left God out our agreed legal framework and explicitly shut religion out of government - to preserve citizens from the imposition of faith based prejudices and practices, and to preserve government proceedings from the irrational habits of mind of religious belief. They gave us a Constitution not a creed.
Through the machinations of such players as Federalist Society honcho and Opus Dei acolyte Leonard Leo, our judiciary is entangled and our civil rights are being strangled in a web of right wing religious extremism. What chance have our freedom of religion and freedom from religion before the conservative majority on our most Christian of Supreme Courts?
lin, I spent the 90's in Ireland. One thing I observed was that the labels "Catholic" and "Protestant" were coopted by the politics and became largely cultural code names and short hand for discrimination. I think something similar of the term "Christianity" in our U.S. society. Our founders were Deists, perhaps "godly" men, but for purposes of the Constitution, in a mostly civil religion sense. Your point about "freedom from" and "freedom of" religion being at risk is important, I think. The Opus Dei, Federalist crew live in a pocket of extremism they have veneered with the label "Christian" but which actually has precious little to do with it. The term has been coopted and used to discriminate against others deemed unsuitable. Thank you!
Trading on his military career, Flynn is the 'tip of the spear' in explicitly pushing all things American right wing religious extremist looney in this 'most Christian of nations.' He is marching lock step with such as Tucker Carlson and CPAC in their adulation of Hungary and to a lesser degree of Poland, those most Catholic of nations where white supremacy and state religion hold sway in the populist base and the upper echelons of their increasingly authoritarian governments - and where an independent judiciary exists only as a fiction of government propaganda.
The Founders introduced God, as a character in the narrative of our national genesis, only to give blessing to their overthrow of the Divine Right of Kings and to authorize their revolutionary call for radical equality. Then they left God out our agreed legal framework and explicitly shut religion out of government - to preserve citizens from the imposition of faith based prejudices and practices, and to preserve government proceedings from the irrational habits of mind of religious belief. They gave us a Constitution not a creed.
Through the machinations of such players as Federalist Society honcho and Opus Dei acolyte Leonard Leo, our judiciary is entangled and our civil rights are being strangled in a web of right wing religious extremism. What chance have our freedom of religion and freedom from religion before the conservative majority on our most Christian of Supreme Courts?
lin, I spent the 90's in Ireland. One thing I observed was that the labels "Catholic" and "Protestant" were coopted by the politics and became largely cultural code names and short hand for discrimination. I think something similar of the term "Christianity" in our U.S. society. Our founders were Deists, perhaps "godly" men, but for purposes of the Constitution, in a mostly civil religion sense. Your point about "freedom from" and "freedom of" religion being at risk is important, I think. The Opus Dei, Federalist crew live in a pocket of extremism they have veneered with the label "Christian" but which actually has precious little to do with it. The term has been coopted and used to discriminate against others deemed unsuitable. Thank you!