For those (and you know who you are!) who might opine that atheists should just shut up, or who might bring up the old canard that goes something like, “If you don’t believe in God, why are you so afraid of him?”, I offer, in reply, this article by Frank Schaeffer:
As a former Religious Right leader, who was raised (and home-schooled by my Evangelical-leader parents, Francis and Edith Schaeffer) in the movement, let me explain just why the ordinary rules of decency don’t apply to the right these days.
He goes on to talk about the home schooling and private Christian schooling movements that took off in the 50s:
In the early 1970s the evangelicals like my late father and James Dobson decided that the our society had fallen so far “away from God” and so far from “America’s Christian history” that it was time to metaphorically decamp to not just another country but to another planet:. In other words virtually unnoticed by the media and mainstream political operatives, a big chunk of American society seceded from the union in all but name.
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Hating the USA became next to godliness.
He quotes evangelical leaders to reveal a theocratic agenda – non-Christians shouldn’t be allowed to vote in this supposed “covenanted Christian nation”, and “The Christian goal for the world is the universal development of Biblical theocratic republics, in which every area of life is redeemed and placed under the Lordship of Jesus Christ and the rule of God’s law.”
Whether the world wants it or not, one would assume, and even if said goal has to be achieved at gunpoint.
The fact of the matter is we now know what the experiment in raising children outside of the American mainstream means. It means that there’s a whole subculture within American culture that mistrusts facts precisely because they are facts. They glory an alternative view of not just politics but of reality.
Those damned facts must be tools of Satan, because they’re always rearing their ugly heads to contradict our faith.
Most chilling is Schaeffer’s insistence that this movement, though it has suffered a tremendous loss of political power in the last few years, is still going strong and working tirelessly to incrementally, gradually influence every aspect of our society.
There’s no arguing with such people and no winning against them using mere elections. They are not playing by American rules. Their idea of winning is not fair elections but Armageddon.
Got that? When we hell-bound militant godless heathen speak up about why we’re hell-bound militant godless heathen, it’s these people – and often their more moderate enablers – we’re railing against.