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Dominionist Christianity is a fairly new thing and they have had far more political success than their numbers or the religious makeup of the country should allow. If America has an equivalent to the Taliban it's these people and they worry me. The old saying that when Fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag a carrying the bible applies directly to them, their mega-churches are stealing away more conventional Christians to a new philosophy where power and wealth are a direct measure of God's love for you, sickening.Not when there are powerful groups who hold the bible above the constitution and it's case law as a guide to governance. These people do not give a damn about the constitution if it stands in the way of their dominionist dreams of an American theocracy. Perhaps religion does have a place in politics but some people want it to be the only thing in politics. How do you separate those who are run of the mill live-and-let-live Christians from the truly dangerous Christian nationalists with their PACs and wealthy donors bent on domination?Disagree.I was raised in a strict southern Baptist home and I never miss an opportunity to point out how modern political Christianity is an abomination and a danger to liberty. I do not attack anyone's personal faith but they need to keep that shit to themselves in the arena of politics.Perhaps you can create an Atheist Party... then you would not be on the outside, looking in.Thanks for your "Christian" tolerance. Personally, I like to know the professed religious makeup of the assholes who govern me.
As to my "Christian tolerance", at best, I'm a Christian-leaning Agnostic (Doubting Thomas), but my ethnic and cultural and spiritual heritage is European Christian in nature, and I have zero "tolerance" for little wankers who look for any excuse to throw rocks at Christians.
Jesus of Nazareth preached the turning of the other cheek... personally, I fall short of that lofty ideal, and refuse to turn the other cheek, when my heritage is under assault by dimwitted shit-stirrers who phukk with Christians just for the fun of it.
Ultimately, politics is the art of relationships, on a collective scale.
Religion is an integral part of the collective psyche - part of how we relate to each other - and cannot be separated within the domain of Politics.
What we do need to do is to ensure a continued practical and reasonable separation of Church and State within the confines of our government and laws.
But Religion continues to have a very valid place in American Politics.
They haven't done established a theocracy for over 200 years, despite national shared faith falling to lower levels than it ever has been. What makes you think they'll do it now?