The growth of radical Christianity

[IowaStatePhiPsi]

"The Republican Party... reaffirms the United States of America is a Christian Nation..."
--GOP platform document 2002

"God told me to strike at al-Qaida and I struck them, and then He instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East."
--G. W. Bush

"I am convinced that I am acting as the agent of our Creator. I am doing the Lord's work."
-- Adolf Hitler

DeLay said that God is using him to promote "a biblical worldview" in American politcs.
--Washington Post

I am only an instrument , on which the old God Sings his song.
--Goebbels

"(Americans) have no king but Jesus"
--Attorney General John Ashcroft

God is with us.
--Adolf Hitler

The 'wall of seperation between church and state' is a metaphore based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to judging. It should be frankly and explicityl abandoned.
--Supreme court justice William Rehnquist

[PhiPsiRuss]

Originally posted by IowaStatePhiPsi
"The Republican Party... reaffirms the United States of America is a Christian Nation..."
--GOP platform document 2002

"God told me to strike at al-Qaida and I struck them, and then He instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East."
--G. W. Bush

"I am convinced that I am acting as the agent of our Creator. I am doing the Lord's work."
-- Adolf Hitler

DeLay said that God is using him to promote "a biblical worldview" in American politcs.
--Washington Post

I am only an instrument , on which the old God Sings his song.
--Goebbels

"(Americans) have no king but Jesus"
--Attorney General John Ashcroft

God is with us.
--Adolf Hitler

The 'wall of seperation between church and state' is a metaphore based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to judging. It should be frankly and explicityl abandoned.
--Supreme court justice William Rehnquist

If you do a Google search, you can find quotes like that from Jimmy Carter too.

[IowaStatePhiPsi]

Originally posted by PhiPsiRuss
If you do a Google search, you can find quotes like that from Jimmy Carter too.

the difference being Jimmy Carter wasn't a power-hungry warmonger

[KSig RC]

Originally posted by IowaStatePhiPsi
the difference being Jimmy Carter wasn't a power-hungry warmonger

no, he was instead a spineless, deferential farce who looked the other way when confronted with corruption and wrongdoing (while president, he's since done great things). Pick your poison buddy, no one is exempt.

[KSigkid]

Originally posted by IowaStatePhiPsi
the difference being Jimmy Carter wasn't a power-hungry warmonger

And thus was a perfect President and perfect human being? He had his own problems.

[Rudey]

Originally posted by IowaStatePhiPsi
the difference being Jimmy Carter wasn't a power-hungry warmonger

No he was a war criminal. Also please stop talking after you told people on greekchat that America should be bombed. You said you were leaving America...when will this happen?

By the way I like how you quote bits and pieces and not whole speeches...makes you look even better.

-Rudey

[Shortfuse]

Jimmy Carter was a war-criminal? Hmmm, i have something to look up.

[Rudey]

Originally posted by Shortfuse
Jimmy Carter was a war-criminal? Hmmm, i have something to look up.

To me he was.

-Rudey

[FHwku]

i wouldn't go so far as to say the peanut farmer, and nobel peace prize winner was a war criminal.

i definitely would not draw parallels between Republican leadership and the Third Reich.

i will say that religion has taken a more visable role in the discussion of motives. many of my friends suspect that the separation of church and state is more grey since the President has declared his Christianity to be influential in his decision making. but President Bush is not the only one making decions. foreign and domestic policies aren't unilateral decisions made by some over-zealous Christians in a dark room.

many of my friends object to the fact that Christianity has anything to do with the President's decisions. but i like to think that President Bush will draw upon all his knowledge (jokes aside), including what he may have learned from that book about J.C.

"radical christianity" has always been around, like any radical religious sect. i think it seems more prevalent because of the War on Terror. more disturbing to me is hearing the term "Zionist propaganda," from leaders in the Middle East. where i view the war as a war on an oppressive minority, terrorists (and consequentially radical Islaamists,) there are people who see it as a Christian crusade, war on Islaam, and Right-Wing conspiracy to impose religious blah blah rabble rabble....in conclusion, san diemus high school football rules.