Reply #10: I distinctly remember this being discussed here [View All]

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that some homeless shelters- esp. those run by certain christian (sic) organizations- required prayer before food. If one opted out- one didn't get fed.

These people are frighteningly dangerous, and will not ever change their minds. Their attitude is set in stone, and only several years if not decades of clinical therapy combined with lengthy and very costly deprogramming techniques will ever help them. They do not want to be helped, because they are saved.

They only want to save the rest of us, but to do that, they 'know' they will have to force us. They cannot- cannot in any way- accept any other faith as valid. This is because all other faiths are 'of the devil' and, thus, worthy of eliminating.

Talking to them will not help. They will not listen to reason. You, in their minds, are tempting them, and their tightly-held religion states very clearly that temptation is 'of the devil' and must be eliminated, not merely avoided.

The Dominionist types are, as I said, frighteningly dangerous. They are building a quiverful (search DU for more on that movement; I lost my donor status a couple nights ago so I can't search for the link- yet). There are more of them than you would be willing to believe exist, because they know were their view to be made public they would quickly be shouted down and discarded. To be clear: they are very, very smart about this. They are quiet. Their faith- such as it is- has had a couple thousand years to perfect the myriad ways a mind can become warped into believing anything at all. Conspiracy? Dominionism is the ultimate religious conspiracy against the public, and trust me, they see it in that exact way.

Unfortunately, they willingly accept that they will have to kill some unbelievers to achieve their ultimate goal: the institution of biblical (sic) rule on Earth, Mosaic law, and the rest of what's posted above this post. These people do not believe in the concept of secular, religiously-neutral democracy; they see our system as a rejection of 'God's will' and will do what they see as needful to rectify that situation.

Everything I've ever learned about Dominionism (also known as 'Christian Reconstructionism') frankly scares the shit out of me. It is against anything and everything this nation was founded upon, and the proponents of this mad idea very plainly do not care: they want their religion to rule, the christian Taliban in truth- and once they start they will not stop.

They haven't started yet. Hopefully, we can now build a framework that will deny them the opportunity to do so.

ed.: slight clarification