[Dialogue] Christocrats

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You have to hand it to Rabbi James Rudin, author of "The Baptizing of  
America." For a man of the cloth, he has a way with sound bites. How can you not  
read a book that labels the fundamentalists "Christocrats"?  
Rudin gets right to the heart of why the extremist religious right is so  
dangerous to democracy. He's direct, lacerating, and convincing. 
"A specter is haunting America," Rudin writes, "and it is not socialism and  
certainly not communism. It is the specter of Americans kneeling in submission 
 to a particular interpretation of a religion that has become an ideology, 
and  all encompassing way of life. It is the specter of our nation ruled by the  
extreme Christian right, who would make of the United States a 'Christian  
Nation' where their version of God's law supersedes all human law -- including  
the Constitution." 
"That more than any other force," Rudin concludes, "in the world today, is  
the immediate and profound threat to our republic." 
Rudin cogently documents how the "Christocrats" want to limit our rights and  
freedoms, imposing a "Baptized" federal government into every aspect of our  
lives. Indeed, he has chapters on how the fundamentalist one-party government 
in  America wants to impose their beliefs on us in our bedrooms, newsrooms, 
board  rooms, work places, hospitals, libraries, courtrooms and wherever else 
they can  become the morality police. 
The confirmation of Samuel Alito is a testament to how successful the  
"Christocrats" have become, because they have plotted to control the umpires of  the 
game -- and have basically succeeded. Alito is the triumphant zenith of  
their growing intrusive, UnConstitutional fundamentalist silent coup. 
BuzzFlash has long opined on the theory that we are in a war between those  
who would foster the development of the United States as an evolving, embracing 
 Constitutional democracy vs. those who would [while using propaganda to 
mislead  the public about their intentions] restore America into a 
pre-Revolutionary  monarchy, based on a fixed view. This fixed view is based on an extreme  
interpretation of Christianity and is exclusionary to other religions and  
individual freedoms and liberties, those which are at odds with the "frozen"  
static religious worldview of the "Christocrats." 
Scalia, Thomas or Alito are called "Strict Constructionists" as far as the  
Constitution is concerned. Actually, they are activist judges who seek to 
remake  the Constitution to reflect a literal interpretation of the Bible. 
The basic conflict of the pro-democracy, pro-Constitution movement vs. the  
Bushevik Taliban is whether or not we are a nation based on a Constitutional  
guarantee of individual liberties and freedoms vs. a nation based on a  
pre-Revolutionary view of a fixed world order channeled through a perceived God  that 
actually gives instructions to George W. Bush and the far right Christian  
mullahs, such as Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell -- toss in James Dobson, too -- 
 among others. 
Rudin's book provides great insight into what we are up against in fighting  
the Stepford religious extremists who believe that the Constitution runs a  
distant second to the Bible. 
These radicals are unpatriotic to the core because they reject the  
fundamental premise of freedom, individualism, and pluralism that gave birth to  the 
Constitution. 
Their goal -- represented by Sam Alito -- is not to uphold the Constitution,  
but to bury it through strategic and deceptive maneuvering. And once we have  
crossed the Rubicon, they won't spare a dissenting soul. 
Because in their worldview, if you are not saved, you are doing the work of  
Satan.

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