From: David Weber 
Subject: [Illusions] y2k and Xtian treachery
Date: 18 Jan 1999 12:34:13 -0500
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Are these really the people we want running the country and teaching our
children and grandchildren?

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From: Robalini@aol.com 
Date: Friday, January 15, 1999 5:49 AM
Subject: Konformist: The Real Gary North


Please send as far and wide as possible.

Thanks,

Robert Sterling
Editor, The Konformist
http://www.konformist.com

The Real Gary North

Gary North, more than anyone else, is the Y2K guru, the chief doomsayer of
The coming millenium. His grim warnings have been getting a lot of airplay,
including, unsurprisingly, on The Art Bell Show.

Often times, it isn't wise to confuse the messenger for the message.
However,in this case, a study of the messenger is a wise choice: after
all, the
only reason Gary North's opinion is considered worthwhile is because of his
alleged>expertise in the field.

The reality, however, is that North's "expertise" is non-existent: on his
Own site, he readily admits "I'm not a programmer. My Ph.D. is in history." So
technologically speaking, he is talking way over his head. As for his
"expertise" as a historian, what kind of historian is he?

It turns out that Gary North is a "Christian" theocrat whose true views
Rival those of the most repressive, violent mullahs in Teheran or the Taliban
psychos in Afghanistan, though in a "Christian" way of course.

What becomes patently clear after viewing the following is that North, far
from worrying about Y2K, has learned to love the millenium bomb. Perhaps it
is all hyseteria-mongering by him to promote his newsletter and his financial
investments. Or perhaps he and his allies are interested in a power grab in
the chaos of Y2K. In any case, now might be a good time to look into Gary
North more closely.

Which is not to say Y2K won't cause problems, some that may be pretty
Serious. And it is not to say that being prepared for the worst is a bad
idea. One
thing is clear: if the information you're basing your decisions on comes
from Gary North, take a SERIOUS second look.


One

In his book Victim's Rights, Rushdoony's son-in-law Gary North writes that
stoning is a communal activity, something in which all the members of the
family can participate. The purpose of this communal activity is to instill
fear in the community so that if they deviate from the theocratic rules
laid
out by the elders, stoning would be their fate.

http://www.ifas.org/fw/9504/stoos.html



Two
Christian Reconstructionism
Theocratic Dominionism Gains Influence
by Frederick Clarkson
Part 1
Overview and Roots
The Christian Right has shown impressive resilience and has rebounded
dramatically after a series of embarrassing televangelist scandals of the
late 1980s, the collapse of Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority, and the failed
presidential bid of Pat Robertson. In the 1990s, Christian Right organizing
went to the grassroots and exerted wide influence in American politics
across the country.
There is no doubt that Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition gets much of the
credit for this successful strategic shift to the local level. But another
largely overlooked reason for the persistent success of the Christian Right
is a theological shift since the 1960s. The catalyst for the shift is
Christian>Reconstructionism--arguably the driving ideology of the Christian
Right in
The 1990s.
The significance of the Reconstructionist movement is not its numbers, but
The power of its ideas and their surprisingly rapid acceptance. Many on the
Christian Right are unaware that they hold Reconstructionist ideas. Because
As a theology it is controversial, even among evangelicals, many who are
consciously influenced by it avoid the label. This furtiveness is not,
however, as significant as the potency of the ideology itself. Generally,
Reconstructionism seeks to replace democracy with a theocratic elite that
would govern by imposing their interpretation of "Biblical Law."
Reconstructionism would eliminate not only democracy but many of its
manifestations, such as labor unions, civil rights laws, and public
schools.
Women would be generally relegated to hearth and home. Insufficiently
Christian men would be denied citizenship, perhaps executed. So severe is
This theocracy that it would extend capital punishment beyond such crimes as
kidnapping, rape, and murder to include, among other things, blasphemy,
heresy, adultery, and homosexuality.
What is Reconstructionism?
Reconstructionism is a theology that arose out of conservative
Presbyterianism (Reformed and Orthodox), which proposes that contemporary
application of
the laws of Old Testament Israel, or "Biblical Law," is the basis for
reconstructing society toward the Kingdom of God on earth.
Reconstructionism argues that the Bible is to be the governing text for all
areas of life--such as government, education, law, and the arts, not merely
"social" or "moral" issues like pornography, homosexuality, and abortion.
Reconstructionists have formulated a "Biblical world view" and "Biblical
principles" by which to examine contemporary matters. Reconstructionist
theologian David Chilton succinctly describes this view: "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."
More broadly, Reconstructionists believe that there are three main areas of
governance: family government, church government, and civil government.
Under God's covenant, the nuclear family is the basic unit. The husband is the
Head of the family, and wife and children are "in submission" to him. In turn,
The husband "submits" to Jesus and to God's laws as detailed in the Old
Testament.
The church has its own ecclesiastical structure and governance. Civil
government exists to implement God's laws. All three institutions are under
Biblical Law, the implementation of which is called "theonomy."
The Origin of Reconstructionism The original and defining text of
Reconstructionism is Institutes of Biblical Law, published in 1973 by
Rousas John Rushdoony--an 800-page explanation of>the Ten Commandments, the
Biblical "case law" that derives from them, and
their application today. "The only true order," writes Rushdoony, "is
founded on Biblical Law.
All law is religious in nature, and every non-Biblical law-order represents
An anti-Christian religion." In brief, he continues, "Every law-order is a
State of war against the enemies of that order, and all law is a form of
warfare."
Gary North, Rushdoony's son-in-law, wrote an appendix to Institutes on the
subject of "Christian economics." It is a polemic which serves as a model
for the application of "Biblical Principles."
Rushdoony and a younger theologian, Rev. Greg Bahnsen, were both students
of Cornelius Van Til, a Princeton University theologian. Although Van Til
himself never became a Reconstructionist, Reconstructionists claim him as the
father of their movement. According to Gary North, Van Til argued that
"There is
no philosophical strategy that has ever worked, except this one; to challenge
the lost in terms of the revelation of God in His Bible. . .by what standard
can man know anything truly? By the Bible, and only by the Bible." This idea
that the correct and only way to view reality is through the lens of a
Biblical
world view is known as presuppositionalism. According to Gary North, Van
Til stopped short of proposing what a Biblical society might look like or how
To get there. That is where Reconstructionism begins. While Van Til states
That man is not autonomous and that all rationality is inseparable from
faith in
God and the Bible, the Reconstructionists go further and set a course of
world conquest or "dominion," claiming a Biblically prophesied "inevitable
victory."
Reconstructionists also believe that "the Christians" are the "new chosen
people of God," commanded to do what "Adam in Eden and Israel in Canaan
failed to do. . .create the society that God requires." Further, Jews, once
the
"chosen people," failed to live up to God's covenant and therefore are no
longer God's chosen. Christians, of the correct sort, now are.
Rushdoony's Institutes of Biblical Law consciously echoes a major work of
the Protestant Reformation, John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian
Religion.
In fact, Reconstructionists see themselves as the theological and political
Heirs of Calvin. The theocracy Calvin created in Geneva, Switzerland in the
1500s
is one of the political models Reconstructionists look to, along with Old
Testament Israel and the Calvinist Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay
Colony.
Capital Punishment Epitomizing the Reconstructionist idea of Biblical
"warfare" is the
centrality of capital punishment under Biblical Law. Doctrinal leaders
(notably
Rushdoony, North, and Bahnsen) call for the death penalty for a wide range
of crimes in addition to such contemporary capital crimes as rape, kidnapping,
and murder. Death is also the punishment for apostasy (abandonment of the
faith), heresy, blasphemy, witchcraft, astrology, adultery, "sodomy or
homosexuality," incest, striking a parent, incorrigible juvenile
delinquency, and, in the case of women, "unchastity before marriage."
According to Gary North, women who have abortions should be publicly
executed,"along with those who advised them to abort their children."
Rushdoony
concludes: "God's government prevails, and His alternatives are clear-cut:
either men and nations obey His laws, or God invokes the death penalty
against them." Reconstructionists insist that "the death penalty is the
maximum,
not necessarily the mandatory penalty." However, such judgments may depend
less
on Biblical Principles than on which faction gains power in the theocratic
republic. The potential for bloodthirsty episodes on the order of the Salem
witchcraft trials or the Spanish Inquisition is inadvertently revealed by
Reconstructionist theologian Rev. Ray Sutton, who claims that the
Reconstructed Biblical theocracies would be "happy" places, to which people
would flock because "capital punishment is one of the best evangelistic
tools of a society."
The Biblically approved methods of execution include burning (at the stake
for example), stoning, hanging, and "the sword." Gary North, the
self-described
economist of Reconstructionism, prefers stoning because, among other
things,stones are cheap, plentiful, and convenient. Punishments for
non-capital
crimes generally involve whipping, restitution in the form of indentured
servitude, or slavery. Prisons would likely be only temporary holding
tanks,prior to imposition of the actual sentence.


http://www.publiceye.org/pra/magazine/chrisre1.html


Three

The fifth and by far the most important reason is that stoning is literally
a
means of crushing the murderer's head by means of a rock, which is symbolic
of
God. This is analogous to the crushing of the head of the serpent in
Genesis
3:15. This symbolism testifies to the final victory of God over all the
hosts
of  Satan.
Stoning is therefore integral to the commandment against murder.
Gary North, The Sinai Strategy: Economics and the Ten Commandments (Tyler,
TX:
Institute for Christian Economics, 1986), p. 123

http://www.serve.com/thibodep/cr/stoning2.htm




Four

Cursing



The question eventually must be raised: Is it a criminal offense to take
the
name of the Lord in vain? When people curse their parents, it
unquestionably
is a capital crime (Ex. 21:17). The son or daughter is under the lawful
jurisdiction of the family. The integrity of the family must be maintained
by
the threat of death. Clearly, cursing God (blasphemy) is a comparable
crime,
and is therefore a capital crime (Lev. 24:16).
What about the integrity of the church? What if someone who is not a member
of
the church publicly curses the church? Is the State required to apply the
same
sanction? The person may not be covenantally subordinate to the particular
church, or any church, unlike the subordinate child who curses a parent.
There
is no specific reference to any civil penalty for cursing anyone but a
parent
or God, nor is there any civil penalty assigned for using God's name in
vain.
Then is there a general prohibition against cursing? On what grounds could
a
church prosecute a cursing rebel?
One possible answer is the law against assault. Battery involves physical
violence against a person, but assault can be verbal. A threat is made. A
curse is a threat: calling the wrath of God down upon someone. Another
approach is the law against public indecency. A third: cursing as a
violation
of the victim's peace and quiet. Restitution could be imposed by the civil
magistrate to defend a church or an individual who is victimized by
cursing.
What about cursing a civil magistrate? It is clear that this is an act of
rebellion analogous to someone in the military who is insubordinate to his
superior officer. A citizen or resident alien is under the lawful authority
of
the civil government. By publicly challenging this lawful authority, the
person becomes a criminal rebel. There is no explicit penalty assigned to
this
crime. We know, however, that public flogging is lawful, up to forty lashes
(Deut. 25:3), yet no crime in the Bible ever explicitly requires public
physical punishment, except on an eye-for-eye basis, or the unique case of
the
woman who has her palm split in response to her specific prohibited
physical
violence against her husband's opponent in a fight (Deut. 25:11-12). The
punishment for cursing a civil magistrate is therefore left to the
discretion
of the magistrates or a jury. It might be public flogging; it might be a
fine
imposed in lieu of public flogging.
Gary North, The Sinai Strategy: Economics and the Ten Commandments (Tyler,
TX:
Institute for Christian Economics, 1986), pp. 59-60

http://www.serve.com/thibodep/cr/cursing.htm





Five

Religious Liberty



So let us be blunt about it: we must use the doctrine of religious liberty
to
gain independence for Christian schools until we train up a generation of
people who know that there is no religious neutrality, no neutral law, no
neutral education, and no neutral civil government. Then they will get busy
in
constructing a Bible-based social, political and religious order which
finally
denies the religious liberty of the enemies of God.
Gary North, "The Intellectual Schizophrenia of the New Christian Right" in
Christianity and Civilization: The Failure of the American Baptist Culture,
No. 1 (Spring, 1982), p. 25.

http://www.serve.com/thibodep/cr/liberty.htm

Six
The Common Enemy



Christians are supposed to love each other. Communists are supposed to
share
bonds with all proletarians and other communists. Every ideological group
proclaims universality, and all of them bicker internally, never displaying
unity except in the face of a common enemy. Humanism today is the common
enemy
of Christians.
Gary North, Backward Christian Soldiers? An Action Manual For Christian
Reconstruction (Tyler, TX: Institute for Christian Economics, 1984), p.
136.

http://www.serve.com/thibodep/cr/enemy.htm

Seven
The Attitude of Superiority



It occurs to me: Was Moses arrogant and unbiblical when he instructed the
Israelites to kill every Canaanite in the land (Deut. 7:2; 20:16-17)? Was
he
an "elitist" or (horror of horrors) a racist? No; he was a God-fearing man
who
sought to obey God, who commanded them to kill them all. It sounds like a
"superior attitude" to me. Of course, Christians have been given no
comparable
military command in New Testament times, but I am trying to deal with the
attitude of superiority--a superiority based on our possession of the law
of
God. That attitude is something Christians must have when dealing with all
pagans. God has given us the tools of dominion.
Gary North, The Sinai Strategy: Economics and the Ten Commandments (Tyler,
TX:
Institute for Christian Economics, 1986), p. 214n.

http://www.serve.com/thibodep/cr/superior.htm

Eight

"Pitying the Almost Noble Savages"



Furthermore, there is that other great, intolerable evil of the New England
Puritans: the Puritans took land away from the "native Americans." You
know,
the Indians. (Liberals have adopted the phrase "native Americans" in recent
years. They never, ever say "American natives," since this is only one step
away from "American savages," which is precisely what most of those demon-
worshipping, Negro slave-holding, frequently land-polluting people were....
This was one of the great sins in American life, they say: "the stealing of
Indian lands".... That a million savages had a legitimate legal claim on
the
whole of North America north of Mexico is the unstated assumption of such
critics. They never ask the question: From whom did the Indians of early
colonial America get the land? They also never ask the even more pertinent
question: Was the advent of the European in North America a righteous
historical judgment of God against the Indians? On the contrary, our three
authors [Noll, Hatch, Marsden] ridicule the Puritans for having suggested
that
the Indians were the moral and covenantal equivalent of the Canaanites (p.
33). In fact, if ever a continent of covenant-breakers deserved this
attribution, the "native Americans" did.
Gary North, Political Polytheism: The Myth of Pluralism (Tyler, TX:
Institute
for Christian Economics, 1989), pp. 257-258.
http://www.serve.com/thibodep/cr/indian.htm



Nine

God's World



This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-
Christians.
Gary North, Political Polytheism: The Myth of Pluralism (Tyler, TX:
Institute
for Christian Economics, 1989), p. 102.
http://www.serve.com/thibodep/cr/world.htm

Ten
Gary North is ember of the far right Council for National Policy, along
with
Ed Meese, Oliver North, Pat Robertson, Phyllis Schlafly, John Singlaub,
Richard Armey, Tom DeLay, Robert Dornan, Jerry Falwell, Lauch Faircloth,
Jack
Kemp, Trent Lott, Howard Phillips, Ralph Reed, and a veritable host of
others.
http://www.ifas.org/cnp/index.html

Press release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 1, 1996
CONTACT: Skipp Porteous
(413) 274-0012
Cover Lifted on Secretive Conservative Group
Great Barrington, Massachusetts - Clothed in secrecy since its founding in
1981, the Council for National Policy (CNP) is a virtual Who's Who of the
Hard
Right. Comprised of the Right's Washington operatives and politicians, its
financiers, and its hard core religious arm, the CNP's membership list,
until
today, has been highly confidential.
Starting today, "The Council for National Policy Unofficial Information
Page"
went on the Internet through the web site of the Institute for First
Amendment
Studies (IFAS), publishers of Freedom Writer magazine. Freedom Writer
publishes information on religious political extremists.
According to Freedom Writer publisher Skipp Porteous, "Hard core
conservatives
use the CNP's three-times-a-year secret meetings to plan strategy for
implementing the radical right agenda. It is here that the organizers and
activists meet with the financial backers who put up the money to carry out
their agenda."
For example, televangelist Pat Robertson met Amway's Rich DeVos at the CNP.
Then, this year, they launched a scheme for broadcasting the Republican
National Convention on Pat Robertson's Family Channel.
Last September, the CNP sent a confidential memo to its members outlining
how
religious conservative freshman in Congress planned to stand up to Speaker
Newt Gingrich and shut down the government to force implementation of the
conservative's social agenda.
Because CNP rules state that "Council meetings are closed to the media and
the
general public," and "Our membership list is strictly confidential and
should
not be shared outside the Council," the mainstream press knows very little
about the CNP. Through this site, and the Freedom Writer, the Institute for
First Amendment Studies is, for the first time, revealing the activities
and
current membership of the Council for National Policy.
The IFAS home page lists the more than 500 CNP members both alphabetically
and
by state. In most cases, the member's affiliation or company is also
listed.
The web site also includes several articles about CNP from recent issues of
Freedom Writer magazine. "New information is being added regularly,"
according
to Porteous.
A private promotional video obtained by Freedom Writer reveals the purpose
of
the CNP as described by some of its members. "It isn't often in life that
reality is better than the dream. That's the way it is with the Council for
National Policy," according to the Rev. Tim LaHaye, CNP co-founder and the
group's first president.
"The Council for National Policy allows people to know each other, and by
knowing each other they can integrate one movement with another," said
Judge
Paul Pressler.
"I've often thought back that when we launched this organization with
prayer
and some very good men, and it really seemed like the Lord was with us that
day in Dallas," remarked right-wing fund raiser, Richard Viguerie.
Amway head, Rich DeVos said, "I got inspired by the people who spoke here,
who
shared their stories, got thrilled by not just talking about being a
conservative person, but by the number of people in this organization who
are
doing things to make the country a better place."
Christian Coalition founder Pat Robertson said, "If you want to be in the
know
about the real scoop, that you don't read about in the newspapers, this is
the
organization to be part of."
One of the group's few women members, Phyllis Schlafly of the Eagle Forum
said, "I was a charter member of the Council for National Policy, and it is
a
great organization. It has all the best people in it."
"CNP is an organization which has been effective in developing links among
people who ought to know one another, who are moving in the same direction.
But who, but for the fact that these meetings occurred, would simply by
ships
passing in the night," according to Howard Phillips of the Conservative
Caucus
and The U.S. Taxpayers Party.
Former U.S. Attorney General and current CNP president, former, Ed Meese,
said, "Council encourages it's members to be activists. And, that is not
just
to learn something about the issues, but do something about it. It is so
important to get involved."
Other leaders, such as Dr. James Dobson, of Focus on the Family, said,
"There
are very few organizations left that say 'yes, we believe.' And, we're out
to
implement that policy in every way we can. We need those people out there
who
are considering linking hands and arms with us in this battle.
Christian Coalition executive director Ralph Reed, who originally joined
CNP
through its Youth Council, said, "I think the Youth Council for National
Policy has been a critical part...because what it has allowed us to do is
to
sit at the feet of our elders and to learn from them."
Former senatorial candidate, Oliver North, said, "The kind of people that
are
involved in this organization reflect the best of what America really is."

http://www.ifas.org/cnp/

IFAS | Freedom Writer | April 1995 | stoos.html

John Stoos reveals ...
a hidden agenda?

By Jerry Sloan
Remarks by a leading figure closely associated with the Christian Coalition
have fueled more accusations of anti-Semitism within that organization.

John Stoos, former head of the 55,000-member California Gun Owners Lobby,
frequently represents and speaks for Sara DiVito Hardman, executive director
of the California Christian Coalition.

Although Stoos is widely speculated to be a board member of the California
Christian Coalition, no evidence confirming that has surfaced. According to
the state office of charitable trusts, the California Christian Coalition
has filed no records since 1991 - an apparent violation of state law.

Speaking at a February forum sponsored by the Center for Ethics and Social
Policy of Berkeley's Graduate Theological Union, Stoos revealed that Jews
would probably feel out of place in the Christian society he and others are
working to implement. Stoos' comments apparently cost him his job with the
gun owners group.

"There is no such thing as a pluralistic society," Stoos was quoted as
saying in a write-up of the forum published in The Contra Costa Times. "You
can't say we are all going to agree to disagree and go on our way because
that [leads] to relativism and chaos."

Those quotes are relatively benign. What got Stoos into trouble was his
statement that American society should be founded on Christ's kingship and
Biblical law. Stoos also said that Jews and other non-Christians would be
"tolerated." His comments were challenged by Marty Kassman of the ACLU, who
is also a board member of the American Jewish Congress.

"I don't wish to be tolerated in this country," Kassman said. "I was born in
this country. I don't think it is any more your country than mine. Or any
more a Christian's country [than] a Jew's."

Stoos shot back that in the Christian society he envisions "you would not
have total acceptance. You would feel more at home in Israel."

These remarks may seem shocking, but they came as no surprise to those who
have followed the rise of the Christian Coalition and the radical Religious
Right.

Stoos is a Christian Reconstructionist and one of the most astute Republican
political strategists in California. His credentials and connections read
like a who's who of the radical Religious Right and social conservative
politics.

Stoos started out as a aide to retired State Senator H.L. (Bill) Richardson,
himself a former John Birch Society field organizer (and radical Religious
Right person before there was a radical Religious Right). Stoos heads up the
California chapter of Newt Gingrich's Conservative Opportunity Society,
which this year raised nearly $300,000 to help elect social conservatives to
the California legislature. He is also a vice president of the California
Republican Assembly, the largest Republican volunteer organization in the
state.

Stoos, along with Republican campaign consultant Wayne Johnson, attends
Covenant Reform Church in Sacramento. Johnson sits on the board of trustees
of Chalcedon, the country's leading Christian Reconstructionist think tank.

The statements Stoos made at the forum are similar to the ones he made
during a conversation with this writer as our plane sat on a Sacramento
runway awaiting departure for Los Angeles. Stoos was seated in front of me,
and I tapped him on the shoulder to introduce myself.

We made some small talk about our opposing political views and then I said,
"You know, I have been reading [R.J.] Rushdoony and I don't see that in
Rushdoony's society there is much room for Buddhists, Moslems, Jews, or
atheists."

He replied with a chuckle, "Well, Rush would say it is better to obey God's
600 laws than man's 6000 laws." Then, with another chuckle, he continued,
"No, there would be room for Buddhists. I just don't know how much."

At that point our plane started to take off and we terminated our
conversation and did not speak during the rest of the hour it took to get to
LA. Besides, I was fascinated by the book I brought along to read on the
flight: The Blue Book for Grassroots Politics: Proven, Election-Winning
Strategies for Supporters of Traditional Values Candidates.

Stoos' position on religious minorities in the society he envisions are
based on the theology of Christian Reconstructionism which would reconstruct
society from a democracy, which Rushdoony refers to as a "heresy" into a
theocracy. Rushdoony has matter of factly written in The Institutes of
Biblical Law, his 1500-page, two-volume treatise on the Ten Commandments:

"Every social order institutes its own program of separation or segregation.
A particular faith and morality is given privileged status and all else is
separated for progressive elimination [emphasis added]."

And: "Every faith is an exclusive way of life; none is more dangerous than
that which maintains the illusion of tolerance."

The Christian Reconstructionist society would have no tolerance or illusion
thereof. Such a society would be intolerant not only of other other
religions, but homosexuals or anyone who deviated from societal rules and
values. Only "godly" families would be permitted to continue to live in a
"Christian" society. All others would fall into one of the 18 categories of
capital crimes and would be dealt with by being stoned to death.

In his book Victim's Rights, Rushdoony's son-in-law Gary North writes that
stoning is a communal activity, something in which all the members of the
family can participate. The purpose of this communal activity is to instill
fear in the community so that if they deviate from the theocratic rules laid
out by the elders, stoning would be their fate.

In Mein Kampf, Hitler wrote: "It is not necessary that every individual
fighting for this philosophy should obtain a full insight and precise
knowledge of the ultimate ideas and thought processes of the leaders of the
movement. What is necessary is that some few, really great ideas be made
clear to him, and that the essential fundamental lines be burned
inextinguishably into him, so that he is entirely permeated by the necessity
of the victory of his movement and its doctrine. The individual soldier is
not initiated into the thought processes of the higher strategy either. He
is, on the contrary, trained in the rigid discipline and fanatical faith in
the justice and power of his cause, and taught to stake his life for it
without reservation."

What Stoos has done with his comments is to betray the higher strategy of
the radical Religious Right leaders by revealing that a Christian America
would be intolerant of all but the fervent faithful.

Christian Coalition founder Pat Robertson and the Free Congress Foundation's
Paul Weyrich, among others in the radical Religious Right, have sold their
faithful followers on a few "really great ideas." Abortion is wrong, unborn
babies must be saved at all costs, and baby killers must be punished.
Sodomites must be driven from the land. Prayer and the teaching of
creationism must be restored to public schools.

In the last two years we have seen a few foot soldiers be willing to die or
at least suffer prison time for acting upon some of these "really great
ideas." Rest assured, in the coming years more incidents of violence will
occur as more foot soldiers are recruited from evangelical churches to
become Christian soldiers in their citizen militias until America will, once
again, be in the midst of a civil war.

Right now, sitting comfortably in their sanctuaries, most churchgoers
haven't a clue as to what their leaders are up to. Not once have they
stopped to think or ask the question, "It's a Christian America, now what?"

Maybe - if they really listen to men like John Stoos and got up off of their
blessed assurance to read the likes of Rushdoony and North - they will be
repulsed and take a stand for true tolerance. Maybe then, America would
truly become a land with liberty and justice for all.

Jerry Sloan is co-chair of the Sacramento-based Project Tocsin, the research
branch of the newly formed Sentinel Institute for Research and Education.

 1998 Institute for First Amendment Studies, Inc.
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