[Vision2020] Christian Reconstructionism

[Saundra Lund]

My thanks to Mr. Bradberry for posting the link to Steve Weissman's
"America's Religious Right - Saints or Subversives?":
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/053105A.shtml

If there are any readers who have kind of skipped over the previous
discussions about Christian Reconstructionism, this would be a good article,
IMHO, to cut your teeth on:  the article is well-written, clear, and easy to
understand.

In case you need some encouragement to actually click on the link:
"Death by stoning for atheists, adulterers, and practicing male homosexuals.
Stoning - or possibly burning at the stake - for atheists, heretics,
religious apostates, ***followers of other religions who proselytize***,
unmarried females who are unchaste, incorrigible juvenile delinquents, and
children who curse or strike their parents."
[Emphasis is mine.  SL]

"Rushdoony opposed labor unions, women's equality, and civil rights laws. He
favored racial segregation and slavery, which he felt had benefited black
people because it introduced them to Christianity. He largely denied the
Holocaust."

"Almost any anti-abortion stance seems nuanced when compared with Gary
North's advocacy of public execution not just for women who undergo
abortions but for those who advised them to do so. And with the Rushdoony
faction proposing the actual judicial murder of gays, fewer blink at the
position of a Gary Bauer or a Janet Folger, who support laws exposing them
to mere imprisonment." 

And, if you're one who has kind of ignored the local controversy regarding
the political agenda of Doug Wilson and his Christ Church, I urge you to
take some time after reading Mr. Weissman's article to explore the
information at:
http://www.tomandrodna.com/notonthepalouse/


Saundra Lund
Moscow, ID

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do
nothing.
Edmund Burke



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Subject: [Vision2020] Christian Reconstructionism

Good article on Christian Reconstructionism at

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/053105A.shtml