An American Theocracy
Meet Gary Demar, Atlanta-based host of two nationally syndicated radio shows, and editor of The Biblical Worldview monthly magazine.
Gary Demar is a leading Christian Reconstructionist.
What’s Christian Reconstructionism?
Christian Reconstructionism is a Fundamental Christian movement that wants to remake the U.S. government with Christian-only elected officials.
Reconstructionists don’t believe in welfare or social security. They want to replace public schools with homeschooling programs. And they’d like to use the U.S. Military to conquer the world for Jesus, because — unlike the neocons trying to instigate Armageddon to help bring about the Rapture — the Reconstructionists believe the entire world must bow down to Jesus BEFORE he will return to rule the world.
You might think I’m being a little unfair, a bit paranoid, perhaps exaggerating…maybe misrepresenting the Reconstructionist agenda. But an article at Mother Jones makes clear where Demar and the Reconstructionist movement is coming from:
The Old Testament — with its 600 or so Mosaic laws — is the inflexible guide for the society DeMar and other Reconstructionists envision. Government posts would be reserved for the righteous, as long as they are male. There would be thousands of executions a year, with stoning a preferred method because it would turn the deaths into “community projects,” as movement theologian North has noted. Sinners in line for the death penalty would include women who commit adultery or lie about their virginity, blasphemers, witches, children who strike their parents, and gay men (lesbians, however, would be spared because no specific reference to them can be found in the Books of Moses). DeMar told me that among Reconstructionists he is considered something of a liberal, because he’d execute gays only if they were caught indulging in sodomy. “I’m happy to just drive them back into the closet,” he said.
If that didn’t make you almost holy crap your pants, go back and read it again. I’ll wait…
Think the mindset of the Taliban can’t setup shop in the USA? Think again. The ideology has already taken root; the fruit is just masquerading behind the mask of a more familiar religion.
Same Oppression, Different Religion
Make no mistake: Reconstructionism is not mainstream Christianity. But its proponents have used common enemies (abortion, homosexuality, atheism) to befriend mainstream Christians…Christians who might be surprised to discover the true Reconstructionist agenda: a United States Theocracy.
If the Reconstructionists state that they want to keep church and state separate, they also state that there is no such thing as a non-theocratic government. The USA, they say, is already a secular-humanist theocracy. As long as we HAVE to have a theocracy of some sort, they want it to be a Bible-based, Fundamentalist Christian theocracy. They want United States law to be derived from the Bible, not the U.S. Constitution.
Christian Reconstructionists in Their Own Words
Reconstructionist Gary North wrote in 1982:
We must use the doctrine of religious liberty…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 constructing a Bible-based social, political, and religious order which finally denies the religious liberty of the enemies of God.
The long-term goal of Christians in politics should be to gain exclusive control over the franchise. Those who refuse to submit publicly…must be denied citizenship.
If it walks like a theocracy and talks like a theocracy…
As for us tolerant Christians who don’t appreciate our religious identities being engulfed by radical fundamentalism, in 2 Corinthians 11:13-15 the Apostle Paul offers this:
For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, masquerading as apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. It is not surprising, then, if his servants masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be what their actions deserve.
God’s word for God’s people. Amen.
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April 8th, 2007 at 9:08 am
We have taken the it can’t happen TO or IN the USA attitude.
People were totally shocked at how easily the U.S. basketball team was beaten in the Olympics, and at a loss as to what to do about it.
The terrorists struck, and again we were unable to understand how and why it happened and what to do about it.
We laughed at the religious zealouts and their antics, and suddenly they invaded and got a foot hold in our government. Again how to rid ourselves of this menace.
Now the reconstuctionists will be looked at as a group of kooks with their outlandish ideas, and we have nothing to worry about, nothing to worry about, until it is to late.
Hope the Easter Bunny was good to you.
April 8th, 2007 at 11:22 am
Pete: The Easter Bunny was good to the whole family, although he had to hide eggs inside this year (cold spell had Easter Morning down to about 25 degrees down here in Alabama…warm, sunny south, you know…) But we had a good time, went to church, celebrated all the Pagan Fertility (eggs, bunnies…) rituals AND the Christian religious rituals. It was all good, and we still have some relatives to visit this afternoon…
Everything in moderation, variety’s the spice, a good balance of everything makes life pretty darn enjoyable!
Hope you are all having a great bunny day up your way, too!
Peace and joy!
April 8th, 2007 at 1:22 pm
There’s more along these same lines at Karen Yurica’s site. Scary stuff.
http://www.yuricareport.com/Dominionism/TheDespoilingOfAmerica.htm
April 8th, 2007 at 4:20 pm
Lynda: I’m still reading (and rereading) that article…lots of info there. But, I had to pause just to take a breath and just to type, WTF!!!!!!!!!
Ok, there, I feel better now ;-) a little bit, anyway. The founding fathers were right — maintaining their new experiment in democracy will require a constant vigil to guard liberty’s flame from the wolves who want to blow it out.
April 8th, 2007 at 7:37 pm
We were freezing up here to, but the grandkids warmed me up.