My Book on Christian Fundamentalism in America...

Thoreau

Thoreau

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... and it's effect on government.

Yes, that's right. I'm writing ANOTHER book.

I'm still in the research stage of it and would highly appreciate your cooperation. I've got most of what I need but never enough lol. So just throw out some subtopics that are worthy of discussion.

So far, the key points I'm touching on include...

The History of Christian Fundamentalism and Evangelism in America
Abortion
Gay Rights
Death Penalty
Media
Voting during Presidential Elections
The Westborough Baptist "Church" ;)

Feel free to throw out some more ideas.
 
it would be a short book because i dont see where religion influences those things in U.S.

westboro baptist church has about nine members too.
 
John99 said:
it would be a short book because i dont see where religion influences those things in U.S.

westboro baptist church has about nine members too.
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You'd be surprised how much it does effect the government. I've been researching for almost a year now and it's amazing to see the history of the Christian right in America and how it's risen, controlled and is now beginning its fall, albeit quite slowly.
 
John99 said:
it would be a short book because i dont see where religion influencing those things.
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You don't see religion influencing those things?
Hells bells: I'm English with no interest interest in US politics/ internal matters whatsoever, yet even I can the effect it has.
Most, if not all, of those issues have been discussed at length on this forum.
 
MZ3Boy84 said:
You'd be surprised how much it does effect the government. I've been researching for almost a year now and it's amazing to see the history of the Christian right in America and how it's risen, controlled and is now beginning its fall, albeit quite slowly.
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for the record i am not a christian fundamentalist. in fact i lived my life more opposite of what would be a fundamentalist.

if you look at those issues one by one there is really no basis in reality that religion has an effect on them.

abortion is legal.

gay rights? i guess you mean gay marriage but the laws in u.s are similar to most similar types of governments in europe and other parts of the world.

if you mean other discrimination, i have seen gays discriminated against and every time it had absolutely nothing at all to do with religion.
 
John99 said:
for the record i am not a christian fundamentalist. in fact i lived my life more opposite of what would be a fundamentalist.

if you look at those issues one by one there is really no basis in reality that religion has an effect on them.

abortion is legal.

gay rights? i guess you mean gay marriage but the laws in u.s are similar to most similar types of governments in europe and other parts of the world.

if you mean other discrimination, i have seen gays discriminated against and every time it had absolutely nothing at all to do with religion.
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I'm not going to get into too much detail because I want to save it for the book, but...

On abortion: Yes it's legal. And YES abortion clinics are getting protested, bombed, and doctors are getting killed when leaving for home. By whom? Most of the time, but not always, by Christian fundamentalists.

On gay rights: All I have to say is take a look at the Federal Marriage Amendment Act and what organizations lead the charge in favor of it.
 
John99 said:
well that is because you dont know then.
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Really?
When I see statements along the lines "I don't consider atheists to be citizens of the US", or however it was phrased, from Bush(?) how much do I need to know?
Read the some of the posts.
It's insidious and frightening.
 
MZ3,

i really think that if the government was in favor of gay marriage it would have been legal years ago. but still the elephant in the room for you is that it is consistent with other similar countries. this is easily verifiable on the internet - Wikipedia specifically.

abortion clinic bombings happened i think by one person and he was captured what was it over a decade ago? there have been other instances but you can count them on one hand.
 
John99 said:
MZ3,

i really think that if the government was in favor of gay marriage it would have been legal years ago. but still the elephant in the room for you is that it is consistent with other similar countries. this is easily verifiable on the internet - Wikipedia specifically.

abortion clinic bombings happened i think by one person and he was captured what was it over a decade ago? there have been other instances but you can count them on one hand.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-abortion_violence
 
another thing is that there are quite a few non religious people, even atheists, who are against abortion. people have many different reasons for their beliefs on this subject. personally i am pretty much neutral on the subject.

Media? they just care about ratings.
 
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MZ3Boy84 said:
I'm not going to get into too much detail because I want to save it for the book, but...

On abortion: Yes it's legal. And YES abortion clinics are getting protested, bombed, and doctors are getting killed when leaving for home. By whom? Most of the time, but not always, by Christian fundamentalists.
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This one issue alone shows the incredible lack of influence or control on the authorities of the usa that these supposed Christians had. On the one issue that all of the varying factions within this movement shared in common, abortion and its abolition, they failed totally in their aims to have the state ban it. After all those years of getting into bed with the beast and making harlots of themselves they failed to make any real impact at all.



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