How the Unholy Alliance Between the Christian Right and Wall Street Is ‘Crucifying America’

November 12, 2013 — Suzan

From Alternet:  http://www.alternet.org/belief/atheists-are-winning-wrong-war-against-christian-right

A new book argues that the Atheist’s battles are misplaced… Polls show a majority of Americans favor liberal policies, but our courts and legislatures are increasingly controlled and driven by the Christian Right.

By CJ Werleman
November 8, 2013

The following is an excerpt from Crucifying America: the unholy alliance between the Christian Right and Wall Street by CJ Werleman (Dangerous Little Books, 2013). 

 Atheist groups, associations, and networks have literally sprung up in every town and city in America. Million dollar social awareness campaigns have rolled across small towns and big cities throughout America. In major cities, you see billboards with messages like, “Are you Good Without God? Millions Are!” “Don’t Believe in God? You Are Not Alone.” Others say, “In the Beginning, Man Created God.” These campaigns have helped coerce millions of Americans out of the theological closet. They have helped many in-private atheists step out of the shadows. The trend is very much that Americans raised in Christian households are shunning the religion of their parents for any number of reasons: the advancement of human understanding; greater access to information; the scandals of the Catholic Church; and the over zealousness of the Christian Right.

Political scientists Robert Putman and David Campbell, and authors of American Grace, argue that the Christian Right’s politicization of faith in the 1990s turned younger, socially liberal Christians away from churches, even as conservatives became more zealous. “While the Republican base has become ever more committed to mixing religion and politics, the rest of the country has been moving in the opposite direction.”

When you add all these things together, it leads you to a dramatic yet never mentioned dynamic: atheists are the fastest growing minority in the U.S. today. More significantly, we make for being one of the most powerful voting blocs in the country, at least potentially. We now have the required critical mass to shape elections, laws, and leaders. Safety in numbers is growing into power in numbers. In 10, 20, 50 years, the Christian Right will hold little to no sway over the nation’s identity. From these facts, among others, we can boast that ideological victory is within sight.

Now for the bad news:

We are winning the wrong game!

We are losing the right game. We are winning the cultural war, but the Christian Right is winning in the race to control the levers of power. They hold the keys to our democracy, while we have clever bumper stickers, funny t-shirts, and books that deride virgin births and angry sky gods. The soldiers of God are playing a game that can only be described as Jedi Knight-ish. Meanwhile, we are being made to look juvenile, bellicose, and down right moronic. The Christian Right is ripping our arms off at the shoulder and then slapping us in the face with the soggy bits. It’s embarrassing, and if this were a football game the scoreboard would read: Christian right –120 versus free thinkers – 3. Someone invoke the mercy rule! Also, I hate football metaphors.

Continue reading at:  http://www.alternet.org/belief/atheists-are-winning-wrong-war-against-christian-right

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One Response to “How the Unholy Alliance Between the Christian Right and Wall Street Is ‘Crucifying America’”

  1. brendakaitlin Says:
    November 12, 2013 at 10:29 pm

    Being reared in the south I recognize a veil of ignorance that is placed on children at birth. Tha veil of ignorance also influences education. Revisionist history along with new world creationism serve to further shield what should be a developing mind. When I argue for the separation of church and state; and use both the founding fathers words and writing, I am treated like a heretic. I was raised in a conservative baptist home. This current form of fundamentalist Christianity is a cancer. The truth is this isnt fundamentalist Christianity. This is white Christianity. We have to get the people who control out of positions of power if we want things to change. The only way to do this is to get the disenfranchised youth off of their asses and into a voting booth.


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