When you pander your policies to a group in order to remain, or achieve power, you've already lost. This recent confession and broadcast of the conservatives distaste for the telebangelists, should be no surprise, but the telebangels have been the mother's milk for the Repubs. And if Momma ain't happy, then nobody is happy. Or as the saying goes, you gotta dance with the one that brung you.
The Repubs will fall and in pissing off the telebangels have created the impetus for a third conservative party, which could be seen as a shoe-in victory for the Dems...but never underestimate the power of theocratic fevor. Halliburton is building jails here in Amurica with no one to occupy them...currently.
There is no democracy in any religion. So religion all up in a democracy will not bode well.
I suppose we should parse what religion actually is. If you use the definition including "use of recognized practices and observances" that is where the religions and denominations declare distinctions intransgressable.
Distinctions from sprinkling to dunking; dietary laws to deaconship; personal revelation versus membership from moment of conception; intercessory prayer and forgiveness versus personal relationship; wine versus grape juice; high holy days or any day; Sabbath honor or shopping sales; speaking in tongues or just merely wagging them in gossip; robes or suits; men and/or women pastors; stoles or lapel pins; these will be the wedges of discrimination.
This is not about a big tent for all to come together. This is not about gathering in the fellowship hall for casseroles ad nauseum, this is about the cutting out of a large place for only those who know the secret handshake and then it will be only for those who have power to change the secret handshake.
This is not about rights but restriction. This is not about helping but harming. This is not about agape but animosity. This is not about Christianity but Corruption.
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