Arkansas Governor Huckabee: Too Many Are 'Spiritually Disconnected'

Leaders of the Christian Right and their political minions are convinced that more religion is necessary for the future of society - and while they like to talk in public in general terms, they only really mean their religion. This make their agenda a theocratic one, an agenda designed to impose the rule of priests, ministers, and self-proclaimed religious spokesman over all Americans

According to Americans United, Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee spoke at the convention of leading theocrat D. James Kennedy recently:

Huckabee said, “There are many Americans who are spiritually disconnected, culturally lost.”

For the Christian Right, these two things are the same: being disconnected from conservative evangelical Christianity is the same as being “culturally lost” because American culture is supposed to be based on Christianity; it’s even the same as being unAmerican because true American patriotism is supposed to be the same as true Christian faith.

“I’m telling you, America is going to be changed,” Kennedy declared on the conference’s opening day. The speakers at the conference argued that the nation was founded on their Christian values and that popular culture has eroded those values and endangered the nation. They railed against reproductive rights, liberal media, Hollywood and the so-called “homosexual agenda” and called for organized prayer in the public schools.

The theocratic leaders in the Christian Right are some of the most dangerous actors on America’s political stage. They don’t respect liberal democracy, they don’t respect cultural or religious pluralism, and they don’t respect individual liberties — at least, not so long as any of them conflict with what they believe are the will and laws of God. Unfortunately, these principles usually seem to be in conflict, so if they achieved serious power there is little reason to think that America’s democratic experiment in liberty would be able to long endure.

 

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