Reply #19: I so agree with you and... [View All]

Good rant TGrannie, and I don't think you're overstating the case either. What you're saying strikes me as a description of a socially engineered and highly marketed creation of an artifial power base. These people are being entertained and contained by a perfectly captivating head trip. They live inside a marketed reality where it's possible for this Narnia fantasy to be all about them -- and they WILL identify with it completely. That doesn't sound entirely wholesome to me. After reading your post, I'll be watching the movie now with a jaundiced eye.

DUers: practicing Christians and Catholics included, have observed here that people involved in this big-box church sect rarely seem to know very much about Christianity, it's theology or its real history. They also seem to have bought the bill of goods on some kind of alternate world history in which the universe was created 6000 years ago and America was founded on the Bible by soldiers of Christ and established as an empire from the beginning...

This emerging statist religion is the perfect political cult. Scratch the surface and there's no spirit there. In point of fact, the ideology of these "neo-christianists" is remarkable precisely for its vacancy.

It's all show business. It's Vegas. It's your "Personal Championship Season!" It's a big-tent spectacle. It's rock and roll, your ticket to ride, and God the Almighty & Terrible all rolled into one big plastic mess. In short, it's the perfect product -- everything that is to be desired, delivered without effort in a form instantly comprehensible and accessible to all.

In the wrong hands, the influence this movement could have over people has real destructive potential in the form of a political army of lock-step consumers powered by the drug of triumphalism.

Ooops...I've let my imagination get away from me again...

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