Religious Right and the Attack on Courts

These ridiculous religious-based attacks on the court system in this country is not new. In fact, it is tied to more than a poltical ideology or simple expediency. These attacks -- as well as the direct efforts to remake the court system in part and in whole -- is based on far more than the facile notion that the religious right wants everyone to think and act and well... be them. This may well be true but the motivations of these attacks go far deeper and are far, far more paranoid then most of us can imagine.

These attacks are part of a strange mythological assumption that the world must be remade in the image of what they see as Godly only after an epic struggle between the forces of good and evil. And if you are not moved in your beliefs, values, and actions based on God, then you can only be involved in evil activities. And where does evil come from again?

March onward Christian soldier... no, make that march on Evangelical Fundamentalist Christian soldier, marching on to war.

Yeah, I know... this sounds like some kind of horror movie that you might watch like "The Omen" or "The Exorcist". These series of attacks on the secular and logical basis of our country IS part of their religious identity and action. It is part of who these religious zealots think they are and believe that they must force their beliefs on the rest of us.

Examples of this attempt to remake the country include James Kennedy calling the separation of church and state "a grievous mistake" and his efforts to "remake" the United States for Jesus (and of course, they mean Jesus as they understand it). And Pat Robertson's drive over the years to remake the courts with an Evangelical Charismatic Protestant Fundamentalism --trust me, none of that is good for the rest of us. Or Jerry Falwell's calls for religious litmus tests in voting and political activism.

But these far religious rightists believe that before the world can be remade in a divine fashion, the forces of evil win. That's right. For those on the religious right, they believe that they have to lose before they can ultimately win. This is tied to their end times philosophy based on the arcane symbolism and destruction in the book of Revelations in some versions of the Bible.

The courts then become not just an impediment to religious change, they have become Satanic courts that are part of a larger conspiracy to move the country away from the Evangelical God and toward evil.

If you believe you are fighting evil -- and these people do -- you do not negotiate with evil. You do not tolerate it. You fight it and destroy it. You must take political action and not stop until you win. And that is what they believe that they must do.