Utterly Meaningless

I will give him credit for his point about the SBC and alcohol though. The world is going to hell from their viewpoint, and they are worried about whether or not their leaders enjoy a glass of wine with dinner.

Sort of like President Bush proudly signing legislation today dramatically increasing the FCC’s ability to fine broadcasters for “indecency.”

I certainly feel safer now.

“A little known fact: R. J Rushdoony, aside from being the founder of Christian Reconstruction, is also the founder of the modern home schooling movement. Most people who deride the Reconstructionist movement for being ‘too political’ don’t realize that.” ( Jay Rogers, What is Theonomy?, foreru...q.html )

And Gary North is married to Rushdoony’s daughter.

Mary

This gets me going….thank you for revisiting the inner the depths of Reconstructionism and the homeschooling world – a movement that most Christians don’t even know what they are growing.

Yes, Rushdooney and North are scary. Evangelical churches are publishing and distributing an alarming amount of Rushdooney rhetoric for members. I absolutely shuddered when I saw someone reading a church pamphlet about Rushdooney’s view of blood atonement.

North carries on the legacy – literally. A great source to explain this movement is to read through the sites Theocracy Watch and Yurica for more info. Interested people reading along might want to brush up on what an America under biblical/Mosaic law might look like (Christian Jihad and Sharia).

Time Mag had a recent issue featuring the top 25 Evangelicals in America. These leaders (and with the help of Rove) are deeply involved in politics. Their push is not so much from the top down because the rhetoric is alarming to the majority of Americans. Instead, their push is from the bottom up where they work to make seemingly innoculous regulations and laws. To do this, they fund candidates that have a chance to win on local levels. On local levels, small movements begin to gain momentum.

One gaining some interest is having our community have a married/household registry and/or a co-habitating/household registry keeping track of “family units” and “alternative family units” that can be easily tracked as further legislation arises.

An issue affecting schools is the letting in of church groups to hold Sunday services (this is a popular tactic by Evangelicals). On a simple level, it makes sense to the common person. The school isn’t used “anyway” so why not?

What happens is that those churches in schools, then ask for room after school hours for religious activities and groups for the students. This idea sounds great to many other church groups as well, however when they ask for similar permission, the “church in the school” argues back that the outside group “already has a place to meet” therefore outside groups should not have a need to use the school.

On gay marriage: Many original state amendments used wording that banned civil unions AND gay marriage hoping the masses would not realize the implications of banning civil unions. In banning civil unions, marriage is accepted as a religious covenant. The next push is to furhter define what constitutes a religious ceremony. Here we enter the slippery slope of defining religions are “valid”. By this time, it is hoped that enough mainstream political places have tipped the scale toward the Evangelical view (a view that doesn’t care for Catholics, Muslims, Jews, Mormons, Scientologists, etc.).

Another push is to ban gay-adoption. As the idea is popularized and accepted, the next step would be to ban gays (and non-Christians that cannot get married) from working with families in such areas as teaching, social work, pediatrics, and so on. With out the way to make a meaningful living…well, entertain the idea and imagine where you might want to move to should groups start being pushed out of the new American way.

These small pushes are wee bits of a much, much larger agenda. Most Christians do not even realize that as they listen and acknowledge and live the ideas of Pat and son, Gordon Robertson, Chuck Colson, James and Shirley Dobson, Farris, Kennedy (Coral Ridge Ministries) and virtually all popular far-right Christian radio and news broadcasters (Fox, CBN, etc.), that they are in essence supporting the growth of Reconstructionism. I think many might be horrified.

The legislative baby steps that are happening today, have little meaning or affect the lives of most Americans. As these laws increase many Americans will ultimately find they have to join the movement and ideas to secure their job security, property rights, benefits, and so on.

On the world level, Reconstructionists have an impact on our political policies. Their huge support for Israel is biblically based as well. Christ cannot come back unless Israel literally exists, and the Jews are literally united in that land. Ever watched 700 Club and seen a clip about helping some Jewish refugee in Russia relocate to Tel Aviv? Now you know why.

We see a world that is working on world wide agreements to equalize human rights, women’s rights, poverty, and so on – but we see the US receeding from these agreements. Much of this too is biblically based. Care about the environment? No, it just prolongs the verse in Revelations that states the second coming will be when “…the last tree is felled…” so why care about the trees…

It’s no longer exciting to see the homeschooling movement grow. It’s scary.

The Baptist convention this week brings homeschooling even more into the media in it’s call for all of it’s churches to develop and implement a path for all members to homeschool or learn in institutions away from public school setting and regulations.

As Christian education grows – especially Christian education that glorifies our forefathers and Protestant religion, secular and minority religious home educators are going to face quite a few challenges – and those challenges will be far beyond the simple questions of how to cope at a homeschool convention.