Don Bowman

In My Opinion…..

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I swear if I see one more hysterical extreme right winger screeching hysterically about how the “commies” are coming or, the Socialists are taking over I will probably vomit.  We are in the grips of full blown fascism and the corporations now rule our country, our economy, and virtually every aspect of our lives.  As the corporate elites live like parasites on a fat infested dog, more Americans are left homeless, hungry and without hope.

Hiding behind radical religious institutions, a vicious political party has formed which I like to call “the Idiocons”. The name is derived from the words “idiot” and “con” artists who worship power more than life itself.  Add a heaping helping of religious extremism and we have the perfect storm for an idiocracy.

The Idiocons recite with predictable regularity that we are a nation founded on Christian principles.  We are NOT!  The founders were those who fled England and the collaboration of church and state against the people.  The one thing they were intent on avoiding was the combining of religion and government.  Hence, we got the 1st Amendment which not only allows us to believe what we wish to believe, but to do so without government interference or collusion.  It states specifically that there will be a separation of church and state; the founders recognizing and remembering what a murderous and deadly combination this was and could become.  ( George Washington in the Treaty of Tripoli, states emphatically that we are in no sense founded on the Christian religion)

We have attacked relentlessly other country’s who are controlled by radical religious beliefs. We have seen first hand how dangerous and murderous a religion controlled government can be to its own people.  Do you really want that here?  The Evangelical movement which is commonly referred to as the “evangevils” represents the same kind of threat to our nation as other radical religious belief systems represent to theirs.  And in each country operating as a fascist regime, religion is the weapon of choice used to beat the people down.

Radical religions along with fascism are the cornerstones of the Idiocon party.  It is not about God or what is best for the country….its all about power.

The 14 Characteristics of Fascism

By Lawrence Britt, PhD

  1. Powerful and continuing expressions of nationalism
    2. Disdain for the importance of human rights
    3. Identification of enemies/scapegoats as a unifying cause
    4. The supremacy of the military/avid militarism
    5. Rampant sexism
    6. A controlled mass media
    7. Obsession with national security
    8. Religion and ruling elite tied together
    9. Power of corporations protected
    10. Power of labor suppressed or eliminated
    11. Disdain and suppression of intellectuals and the arts
    12. Obsession with crime and punishment
    13. Rampant cronyism and corruption
    14. Fraudulent elections

The 13 Characteristics of radical religions

By ME, No BS

  • Powerful and continuing expressions of nationalism
  • Disdain for the importance of human rights
  • Identification of enemies/scapegoats as a unifying cause
  • Rampant sexism
  • Religion and ruling elite tied together
  • Disdain and suppression of intellectuals and the arts
  • Obsession with crime and punishment
  • Claiming that God is speaking only to them
  • Belief in magic, mysticism
  • All the signs of the end times are always present
  • Repression of women as simply servants to men
  • Claiming they know who is going to hell….but its never them
  • Claiming that if the nation would submit to their convoluted beliefs in who or what GOD is, all would be well

I submit, that to do so we would all experience hell first hand.

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https://loeb.columbian.gwu.edu/treaty-tripoli

Our own U.S. Senate, in 1797, stated clearly that “the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion.”

The words appeared in the Treaty of Tripoli, written when George Washington was president, sent to the Senate by John Adams, who followed Washington as president. It was read aloud in the Senate and also printed for every senator. The senators voted unanimously to ratify, with no dissension noted in any record, and there is little evidence of any public complaints when the treaty was printed in three newspapers, in Philadelphia and New York City.

Source: Thomas Jefferson, “The Virginia Legislature, Review and Reform of the Law,” in Autobiography.

“Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.”

Source: Letter of Thomas Jefferson to Dr. Thomas Cooper, February 10, 1814.

THOMAS JEFFERSON’S VIEWS OF THE PURITAN FAITH

“His [Calvin’s] religion was demonism. If ever man worshiped a false God, he did. The being described in his five points is … a demon of malignant spirit. It would be more pardonable to believe in no God at all, than to blaspheme him by the atrocious attributes of Calvin”

Source: Thomas Jefferson, Works, Vol. IV, p. 363.

“Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity.  What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.”

Source: Thomas Jefferson, “Religion” in Notes on the State of Virginia (1782), p. 286.