The Radical Christian Right and the War on Government

There is a desire felt by tens of millions of Americans, lumped into a diffuse and fractious movement known as the Christian right, to destroy the intellectual and scientific rigor of the Enlightenment, radically diminish the role of government to create a theocratic state based on “biblical law,” and force a recalcitrant world to bend to the will of an imperial and “Christian” America. Its public face is on display in the House of Representatives. This ideology, which is the driving force behind the shutdown of the government, calls for the eradication of social “deviants,” beginning with gay men and lesbians, whose sexual orientation, those in the movement say, is a curse and an illness, contaminating the American family and the country.

(Note: This article from truthdig is posted as an example of the ramping up of divisive reporting to be found across the media today. A mixture of both truth & lies, This sort of "reporting" exists only to further ramp-up the levels of paranoia & fear within the US public. There are "Extremists" on all sides of the religious divides;Jewish & Muslim as well as Christian. This must be appreciated to understand that it's "Religion" itself that is the most devious & dangerous motivating force in the World today.)