What the Theorists say:

The Christian Right, through its elctoral muscle and funding power, increasingly sets the agenda for US policies and society. Some organisations do this by in an above-board fashion but others operate like secret societies, recruiting members and peddling influence in underhand, covert ways. One of the scariest organisations is caled The Fellowship (aka The Family), a broad umbrella for a variety of different groups with the same philosophy – to evangelise among the rich right-wing and build secret networks of power in order to influence policy and promote their ‘people’ into government. The Fellowship funds expensive digs for senators and congressmen in Washington DC and organises meetings and think-tanks to browbeat susceptible politicians, business men and mediafigures.

Most disturbingly the Fellowship uses its network to forge close links between American leaders and shady characters in other parts of the world, all who share the same anti-communist agenda, now transformed into an anti-terror agenda. Although, both agendas seek the same thing – that of maintaining the status quo in a way that favours big capital and big business regardless of the degree of brutality, suppression and injustice involved.

Other Christian Right groups include the Biblical Reconstructionists, who belive the Bible is literal truth and the believe in the need to actively prepare the world for the Second Coming by triggering the Apocalypse if necessary, and who want to turn American into a religious dictatorship where abortionists and homosexuals are imprisoned or executed.

These are the groups that selected Bush as a presidential candidate, jockeyed for his nomination and funded both of his campaigns. As payback, Bush is furthering the reactionary agenda on abortion, homsexuality and breaking down the Church-State divider, supporting big business and getting further embroiled with repressive regimes around the world.

The Official Story?

The Christian Right champions a return to more traditional values and argues these faith-based policies are exactly what the United States needs. The liberal media and faithless intellectual elite, who have for too long set the nations agenda in opposition to the wishes of the people try to smear it with lies and distortions, but the Christan Right represents the opinion and will of the majority of Americans.

Should you be paranoid?

Actually, i would probably be a good idea to at least be a little paranoid about this one. Bush had to tread very carefully to avoid being seen to trample on the principles of the Church-State divide and to avoid being associated with fringe elements like the Biblical Reconstructionists. Some people argue that he didn’t even try to pretend he wasn’t associated with such groups. It seems unlikely we will ever know the full extent of fundamentalist influence on the White House or USgovernment, but we should probably be concerned, though less so now that Obama is in power.

The name Easter was named after the pagan goddess Ishtar. The food that she ate to keep her immortal was the egg and the animal that was associated with her was the rabbit. I have also noticed that Christian churches to this day will have Easter egg hunts and little do they realize that they are celebrating an old pagan tradition but yet they are Christians and just go on and on about how paganism is evil and should not be practiced but yet they will practice old pagan customs and celebrate pagan holidays themselves.

And not to mention there are so many religious freak parents out there who will tell there children to stay away from witchcraft and paganism but yet at the same time they themselves will let their kids celebrate Halloween and we all know that Halloween is an evil holiday all the way. A lot of people who claim to be Christians will look up their horoscopes in the daily newspaper but yet little do they realize the bible talks against Astrology and Astrology and horoscopes were practiced and developed by the ancient pagans.

A lot of Christmas decorations that we put in our homes were pagan traditions as well. The Christmas tree was originally a pagan tradition, candy canes and holly wreaths decorated the pagan temples back in times of ancient Greece before the times of Christ. Don’t get me wrong I have very great respect for the Christian church and I will always defend the pagan faith and the old wisdom of our ancient ancestors, for if it wasn’t for the pagans we never would have had the hanging gardens, the pyramids, the colossus, or Stonehenge. But I really do think that people really need to be aware of what is going on and we all need to be more open minded, liberal in our spiritual beliefs and less hypocritical.