Suppose the right wing actually did get their religious eutopia? America would be exactly like

[luvMIdog]

the middle east.

Soon denominations would begin to vie for power. Each one would be calling the other one ungodly. Each one would be saying the other one was led by Satan. Women particularly would be sorry for having wanted that eutopia. Oh it would be much much worse than the Irish Catholic/Protestant war. Much worse. Crimes and punishments based on sinning . Wars over what 'sinning' means.

Religion has no place in government.

Unless one wants this country to end up like Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome


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[blueinredohio]

1. They say Muslims want to force Sharia law

what's the difference, they want to force Christianity

[luvMIdog]

2. That's what I keep saying! It's the same exact damn thing!

[still_one]

3. It would be like nazi Germany

[Doc_Technical]

4. The US can have its own version of the thirty years war,

and God will be on everyone's side.

[Kablooie]

5. We've seen what an all powerful Christian government is like.

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Medieval Europe had an all powerful religious government for over a thousand years.
It was also known as the Dark Ages - for a reason.

It lasted between the end of Roman authority in the West in the fifth century and the beginnings of the Reformation in the early sixteenth century.

The Spanish Inquisition itself lasted around 700 years, (which no one expected, of course.)

The history of Christian governments is pretty horrific.

[luvMIdog]

6. Why does no one seem to remember this stuff?? Thanks your points were better than mine

[DetlefK]

7. It's not a Sunni-Shia-war. It's a cultural and political war.

It's about living your life according to certain rules. Even the fanatics of ISIS do not live by the Quran: Defectors have told that they are cherry-picking the parts they like, just like any other believer.

And the Sunni-Shia-conflict is actually was less relevant today than it was in the past. It's a simplification for the Cold War between sunni Saudi-Arabia and shia Iran, which is simply a geopolitical power-struggle. Religion is mainly pretext.

[luvMIdog]

8. true. I don't think these right wing people here are living by the words of Jesus either it's the

same type thing. Religion is the vehicle driven to gain power. The right wing here is also cherry picking. It's been done again and again. In the end it's always about power and religious zealots are used as the vehicle. It's easy to inflame and manipulate a zealot. Zealots of different faiths have common threads. Televangelists here have had their own news programs that are completely manipulative. They have been feeding twisted news to the masses for years. They bought up more and more stations. They turned it into a big dollar business. They cut deals with politicians. This is why we have this right wing mess. This is why we now have zealots that want to wage war. Same type thing. For the longest time people just assume that nobody believes the Pat Robertsons on tv. Well, more do than one would think.