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32. The extreme Christian right is more a threat to our nation than Russia or China.

The fundamentalists, evangelicals and a large segment of what is left of the Catholic congregations is zealously determined to impose their religious convictions on the entirety of society regardless of our constitutional guaranteed freedoms. Zealots are the most dangerous of reformers since the are convinced that their mission is divinely guided and protected from circumspection. Throughout history and what we are experiencing today by the Muslim extreme fundamentalists and within our own society are the same. They believe that their cause is so divinely directed that they are even protected from being held accountable for their vicious actions, such as imprisonment, beating and even beheading those who oppose them. Sadly they are not unique example.

Their counterparts in the our nation hold the same concepts. They totally reject any notion that they are not justified in imposing their religious beliefs on the entirety of society such as the abolishment of abortion and even the restriction of contraception based on their religious beliefs. Their formation of religious schools are little different than those of the Muslim extremists and fundamentally should be of no less of a concern. They are just as dangerous as their Muslim counterparts in that they are challenging the basic human rights of the freedom of conscience that the framers of the constitution provided in the Bill of Rights. What they are essentially pursuing is making any office in the government tacitly subject to a religious test. Those who are not in agreement with their religious dogmas are unfit for service in the government.

They are making a mockery of the principle of the separation of Church and State and challenging the law by using the pulpit for political propagandizing. This is a key concept that the founding fathers feared and sought to prevent and which had strangled descent for thousands of years throughout Europe and from which they desperately escaped. The enemy isn't at the gates it is a cancer that has taken hold of our fellow citizens who have been lead to believe that they are the real Americans and anyone who opposes them are the enemy.

Civilizations have risen and fallen throughout time. But one thing they hold in common is internal division and the loss of unity. The very basis upon which our nation was founded and imbued in the national motto adopted by our founders, E Pluribus Unum, (Out of Many One) is being torn asunder by the extreme right. The essence of this concept that "We may disagree, but I will die fighting for your right to do so" is slowing but surely being erased by those sowing descent and division.