Christian Reconstructionism, the Religious Right, and the GOP
Part 1 is a 45 page essay examining the outsized influence an obscure and fringe theology has on the GOP and contemporary politics.
Mainstream Conservative Support for the Agenda of the Religious Right
Part 2 examines mainstream conservative support for the ideas of the religious right stretching back to the 80s and 90s. It examines two major publications of the time, The End of Democracy? The Judicial Usurpation of Politics by Richard John Neuhaus in 1997, and The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom in 1987.
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From here in France, ‘ merci ‘ for this publication. The Closing of the American Mind has been on my book shelf since it was published 30 years ago. Prophetic in many ways.
As I understand it, you needed 62 pages to point out our system of government, or the way the current system functions lacks sufficient “democracy.” My first and pre-eminent argument: our system is not a democracy. Ours is a constitutional republic. Article I and II branches have representatives elected through a democratic process. The Article III branch is not democratic. Judicial officers are appointed for life, they act as referees for the Article I & II representatives. Their concern is whether law-making and enforcement actions comport with the Constitution and legal precedents that make up the cannon of our legal… Read more »
Well, it’s clear that you don’t understand it. In the future, I recommend you try actually reading what you comment on.
It’s clear I don’t understand what I read? Just take me off the notification list, I have no interest in any further ad hominem attacks from the morally superior.
One example, and I’m done. “Second is an assertion that laws should be divorced from any form of religious morality.” This suggestion is absolutely nowhere to be found in anything I wrote. In fact, the opposite literally oozes from both sections. That is just one example. You either didn’t read it, read into it, or just didn’t get it. Goodbye and good riddance.