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The Way We Live Now - Redemption Politics - When Democrats Court Evangelicals - NYTimes.com

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John Adams, who helped edit the declaration, attributed the text to God as well as to Thomas Jefferson and expressed his wish that future Americans would celebrate the great day “by solemn acts of devotion” (along with bonfires, gunfire, the clanging of bells and other raffish pursuits of happiness).
For most of American history, evangelicals were Democrats or their equivalents, profoundly uncomfortable near the temple of the moneychangers.
Jefferson attracted huge numbers of voters simply because his running mate, Aaron Burr, was the grandson of the great evangelist Jonathan Edwards. In the 1920s, William Jennings Bryan was lampooned by H. L. Mencken as an ignoramus catching flies in a sweaty courthouse during the Scopes trial, but that snide dismissal overlooked Bryan’s long career as an advocate for progressive causes. F.D.R. consistently enjoyed the support of both traditional evangelicals and neo-Calvinists like Reinhold Niebuhr (enjoying new life as the writer intellectuals most like to quote without reading, after Tocqueville).
Now and then he speaks in the ancient accents, promising to create “a kingdom right here on earth” or arguing that “our individual salvation depends on our collective salvation.” Those phrases slip by, generally unnoticed by his partisans (who are evangelical in their own way).
Not only do they connect us to the richness of a deep American past; they might even point to the better future we’ve been waiting for since, well, forever.
Consider the Declaration of Independence. It is not normally seen as an evangelical statement, despite the heroic attempts of the Christian right to claim it as such. God is mentioned four times, but obliquely, and never by name. Even so, the argument against kings derived much of its power from the vigor of Christian thought.

Fight the Smears | Fight the Smears Home

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Rad Geek People’s Daily – Politics

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those of us who profess to favor freedom yet depreciate agitation are men who want the crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. … This struggle may be a moral one or a physical one, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without demand. It never has and never will. —Frederick Douglass, abolitionist and feminist

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The Long Night by Charley Reese

Tags: politics, tyrrany, constitution on 2008-05-11 -All Annotations (0) -About

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The only safe environment for a human being is under a weak government with very restricted powers. Normal people don't need much to be happy – food, shelter, dignity and freedom from marauders. They need a rule of law that applies to everyone equally and at all times and in all circumstances.
In our time, when people are saying we must sacrifice liberty for security, that scrapping the Constitution is necessary to win the "war" against terrorism, I would suggest that you take your choice of genocides in the past 100 years and remind yourself what happens when people buy into the false proposition that the end justifies the means. People who preach that are always more interested in the means than in any end.
There are people living among us at this very moment capable of the cruelty so evident in the Holocaust. All they are waiting for is the opportunity. No greater opportunity exists than when a government enlists such people and says whatever you do is now justified for the sake of the "greater good."
A government that can without trial destroy you by simply putting on a list your name or the name of an organization with which you are associated is a tyranny. A government that invades other countries and that feels free to murder people in any country it chooses is a tyranny.
Americans are on the edge of a long night. We had better wake up and step back before it's too late.

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PROPOSING THE DISSOLUTION OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IF CERTAIN CONDITIONS OCCUR

Be it resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of Arizona, the Senate concurring

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The Evangelical Manifesto

An Evangelical Manifesto is an open declaration of who Evangelicals are and what they stand for. It has been drafted and published by a representative group of Evangelical leaders who do not claim to speak for all Evangelicals, but who invite all other Evangelicals to stand with them and help clarify what Evangelical means in light of “confusions within and the consternation without” the movement.

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5 Psychological Experiments That Prove Humanity is Doomed

A number of psychological experiments over the years have yielded terrifying conclusions about the subjects. Oh, we're not talking about the occasional psychopath who turns up. No, we're talking about you.

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Salon.com | Wright's theology not "new or radical"

Black religion expert Jonathan Walton on black liberation theology's roots in slavery, MLK Jr.'s "God damn America moment" and what Jeremiah Wright has in common with Gennifer Flowers.

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Time to Attack The Right Wing's Core Values-- Less Taxes and Less Government

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The Seattle Times: Earmarks

A database of lawmakers, earmarks, and campaign giving.

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Spirituality of Collapse

Navigating the Collapse of Civilization: a Spiritual Map

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George Orwell: Politics and the English Language

it is clear that the decline of a language must ultimately have political and economic causes: it is not due simply to the bad influence of this or that individual writer. But an effect can become a cause, reinforcing the original cause and producing the same effect in an intensified form, and so on indefinitely.

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Position Statements on Iraq, FISA and Economic Stimulus

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George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language," 1946

Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed that we cannot by conscious action do anything about it. Our civilization is decadent and our language -- so the argument runs -- must inevitably share in the general collapse.

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2parse/blog - Liberal Libertarianism

The Daily Recommended Blog Read * Andrew Sullivan * LifeHacker * Meet the Press * Obama 2008 * Reddit * The Drudge Report * TNR’s The Plank * Today’s NYTimes

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Holier Than They - Opinion - New York Times Blog

For years, the left – and moderates – permitted the right to frame itself as the sole custodian of “family values” in the United States. It was only when vast numbers of American families woke up to the fact that they were not being valued at all – that, in fact, they were being fleeced – that non-conservatives shook themselves into a sentient state and began to talk about replacing empty words with substantive promises about health care, child care and college aid.

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