America in 2060: Christians to the Back of the Bus; Separate Drinking Fountains for Christians
The American Family Association has seen the future, and it’s not pretty.
The AFA sent out a mass mailing titled “What will religion look like in the year 2060?” The e-mail warned that by the year 2060, Christians will be in the same marginalized position as blacks were during the Jim Crow era.
Here’s the letter:
What will religion look like in the year 2060?
Conservative Christians will be treated as second class citizens, much like African Americans were prior to civil rights legislation in the 1960s. Family as we know it will be drastically changed with the state taking charge of the children beginning at birth.
Marriage will include two, three, four or any number of participants. Marriage will not be important, with individuals moving in and out of a “family” group at will.
Church buildings will be little used, with many sold to secular buyers and the money received going to the government. Churches will not be allowed to discuss any political issues, even if it affects the church directly.
Tax credit given to churches and non-profit organizations will cease. Christian broadcasting will be declared illegal based on the separation of church and state. The airwaves belong to the government, therefore they cannot be used for any religious purpose.
We will have, or have had, a Muslim president. Cities with a name from the Bible such as St. Petersburg, Bethlehem, etc. will be forced to change their name due to separation of church and state.
Groups connected to any religious affiliation will be forced out of health care. Health centers get tax money from the state, making it a violation of church and state.
Get involved! Sign THE STATEMENT.
Sincerely,
Donald E. Wildmon
We “will have had” a Muslim president??? But Obama IS a Muslim. What will the Birthers have to say about this? And Donald Wildmon forgot to mention Agenda 21 and the Black Helicopters.
Labels: AFA, America 2060, American Family Association, Christians 2060
posted by Tom Harper @ 3:54 PM
7 Comments:
Just more fear mongering. The AFA should try love, not fear.
I'm surprised the letter didn't say what many of the fundamentalist Christians really think, which is that the vast minority in this country (non-believers) is going to find a way to put all the Christians in concentration camps. Heh... What a bunch of fearmongering paranoids.
Poetic Justice considering the religious right has a large history of supporting Jim Crow in the past using false bible passages of mixing of races as their reasoning. Jerry Falwell would have loved for all of us to forget the debates he had with Martin Luther King on the subject.
They are forgetting one important fact:
You can label a black person, you can't label a fundamentalist!
Erik
Why wait until 2060?
These "chicken littles" just won't quit will they? But they've learned that fear gets donations. Just like with the gun sales. Maybe we need to turn the psychology against them with things like health care and education.
Components of the conservative coalition see their pols in disarray, with an election lost and polls showing sentiment is running fairly strong against them. So, it's time to shake up some already paranoid personalities, the better to get money rolling in and stiffen spines.
Thus, the NRA claims its predictions of "they will be coming to get your guns" were correct. Thus, people are flocking to stores and gun shows to buy their AK's and Bushmasters before the federales show up at their door.
If history is clear about anything it's that governments can neither put religious faith into people or get it out of them. Wildmon is a crackpot and grifter who makes a very comfortable living hustling the insecure and gullible.
Jerry: Love? Fear is so much more profitable.
Snave: Christians in concentration camps? No, that won't be until 2070.
Erik: Poetic indeed. The Religious Right might get hoisted on their own petard, and they're scared shitless.
jadedj: LOL. Why indeed.
Demeur: Health care, education? Sounds like a bunch of comminism to me.
SW: When conservatives get trounced at the polls, they respond by pushing the same old fear buttons even harder and louder.
"governments can neither put religious faith into people or get it out of them." Very true. Too bad so many people don't understand that.
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