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Saturday, August 01, 2009
GOD AS A HISTORY MAKER
"The Christian right is making a fresh push to force religion onto the school curriculum in Texas with the state's education board about to consider recommendations that children be taught that there would be no United States if it had not been for God. Members of a panel of experts appointed by the board to revise the state's history curriculum, who include a Christian fundamentalist preacher who says he is fighting a war for America's moral soul, want lessons to emphasise the part played by Christianity in the founding of the US and that religion is a civic virtue. ...One of the panel, David Barton, founder of a Christian heritage group called WallBuilders, argues that the curriculum should reflect the fact that the US Constitution was written with God in mind including that "there is a fixed moral law derived from God and nature", that "there is a creator" and "government exists primarily to protect God-given rights to every individual"....Another of the experts is Reverend Peter Marshall, who heads his own Christian ministry and preaches that Hurricane Katrina and defeat in the Vietnam war were God's punishment for sexual promiscuity and tolerance of homosexuals." (Guardian, 22 July) RD
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The fundamentalist is correct, in a sense, if you take "God" to be the ideological baggage forced on newborns in order to get them to neatly comply with their slavery. And of course homosexuals will bring down the nation. Homosexuality that is correctly gendered is the cement that binds the military. Gender deviant homosexuality threatens to undermine the psychosexual incentive "real men" have for going to war. Think Sparta, or locker room butt slapping. Homosexuality has a very important, reserved space in civilization, when it is harnessed for the purpose of war. It's the sissies that practice it outside of this context that threaten, as Himmler noted, to make us a "plaything for our enemies". Capitalism needs war which needs soldiers which needs real men which needs gendered war-exclusive homosexuality and cannot tolerate other forms that would dilute this.
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