Acceding to Barber, the Obama administration is the “modern-day equivalent” of ancient Rome, where each citizen is made to worship Caesar with progressivism.
Is there perhaps just a little bit of hypocrisy involved here?
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“It’s the same thing; it’s pagan sexual morality. It’s a pagan view of the world that is a secularist view of the world that is inherently hostile toward not just any religion but particularly Christianity.”
Factually, this is absurd, and there are a few points I wish to make:
No, not much evidence of Paganism in the Obama administration.
Yet in another example of hypocrisy, while denouncing Roman devotion to Caesar, these Evangelicals want to coerce Americans to worship their God through the old “under God” line they got added to the Pledge of Allegiance in 1954.
Apparently, Barber believes that since Christianity has always – until the Enlightenment – coerced worship of Jesus, that every other religion must also have coerced its believers.
I’m sorry, Mr. Barber, but if that is the only way you can GET believers, then maybe there is something wrong with your religion.
So-called Christians like Barber are busily trying even now to coerce worship of Jesus by legislating his beliefs in violation of the U.S. Constitution. While crying persecution and defending freedom of religion, these conservatives are denying freedom of religion to millions of Americans, demanding that their own beliefs be legislated into law and the rest of us forced to go along with them, giving up our own freedom to have different beliefs of our own.
This is like Republicans saying liberals are both Nazis and Communists, or Communists and Islamists. It’s nonsensical and seemingly meaningful only to a Republican mind.
But without lies and distortion and hypocrisy and invented history, what would the Religious Right have?
Not much at all.
Hrafnkell Haraldsson, a social liberal with leanings toward centrist politics has degrees in history and philosophy. His interests include, besides history and philosophy, human rights issues, freedom of choice, religion, and the precarious dichotomy of freedom of speech and intolerance. He brings a slightly different perspective to his writing, being that he is neither a follower of an Abrahamic faith nor an atheist but a polytheist, a modern-day Heathen who follows the customs and traditions of his Norse ancestors. He maintains his own blog, A Heathen’s Day, which deals with Heathen and Pagan matters, and Mos Maiorum Foundation www.mosmaiorum.org, dedicated to ethnic religion. He has also contributed to NewsJunkiePost, GodsOwnParty and Pagan+Politics.
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