{"id":5331,"date":"2011-07-07T01:42:24","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T08:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5331"},"modified":"2011-07-07T01:42:24","modified_gmt":"2011-07-07T08:42:24","slug":"a-nation-ruled-by-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/07\/a-nation-ruled-by-god\/","title":{"rendered":"A Nation Ruled by God?"},"content":{"rendered":"

To the best of my knowledge, there has never been a nation ruled by God.  There have been Theocracies, but they have invariably been nations ruled by people, purporting to be acting in God\u2019s behalf, and, more often than not, lining their own pockets in the process.  Fortunately, our nation\u2019s founders had the wisdom to foresee that we could not maintain our freedom if ruled by Theocons, and they guaranteed against the establishment of a state religion in the 1st Amendment.  Republican supply-side pseudo-Christians reject that wisdom, and would impose their beliefs on everyone.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"7Paul_Broun\"Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) is a gigantic ass. There, I just saved you a few paragraphs of reading. But if you care to know more, here it is<\/a><\/font>: <\/font><\/p>\n

On the Fourth of July, many lawmakers set aside partisan disagreements in favor of sweeping tributes to American freedom. But not Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA), who couldn’t keep his abhorrence of Americans who disagree with his political views out of his invocation<\/a><\/font> at a barbecue hosted by the Cobb County GOP. […] <\/font><\/p>\n

U.S. Rep. Paul Broun (R-Athens), who delivered the invocation, warned about the future of the U.S. <\/font><\/p>\n

"We’re standing on the precipice, staring down in the deep chasm of socialism and total government control," Broun said. […]<\/font><\/p>\n

There are those who wish to destroy the U.S., Broun said, citing radical Islam and "progressives."<\/font><\/p>\n

"Father, there are many who want to destroy us from outside this nation,"<\/font><\/strong><\/span> Broun said. <\/font>"Folks like al-Qaeda and the radical Islamists. But there are folks that want to destroy us from inside, the progressives and the socialists, who want to make this nation a nation that’s no longer under you, under God, but a nation that’s ruled by man."<\/strong><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

I think spending the 4th of July at a GOP-sponsored barbeque while offering a prayer to God against progressive Americans who are like al-Qaeda is quote possibly the most awesome God-fearing and flag-waving thing I can think of. The only thing it lacks is that Rep. Broun should have been wearing a giant red-white-and-blue painted crucifix, and he should have been riding in a pickup truck that was jumping a pit full of flamethrower-wielding lions, and the pickup truck should have a picture painted on the tailgate of Jesus and Ronald Reagan high-fiving each other\u2026 [emphasis original<\/em><\/span>]<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Don\u2019t get me wrong here.  I consider myself a man of faith, and hope you will honor that, as I honor your faith, whatever it may be.  What I will not honor is any attempt to impose faith of any kind, any attempt to control others, racism and bigotry under the guise of faith, any attempt to seek personal gain under the guise of faith, and any attempt to legislate piety codes.<\/font><\/p>\n

If we allow religion to interfere with government, it guarantees something even worse.  Government will interfere in religion.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To the best of my knowledge, there has never been a nation ruled by God.  There have been Theocracies, but they have invariably been nations ruled by people, purporting to be acting in God\u2019s behalf, and, more often than not, lining their own pockets in the process.  Fortunately, our nation\u2019s founders had the wisdom to […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-religion","category-5-id","category-47-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}