The general support for Roy Moore by the Orange Hate-Monkey (OHM) and the Republican National Convention (RNC) re-started my writing on a larger piece on Christian Nationalism (Christianism) an article that is still not finished yet. This is not a new development, what Roy Moore and his fellow Christianists represent. I’ve intellectually known about their designs for most of my life. I just never connected the dots before to complete the picture that is now being revealed. The subject of Roy Moore should be at least mentioned on the blog for the purpose of reference for later articles, if for no other reason.
Roy Moore has been one of the leaders of the Evangelical Christianist movement for decades. These fundamentalists are the violence prone backbone of the Republican party today. My first exposure to Roy Moore and his insistence that the US be remade into a christian nation was while listening to an episode of Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) Freethought Radio, so it is fitting that FFRF communicates the news of his sexual deviancy.
Moore’s infamy is tied to his willingness to abuse his public office to promote his personal religion. His primary loyalty as a judge was not to the law and the Constitution, but to his bible. The women’s stories reiterate Moore’s shocking disregard for public service and public office. He used his position as a district attorney to gain the trust of Nancy Wells, mother to then 14-year-old Leigh Corfman. Waiting outside a courtroom on a wooden bench, Moore approached the mother and daughter according to their retelling. Moore, whose office was down the hall, explained to the mother that she didn’t want her daughter to go into a child custody hearing, and that he, a district attorney, would watch the child. Then:
“Alone with Corfman, Moore chatted with her and asked for her phone number, she says. Days later, she says, he picked her up around the corner from her house in Gadsden, drove her about 30 minutes to his home in the woods, told her how pretty she was and kissed her. On a second visit, she says, he took off her shirt and pants and removed his clothes. He touched her over her bra and underpants, she says, and guided her hand to touch him over his underwear.”
Moore also used his office to get near and select another victim, Debbie Wesson Gibson, who was 17 when Moore spoke to her high school civics class.
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This is easy to understand. Jim Bakker. Jimmy Swaggart. Ted Haggard. Now Roy Moore. Evangelicals are blind to the predators in their midst because they willfully suppress inquiry into another person’s faith or falsehood. They believe everyone when it comes to protestations of faith. It is an ingrained part of the evangelical culture to simply accept the faith statements of another believer even if reality clearly indicates that the believer is lying.
There’s an end coming, and it’s coming soon. Most people seem to subscribe to this belief. There’s always some judgment day on the horizon, war with Iran, the military industrial complex, Socialism, Fascism, Gays in the Military, Gays getting Married, Global Warming, 2012, etcetera, ad nauseum. The list is endless. There’s always some core issue that “threatens to end our way of life” that has to be taken seriously, and I find that I’ve become as skeptical of these claims as I am of most more recognizably religious claims.
Evangelicals are explicitly engaged in a suicide pact with other evangelicals when it comes to the subject of faith. Most of them simply aren’t aware of the nature of their pact because they’ve never allowed themselves to question their own beliefs, and it is tantamount to suicidal behavior on our part to give the keys to the nuclear arsenal to members of a death cult. Anyone trying to bring about the second coming of Christ and the rapture, the average evangelical, is a member of a death cult and it’s high time we called them out for what they are.
These are Christianists. This label should be viewed with the same contempt that Islamist is viewed with. They want to subject us all to their god’s laws, and they don’t understand why we object to their perversion of the US legal system in this fashion.
