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:: 9.26.2003 ::  



Jesus or Nothing

On April 28th I posted a link to a story about how touch-screen voting was an elaborate scheme to co-opt and falsify American votes. Simply a conspiracy theory? Perhaps... but another blogger, Mark Crispin Miller, posted a letter on Wednesday about this very story. Apparently, the executives of Diebold, Inc., one of the companies that manufactures electronic voting machines, all donated funds - on the same day - to a Senatorial candidate from North Carolina named Lauch Faircloth.
An added twist is that Lauch Faircloth has alwasy been openly opposed to allowing all Americans to vote. He is a leader of CNP, the Christian reconstructionists who believe only Christians should be allowed to vote. How can a voting machine company have so many executives line up behind a candidate who is opposed to counting all the votes?
This is a very good question.

A quote from a Christian Reconstructionist website defines it as, "A recently articulated philosophy which argues that it is the moral obligation of Christians to recapture every institution for Jesus Christ." The foundational doctrines of Christian Reconstructionism, from the same site, are:
1. "God's covenant with Adam required him to exercise dominion over the earth and to subdue it (Gen. 1:26 ff) under God according to God's law-word."

2. "The restoration of that covenant relationship was the work of Christ, His grace to His elect people."

3. "The fulfillment of that covenant is their great commission: to subdue all things and all nations to Christ and His law-word."

R.J. Rushdoony, The Institutes of Biblical Law (Nutley, NJ: Craig Press, 1973), p. 14.
And a final quote, this time from the sect's founder, Dr. Rousas Rushdoony: "Man is summoned to create the society God requires."

Anyone scared yet?

If not, read "Jesus plus Nothing: Undercover among America's secret theocrats", published several months ago in Harper's Magazine. Chills and thrills galore, guaranteed.

Happy weekend, everyone!

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