The Religious Right (RR) has infiltrated our political system to bring America more toward a
theocracy. Our individual rights are being diminished by those who want to tell us what we can and cannot do in our bedrooms, what to teach our children, who we can or cannot marry, what women can or cannot do to their bodies and promoting their particular religion within government.
The secular community does not have near the funds to push back against a political system bolstered by billions of dollars from the religious community. The RR’s ’cause’ is linked to an emotionally-based meme that their religion is the ‘right’ one, all others are ‘outsiders’ and there is only one God – theirs. They place their personal value in an alternate source. Therefore any individual right can be discriminated against for the cause of the greater good – making this country 100% Christian and replacing the Constitution with sharia-like Biblical laws. We see this today with abortion restrictions from Ohio to Florida to Texas and laos with several of the presidential candidates. The idea of changing our secular nation into this theocratic one is called Dominionism.
Dominionism is a tendency among Protestant Christian evangelicals and fundamentalists that encourages them to not only be active political participants in civic society, but also seek to dominate the political process as part of a mandate from God.
The Reverend Tim LaHaye co-authored Mind Siege: The Battle for Truth in the New Millennium, published in 2000. The best-selling book issues a call to arms for evangelical Christians to battle against secular humanism. Mind Siege declares that secular humanism is a “religion,” and issues marching orders to evangelical Christians to gear up for an all-out battle to root secular
