It's a bad religion

Alert superreader DH sent me a link to the Web site for Vision America.

Vision America believes

Our mission is to inform, encourage and mobilize pastors and their congregations to be proactive in restoring Judeo-Christian values to the moral and civic framework in their communities, states, and our nation.

That's right, they are a religious group that believes there is a war on Christians in this country. During lunch yesterday, I had a talk about religion in this country as it applies to politics. These extreme relious fundamentalist groups claim that they are under attack. When you ask them why we should be a "Christian nation" they say it is because Christians are the majority. Makes no sense at all.

They are having a little get together soon and one of the speakers is our own Sen. John Cornyn, by the way. Oh yeah, Tom DeLay, too.

Panels Include:

• The Gay Agenda: America won't be happy
• ACLU and Radical Secularism: Driving God from the public square
• Hollywood: Christians through a distorted lens
• Jews confront the war on Christians
• Judges: Overruling God
• The Media: Megaphone for anti-faith values
• and Taking our Faith to the ballot box

I coudn't make this stuff up if I wanted to. They are indeed the radical, batshit-insane brand of religious group, too. Take a look at this, for instance.

Just browsing through, I saw this: Vision America has gathered the credibility of leaders such as Dr. D. James Kennedy, Rev. Don Wildmon, Paul Weyrich, Dr. Ronnie Floyd, Rev. Peter Marshall and a growing list of nationally recognized pastors to launch this work.

That's Paul Weyrich. You know him, he's the guy that created the Heritage Foundation and is the founder of the Free Congress Foundation. You can do a Google search and find out all sorts of neat info about him. I think he is famous for being one of the big movers and shakers of the conservative movement, practically giving the Reagan Administration its agenda for the first term. He is infamous for advocating things like another American Revolution and "Christianizing" America. You can read some of his columns here to see how nutty he is.

Weyrich creates foundations, and people like Richard Mellon-Scaife, heir to the Carnegie-Mellon fortune, fund them.

According to the Wikipedia biography, The New Republic wrote a story about him on Oct. 27, 1997 calling him paranoid and unstable. I can't imagine why. PFAW has a good resource of information about Weyrich and the Free Congress Foundation.

So that's who is behind this little endeavor called Vision America.

Comments

[Sean-Paul Kelley]

These folks are downright scary.

[texxas red]

Will they still feel the same way when Christians become the minority?