Bush and Religion: Anti Christian, Polarizing and
Ugly
Dr. Gerry Lower
The Bush administration has coerced virtually every branch of western Christendom in America back into the fold of Old Testament fundamentalism, the entirety of which is pre-Christian in origin, largely anti-Christian in content and historically anti-Christian in practice. Bush's polarization has driven American Christendom into two diametrically-opposed camps. These two camps are separated entirely by moral ground, those preferring a conservative Old Testament vengeance-based morality and those preferring a liberal New Testament compassion-based ethical morality.
It is taken for granted by religious Republicans that America is a
"Christian" nation (in spite of its newfound Old Testament
religiosity). It is assumed, somehow or another, that the human rights
basis of American Democracy must have its roots in religious
fundamentalism, legalism, penalism and vengeance. That measure of
historical ignorance is simply mind-wretching in a democracy overtly based
by Jefferson on nascent Christian values and human tights, and having had
over two centuries to get it figured out.
The entire Republican interpretation of nascent Democracy and Christianity
(based on demonstrably false interpretations of history) is an utter
religious fiction, maintained as if the western church has no history of
its own, as if the church has made no human progress whatsoever since the
days of Biblical and Roman despotism. The Bush administration has
succeeded in coercing the various branches of American Catholicism and
Protestanism back into the fold of Old Testament fundamentalism, the
entirety of which is pre-Christian in origin, largely anti-Christian in
content and historically anti-Christian in practice (recalling here the
fact of imperialism, colonialism and capitalism, as uniformly justified by
Old Testament religious attitudes, e.g., choseness and
self-righteousness).
One result of religious political dominion (under the "I am a uniter,
not a divider" leadership of George W. Bush) is the further
polarization of American Christendom into two diametrically-opposed camps.
These two camps are clearly separated by moral ground, those prefering a
conservative Old Testament vengeance-based morality and those prefering a
liberal New Testament compassion-based ethical morality. Accordingly,
these two camps pursue human dominion and liberation, respectively.
DOMINION THEOLOGY (Old Testament)
To worship an ethereal, supernatural Jesus in service to Roman dogma
and self-righteous conquest and control.
The core of Dominion Theology is exemplified by the so-called
"compassionate" conservatism of the Texas Southern Baptist
political party as devined and defined in part by Marvin Olasky, a Bush
friend and lay political "theologian." Promoting Dominion
Theology without knowing it,
