READ GRANNY'S POST RE:RELIGION AND POLITICS

If you haven't read it already, please do read it. If you have, read it again. This is an important issue. Religion has played a major role in politics for a number of years, and most of our Republicans and many of our Democrats are deeply involved with the politico-religious groups. The Religious Right and the Christian Coalition decided years ago that bringing America to be a "Christian Nation" could be achieved by becoming active in politics.

They recognized the tremendous voting potential of the Church memberships. Pat Robertson has functioned as a fund raiser and a propagandist to the Christians. He and his affiliates have contributed greatly to the campaign war chests of many political parties and hopefuls who have thrown their hats into the ring. They have influenced many of the Christian evangelicals and fundamentalists, and the pastors have influenced their memberships. Their Christian colleges and schools are training up a new generation to enter politics, and they have enlisted many current politicians to their cause.

I don't have time right now to research my notes but at a later date I can give you statistics regarding the number of our fearless leaders who are involved with them. I don't know about you folks but I don't want the Pat Robertsons and his ilk running our country; there are too many of them already.

It is a hopeful sign that Robertson has lost about 200,000 of his 700 Club faithful (down from about 1,000,000 but that still leaves him about 800,000), and some of the evangelicals and fundamentalists are beginning to pull away from him, citing him as a "loose cannon". So the GOP has a vested interest in getting membership lists in order to propagandize and brainwash the churches - regain any voters that may be wobbling and assure the vote of new suckers.

There are so many seemingly disparate groups and organizations who are actually united in a common goal - to gain control of the United States government and of the people. Study the histories of other totalitarian governments. Each began using cooperation of dissimilar groups and as success was achieved in their climb to power, they betrayed and cast aside those they no longer needed. Even in instances of armed coup d'etat, the power seekers still had to enlist confederates and fellow conspirators as they built up their power base, and often betrayed them after a successful coup.

When Hitler was striving for power and control, he used the churches and religion as a tool to enlist the backing of the people. And we know what happened after that. Americans think we are involved only in foreign wars. Wrong! We are involved in a major war on many fronts right here in our homeland, and it is a war for freedom and control of our own government. We fight numerous skirmishes and think they were the battle, but they are exactly that - skirmishes. The real battle is much larger and more complicated. We must fight the skirmishes but we must also concentrate on the larger picture and fight the major battles.

America is burning.