Nixon was Eisenhower’s vice president
and was there when Billy Graham became a catalyst to start the one nation under
god agenda to support business’ interest against FDR’s New Deal after the Great
Depression. Make no mistake the origin
of the religious right is a capitalist agenda to repress the rights and wages
of labor by using obedience to God to install obedience to the nation and
obedience to the firm.
Nixon’s inauguration and presidency
represented the start of the religious right political machine that got middle
class and poor voters to associate Christianity with unfettered capitalism and
a vote for the Republican agenda was a vote for a Christian god juxtaposed
against agnostic socialism or Communism.
The political machine politicized religious services and made the
phrases of one nation under god and in god we trust badges and inverse scarlet
letters to ostracize and penalize those who would not comply with a threshold
of zeal.
The fervor to show how on-board one
was became a political galvanizing mechanism and a manner of
prestidigitation. The sleight of hand
pit god-fearing WWII surviving parents against a generation of young Vietnam
War era protestors in the 1960’s and 1970’s.
The one nation under god agenda was one of compliance and
obedience. One does not question the
corporate master as the placeholder as god.
One does not question the government or why the enemy in Vietnam was the
same atheist Communist creation that sparked the Christian capitalist movement
in the 1950’s.
Any labor or social solidarity was a
threat. Labor striking for wage
increases was a threat. Seeing the
Vietnamese people rise up against a French colonial master was a threat to the
one nation under god power grab.
Therefore Nixon proceeded to send America into war to prove the
point. The drug war and intentional
destruction of poor communities through police, court, and CIA actions replaced
mandatory military service and carries forward through Reagan, Bush, Clinton,
Bush, and Obama into today to meet the Christian-faced Capitalist-based
Republican agenda that has engulfed both parties and widens the wealth gap for
Wall Street. Nixon used Vietnam. Reagan used the U.S.S.R. Bush H used Saddam Hussein. Bush W used 911.
How do you get millions of middle and
lower economic class people to vote against their self interest to form a
voting block; use the idea of god. The
thought that one’s vote will displease or go against the will of god is hardcore
political subterfuge originating out of the 1950’s carried forward through most
prominently in the administrations of Nixon, Reagan, and both Bushes and is
glaring in the agenda of Ted Cruz, as it was with Mitt Romney.
The actual New Testament agenda of
Jesus was hijacked by capitalists then and has been held by a slew of god bless
America political powers on both sides of the aisle in an oligarchy
representing the scions of capitalism ever since. The Republicans certainly exploit the
god-agenda more than Democrats, but both parties have ultimately come to serve
the same corporate masters via campaign financing and the threat of not wearing
the god ribbon, pledging the flag under God or saying the right words for a
nation hoodwinked by showmanship over the actual principals and morality of the
Bible-based government evangelicals purport to desire.
The New Testament was about
forgiveness, the last shall come first, humility, shedding one’s possessions, not
the financially wealthy are the favored by god’s grace be obedient to them. The Old Testament obey or be damned to
perdition is at the root of the hypnosis America has been under since the 1950’s. Mass consumerism, marketing, and a gullible
and sheepish population are the profit-creating fodder of this capitalist
machine distorting Christianity. That
machine has devoured the globe so that the fundamentalism the United States
created is mirrored in the Islamic terrorism that we are not able to fight
properly because we cannot see the common culpability in allowing a
sanctimonious theocratic element to American government.
This week the Vatican invited Bernie Sanders an agnostic cultural Jew to
speak at a conference to support morality in our economic systems mirroring the
social encyclicals the Pope has issued to pursue equality, social justice, and
environmental sustainability. What does that tell you about the American
presidential candidate pool and the distortion between the actual message of
the New Testament that makes Christianity the world’s and America’s most
popular religion? The Pope representing the original church of Christ on the
planet seated as Jesus’ representative on Earth would greet the only
non-Christian in solidarity to support what he feels are important components
of Jesus’ message?
How did we get here? I strongly suggest, Kevin Kruse’s well
researched book One Nation Under God How Corporate America Invented
Christian America. I have written excerpt quotes from the book on my blog
if anyone is interested. Link
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