The Capture of America

The battle of the Alamo, where a small number of men held off Santa Ana and hordes of Mexicans before finally succumbing to the onslaught remains a monument to determination. That only 189 men could battle 2000 Mexican soldiers and hold them off for 13 days is amazing. Like the story of David and Goliath, where a small boy defeats a giant with only a slingshot, when one overcomes great odds, it is remembered throughout history.

There is a story even more amazing than the Alamo and David and Goliath that has not been generally circulated. It is the story of how 700 started out and grew to conquer and capture a nation of 280 million people with the greatest military the world has ever known, without a single shot ever being fired. This story should be publicized because it was a coup of tremendous proportions, but while the battle of the Alamo and David's battling of Goliath were valiant efforts to be praised, this battle was sinister and traitorous.

From 1984 to 1986, Katharine Yurica amassed 1,300 pages of transcripts from Pat Robinson's TV show, "The 700 Club". This pseudo-religious Christian show didn't read the Bible and promote the reading of the gospels to better know the teachings of Christ. If they had, the viewers, whose numbers had grown to 28 million, would have been more familiar with Christ's admonition to "Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and to God, that which is God's." The concept of separation of Church and State couldn't be any clearer. Ignoring Christ's words however, Pat Robinson was initiating a political Christian activism, coaxing his viewers to accept a political agenda that he laid out.

The plan to take over America was actually announced publicly on the air. Robertson told his audience, "We have enough votes to run the country, and when the people say, "we've had enough, we're going to take over the country." Just how they were going to do it was described on the show by a colleague of Robertson's, Tim LaHaye, who told the 700 Club members, "There are 110,000 Bible believing churches but there are only 97,000 major elective offices in America. If we launch one candidate per church, we can take over every elective office in this country within ten years."

They had achieved much of their goal, except for the highest office by 2000. When George W. Bush decided to run for the presidency in that year's election, his campaign advisor, Karl Rove decided that the Christian Fundamentalists, in a group now called the Christian Coalition, would be the group they would court as Bush's core supporters.

The danger here is that Bush and his followers intend to subjugate all Americans to their denominational morality. They are cult-like in their zeal and as in any cult, individual freedoms must be curtailed. In this quasi-theocracy, you are not required to belong to their church or practice their religion, however, all of the legislation would be representative of their beliefs. Our freedoms would be filtered through what they think is moral.

And so this country, founded and settled by members of various religious denominations in their quest to practice their own religion, free from the repression they escaped from in England, once again finds itself in the grip of those who would impose their religious morality on every American. Our Constitution and Bill of Rights have been discarded. We now have Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Whatever THEY Believe Should Make Us Happy.

Perhaps it's time for another revolution.

11-19-03