re: Thoughts on "Christian Right"?

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I’ve never fully grasped this term or who it specifically refers to. There isn’t a significant group of politicians working to establish Christianity as a national religion. Are we labeling any conservative who believes in legislating morality as part of the Christian Right? If that’s the case, it seems like an overly broad definition, especially since many liberal politicians are challenging Western morality through legislation. I often hear about radical right-wingers, but I rarely encounter any extreme right-wing legislation, particularly at the federal level. What would that even look like?

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The Founders based the Constitution on the premise of God-given, individual and "inalienable Rights". They were, rightly so, loathe to make Christianity THE State religion, as they had saw where that goes. And further that such would be contrary to the individual freedoms upon which the Constitution was constructed to guarantee, religious belief at the fore. Even God (assuming such exists) does not censor Lucifer's 'Idea' and impose Truth upon Humanity.

The current ideological fight is based upon economic freedom, for an individual retain the fruits of their labors and choose the belief of their preference as dictated by their conscience, as opposed to the traditional historical models of the 'Group'/State/Ruling Authority (in whatever form) running the show. The idea of the Constitution is singularly unique, and likely fleeting, as the Founders rightly suspected.

Re "radical", that is subjective, as today's Progressive would be considered extremely radical in yesterday's Constitutional/Christian Right worldview. And "extreme Right Wing legislation" would be any law that imprisons the less powerful individuals in society who are - via the Capitalist model - justly 'aggrieved' and relegated to lives of "quiet desperation" and relative non-affluence, while watching their more powerful peers enjoy the freedoms therein. Darwinian economy as opposed to the 'Christian' "weaker brethren" version. Envy, jealously and the ultimate contempt and hatred therein are and will be the impetus for human, societal/ideological, morality-based warfare. Big time warfare, likely as Humanity has seldom experienced.

"Where there is no vision (of Truth), my people die".

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the Israel First morons

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Yeah, frick those idiots. "We're conservative but we support spending a shite ton of money of foreign wars." "We gotta have a temple in jerusalum so Jesus will come back."

These morons should go to Gaza.

You sound like one of those micropenis kill da joos types SFP is ranting about in that other thread.

Now that the Dems are getting skull fricked harder than a little boys a-hole at a Stanford frat party there seem to be multiple threads a day here concern trolling and attempting to divide the right.

Sad and pathetic.

The hard left is and always was more dangerous than the "Christian Right"

I think these trends are a product of the Democratic Party leadership becoming increasingly secular and anti-Christian. There are still obviously Christian democrats that come out of mainline and high church Protestantism, black evangelical churches, and some aspects of Catholicism; but they aren’t setting the agenda of the Democrat party and so increasingly Christians are leaving the party that is hostile to them and voting Republican. Consequently, I think when younger people leave the Republican Party, they also tend to leave Christianity which they see as synonymous.

That said, I think there has been an effort by some pastors, knowing where their bread is buttered, to pretend that there is no tension whatsoever between traditional Christianity and the platform of the Republican Party. I don’t think that is a particular problem for the nation, but I do think it waters down the teachings of Christianity which transcend any specific time and place. Ideally both parties would make an effort to embody Christianity, but at least in the near term I don’t see anyway that happens

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i think it was nixon who went after the religous right. jerry falwell started his rise to power then. that whole family is shady as heck. too many of the christian right today are zionist. brainwashed in their churches by pastors who love that scofield bible.

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Yeah it was Pat Buchanan who convinced Nixon that this could be his base, and Buchanan was not a Zionist, and probably the closest thing to a MAGA conservative in the decades before Trump. I wonder if evangelical support for Israel ever bothers him. It probably doesn’t because there is broad support for Israel in both political parties, so despite evangelicals being super Israel supporters, it’s not really like it’s a new feature in our politics or even a defining feature of evangelicalism

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Thoughts on "Christian Right"?
They compromise too much.

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Way too much.

There has been a 90% drop in Christian identification in Palestine since the creation of the state of Israel

So the Republican Party must become the Party of abortion rights, big government, and big spending?

In other words, Democrats.

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came so close to swinging on someone the other day that was talking shite “southern Christian conservatives.”

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Real Christian thing to do.