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The religious right has been on a quest to take over our government and turn America into a Christian theocracy for many decades now. There's no serious way to deny this. They've been quite blatant about it. We're all up there in age now and have witnessed it for ourselves. They have pushed us closer to the edge of that cliff with every Republican administration and Republican Congress in place every chance they've gotten for a very long time.
It's never been enough for them that they are absolutely free to practice their religion in this country to their heart's content. It's never been enough that their churches are not taxed or that their religious freedom is enshrined in the Constitution. Nothing will ever be enough for them concerning their Sacred Quest. Even if they achieve it.
For ages they've been having wet dreams over all the deeply authoritarian, theocratic countries they see lording over every aspect of the lives of every citizen of their countries. Religious conservative bigots would love nothing more than to force their religion into and onto the lives of everyone in America.
Especially the children. The recollection of what became of the doberman puppies in the novel "Animal Farm" comes to mind for me when contemplating Christian theocracy in this country, and how they keep trying to move us all toward their goal.
They would love nothing more than to unconstitutionally and federally mandate the posting in public schools of the Ten Commandments, or any other religious dogma from the Bible that they want to. They absolutely want total theocratic control over a woman's body. They absolutely want to diminish the actual religious freedom we have in this country by usurping it all for themselves. They absolutely want to reestablish their lawful ability to make second-class citizens of and persecute minorities that they deem abominable or sacrilegious. Or that they just don't like. There's really no legitimate or rational way to deny any of what I am saying here. We need only look at their actions over many decades to see the obviousness of it.
In short, they want to turn the United States of America into the "Christian Nation" that they have always delusionally fantasized it is or should be. And they've been inching closer and closer towards this goal over the decades with every Republican Congressperson or president who has ever successfully tried to take another tiny step towards it.
And so here we are. Now. With more religiously conservative ducks in a row for them to accomplish their God-Given Goal than at any time before in our nation's history. Together with their Siamese twin partnership with the Republicans' current, MAGAlomaniacally single-minded mission to turn America into an authoritarian nightmare, and the possible election of their demented, sociopathic, narcissistic, immoral megalomaniac as president, you have the clear and simple recipe for the far right/religious conservatives to utterly destroy America as the free and democratic nation it was founded to be and has been since its inception.
They have never been this close before. And they smell their own blood in the water, so they are pulling out all the stops. They are going for broke. It's as if they know that the Republican party is never going to be in such a position again if they don't pull it all off this time.
And God Almighty help us all if they do.
