The Last Days of Socrates
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Or maybe The Last Supper? I'm not sure I'm going to be able to sleep after reading this highly disturbing article. Some choice quotes:

"Thank you, Lord, for these students. Build them up as your warriors and your ambassadors on Capitol Hill."

They learn to view every vote as a religious duty, and to consider compromise a sin.

Jesus would approve of a call for lower taxes: "God calls on us to be stewards of our [own] money."

Hannah Woody, for instance, came away from the institute's seminars confident that abolishing the Department of Education is not just a Republican goal, but also a Christian imperative.


I'm Jewish, not Christian, and yet I still feel like my religion is being hijacked by these people.

Honestly, there are some strands of this philosophy that I sympathize with. I am very devoutly religious, and many of my political philosophies are religiously inspired. What gets me, though, is the absolute arrogance of these people in refusing to admit any point of view other than their own. Even working from the same premises and axioms as they start with, it is forbidden to reach any other conclusions.

These people love the Bible, right? Then why don't they teach Numbers XII, verses 6-8:
"Hear now my words: If there shall be prophets among you, in a vision shall I, God, make Myself known to him; in a dream shall I speak with him. Not so my servant Moses...Mouth to mouth do I speak to him, in a clear vision and not in riddles..."
Even if these people had the chutzpah to call themselves prophets, God Himself has said that only Moses (and perhaps Jesus for Christians) could understand their prophecy clearly. All other prophets and seers are shown murky images that must be interpreted, and are therefore subject to misinterpretation.

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