John Chalfant is a board member of the Council for National Policy,
one of numerous organizations featuring your standard row of fundie wingnuts
like Pat Robertson,
James Robison and Alan Keyes,
as well as rank theocrats like Gary North – Duane Gish and Henry Morris of the Institute for Creation Research are apparently former members – but one that has had some impact on the political
directions of the religious right. We could really end this entry right there,
and Chalfant’s claims are pretty much exactly what you’d expect: “Many
Christian leaders have compromised with a secular worldview that never could
have created the Declaration of Independence, Constitution or Bill of Rights,”
says Chalfant – the Constitution was really
aimed at instituting a theocracy – and “Christians need to realize that
they have the primary responsibility for reclaiming our nation’s Christian
heritage because it is Christianity upon which the Declaration of Independence
and the Constitution were founded.” Since in Chalfant’s head this is apparently
something fundamentalist wingnuts fail to emphasize. It is, of course, also
completely false,
if you needed to have that pointed out.
In America – A Call to
Greatness (duly pimped by the WND).
you will find … more of the same. According to the blurb, Chalfant “draws
compelling comparisons between the lack of Christian action in our crisis world
and the militant Christian faith of America’s Founding Fathers.” (No, he didn’t
really do any research beyond his own imagination.) “The widespread retreat
from Christian duty has opened the floodgates to atheistic, humanistic,
evolutionary, and cult-based evils that undermine the founding principles of America
and threaten our nation,” claims Chalfant. Yes, he dismisses science as a
cult-based evil – evidence-based, meticulous and methodologically sound
approach to any topic is a threat to dogmatism and therefore of the devil.
That’s the principle that also led him to conclude that the Founding Fathers
were “militant Christians”, despite their explicit rejection of militant
Christianity. So it goes.
Diagnosis: Thank you for playing, mr. Chalfant, but next
time please learn the rules first.
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