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Originally Posted by demonrail666
I've never quite been able to get my head around the Right's seemingly quite easy relationship with Christianity, especially in recent years. Even given communism's attempts to supress religion there's continued to be strong ties between the Left and Christianity in countries like Italy and France which make far more sense to me. Is the Right's appropriation of the bible just a recognition of its value as a tradition? Besides that it certainly seems an odd choice of belief for rampant free-marketeers.
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yes. the borderline fascist movements of the extreme rightists/ultra-conservatives in America cling to Christianity not in any real religious or moral sense, because their political philosophies and ideologies almost always go directly against many core/fundamental tenets of Christianity. For example, social services and specifically welfare programs are almost universally condemned by the ideologies of the Rightists, but this is the very essense of Christianity! ("All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of his possessions was his own, but they shared everything they had" Acts 4; "whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me." Matthew 25:40)
The original Christians were communal socialists, the original Church government was socialist, but the Protestant movement is not religious reformation, it is an economic revolution as the capitalists princes, governers and businessmen sought to free themselves from paying tithes and taxes to the support of the Parish and its less fortunate beneficiary parishioners..
American Rightists Christianity is the descendent of these capitalists, who feigned religion in the name of profit. The epitome of this is the money hungry televevangelists.