A Saturday ago at the annual conference of the Faith and Freedom Coalition, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal accused President Obama and other Democrats of waging a war against religious liberty and all but openly threatened a violent revolution, AP reported:<\/span> A Saturday ago at the annual conference of the Faith and Freedom Coalition, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal accused President Obama and other Democrats of waging a war against religious liberty and all but openly threatened a violent revolution, AP reported: \u201cI can sense right now a rebellion brewing amongst these United States,\u201d Jindal said, \u201cwhere […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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<\/span>Of course, Jindal\u2019s speech didn\u2019t come out of nowhere. Jindal is notorious as a weather vane, not a leader. So this is a clear sign of the need to take threats of right-wing violence seriously \u2014 and to look to its justifications as formulated on the Christian right.<\/span>
<\/span>As the latest wave of theocratic violence continues to play out in Iraq, it must feel exotic for most Americans, for whom theocratic violence is something that happens elsewhere. Yet, the idea of such violence coming to America \u2014 something Jindal is apparently eager for \u2014 is hardly far-fetched. Violence against abortion providers has been with us for decades, after all, and as Jindal\u2019s pandering suggests, there could well be much worse to come, according to a new article from Political Research Associates, \u201cRumblings of Theocratic Violence,\u201d by Frederick Clarkson, author of \u201dEternal Hostility: the Struggle Between Theocracy and Democracy,\u201d and co-founder of Talk2Actionorg. While violent rhetoric is nothing new on the Christian right, Clarkson observes, there are reasons to take such rhetoric more seriously than ever before. Above all, some of those most dedicated to the idea of America as a Christian nation are beginning to lose faith in their inevitable success.<\/span>
<\/span>\u201c[S]omething has changed in recent years,\u201d Clarkson notes, as \u201cdisturbing claims are appearing more frequently, more prominently, and in ways that suggest that they are expressions of deeply held beliefs more than provocative political hyperbole.\u201d He also cites \u201cpowerful indications in the writings of some Christian right leaders that elements of their movement have lost confidence in the bright political vision of the United States as the once and future Christian Nation \u2014 and that they are desperately seeking alternatives.\u201d<\/span>
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