NEWS: Someone Should Have Told Me Christians Are At War With Us

POLITICS: Someone Should Have Told Me Christians Are At War With Us

Ron Luce is a 45-year-old man who started a movement for young Christian kids called BattleCry. Why BattleCry? Because the kids are “fighting to save their generation from the media, culture and Satan." Luce believes most evangelicals are weak and hates the idea of “accepting" Christ and “trusting” the Lord.

Super. There’s this fun group called the Taliban I could hook you up with. They are really into an attacking church sort of thing.



Luce goes after kids who are too young to vote and he taps into their teenage rebellion instincts. His shows are part-concert, part-preaching about what is wrong with the kind of people who go to the SG website. His mission is to radicalize them and turn them into a cultural army.

It is a shrewd operation. Nothing gets kids going more than believing that everyone is against them, while at the same time making them think they are accomplishing great change. For them it is a scary time and they are God’s army. They are told to travel “in pairs” because “the devil is going to come after you.”



Well, big deal. Every generation has had kids who are crazy religious; it does not spell the end of time. Really? The difference between the old days and now is that these Christians are being trained to infiltrate our government and kill it from the inside. A great example of this is the current Department of Justice scandal.

Monica Goodling, an ex-aide of Alberto Gonzales, is at the center of the administration’s crisis. She recently resigned after declaring she would assert her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination if she was forced to testify in front of Congress. Goodling was the liaison between the DOJ and the White House.

Goodling is a Christian, who was educated at the Regent University School of Law. Regent was created by Pat Robertson to provide
"Christian leadership to change the world." The school is training law students to understand how America's law should be changed to reflect
"eternal principles of justice.” US News & World Report lists the school as “fourth tier”, which is the lowest score for a law school. The classes are a tad bit different from, say, Harvard.

So naturally, the Bush administration has hired over 150 graduates of Regent. John Ashcroft made it easier for his fellow Christians to be hired in 2002 when he changed the rules for hiring new lawyers. Applicants would no longer have to be screened by veteran civil servants. It seemed that with the old process, the DOJ was hiring top-of-the-class lawyers from elite law schools. Wouldn’t want that. The change resulted in more conservatives without any experience in civil rights being hired.

So, now the current state of the DOJ is horrifying. These were ideologues who were not working to uphold the law, but rather to put forth an agenda. Every office will need to be investigated to find out how seriously the US Attorney's offices have been compromised by more awful Bush hiring's. The Christians will be purged for not following the rules of justice and they will scream that they are being persecuted for being Christians...on and on.

But scariest of all, is the fact that the war is not stopping anytime soon. Those young BattleCry warriors are going to grow up and learn the best way to “change” our society, just like the lawyers from Regent have. Hopefully they can turn us into a full-blown theocracy before I die.

FearTheReaper will be appearing at the San Jose Improv April 13-15.

At least teaching people that the laws should be changed to reflect some weird concept of justice is better than saying that these weird ideas ARE the law and its being subverted and ignored by evil "activist" judges.

Haven't looked at the other comments but...

BattleCry =?= Jihad

Wow(Christian CD compilations) =?= Now(CD compilations)

Any questions?

i wanted to write this article, but youve done a much better job.
another blogger compared this to situation to 'christianist sleeper cells' within our government.
these people will see one responsibility when a democratic institution is heading the white house: take it down from the inside.

Holy Shit! This is why I can't stand organized religion. Battle?! Army of God! Bring it on bitches! I will fuck you up in the name of Satan.

I think there are far more people playing World of Warcraft than part of BattleCry. If push comes to shove the WoW crew could beat these guys!

My heart dies a little when I read these stories

As an atheist in America, this terrifies me...but does it surprise me? Not in the least. Just another drop in the puddle. Christian fundamentalists are dangerously out of hand. Now they've got a direct line to the White House (with predictable results for the rest of us), and the more power they get, the more crazed and paranoid they are about keeping it.

Halle-fuckin'-lujah

No kidding. Puke-a-tronic. For reals.

"Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war, wiith the cross of Jesus going on before. Christ, the royal Master, leads against the foe; forward into battle see his banners go!"

ZZzzzzzzz....

Ah... terrorism in another one of its lovely forms.

"Jesus Camp", anyone.

I'd be up for it.

WoW VS BattleCry on Pay-Per-View

The religious will win out if current trends continue. Looking at it like a war, they are better unified and organized, have better tactics, and have the benefit of entrenched public support, whereas the "unbelievers" are fragmented and disorganized, without decisive leaders who can direct the groups energy in targetted ways.

This has pretty much always been the case.

right, that is soooo much better. when they decide to make us a completely religious state, i'll feel a lot better about it because they'll have the legal right to do it.

They all be doing drugs and cheating on their significant others with prostitutes in a few years so fuck em.

GOOD FUCKING CHRIST.

That first video is hilarious, the funniest shit I've seen in ages.

I don't understand what these kids are fighting for. When I hear evagelists talk about what they believe in they say god or jesus but what does that mean. And then they just spout rhetoric. Sounds like the same old story well meaning notions of saving the world actually destroying it. Don't worry kids, the world has been dying these past 8 billion years. It's the eternal decay and renewal of existance and this era is no different.

I don't know about that. Lately i have been seeing a mass exodus in the Christianity around my area. The latest thing to do it was the whole priest fingering the alter boy deal. That didn't go over well with a lot of the bible thumpers.

I lost faith in organized religions a loooong time ago. I was raised Christian but barely believe in anything the religion has to offer anymore, mostly due to all the hypocritical people running the churches, and the people attending the churches. I have sense left religion open to my daughter, i haven't forced anything on her, and will let her choose what she wants to believe. I'd like to think that more people are following this lead rather than forcing an age old religion like Christianity, that is barely relevant to current times, on them.

Of course, but since when has that sort of thing backfired on them? Remember what kind of mindset their followers espouse. It did happen with the good ol' Catholic pedophiles scandal, but not as much as it should have, and not as soon. Does it really have to get that bad before people even start questioning their subservience to the Lawrd?

I've often wondered what would happen if a child were raised in an atmosphere where religion was simply not present, and where any questions about the world/life were answered with science and reason. I'd be curious to see how the kid would turn out.

Hah, think about growing up like that and then meeting a fundamentalist.

"7 days?! Are you high?!"

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Yep, it's really time I started my own 'christian' movement, too.

Anyone know where I can get a vat of Kool-Aid?
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somehow, i get the feeling that soon the only thing those brought into organizations like this will understand is violence. and that owning a copy of the US of A Constitution and reading it is an investment in helping the future. which is really super, because i don't know about you, but the thought of being terrorismed by fellow citizens out to "protect me for my own good" is swell.

Old news to me...I've been on that side back when I was a gullible teenager. There is nothing like talk about holy war to make you think you're on the right side... Fortunately I got smart and started thinking for myself instead of sitting on my brain in church pews...