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.

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