What This Page Is About
This page will document the worst lies or the radical right as they attempt to establish a one party government in the coming election. It will be a compilation of the underhanded attempts to destroy our democracy gathered in a chronological order without a need to search for incidents separately.
July 27, 2023: Lies of Christian Nationalist leaders to their congregations in an attempt to turn the US into a theocracy based on Biblical law.
In my mind, election 2024 is the most important election so far since the formation of the United States. A highly motivated extreme right-wing set of voters, politicians, strategists, think tanks, and wealthy doners are set on making an unprecedented power grab to establish a one party government in this county. They want to turn our representative republic into a fascist-theocracy based not on constitutional law, but Biblical law.
Evangelicals and Christian Nationalist leaders lie to their congregations saying things like the Bill of Rights is based on the ten commandments. They further claim you can put the two documents side by side and see how the founders copied the concepts of the commandments into the Bill of Rights.
“Go ahead and see for yourself,” these leaders claim, fully knowing their congregants won’t.
Well, I have and it’s bullshit. There is no amendment in the bill of rights that says “Thou shall have no other God before me.” In fact, the first amendment’s establishment call erects a wall between church and state declaring that the United States will not establish an official religion, or prohibit the free exercise thereof. A Christian theocracy is unconstitutional as it would establish a national religion and prevent other forms of worship.
Religious liberty is the freedom to practice any or no religion as a citizen may desire. It is not, as theocratic forces claim, the freedom to replace constitutional law with biblical law. Such an act would mean the end of the US as a beacon of religious freedom.
Knowledge gives one the power to identify the lies of the extreme right. I encourage you to read the Bill of Rights and the Ten Commandments, both listed below and see for your self the lies of Christian Nationalism.
Original Ten Amendments: The Bill of Rights
Passed by Congress September 25, 1789.
Ratified December 15, 1791.
Amendment I: Freedoms, Petitions, Assembly
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Amendment II: Right to bear arms
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Amendment III Quartering of soldiers
No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
Amendment IV: Search and arrest
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Amendment V: Rights in criminal cases
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb, nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
Amendment VI: Right to a fair trial
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed; which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.
Amendment VII: Rights in civil cases
In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.
Amendment VIII: Bail, fines, punishment
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
Amendment IX: Rights retained by the People
The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Amendment X: States’ rights
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Now read the Ten Commandments:
As you can see by comparison, Christian Nationalist leaders are lying to their flocks to establish a nation based on Biblical law. A model of government the Founders were definitely against.
This page will document the lies of the right, not just religious lies, but the outrageous, bombastic claims and made up controversies of the right-wing as the 2024 electoral season ramps up.