re: #158 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin

But you’re the one who brought it up, using and extreme example. People are only saying it’s a false dichotomy, that’s all.

I did? I just wrote that most preachers aren’t scientists. Seems like a fairly non controversial statement. re: #157 OhCrapIHaveACrushOnSarahPalin

Some Christian theocrats do, yes. They’re quite explicit about it.

Look up these as search terms:

Gary North

Rouassas Rushdoony (Gary’s father in law, deceased)

Cornelius van Til

Gary DeMar

Francis Schaeffer

Christian Reconstructionism - an offshoot of Calvinism

When you’re done with that, we can talk about their connections with mainstream Evangelicalism.

Also related: Kingdom Now theology, which is out of Pentecostalism.

Yes but the topic is specifically-religious, well, Christian, zealots. There is no shortage of them in America.

Honestly, why would I bother looking that stuff up? Given the limited number of hours in a day seems like there are a lot of better ways to spend them.