Should the Republican Party simply declare it's a religion?

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Should the Republican Party in the United States simply declare it's a religion in the USA and stop pretending its a political party?

Current or previous ministers of the Republican Party include:

George Bush, Jr. - "Mission Accomplished" - Jesus Christ is Bush, Jr.'s hero (not General George Patton of WWII).

Sarah Palin - Resigned from being Governor of Alaska, promotes a Bible-based interpretation of all USA laws, claims her daughter who had a baby out of wedlock is just a distraction to her basic religious beliefs, is often photographed with guns and American flags in the background

Should the United States simply declare itself a Christian Theocracy and stop pretending it's a secular republic? It's 80% Christian anyway.

Current or previous Popes of America Include:
Theodore Roosevelt
Ronald Reagan
George Bush (Both)

So on and so forth.

If only there had been an Inquisition in the USA, that rapture cult would have been burned away in auto-da-fes.

Mmm...no.

Mainly because its right on economics, right on world events, right on the negatives of big government programs; while it may lack some finesse with military strategy or foreign diplomacy it still seems to 'get' the big picture much more accurately than anyone else.

Now the belief that the rich are a perpetual cash machine, that the so-called oppressed need to have the rich (hard-working job-creating oppressors) broken down to share what they have, that we won't bankrupt our countries with big government handout programs, or if your a believer in liberation theology that Marxism is what Jesus would do and that any amount of lies justifies the means of global and individual equality of monetary/financial outcome regardless of what they put in or what each person needs - THAT in my books is a much better candidate for religion.

The Republican party has become so inundated with evangelical theology, to many inside and outside the party they might as well be a religious institution. This started out actually with a Democrat, Jimmy Carter. Carter first courted fundamentalist evangelicals when he ran against Ford, but began losing them during his one term, when they regarded his support for the Equal Rights Amendment, support for abortion rights, and other positions to be Anti-Christian. So Ronald Reagan was able to play at being one of them (in truth, Carter was more of a real evangelical as a Southern Baptist - Reagan was raised as an anti-trinitarian Campbellite) and scoop up their support with promises of defeating Roe vs. Wade. And just paying attention to evangelicals went a long way, since after all, prior to this, mainline denominations with their sane, austere worship and beliefs had the most credibility, though they shied away from direct involvement in government. From then on, every Republican presidential candidate, and many if not most Republican politicians in general, began courting the evangelical mullahs on the religious right (Pat Robertson, the late Jerry Falwell, etc.). The Republicans thought they could control them, and keep them at their beck and call. Then something unexpected happened. Evangelicals went from just packing polling places to taking over political conventions and formulating policies - and becoming elected leaders themselves. Even conservative politicians with sensible mainline Christian theologies like John McCaine and George Bush Sr., both with membership in the Episcopal church, found themselves having to mimic religious views they couldn't possibly believe in. Now, the Republican party is dominated by so called "people of faith" - the lunatic fringe dominated by nitwits like Palin and Demint. Those Republicans with secular or mainline Christian beliefs, as well as Non-Christians who refuse to join the maniacs taking control of the asylum, have found themselves shoved more and more into obscurity.
So unfortunately, yes, the Republicans might as well be regarded as the political arm of the evangelical religious right, because without a doubt, that's how more and more of their leadership and members see themselves.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

A major portion of the Republican Party isn't religious or is nominally Christian - during elections they tend to lean right to get religious right voters, and occasionally will introduce or pass laws that appeal to them - but the vast majority of the laws they pass are to benefit corporations and lobbyists who support them (as does the Democratic Party). Even the Tea Party movement isn't completely theocratic in nature. Not that there isn't a very vocal and well organised theocratic movement in the United States, it just happens to be a minority, that doesn't have all that much power and I think if it ever did get too much power, there would be a push-back. Most American are Christians, but the theocratic ones are a minority of Christians that freak many mainstream Christians out.

Also, TDR, Reagan and the Bushes aren't theocrats.

I've always been pretty skeptical of the alledged sincerity of religious belief
among many politicians.


I find it difficult to believe that George W. Bush, Tom Delay, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, etc... are as religious as they claim to be.


In fact....I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to learn that they're closet atheists.

Admitted atheists won't get elected dog catcher in Muruka.

That might be a good way to dodge the IRS... but then they'd also have to abolish the first amendment instead of just ignoring it.

There are christian democrat's, what about them?