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On God's Right - Religious Right In The US
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On God's Right: A documentary examining the rise of the religious right in the US, and its plans for political expansion. 

This is a pretty good documentary about the growing and increasingly powerful evangelical Christian movement in America.  If you've heard the term 'religious-right' thrown around a lot after the previous US election, but don't know much about it, I would highly recommend this documentary.  This documentary is not sensationalistic nor is it negative in tone; it delves into the history of the evangilical Christian movement in America and explains how this movement, which played a major part in the re-election of George W. Bush as some Americans soberly discovered, was mobilized into a powerful movement that today has a lot of power and influence.  The documentary also describes how the evangilicals assimilate more people into its movement, not only in America but also in poorer nations like Guetemala where they can take advantage of the breakdown in the government and lack of civil services to step in and fill the void and convert more to their cause in the process.  Most importantly and most dangerously in my opinion, the documentary describes how the evenglical's literal interpretation of the Bible shapes their political views, and describes their ultimate goal to establish a fundamentalistic Christian theocracy in America that is ruled by literal interpration and laws of the Bible rather than secular principles.  What is especially disturbing is how their literal interpretation of the Bible influences their political views about America's foreign policy towards Israel, specifically, their strong and unconditional support of Israel.  Shockingly, these Christian evangelicals believe literally in the end of times, the Rapture, etc, and see catastrophic events such as wars and devastatation, as well as the expansion of the historic kingdom of Israel as signs of the coming of Armegeddon and the Rapture as prophesied in the Bible.  To the American Christian evangilicals, Israel's aggressive land-grabbing and the expansion of Israeli settlements on Palestinian land is simply part of God's grand plan and is the fulfilment of Biblical prophesy, and they are therefore against any roadmap for peace which would return the Israeli occupied land back to the Palestinians.  

For you Americans, you people need to seriously think about this - do you really want your country's elected officials to conduct American foreign policy based on Biblical prophecies and literal belief in the Bible?!  Forget the simplistic nonsense George W. Bush keeps blathering about that only ignorant Americans could believe, such as 'they hate us for our freedom'.  Actually, they hate you for very legitimate reasons - one big reason is the Israeli/Palestinian issue.  The ridiculously pro-Israeli American media will never show the brutality inflicted on the Palestinians by Israel, nor will it elaborate on America's unconditional military and financial support of Israel, regardless of Israel's brutal and bloody illegal occupation of Palestinian land.  American foreign policy is already heavily pro-Israeli, and has been for a long time now.  This is just one source of many LEGITIMATE grievances that the Middle East have with America...and Bin Laden uses this anger over the Palestinian issue to recruit people into Al-Qaeda.  So if you're American.. if you really want to deal with terrorism, start by examining your country's foreign policy in the Middle East, and think about how dangerous it is to further escalate the Israeli/Palestinian issue by electing evangelicals like George W. Bush and his like who have dropped any pretense of America being a fair arbiter of the Israeli/Palestinian issue, and have allowed Israel and Sharon to do whatever they want.  Put aside for a moment the immorality of America's unconditional support of Israel - ask yourself if it is smart for America to continue supporting Israel unconditionally, and ask yourself if it isn't lunacy to base your country's foreign policy about such an inflammatory issue on the Bible, which frankly, is simply half fairy-tales and half mythology.
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A major shift in American religion took place in 1979 in Dallas, Texas. That year fundamentalists took over a Southern Baptist Convention and created a deeply conservative church movement. The movement, which believes in the literal truth of the Bible, has 16 million members. 

Throughout the 1980s activist evangelical pastors encouraged their congregation to go into politics. The most famous of these pastors was Pat Robertson, who grants the program a rare interview. Robertson ran against George Bush Senior in 1988 and lost. In 1989 he created a Christian Coalition which has been enormously successful at getting evangelicals elected into political office. 

Rob Bost, from Americans Untied for the Separation of Church and State, explains that the Christian Coalition was founded as a national grassroots coalition which concentrated on working its way into power from the bottom up. Anti- fundamentalist Pastor Dr Bruce Prescott, from Houston Texas, accused the coalition of attempting to create a theocracy where god and not the state would have ultimate authority. In Texas in the last 15 years the evangelicals have become a decisive and sometimes determining voice in the Republican Party, according to the program. 

Both Pat Robertson and another famous evangelical pastor, Gerry Falwell, are pushing for an overhaul of the American Supreme Court which they have attacked for defending secular values over Christian ones. 

On God's Right also looks at the missionary work which is considered a sacred duty by evangelical Christians. Dallas is the centre of the movement. Evangelicals have founded thousands of churches across the developing world and Guatemala is one of their biggest successes. Thirty years ago the vast majority of its 12 million citizens were Catholic - now Christian evangelicals make up almost half the population of Guatemala. 

Guatemala is a failed state and the evangelicals have stepped in to supply the basic building blocks of civil society including schools, after-school care, clinics, hospitals and universities. 

The program also looks at the evangelical belief in the 'end time' or 'rapture' which underlies their strong support for Israel. Pat Robertson says that the state of Israel is a fulfilment of biblical prophecy and he rejects the current Middle East 'road map' for that reason. He also compares Allah to a pagan god. (From France)

Runtime: 53 mins 
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Looks interesting, thanks for the torrent!
Sounds interesting.
Let's just hope that it's not a nutty onesided documentary cos then it's a wasted download :-)
keep seeding....please :)
Any chance of a seed for this?
Their right to oppress the world through christian morals in the court room and the right of discrimination, fuck this documentary death to christianity in america, death to george bush
You're right adric22. George Bush would never wish death to Deathroar: he'd much rather get us into a war that we didn't need just so he could profit from Deathroar's spending on the rising gas prices. As for Christians, the only ones that I deem to be as peaceful as you claim would be the ones that are capable of religious tolerance. I applaud Temptation for this upload. Reliqion has no place in politics, and its only use in real life is to provide a moral backbone for its followers. I only wish there were more seeders.
a couple of years after I uploaded this documentary and made my comments above, I want to make a small revision to my comments.

Bush and the Republican party, and for that matter, the entire American ruling class, which includes the Democratic party and various interests groups such as AIPAC, are not so much motivated by religious reasons as much as they are by wealth, power, and control. They simply use religion as one way to propagandize and manufacture consent for the imperial and mass-murdering US foreign policy in the Middle-East, which at its core, is simply about controlling the vast reserves of oil in the Middle-East, and making sure the American corporations get a piece of the vast wealth that these oil reserves generate.

It certainly helps that America is one of the few, if not the only Western liberal democracy, consisting of a pliable and disturbingly large percentage of religous fundamentalists. Nowhere else in the West is there such a level of religious fanaticism and outright racist and ignorance. This makes it all the easier for the American ruling class and various interests groups, such as AIPAC and the corporate elites, oil companies and defence contractors, to convince the US public of Muslim irrationality and to stir up the racist and vicious and in most cases, downright ignorant and apathetic US public and get their consent for America's vicious military aggression, mass-murder and genocide of other people and other nations, from Indo-China in the 70s, to Latin America in the 60s to the 80s, to the Middle-East today.
Excellent politics,
temptation. Do you know the site WSWS.org?