The End Of The Religious Right

Ethan Cooper

It is said that the Religious Right began it's career in politics with Reagan in the early eighties. Thirty years later, American has seen the crest of its wave peak and is watching the movement, which once was such a dominating force, retreat from the superstitious nether-world from whence it came. The world has watched in awe as the last world superpower has been romanced by unreason and myths all the while watching its standing in the world falter on top it's house of cards.

How can the Republican party recover, when it's base disappears with the progress of education and critical thinking? This progress of reason has a tradition of steadfast boldness in the face of insistence on magical thinking. The only thing we have to do, is to uphold our history and in time the false idols will crumble.

This article explains how Frank Schaeffer, an author and promoter of the Religious Right's dominance in American politics, had a change of heart and now sees clearly the damage it has caused.

My doubts really began when I realized that the people we were working with on the Religious Right were profoundly anti-American," Schaeffer said in a recent interview. "I began to get the same vibe from them I got from my friends on the far left during the Vietnam War. They seemed to be rooting for North Vietnam. When I was working with the Religious Right, they seemed be rooting for the failure of America. Bad news was good news for them.