Cynthia Dunbar is scary
December 7th, 2008
In her book, One Nation Under God, Dunbar argues that the country’s founding fathers created “an emphatically Christian government” and believed that government should be guided by a “biblical litmus test.”
Dunbar endorses a belief system requiring “any person desiring to govern have a sincere knowledge and appreciation for the Word of God in order to rightly govern.”
She calls public education a “subtly deceptive tool of perversion.” The establishment of public schools is unconstitutional and even “tyrannical,” she writes in the book, because it threatens the authority of families, granted by God through Scripture, to direct the instruction of their children.
So who gets to decide the “biblical litmus test?” What qualifies as “sincere knowledge?” Did she really tell the voters that she thinks that public schools are unconstitutional or just say that she was for more school choice?
I’m always amazed at the calls for a more “Christian” government. Oh sure, it’s easy to exclude the Jews and Muslims but have these people actually stopped to think about how they would define legitimate “Christians” and worship from those who aren’t? Mormons in or out? After all, this is a religion that was founded in the United States. Catholics? They had an entire colony. Would it be Christians for or against torture? And which version of the Bible would we be using?
The Landscape Survey confirms that the United States is on the verge of becoming a minority Protestant country; the number of Americans who report that they are members of Protestant denominations now stands at barely 51%. Moreover, the Protestant population is characterized by significant internal diversity and fragmentation, encompassing hundreds of different denominations loosely grouped around three fairly distinct religious traditions — evangelical Protestant churches (26.3% of the overall adult population), mainline Protestant churches (18.1%) and historically black Protestant churches (6.9%).
Don’t they realize that probably the best reason to keep religion out of government is so that government does pick and define the religion? Of course, I’m sure she assumes that she’ll be part of the group doing the defining…
February 11th, 2009 at 12:15 am
I actually disagree with your headline. Cynthia Dunbar is not “Scary.” Cynthia Dunbar is nuts. What is SCARY is that over 225,000 Texan voted for this loon. Everyone has the right to say irrational things, even with absurd presumptions of historical authority. This is a free country. Freedom is the right to be wrong. But, we will not have a free country for long, if a majority of citizens are so ignorant that the preposterous nonsense Mrs. Dunbar espouses wins elections.