The following is the introductory passage on the website called “Theocracy Watch”. It’s a fascinating website, that makes the case that the religious extremists are in control of the Federal Government, and shows their ties to the major factions of religious extremism in the USA.

If you are one of the religious extremists, then you will ready Thoecracy Watch with some joy in your heart.

Read the introduction, below, and you will get a pretty good feel for how far we’ve down the path toward theocracy we have come. People of importance are talking about the threat of theocracy openly. It’s kinda scary.

Rise of the Religious Right in the Republican Party: “‘This Republican Party of Lincoln has become a party of theocracy.’ U.S. Representative Christopher Shays, R-CT, (New York Times, March 23, 2005)

Theocracy is derived from the two Greek words Qeo/j(Theos) meaning ‘God’ and kra/tein (cratein) meaning ‘to rule.’ Theocracy is the civil rule of God, or the belief in government by divine guidance.

The powerful Majority Leader of the United States House of Representatives, Tom DeLay (R-TX) embodies government by divine guidance:

He [God] is using me, all the time, everywhere, to stand up for a biblical worldview in everything that I do and everywhere I am. He is training me.

Tom DeLay represents an ultraconservative religious movement seeking to impose a narrow theological agenda on secular society. Chip Berlet and Margaret Quigley, senior analysts at Political Research Associates, have named this movement the theocratic right:

The predominantly Christian leadership envisions a religiously-based authoritarian society; therefore we prefer to describe this movement as the ‘theocratic right.’

Television preacher Pat Robertson sent out a memo to his political organization in 1986 calling on his followers to ‘Rule the world for God.’ That call to arms sums up the goals of the theocratic right, and explains their Congressional leadership which suspends the basic rules of Democracy: all that matters is winning, because it is for God. The ends justify the means.

This web site explores the narrow theological agenda that the theocratic right is imposing on secular society. Twenty-five years ago it targeted the Republican Party as the vehicle through which it could advance its agenda. Today it has extraordinary power in the U.S. government, with two branches solidly in its pocket and the third, the judiciary, just a couple of retirements away. It is also making great strides in schools, in the media, and in State Legislatures.

This movement values guns and the death penalty. It values the rich at the expense of the poor. It favors corporations at the expense of individuals. It seeks to eliminate virtually all regulations that protect the environment, worker safety, and public health.

It opposes international treaties and the United Nations. In his book The New World Order, Pat Robertson accused Presidents Woodrow Wilson, Jimmy Carter, and the first President George Bush of being agents for Satan because they supported international groups of nations such as the United Nations.

In an effort to fulfill the dominionist belief in the manifest destiny of ‘Christian’ nations, the theocratic right values an aggressive foreign policy. And It claims that the principle of separation of church and state is ‘a myth.’

It is possessed of absolute moral righteousness. It tolerates no dissent.

The theocratic right is not a conservative movement. It is striving to radically change the status quo. From a training manual of the theocratic right:

We will not try to reform the existing institutions. We only intend to weaken them, and eventually destroy them.”