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"Forget what the Supreme Court thinks about teaching creationism in the schools: Think about what it will contribute to the spiraling disasters of globalization by dismantling the entire economic regulatory system built up over the past 100 years. As Greider notes, "Washington defines 'national interest' primarily in terms of advancing the global reach of our multinational enterprises." Problem is, our multinational corporations increasingly work against the interests of Americans themselves. In addition to outsourcing jobs, the companies locate sham headquarters in off-shore tax havens to avoid paying taxes. The only restraints we have ever had on multinational corporations are government regulation and the right to sue the bastards for the various kinds of harm they cause. It is precisely those two forms of control that are being not just undermined but tossed out entirely by an increasingly activist right-wing judiciary."

Molly Ivins/AlterNet 22.07.05
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The smokescreen of creationism and simple moral contrasts is used to get the tremendous power of the American people donated, freely, without any regard for how it's used - as long as the illusion of powerful fatherly strength is maintained.
It's not a paternal figure that's getting it though, more like a bunch of thuggish teenage hoodlums in a stolen car, hopped-up on bad drugs and vicious with frustration at the dimly-recognized limits of their squalid lives.
A lot of folks that have been through these kinds of nightmare scenarios will say that once it started it seemed to have a momentum of its own, outside the radii of choice of the participants, however gleeful they might have seemed to continue.
Combustion, oxidization, catalyst and reaction, the multinationals are like the imagined Singularity - artificial intelligence programmed into the machines, waking up to itself and to its own new place in the world.
They don't have any allegiance to anything human, but they do have the capacity to reward treachery - in unimaginable volumes of immediate gratification.
They have their own gravity.
So Christianity gets perverted into an anthem and a flag with no country at all behind it, and over time the chosen stock will realize their only hope is in cooperation and obedience. Scientific truth is meaningless to cows in the field, to sheep in the fold - what matters is survival, and the survival of domesticated animals depends on things they can't see clearly.
So get them excited about "creationism" and align your emissaries with the vague and easy code of biblical commandments, while you exercise your will in a way that is exactly diametrically precisely opposite any remnant we have of the teachings of Jesus Christ.
No mercy, no compassion, no forgiveness - no raising up of the fallen, no "love one another" beyond the same-thinking others in the congregation, nothing outside the written law they'll have to do.
Selfishness is all that matters now. Selfishness will gain them heaven, if they just do what they're told.