Now I'm really getting paranoid.........

Maybe I should just stop watching the news and retreat into my safe, secular shell and stop worrying about shit. I don't know.......that's what the jews did when things started getting dicey back in '37, and you saw what happened to them.
First news item......a majority poll of Americans believe that the church (and which church that is exactly is never specified) should have a direct influence over government policy. Also, they visited a public school in Louisiana where the Jesus freaks seem to have full reign, including controlling the school board. Teachers there are conducting prayers at the start of class, reading scripture, and holding prayer sessions on school property. And this is a PUBLIC school. Seems that the teachers and/or parents who object to this have had to anonymously call in the ACLU (christian neighbors tend to make life very difficult for sinners if they openly object) to try and put a stop to this.
Is the christian right having such great success with their recruiting that this entire country is heading over the cliffs to Jesus in greater and greater numbers? Has more and more Americans forgotten what made this country a safe place for ALL people to live their lives in peace and security? Apparently, many have, for the country seems to be turning more of a shade of red every year. This republican Congress is running roughshod over the other side of the aisle, forcing the confirmation of judges with clear ultra-conservative agendas. Our social safety nets are under attack as never before. Corporations, especially the ones who pollute our air or have some other negative impact on our lives now write the very regulations that oversee them. America, praise Jesus, is headed back to the middle ages, and if you don't think it could get any worse, you haven't seen nuthin' yet.
My friends, I'm sure you are all counting on the good will and common sense of the average american to go to the polls and roll back this tide, that the people will take Bush's so-called mandate and shove it up where the sun don't shine. Well, think again. The democratic party has become weak, inept, with no clear vision that seems to appeal to the "average" American anymore, leaving us at the mercy of "Good old Boy" men who are actually puppets of the corporate machine. One day the police will be knocking down your bedroom door on reports from your neighbors that you and the wife, or whoever you happen to be living with, like to have certain kinds of fun. Television, even cable, will become whatever the local pastor thinks you should watch. If your kids aren't "saved", you had better home school them, if the local christian dominated school board lets you. And prepare to lose them, for the crusades have only just begun; we have allot of heathen Muslims out there to convert, after we take their oil. The hindus will have to wait for now, but we'll get around to them. Oh, and if you get pregnant, my lady friends, no matter how, then prepare for a new life. You'll be having a baby, birth defects and all, if it comes to that, weather you like it or not. I could go on and on about the conservative agenda, but then, so could this post.
If you haven't been paying attention to the world around you, or you think I'm just some atheist who needs saving anyway, then you will laugh at all this and agree that I am just another chicken little. That's how it starts. Life is more comfortable with your head in the sand. Don't worry, be happy. But if you are sitting in a foxhole with me one day, a blue patch on your uniform, wondering out loud how it got this far, don't be surprised if I kick your sorry ass out of the hole and let one of those reds get a shot at you.