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This is a comparison of behavior between the Christian Right and the rest of Christianity in America. This is not a comparison and contrast of ideologies specifically. Since the Reagan administration we have seen the rise and partial decline of Christian Right influences. During that time, the majority of Christians have been complacent or cowed by the accusatory and incriminating nature of a loud and raucous minority of the Christian community who insistently conspired to legislate directly or indirectly their brand of morality upon an unwilling and some unbelieving portion of the population .

The term "Evangelical Fundamentalist" has been corrupted into a label for those whom they deem ideologically agreeable and supposedly righteous. Then there are those (liberals) who are considered heretic and anti-Christian, and labeled so by the Fascists...OOPS! The Right as anti-American or...OOPS! - Marxist or Socialist, depending on the groups being addressed. According to their understanding, being "liberal" in any form is automatically evil, anti-Semitic, anti-American, and anti-Christian.

After 9/11, many Christians who, under normal circumstances, would not be cowed and intimidated and would challenge and confront these extreme groups, kept silent or very low key and allowed their assertions to go unchallenged for fear of some kind of retribution socially and politically.

Their assertions for war against innocent countries to steal their resources while claiming to be loving, caring, Christians went unchecked. Conversely, the silent majority of Christians which includes all faiths and denominations continued living and functioning within their belief structure, not distorting their beliefs to be personally and politically self-serving. They did not support unchristian activities as condoning, participating, and assisting in the planning of conspiring to acquiring other countries resources and using these incursions to spread their brand of Christianity throughout the country.

The Remaining Christians, the so-called heretics, liberals, anti's , whatever, were fearful of the potential backlash by the population because of the heightened sensitivities and militaristic mood at that time. Because of the fear and reluctance to confront the relative few, those few were allowed for a time to establish what was the accepted attitude and belief of a "true" Christian regardless of how it contradicted Scriptures. And this continues to this day.

A problem with the other 'Christians" is that they are too diverse in their beliefs to unite as a single voice to offset the Christian Right who were organized and focused. Aside from the "liberal" differences, they could have united to defend the right to define them and not be defined by others with bad political intentions.

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