Is America Headed For A New Dark Ages ?
By Thom Hartmann
WANT A REPEAT OF THE DARK AGES ? JUST PUT RELIGION IN CHARGE OF GOVERNMENT . Donald Trump and JD Vance , who recently converted to Catholicism , are the political leaders of a movement to convert America ’ s form of governance from a secular democratic republic into a fundamentalist white Christian ethnostate . In this , they ’ re joined by the six Catholic Republican justices on the Supreme Court who ’ ve already imposed their church ’ s religious doctrine on the rest of us with their Dobbs decision .
Trump ’ s doing this to bring in the fundamentalist Protestant and Catholic vote ; Vance is apparently a true believer . In both cases they threaten to throw America into a new Dark Age resembling , in a worst case scenario , the rule of the mullahs who replaced Iran ’ s secular democracy with a theocratic state .
It ’ s useful to look at what happened to Europe when , around the 6th century , the newly formed Catholic Church took over most of that continent and ruled it with an iron fist for at least nine centuries , an era we refer to as “ the Dark Ages .”
Those who dared think for themselves were routinely murdered . All arts and literature were subject to scrutiny and censorship by religious authorities , as were both business and governmental actions along with marriage . The study of any science that didn ’ t specifically reinforce Church teachings was banned , as was average people reading the bible .
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