Reagan's Plot.

Ronald Reagan's political campaign was a "cunningly conceived plot."  Psalm 64:6 (NRSV)

He was reported to have said that Christianity contained "unconventional weapons".

And he used them in his campaign.

These "unconventional weapons " included: demonization of his opponents, damnation of his enemies, blaming and shaming, redemption and salvation.

And he used them as weapons against the Left.

He labelled the left-leaning Hippie Generation "unconscious agents of the devil."

And he called the Soviet Union "The Evil Empire."

He harnessed the hatred and violence of Generation X and directed it against his enemies.

And he enlisted the help of the anti-Communist Pope John Paul II.

But the fact remains - there was no truth in his propaganda.

It was based on hatred and revenge.

And in the end it conspired with evil to win.

The right-wing media reinforced his campaign.

They told us he was a hero and that we preferred his ideas.

But these were lies deliberately and consciously propagated.

He used the Millennium to induce a Last Judgement which was intended to last forever. 

And we endured The End of History.

All of this was planned in secret by right-wing think tanks.

And put into practice through their media outlets.

But nothing lasts forever.

The time has come to expose his lies and the evil motives that inspired them.

His campaign was not a spiritual crusade but a war of hate.

And as such it was intrinsically evil.

[Scripture quotations (marked NRSV) are taken from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and are used by permission.  All rights reserved.] 

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