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The American Taliban
Jeffrey Ziegler, President of the National Reform Association (NRA), a Pittsburgh, PA based Christian Reconstructionist organization, has announced plans to form a political action committee and public policy organization, officially entering Washington’s world of politics. The NRA hopes that through "Operation Potomac" it can begin lobbying, developing political campaigns, and grooming potential candidates to run at the federal level. Representative and House Majority Whip Tom DeLay told the group that he was on a mission from God to promote a "biblical worldview," and that he had pursued the impeachment of Bill Clinton in part because Mr. Clinton held "the wrong worldview."

Thomas Paine, one of the most influential American Revolutionaries, wrote in The Age of Reason, "Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible [by which Paine means the Old Testament] is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness, that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind; and, for my own part, I sincerely detest it, as I detest everything that is cruel."

The Age of Reason also attacks Christianity as a system of superstition that "produces fanatics" and "serves the purposes of despotism."

"Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law."

"All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind and monopolize power and profit."