The Republican Caliphate

As Kadizzle and The Commander got up and did their morning update Kadizzle noted a letter to the Editor in The Bismarck Tribune.  Some simple minded fundy was worried about the establishment of a Muslim Caliphate.  Kadizzle thought it best to look up the word Caliphate and just see what the hell is a Caliphate.  It turns out a Caliphate is run by a caliph.  They caliph is a leader elected by a bunch of religious nuts.  In the Arab world Mohammed was the original caliph.  In the Republican world it was Ronald Reagan.  So a Caliphate is a government run by religion.  In our countriy the fundies try to tell people that the basis of our government is Christianity, so a Christian Caliphate is not such a strange idea to them.  When the dust settles it is very strange that what we have going on in the world is a struggle between a Muslim Caliphate, and a Christian Caliphate.   Now if one were to examine the Catholic Church and compare it to a Caliphate the similarity would be startling.  This all comes full circle to the point that religion and government need to be carefully and diligently separated.  One should note the influence the fundamentalist have had on our elections. One should note how the Republicans play to the fundies by insisting our founders were lead by God when they wrote the constitution.  Republicans have learned how to blend religion into politics and make a good living at it.  The moral of the story is don't trade one Caliphate for another.