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“The True American Holy Christian Church”: Do we want this sort of New Christianity?

© Arthur C. Ruger

A few days ago, after hearing the President's advocacy of a marriage amendment to the Constitution, I looked on Google's "Search News" engine for recent articles about Christian involvement in our political process. In doing so I found an article that was published on the Internet on February 11, 2004. The URL will be posted at the end of this writing. My writing today will included pasted excerpts along with my own comments.

The article is striking, lengthy and annotated and I am in no position at this time to judge one way or another as to its accuracy. Some may see it as another example of our societal inclination to see conspiracy all around us. Others, as I have done, may find it disturbing in that the information contained seems to offer a plausible explanation and framework around what has become the more open involvement in our political system of the Christian Right.

One of the article's themes that seems to stand out is also something I have repeatedly attempted to address in articles on this site: Biblical literalism particularly as it relates to prophecy and the end times.

I offer it for your own consideration. The article, if copied to a Word document, will total more than 40 pages. I have included excerpts from only the first twelve pages. If by then you are not willing to read it in its entirety and feel you can reject it out of hand as irrelevant nonsense, I thank you for reading this report and wish you well.

However, what is found below is not going to go away and it is possible that you are about to read something very fundamental to what is happening in the United States this very moment - something we will be called upon in this election year to endorse or reject.

Below you'll read the biographical information on the author:

Katherine Yurica was educated at East Los Angeles College, U.S.C. and the USC School of law. She worked as a consultant for Los Angeles County and as a news correspondent for Christianity Today plus as a freelance investigative reporter. She is the author of three books. She is also the publisher of the Yurica Report.

Katherine Yurica recorded and transcribed 1,300 pages of Pat Robertson's television show, The 700 Club, covering several years in the mid 1980's. In 1987 she conducted a study in response to informal inquiries from the staff of the Subcommittee on Oversight of the House Ways and Means Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, which was investigating whether television and radio ministries were violating their tax-exempt status by conducting grass roots political appeals, endorsing candidates, and making political expenditures as defined under Section 527 of the IRS code. The Subcommittee on Oversight published Katherine's study in Federal Tax Rules Applicable to Tax-Exempt Organizations Involving Television Ministries on October 6, 1987, Serial 100-43. (Published in 1988.)

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