Do you think this is carrying things a little too far?

The leader of a small group that ultimately wants to secede from the United States and form a Christian republic is preparing to move to the South Carolina county his organization has picked as a base of operations. Cory Burnell, leader of Christian Exodus, said he is ready to move his family and operations by July from California to Anderson, S.C.. He will be joined by other families already living in the area. His family will join more than a dozen other like-minded families already living there. Burnell hopes to put up and elect candidates for public office who share his agenda. Associated Press

Sounds like a cult. Christians are supposed to influence the world not hide from it.

the entire state of Vermont wants to secede from the United States as well.

eh?

Wow, sound like they may be ordering some koolaid sometime soon lol
Yeah, they sound like nuts!

It's a cult, what of it?

This is a good example of religious brainwashing.

I think it's marvelous. Let them all get together and let them secede. Every state they leave will see the average IQ score raised by 25%.

IT is a cult- not a personal relationship with the living God

What can I say, it doesn't surprise me at all, the bible shows us , that we are in the last days.

They are a cult and will stop at no lengths to gain power for their agendas.

Yeah, this has been in the works for years. I say, good luck to them, best wishes, don't let the door hit ya on the way out. I for one would not miss them if they went.

I don't think they'll succeed, but it's the thought that counts.

Mr. Barnum said it best, "there is a sucker born every minute."
Cory Burnell sounds more like a con man than a Christian. I must say that I have never met the man and in all fairness, I should give him the benefit of the doubt. He can not live long enough to do what he wants to do. He will not be successful in seceding from the US, but I bet he will make a good living out of the attempt.

Burnell is going to have to recruit a lot more followers before he is able to elect candidates for public office who share his agenda.

Let's find a nice island for them somewhere, put them all on it together. Then all we need is the shipping hazard signs and about 5 years.

Should raise the average US IQ by a point or so.

Are they agonna build on a Hill so Jesus can pick them up first?

Go ye into all of the Earth and Preach the Gospel.
You are "in the World" --- "not of it".
Occupy, till I (Jesus) returns.

Fanaticism can strike anywhere and anyone!

I love the U.S.A.!!!
Red, White and Blue!!!
Pilgrims and ALL!!!
They'll (anti-Christ jerks) have to pry the Bible outta' my Cold Dead Hands!!!

Ditto..........Thanky Jesus!!!

It sounds good to me as long as they follow the true principles of the Bible and do not get wacky like the Heavens gate cult, David Koresh or Jim Jones. Why do you care? Are you upset that they do not include you? Or maybe you are upset that if they exit the normal society you can't put them down?

I thought we settled that whole 'secession' thing back in 1865.

/'Scuse me General Sherman, do you have a match?'

Really? Wow.

I wouldn't call it "share his agenda."

I think it would be "listening to the constituents and voting the way they want you to vote."

You know, the way politicians are supposed to do...represent the people who put them into office.

That is a novel concept nowadays.

Oh brother. Yes, it's carrying things too far.

My brother-in-law was in some religious compound in South Carolina for two years. I don't know if what you write of is the same group, but I can assure anyone from what my brother-in-law told all of us-stay the hell away from that group. They are certifiable!! Total whack-jobs. They cut you off from ALL contact with the outside world. When my dear mother-in-law died (God bless her soul), they wouldn't let him go to attend her funeral. Fortunately, he told them "Goodbye", and went anyway. They wouldn't let him back on the compound to get any of his personal belongings afterwards. (Twilight Zone music playing).

I hope he has chosen a better location for his Christian State than the Jews did for their Jewish State. Israel's neighbors have caused them no end of trouble - so I hope if Mr. Burnell succeeds, the South Carolinians are a little friendlier than the Palestinians. The historical precedent for seceding from the United States does not look too good either - didn't some southern states try that once? Didn't our federal government get ticked off and kill a few hundred thousand southerners? I wish Mr. Burnell luck, he is gonna need it.

It is illegal to secede from the United States under the present system of law.

It is a little curious, though, that even though he and his followers are so unhappy with America that they want to secede they aren't unhappy enough to emigrate to another country.....

Yeah, VT and TX has their own versions, left and right of this type of coukery.

That outfit is simply a branch of the loathsome RRR Cult, albeit a bit more extreme than other lemmings within it.

Just a BIT more extreme, mind you. Since ALL of the RRR Cult is THIS extreme:

The cult of the "Religious" Radical Right is DEFINED by its dedication to hate-agendas that have been threatening the individual liberties of over a hundred million Americans:

(1) They seek to FORCE millions of women who have UNwanted pregnancies to gestate to term against their will. Which is the equivalent of a very REAL, 9-month-long form of RAPE.

(2) They seek to DENY same-sex couples the right to legally marry, despite the fact that Same-Sex Marriage (SSM) is totally harmless, and poses NO threat to anything or anyone. The "Defense of Marriage" acts that they've conned people into passing are a sick JOKE and is recognized by most sensible and intelligent Americans as a LIE. (And fortunately, the RRR is LOSING this war on reasonable freedoms, big-time, as state after state and nation after nation legalizes SSM. And just yesterday (6/14/07), the Massachusetts Legislature sensibly and fairly scrapped an attempt by mindless bigots to pass a state constitutional amendment against SSM).

(3) Most RRR Cult lemmings are ignorant enough to seek to force "Creationism" PSEUDO-science on America's schools, so as to water down our science curriculum with pure bullcrap. It's bullcrap because any God who is intelligent, omniscient, and omnipotent enough to create the whole universe would have had no problem creating the evolutionary process. (Too bad for the RRR cultists' LIMITED-capabilities "god.")

Fortunately for the rest of the world, the RRR Cult barely even exists beyond America's borders. But in America, it is a sociopathic and worthless infestation --

RRR : Society :: 5% arsenic : glass of drinking water.

they should have the right to try. why not?