"duplicitous" <weberm@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writhed in denials:
>
> manley.power@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
quoted from:
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Fascism/ChristianRight_AmerFascism.html
> > Dr. James Luther Adams, my ethics professor at Harvard Divinity
> > School , told us that when we were his age, he was then close to 80,
> > we would all be fighting the "Christian fascists."
> >
> > The warning, given to me 25 years ago, came at the moment Pat
> > Robertson and other radio and televangelists began speaking about a
> > new political religion that would direct its efforts at taking control
> > of all institutions, including mainstream denominations and the
> > government. Its stated goal was to use the United States to create a
> > global, Christian empire. It was hard, at the time, to take such
> > fantastic rhetoric seriously, especially given the buffoonish quality
> > of those who expounded it. But Adams warned us against the blindness
> > caused by intellectual snobbery. The Nazis, he said, were not going to
> > return with swastikas and brown shirts. Their ideological inheritors
> > had found a mask for fascism in the pages of the Bible....
>
>And you thought this was relevant to this group because?
Oh, just a comment upon the 'fair and balanced' manner in which
the 'religious right' keeps trying to force itself upon national
politics with false doctrines and graven images.. Just the usual
corporate practice of misrepresenting itself with 'theocratic
nationalism', much like in 1930's Germany..
--Nothing to see here Citizen, move along..
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