On Sun, 04 May 2008 15:04:24 -0500, Alric Knebel <alric@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
>Ubiquitous wrote:
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>> manley.power@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
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>>>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 ****rts. Their ideological inheritors
>>>had found a mask for fascism in the pages of the Bible....
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>>
>> And you thought this was relevant to this group because?
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>I saw Chris Hedges on C-SPAN, discussing exactly this thing, on C-SPAN's
>BookTV. In fact, I recorded it and put it on a DVD, which I stored
>somewhere. That makes it directly relevant, you stupid pie-hole.
No, it doesn't.
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