David Johnston wrote:
> On Sun, 04 May 2008 15:04:24 -0500, Alric Knebel <alric@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote:
>
>> Ubiquitous wrote:
>>
>>> manley.power@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> 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....
>>>
>>> And you thought this was relevant to this group because?
>> 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.
Oh Jeez, did the dog eat your FAQs again?
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