"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 ****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?
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
cor****ate practice of misrepresenting itself with 'theocratic
nationalism', much like in 1930's Germany..
--Nothing to see here Citizen, move along..
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