On May 4, 2:03 pm, web...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Ubiquitous) wrote:
> manley.po...@[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?
Where do you watch your TELEvangelists?
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