Ubiquitous wrote:
> 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....
>
>
> 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.
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