"David Johnston" <david@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> 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.
Sure it does. If it bothers you...skip the thread ignoramus.
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