Ubiquitous wrote:
> alric@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>Ubiquitous wrote:
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>>>manley.power@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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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> For some reason, there doesn't seem to be any record of it on C-SPAN's
> website...
Here, let me help you out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Hedges
Why it's not in the C-SPAN BookTV archives isn't something I can help
you with.
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