Christianist on the March

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Christianists on the March
By Chris Hedges
Truthdig 

Sunday 28 January 2007

Dr. James Luther Adams, my ethics professor at Harvard Divinity School, told his students that when we were his age - he was then close to 80 - we would all be fighting the "Christian fascists."

The warning, given 25 years ago, came at the moment Pat Robertson and other radio and television evangelists began speaking about a new political religion that would direct its efforts toward 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. This call for fundamentalists and evangelicals to take political power was a radical and ominous mutation of traditional Christianity. 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 shirts. Their ideological inheritors had found a mask for fascism in the pages of the Bible.   More HERE

   I should note that I do not agree with all of the views of this article above.

      For the record, I am a Christian. Let us get that out of the way before the conservatives start claiming that this is another Liberal anti-Christian piece.

    I do believe that this country needs a new direction but one that is not lead by Christian Fundamentalist taking control of government or anything else. These heretics will never have a global Christian empire as our western Christian ' religion ' is not even close to being anything near what God intended. We may end up as a one world religion someday, but, it will not be western in any form.

 

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