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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Iraqi Training Botched By U.S.

    In remarks made ready for his talk Wednesday with the Senate Judiciary Committee, former Rep. Lee Hamilton :

"The police training system has not gone well."  This is in regards to the training of the Iraqi police and their army.

    The training has been screwed up by the United States because the job was given to the wrong agencies to complete the task.

By LAURIE KELLMAN, Associated Press Writer

January 31,2007

The U.S. erred by first assigning the task of shaping the judicial system in a largely lawless country to the State Department and private contractors who "did not have the expertise or the manpower to get the job done," Hamilton and Meese said in testimony obtained by The Associated Press.

Justice Department officials, they said, should lead the work of transforming the system. Police executives and supervisors should replace the military police personnel now assigned.

The recommendations about the Iraqi judicial system were included in the Iraq Study Group's report last year, but got little attention. Hamilton and Meese said Wednesday that unless the U.S. helps create a capable, trained professional police force and functioning criminal justice system, "ordinary Iraqis will not live in peace and will not have confidence in their new government."

"Long-term security depends as much on the Iraqi police and judicial system as the Iraqi Army," they testified. Entire Article.

   I would like to know who the idiot was that did all of this bad assigning in the first place.

 

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