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haikugal

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20. They don't want people to know they are Dominionists...
Wed Oct 30, 2013, 11:40 AM
Oct 2013

they use other words to describe themselves and they steeplejack moderate churches and take control of them. If evil can be used to describe a movement then this one qualities.

http://www.amazon.com/American-Fascists-Christian-Right-America/dp/0743284461/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1383151086&sr=1-5&keywords=chris+hedges

American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America

Twenty-five years ago, when Pat Robertson and other radio and televangelists first spoke of the United States becoming a Christian nation that would build a global Christian empire, it was hard to take such hyperbolic rhetoric seriously. Today, such language no longer sounds like hyperbole but poses, instead, a very real threat to our freedom and our way of life. In American Fascists, Chris Hedges, veteran journalist and author of the National Book Award finalist War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, challenges the Christian Right's religious legitimacy and argues that at its core it is a mass movement fueled by unbridled nationalism and a hatred for the open society.

Hedges, who grew up in rural parishes in upstate New York where his father was a Presbyterian pastor, attacks the movement as someone steeped in the Bible and Christian tradition. He points to the hundreds of senators and members of Congress who have earned between 80 and 100 percent approval ratings from the three most influential Christian Right advocacy groups as one of many signs that the movement is burrowing deep inside the American government to subvert it. The movement's call to dismantle the wall between church and state and the intolerance it preaches against all who do not conform to its warped vision of a Christian America are pumped into tens of millions of American homes through Christian television and radio stations, as well as reinforced through the curriculum in Christian schools. The movement's yearning for apocalyptic violence and its assault on dispassionate, intellectual inquiry are laying the foundation for a new, frightening America.

American Fascists, which includes interviews and coverage of events such as pro-life rallies and weeklong classes on conversion techniques, examines the movement's origins, its driving motivations and its dark ideological underpinnings. Hedges argues that the movement currently resembles the young fascist movements in Italy and Germany in the 1920s and '30s, movements that often masked the full extent of their drive for totalitarianism and were willing to make concessions until they achieved unrivaled power. The Christian Right, like these early fascist movements, does not openly call for dictatorship, nor does it use
physical violence to suppress opposition.

In short, the movement is not yet revolutionary. But the ideological architecture of a Christian fascism is being cemented in place. The movement has roused its followers to a fever pitch of despair and fury. All it will take, Hedges writes, is one more national crisis on the order of September 11 for the Christian Right to make a concerted drive to destroy American democracy. The movement awaits a crisis. At that moment they will reveal themselves for what they truly are -- the American heirs to fascism. Hedges issues a potent, impassioned warning. We face an imminent threat. His book reminds us of the dangers liberal, democratic societies face when they tolerate the intolerant.

I highly recommend this book to continue ones's education about this.

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A movement that is getting too little attention dixiegrrrrl Oct 2013 #1
This message was self-deleted by its author CrispyQ Oct 2013 #22
But it must also mean that Obama was elected twice because God wanted it? nt kelliekat44 Oct 2013 #2
Wrong. Obama was elected by the devil. pangaia Oct 2013 #27
You're welcome! n/t A HERETIC I AM Oct 2013 #39
It was sarcasm. pangaia Oct 2013 #40
Backatya. A HERETIC I AM Oct 2013 #41
they want their rapture realllllly bad. nt grasswire Oct 2013 #3
No rapture for dominionists VAliberal Oct 2013 #15
thank you for the distinction grasswire Oct 2013 #19
Because they are also biblical literalists who say that since Gawd promised no more global floods, kestrel91316 Oct 2013 #33
good point VAliberal Nov 2013 #67
Very well said... haikugal Oct 2013 #23
We need to make that term/group/name/ much more public. dixiegrrrrl Oct 2013 #24
Thank you. I have a Bible study that explains it much like that. The Dominists are going to run jwirr Oct 2013 #45
They are behind the Prosperity Gospel. They also pretty much took over the SBC back in the 80's. haele Oct 2013 #63
Sadly, I think, a lot VAliberal Nov 2013 #68
Sounds like the stenchy pile of dung... CoffeeCat Oct 2013 #65
Stopped in it's tracks- ruffburr Oct 2013 #4
Yeah I agree, they are seriously batshit crazy! Initech Oct 2013 #6
What I wonder is! how many of them are there, and what financial LiberalLoner Oct 2013 #7
Statistically I have no idea. pangaia Oct 2013 #30
There are more of them than you think. They like to run as stealth candidates, kestrel91316 Oct 2013 #34
Keep shining a bright light on this dangerous sectarian nonsense. MineralMan Oct 2013 #5
Aren't there a bunch of Dominionists in Congress who... polichick Oct 2013 #8
The Family,iirc Lars39 Oct 2013 #10
Thanks - that's them... polichick Oct 2013 #11
Creepy bunch, aren't they Lars39 Oct 2013 #13
Really creepy - but "our guys" attend their prayer meetings regularly. polichick Oct 2013 #14
I know. Lars39 Oct 2013 #17
I don't know how they could be blind to what these people are about... polichick Oct 2013 #18
True. Lars39 Oct 2013 #26
Personally, I think they want to be in on the beginning of the 10,000-year Nay Oct 2013 #50
So people like Obama and Clinton, who attend the prayer meetings, want... polichick Oct 2013 #52
I have no reason to think they wouldn't. This dominionist stuff is utterly Nay Oct 2013 #55
Just wanted to be sure I knew what you were saying... polichick Oct 2013 #58
The Family... haikugal Oct 2013 #12
Thanks - I actually did read this when it came out. I guess they don't call... polichick Oct 2013 #16
They don't want people to know they are Dominionists... haikugal Oct 2013 #20
The Family is a hardcore Dominionist nest of vipers. kestrel91316 Oct 2013 #36
Its easy to make fun of the celebrity Dominionists like Palin and Cruz riderinthestorm Oct 2013 #9
Ohhhh...so THAT'S the connection with Snow-Bank Snooki! PearliePoo2 Oct 2013 #21
What do they need wealth for......... Amaril Oct 2013 #25
They don't believe in a rapture. white_wolf Oct 2013 #29
They are not getting raptured. djean111 Oct 2013 #32
Well, yesphan Oct 2013 #28
If those nuts want to put religion into politics libodem Oct 2013 #31
AMEN! nt CFLDem Oct 2013 #64
Until we, as a society, marginalize religion as the superstitious mythology that it is, even for... cleanhippie Oct 2013 #35
Quite Ayn Randian KT2000 Oct 2013 #37
wait a minute moonlady0623 Oct 2013 #38
Also these people are recruiting in the prisons. LiberalLoner Oct 2013 #42
Darrell Issa and other Californian arch-conservatives have Dominionist ties starroute Oct 2013 #43
I thought I remembered that Hillary Clinton was a member of pangaia Oct 2013 #44
Normally, these movements would die off when the economy gets better. SleeplessinSoCal Oct 2013 #46
Mass Suicide bombers in suits that want to take out ALL of us. ErikJ Oct 2013 #47
It is a mistake to underestimate just how powerful the faith based movement is. nt Demo_Chris Oct 2013 #48
I agree completely. Trying to eradicate faith-based stuff, in the average Nay Oct 2013 #53
America's Taliban Blue_In_AK Oct 2013 #49
These loons go back to St. Ronnie. tomg Oct 2013 #51
That quote is mentioned several places with citations MH1 Oct 2013 #56
Thanks. I will check on tomg Oct 2013 #60
I did a video about Palin's involvement w/Dominionists Oilwellian Oct 2013 #54
No, they have the right to pursue their interests... HereSince1628 Oct 2013 #57
I fully agree gopiscrap Oct 2013 #59
They bringing the Jem Hadar? One_Life_To_Give Oct 2013 #61
Don't forget that Hillary Clinton has been a member of The Family Warpy Oct 2013 #62
Yep. Warren DeMontague Oct 2013 #66
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