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In reply to the discussion: Ted Cruz' father indicates Ted anointed king as part of the 7 Mountains Mandate. [View all]haikugal
(6,476 posts)83. That looks good...
I have Christian Fascists by Chris Hedges and I highly recommend it.
http://www.amazon.com/American-Fascists-Christian-Right-America/dp/0743284461/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1382144227&sr=8-1&keywords=chris+hedges+american+fascists
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
You probably end up as angry as I am....oh well, my eyes are open!
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Ted Cruz' father indicates Ted anointed king as part of the 7 Mountains Mandate. [View all]
madfloridian
Oct 2013
OP
I call it an Illness. But it is definitely self-serving and often craven ... note Pat Robertson's
libdem4life
Oct 2013
#13
He was the first to come up with separation of church and state...good point
libdem4life
Oct 2013
#60
"Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's"
madfloridian
Oct 2013
#62
These Cruzes are fucking mental. But THEY'RE not suffering from their delusions.
TwilightGardener
Oct 2013
#4
It's part of the End Times/Pre Tribulation stuff...Jesus helps them smite the evildoers and they
libdem4life
Oct 2013
#17
I too have never heard that term but I think its how the plutocrats who are
snagglepuss
Oct 2013
#65
This Cult owns The Family and "Frathouse for Jesus" in Washington DC (home for US Senators, D & R).
blkmusclmachine
Oct 2013
#21
Cult of Donimionism - union of Church and State when the Bible teaches just the opposite.
DhhD
Oct 2013
#22
Will one Dominion Church primary another Dominion Church next year? Tax exempt status?
DhhD
Oct 2013
#23
The GOP isn't fucked, They are so beyond fucked, they couldn't catch a bus back to fucked
Snake Plissken
Oct 2013
#24
2 Points: Separatation of Church/State? and Teddy True Colors are out and helping him repel all but
drynberg
Oct 2013
#55
Cruz recently made a remark about the Roman Cesar. And statements about moving all the money to
DhhD
Oct 2013
#57
"Christianizing America" = transfer the wealth to the rich and screw the liberals.
Coyotl
Oct 2013
#61
This doesn't appear even as a subset of dominionism. Is this 7 mountains stuff really as
ancianita
Oct 2013
#68
I'm buying into this. I think dominionism in all its recent permutations is dangerous, especially
ancianita
Oct 2013
#70
So I say, if we want a non-theocratic country, we are in for a long haul of crazy.
ancianita
Oct 2013
#71
Thanks to those who let me know about Thom Hartmann mentioning it. And thanks for all the Tweets!
madfloridian
Oct 2013
#84
I hope a Jim Baker-like scandal of biblical proportions occurs with this church.
Crowman1979
Oct 2013
#86
I know the feeling. Your last paragraph says it all...couldn't have said it better.
madfloridian
Nov 2013
#106
"We will maintain a constant barrage of criticism against the Left. We will attack the very
djean111
Nov 2013
#102