Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Christian Fascists on the March!
I'm not sure where the line is between a healthy skepticsm toward the role of Christianity in politics and a Christian-phobic paranoia that leads to a total disconnect from reality, but author and former New York Times reporter Chris Hedges has found it. An excerpt from his essay, The Rise of Christian Fascism and Its Threat to American Democracy:
The radical Christian right, calling for a "Christian state" -- where whole segments of American society, from gays and lesbians to liberals to immigrants to artists to intellectuals, will have no legitimacy and be reduced, at best, to second-class citizens -- awaits a crisis, an economic meltdown, another catastrophic terrorist strike or a series of environmental disasters. A period of instability will permit them to push through their radical agenda, one that will be sold to a frightened American public as a return to security and law and order, as well as moral purity and prosperity. This movement -- the most dangerous mass movement in American history -- will not be blunted until the growing social and economic inequities that blight this nation are addressed, until tens of millions of Americans, now locked in hermetic systems of indoctrination through Christian television and radio, as well as Christian schools, are reincorporated into American society and given a future, one with hope, adequate wages, job security and generous federal and state assistance.
OK. So our first step to protect ourselves against "the most dangerous mass movement in American history" is to "reincorporate" those who are currently in Christian schools and end the "indoctrination" of Christian media? Who's the fascist now?
https://mirrorofjustice.blogs.com/mirrorofjustice/2007/02/christian_fasci.html