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01-31-2007, 10:13 PM

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Christianists on the March

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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.

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01-31-2007, 10:46 PM	#2
xero Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 579	I'd be more worried about radical muslims. __________________ Ron Paul for president in '08

01-31-2007, 10:55 PM	#3
LikeableRodent Apple picker Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 1,400	I should have you over one day and make you watch Jesus Camp. No matter what your religious beliefs are, as long as you're a sane logical thinker it will be one of the most disturbing and frightening movies you'll see.

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