Conservative Religious Influence
The warning, given to me 25 years ago, came at the moment Pat Robertson and other radio and televangelists began speaking about a new political religion that would direct its efforts at 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. 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. - Chris Hedges (From his article: The Christian Right and the Rise of American Fascism, 2011)
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Religion and militarism
https://nnomy.org/religionandmilitarism NNOMY/Compilation As one might suspect, the issue of cultural militarism and religion has evoked some controversial opinions from voices within differing religious persuasions, that are questioning the ethicacy of declaring ones religious beliefs while supporting militarism and the role that has assumed internationally. The following snippet introductions ...
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God is Anti-War
The freedom movement provides a better home than the Religious Right for Christian conservatives. 2010 / George Hawley / Young Americans For Liberty - Eight years of the Bush administration (add ...