On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 13:36:20 -0500, human <human@csd.uwm.edu> quoted:
I call it Christian
nationalism.
ef_hutterite wrote:
Hysterical chicken-little-ism.
How is that?
Someone already posted this, perhaps you missed it:
Read KINGDOM COMING by Michelle Goldberg.
http://www.selvesandothers.org/view1602.html
Saving Secular Society
By Michelle Goldberg
Michelle Goldberg speaks on her book, Kingdom Coming: The Rise of
Christian Nationalism
Whenever I talk about the growing power of the evangelical right with
friends, they always ask the same question: What can we do? Usually I
reply with a joke: Keep a bag packed and your passport current. I don't
really mean it, but my anxiety is genuine. It's one thing to have a
government that shows contempt for civil liberties; America has
survivied
such men before. It's quite another to have a mass movement--the
largest
and most powerful mass movement in the nation--rise up in opposition to
the rights of its fellow citizens. The Constitution protects
minorities,
but that protection is not absolute; with a sufficiently sympathethic
or
apathetic majority, a tightly organized faction can get around it.
The mass movement I've described aims to supplant Enlightenment
rationalism with what it calls the "Christian worldview." The phrase is
based on the conviction that true Christianity must govern every aspect
of
public and private life, and that all--government, science, history and
culture--must be understood according to the dictates of scripture.
There
are biblically correct positions on every issue, from gay marriage to
income tax rates, and only those with the right worldview can discern
them. This is Christianity as a total idealogy--I call it Christian
nationalism.
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read the rest here:
http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2649/
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