Christian fascists?
Yet another journalist unmasked as a far-left and rabidly anti-christian would-be inquisitor. Reading this article makes me think that Mr. Hedges is hoping to start a holocaust of his own. It would be interesting to compare the demonization of the jews in Nazi Germany to this journalist’s sputtering hatred.
The Christian fascists, he says, have a goal, “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 [Dr. James Luther] 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.  ~alternet.org
Chris Hedges is confused. He is seriously confused. But I know where he’s coming from. I am saddened, though, by his hatred and misperception. The following is, frankly, insulting. In fact, I think it just might qualify as hate speech.
The Christian right has lured tens of millions of Americans, who rightly feel abandoned and betrayed by the political system, from the reality-based world to one of magic — to fantastic visions of angels and miracles, to a childlike belief that God has a plan for them and Jesus will guide and protect them. This mythological worldview, one that has no use for science or dispassionate, honest intellectual inquiry, one that promises that the loss of jobs and health insurance does not matter, as long as you are right with Jesus, offers a lying world of consistency that addresses the emotional yearnings of desperate followers at the expense of reality. It creates a world where facts become interchangeable with opinions, where lies become true — the very essence of the totalitarian state. It includes a dark license to kill, to obliterate all those who do not conform to this vision, from Muslims in the Middle East to those at home who refuse to submit to the movement. And it conveniently empowers a rapacious oligarchy whose god is maximum profit at the expense of citizens. ~alternet.org