Posted on 01/14/2007 8:29:25 PM PST by freedomdefender
American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America Chris Hedges
reviewed by Prof. Jon Wiener
Free Press / 256 pages / $25
American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America is a call to arms against what Hedges sees as the efforts of Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson and the operators of Trinity Broadcasting Network, among others, to turn the United States into a Christian nation.
...In American Fascists, Hedges reports in fascinating detail what goes on inside the churches, conventions and meeting halls of the Christian right. He attends a "Love Won Out" conference in Boston, sponsored by James Dobson's Focus on the Family, held to "cure" those who are afflicted by "same-sex attraction." He visits the Creation Museum in Petersburg, Ky., where he finds a display describing evolution as the "big lie." ... If the conservative Christians come to power, Hedges asserts, evangelical leaders such as Kennedy, Falwell and Robertson could be "calling for the punishment, detention and quarantining of gays and lesbians - as well as abortionists, Muslims and other nonbelievers." Thus, Hedges concludes, the United States today faces an internal threat analogous to that posed by the Nazis in Weimar Germany.
...Hedges concludes that the Christian right "should no longer be tolerated," because it "would destroy the tolerance that makes an open society possible."
Hedges advocates passage of federal hate-crimes legislation prohibiting intolerance, but he doesn't really explain how it would work. Many countries do prohibit "hate speech." Holocaust denial, for example, is a crime in Germany, Austria and several other European countries. But does this mean that Hedges favors prosecuting Christian fundamentalists for declaring, for example, that abortion providers are murderers or that secular humanists are agents of Satan? He doesn't say.
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
And yet that entire crew of "fascists" couldn't keep Satan's own party out of Congressional control. Spare me.
LOL. He's right! I admit it! I am just like Weimer Germany! They're coming to take me away, haha, heehee!
I guess this is the far left's answer to Ann Coulter's book...
Isn't it amazing how those without God seem so offended and want to attack those WITH God...
Satan loves these useful idiots.
I remembered his notoriety from an idiotic commencement address he gave in 2003 and found this bio:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Hedges
What nonsense. The christian right isn't populated by facists. - rolls eyes. However if one were to imbue some of them with the title of socialists there'd be some truth to that.
The only difference between Chris Hedges and Vladimir Lenin is that Lenin had power. That same mindset of oppression and subjugation lives on.
If he does make nuances, it behooves us to heed Niemoller's warning:
When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist.
When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat.
When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out; I was not a trade unionist.
When they came for me, there was no one left to speak out
What a timely posting! Just read this one:
"A rabbi's warning to U.S. Christians"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1767632/posts
Ha-HAH! They'll be sorry, those mangey mutts!
The day he came for me, they all laughed...
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Now it's their turn, haha, heehee!
Of course not, because to propose a solution would be to become exactly what he is projecting onto the "Christian Right."
"Hedges concludes that the Christian right "should no longer be tolerated",..."
"Hedges advocates passage of federal hate-crimes legislation prohibiting intolerance..."
LOL!
I remember Chris Hedges when he went to college. Didn't seem like such a peace weenie back then. Too bad. I actually liked him. Sigh.
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We must destroy freedom and our open society in order to save freedom and our open society.
Liberalism is an emotional illness.
I hope to live long enough to find out that I am wrong; to wit, the nutty liberals ain't crazy after all. We really will intern the nuttiest of the nutty liberals.
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