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I've never heard of the people you mention, and I very much doubt they are at all representative of the vast majority of traditional Christian believers in this country, who I believe support our democratic Constitution and liberties.

Gary deMar is a leader in the Christian Reconstruction movement. One of Phillips's primary tragets in his book is the CR movement. You initiated a thread criticizing Phillips; now you say you are ignorant of much of what he wrote about. deMar was recently interviewed in fact, on the American Family Association radio netrwork, where the president of AFA called him one of the best writers out there in the Christian community and thinkers.

If you haven't a clue about what Phillips was writing about, why did you initiate a thread about his book? Have you read it?

I read the article, and in that article, Mr. Phillips was not criticizing individual radicals, but traditional Christian believers generally. To wit:

First, radical religion – this encompasses everything from the Pat Robertson-Jerry Falwell types to the attacks on medicine and science and the Left Behind books with their End Times and Armageddon scenarios... After George W. Bush narrowly won a second term in 2004, which meant four more years of Religious Right power

The above language basically calls mainstream figures like Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell as well as President Bush theocrats. That is simply a ridiculous charge and Mr. Phillips should be ashamed of himself, and you too if you are doing so.