Onward, Christian Soldiers (Redux)

“The warning, given to me nearly 25 years ago, came at the moment Pat Robertson and other radio and televangelists began speaking about a new political religion that would direct is 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 leaders in the Christian Right 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 in America had found a mask for fascism in patriotism and the pages of the Bible.”

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