"Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism"

http://salon.com/books/feature/2006/05/12/goldberg/

"Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism"
Across the United States, religious activists are organizing to establish an American theocracy. A frightening look inside the growing right-wing movement.

By Michelle Goldberg

May. 12, 2006 | A teenage modern dance troupe dressed all in black took their places on the stage of the First Baptist Church of Pleasant Grove, a suburb of Birmingham, Alabama. Two dancers, donning black overcoats, crossed their arms menacingly. As a Christian pop ballad swelled on the speakers, a boy wearing judicial robes walked out. Holding a Ten Commandments tablet that seemed to be made of cardboard, he was playing former Alabama Supreme Court justice Roy Moore. The trench-coated thugs approached him, miming a violent rebuke and forcing him to the other end of the stage, sans Commandments.

There, a cluster of dancers impersonating liberal activists waved signs with slogans like "No Moore!" and "Keep God Out!! No God in Court." The boy Moore danced a harangue, first lurching toward his tormentors and then cringing back in outrage before breaking through their line to lunge for his monument. But the dancers in trench coats -- agents of atheism -- got hold of it first and took it away, leaving him abject on the floor. As the song's uplifting chorus played -- "After you've done all you can, you just stand" -- a dancer in a white robe, playing either an angel or God himself, came forward and helped the Moore character to his feet.

The performance ended to enthusiastic applause from a crowd that included many Alabama judges and politicians, as well as Roy Moore himself, a gaunt man with a courtly manner and the wrath of Leviticus in his eyes. Moore has become a hero to those determined to remake the United States into an explicitly Christian nation. That reconstructionist dream lies at the red-hot center of our current culture wars, investing the symbolic fight over the Ten Commandments -- a fight whose outcome seems irrelevant to most peoples' lives -- with an apocalyptic urgency.

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have it in my cart at Amazon

:puke:

What is it about fundies that causes them to be mindbogglingly, embarassingly cheesy and lame ALL THE TIME? Is it the same gene that causes both?

but I think the power of the Fundies are beginning to wane, the more they open themselves, the more they are turning people off. From the lunatic rantings of Pat Robertson, the Terri Schiavo fiasco,the "Justice Sunday" backlash, the idiot mother in Georgia who wanted to ban Harry Potter in schools, to that less than "Christian" activities of Ralph Reed. They like Icarus, the fundies flew close to the sun, and got burned and are falling.

mankind has no hope because humans just dont have what it takes to do anything right... or a reasonable facsimile thereof

what they do or dont do,, i was talking to a fundi at a yard sale and a group was talking about the state of things.. and one said, well when the Rapture comes, we wont have to worry about it anyway..

at which time i pipe up and Say, 'hey..when the Rapture comes can i have your new truck..??'

it amused some but not all...

Just to update you - the Harry Potter series will stay in the Gwinnet County schools by a unanimous decision last night. The ex-missionary pro-book burning bitch whined, "Well, the bible says witchcraft is an abomination so I don't see how these books could be a good influence." The arrogance of the soi-disant xians knows no bounds. She is considering appealing to the State Board of Education. I hope it costs her real money to appeal there. Nothing dissuades these air-heads like finding out they have to pay to make trouble. Bah!

You know, those things that Jesus actually taught, not Moses.

People like this cannot live in a complex world, so they replace the complexities with fairytales of bigotry and hatred of all those who live with those complexities. A reminder of how weak they are.

and because of this myopic view of the world, they set themselves up for more complexity. A lie turns into a lie, turns into another lie, etc. Bad way of dealing with life.

it came out of a Hindu Tribal culture, it is distinctly different

the fact that it has morphed into many cultures in its travels over the last 2,600 years and has still remained pretty much intact.. says a lot for it. granted there are some debatable distortions.. but i am referring to the greater overview.

I've been reading "The Cost of Discipleship". Bonhoeffer could have escaped the nazis, by staying in London, but he felt a responsibility to his people in Germany to shine a light on the evil that was overtaking the country.

she was good.

She wasn't sensationalist, but just her recitation of the facts was terrifying. Thse people will stop at nothing because of their vision.