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This is a ridiculously alarmist article. And it's rather poorly written, too. It comes from a site that seems dead set on villainising the American Right, and ... well, read this extract for yourself:
Over the last 30 years Evangelical fundamentalists have managed to do what Chairman Mao failed to do with his Red Guards: indoctrinate a whole generation of evangelical people to see their own society as the enemy and act like subversives from within the culture. The "Christian Reconstruction" movement is working for theocracy.
Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/frank-schaeffer/glenn-beck-and-the-912-ma_b_284387.html
See that last little bit there? That line that goes "... These people are as anti-American as Al-Qaeda ..."? Now, don't get me wrong - I'm a socialist; I always have been, and I always will be - but isn't that going just a bit too far?
There's more to say on this, but I need to do a bit more research, I think. I'd like to find out just who the author of that article is, for one thing - Frank Schaeffer is his name. From what I've picked up, he's basically rebelling against an overly strict upbringing.
More to come.
Update:
Curious. Schaeffer has his own website, and he actually seems to be on the Right more than the Left - he has a son in the Marines and is a strong supporter of America's international, ah, diplomatic measures, he describes himself as an Orthodox Christian, and he's all 'round really quite conservative.
The more I look into this guy, the more I think he's just going through a prolonged rejection of his childhood upbringing. It must have been fairly traumatic - he openly mentions some of the parenting techniques employed by the Christian Right, and although he never acknowledges that he was subject to them himself, he has quite an indepth knowledge of those techniques.
Also, the fact he eschewed this far-Right ideology almost a decade ago and is still railing against it tends to suggest that yes, he's holding a pretty hefty grudge.
This is my first insight into the American Left, and I'm ... a little horrified. Bipartisanship runs deep over there.
Over the last 30 years Evangelical fundamentalists have managed to do what Chairman Mao failed to do with his Red Guards: indoctrinate a whole generation of evangelical people to see their own society as the enemy and act like subversives from within the culture. The "Christian Reconstruction" movement is working for theocracy.
Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/frank-schaeffer/glenn-beck-and-the-912-ma_b_284387.html
See that last little bit there? That line that goes "... These people are as anti-American as Al-Qaeda ..."? Now, don't get me wrong - I'm a socialist; I always have been, and I always will be - but isn't that going just a bit too far?
There's more to say on this, but I need to do a bit more research, I think. I'd like to find out just who the author of that article is, for one thing - Frank Schaeffer is his name. From what I've picked up, he's basically rebelling against an overly strict upbringing.
More to come.
Update:
Curious. Schaeffer has his own website, and he actually seems to be on the Right more than the Left - he has a son in the Marines and is a strong supporter of America's international, ah, diplomatic measures, he describes himself as an Orthodox Christian, and he's all 'round really quite conservative.
The more I look into this guy, the more I think he's just going through a prolonged rejection of his childhood upbringing. It must have been fairly traumatic - he openly mentions some of the parenting techniques employed by the Christian Right, and although he never acknowledges that he was subject to them himself, he has quite an indepth knowledge of those techniques.
Also, the fact he eschewed this far-Right ideology almost a decade ago and is still railing against it tends to suggest that yes, he's holding a pretty hefty grudge.
This is my first insight into the American Left, and I'm ... a little horrified. Bipartisanship runs deep over there.