There is a desire felt by tens of millions of Americans, lumped into a diffuse and fractious movement known as the Christian right, to destroy the intellectual and scientific rigor of the Enlightenment, radically diminish the role of government to create a theocratic state based on “biblical law,” and force a recalcitrant world to bend to the will of an imperial and “Christian” America. Its public face is on display in the House of Representatives. This ideology, which is the driving force behind the shutdown of the government, calls for the eradication of social “deviants,” beginning with gay men and lesbians, whose sexual orientation, those in the movement say, is a curse and an illness, contaminating the American family and the country. Once these “deviants” are removed, other “deviants,” including Muslims, liberals, feminists, intellectuals, left-wing activists, undocumented workers, poor African-Americans and those dismissed as “nominal Christians”—meaning Christians who do not embrace this peculiar interpretation of the Bible—will also be ruthlessly repressed. The “deviant” government bureaucrats, the “deviant” media, the “deviant” schools and the “deviant” churches, all agents of Satan, will be crushed or radically reformed. The rights of these “deviants” will be annulled. “Christian values” and “family values” will, in the new state, be propagated by all institutions. Education and social welfare will be handed over to the church. Facts and self-criticism will be replaced with relentless indoctrination.
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The cult of masculinity, as in all fascist movements, pervades the ideology of the Christian right. The movement uses religion to sanctify military and heroic “virtues,” glorify blind obedience and order over reason and conscience, and pander to the euphoria of collective emotions.
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All ideological, theological and political debates with the radical Christian right are useless. It cares nothing for rational thought and discussion.
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Fascist movements begin as champions of civic improvement, communal ideals, moral purity, strength, national greatness and family values.
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The rise of Christian fascism is aided by our complacency.
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Wow. Chris Hedges nails it again. I don’t think the Christian right will succeed within the democratic process because I just don’t see them marshaling sufficient numbers. Where they can succeed, however, is in doing what Hedges suggests–pulling down the current liberal democratic infrastructure, creating havoc and disruption in the economy, and then hoping for some environmental calamity to polish off what is left. Then, armed to the teeth as they are, hope they can establish something like a new constitutional framework that is essentially a Christian theocracy. In other words, we would look like “Texas” or “Kansas” nationwide with Ted Cruz as the new “George Washington.” Repent now you godless sodomites.