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Exactly what kind of “Christian nation” do these people want? II

Posted by Belief, Opinion 23 Dec 2010

Source: Journal Courier, 21 December 2010. By Prof Steve Hochstadt. My last essay about the United States as a Christian nation provoked a great deal of comment. Some of it was nasty name-calling based on historical ignorance that seemed to me to be un-Christian, but then what do I know? On the other hand, two [...]

Exactly what kind of “Christian nation” do these people want?

Posted by Belief, Opinion 15 Dec 2010

Source: Journal Courier, 15 December 2010. By Prof Steve Hochstadt. Many Americans are saying that America should be a Christian nation. I wonder exactly what they mean. Do they mean a Christian nation like the ones from which the Puritans and most of our early settlers fled? In those countries, the king was also the [...]

One Nation Under God

Posted by Christian Right Watch 9 Dec 2010

Source: Newsweek, 9 December 2010. On Nov. 30, about a dozen moderate Christian leaders gathered for a meeting in Washington, D.C. Their colleagues on the religious right had been delivering a potent new message about God and country, of fear and domination, that was resonating among Christians and conservatives nationwide. Among those assembled last month were [...]

Radical Constitutionalism

Posted by Belief, Opinion, Wall of Separation 29 Nov 2010

Source: The New York Times, 26 November 2010. By law professor Jeffrey Rosen. Of the newly elected Tea Party senators, Mike Lee, a 39-year-old Republican from Utah, has the most impeccable establishment legal credentials: the son of Rex Lee, a solicitor general under President Reagan, he attended law school at Brigham Young and later clerked [...]

The Right’s Rotten History

Posted by Opinion, Wall of Separation 16 Nov 2010

Source: New Deal 2.0, 16 November 2010. By Prof Harvey J. Kaye. Whether or not right-wingers such as Fox News “entertainer and enlightener” Glenn Beck, South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint, and Texas Governor Rick Perry actually uphold Ronald Reagan’s conservatism, they are clearly sustaining his practice of using and abusing the past to reshape popular [...]

Glenn Beck’s favorite ‘historian’ enlists the Founding Fathers in a battle against diversity

Posted by Christian Right Watch, Wall of Separation 16 Oct 2010

Source: Tablet Magazine, 12 October 2010. Glenn Beck is obsessed with American history, and he’s helped make David Barton the most influential historian in America. A wiry, boyish Texas fundamentalist and master revisionist, Barton specializes in a version of history in which America was founded to be a Christian nation but has been hijacked by [...]

How Democracy Dies: Lessons From a Master

Posted by Christian Right Watch, Opinion 11 Oct 2010

Source: Truthout, 11 October 2010. The ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes spent his life battling the assault on democracy by tyrants. It is disheartening to be reminded that he lost. But he understood that the hardest struggle for humankind is often stating and understanding the obvious. Aristophanes, who had the temerity to portray the ruling Greek [...]

How American Right-Wing Christians Are Waging ‘Spiritual Warfare’ in Northern Iraq

Posted by Christian Right Watch 26 Jul 2010

Source: AlterNet, 12 July 2010. Evangelicals have established schools, radio stations and churches in northern Iraq — all with the blessings of the Kurdistan government and assistance from U.S. taxpayers. On a barren hillside outside Sulaymaniyah in southeast Iraqi Kurdistan sits a small compound of buildings clustered behind battered gray and ochre walls. Atop one [...]

Hedges: The Christian Fascists Are Growing Stronger

Posted by Christian Right Watch 6 Jun 2010

Source: TruthDig, 6 June 2010. By Chris Hedges. Tens of millions of Americans, lumped into a diffuse and fractious movement known as the Christian right, have begun to dismantle the intellectual and scientific rigor of the Enlightenment. They are creating a theocratic state based on “biblical law,” and shutting out all those they define as [...]

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