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The Christian Fascists Are Growing Stronger

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 the
enemy. This movement, veering closer and closer to traditional fascism,
seeks to force a recalcitrant world to submit before an imperial America. It
champions the eradication of social deviants, beginning with homosexuals,
and moving on to immigrants, secular humanists, feminists, Jews, Muslims and
those they dismiss as "nominal Christians" -- meaning Christians who do not
embrace their perverted and heretical interpretation of the Bible. Those who
defy the mass movement are condemned as posing a threat to the health and
hygiene of the country and the family. All will be purged.

The followers of deviant faiths, from Judaism to Islam, must be converted or
repressed. The deviant media, the deviant public schools, the deviant
entertainment industry, the deviant secular humanist government and
judiciary and the deviant churches will be reformed or closed. There will be
a relentless promotion of Christian "values," already under way on Christian
radio and television and in Christian schools, as information and facts are
replaced with overt forms of indoctrination. The march toward this
terrifying dystopia has begun. It is taking place on the streets of Arizona,
on cable news channels, at tea party rallies, in the Texas public schools,
among militia members and within a Republican Party that is being hijacked
by this lunatic fringe.

Read the rest at < http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/06/07-4 >.

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