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Some Support for The Religious Right

One of the ongoing difficulties many people encounter when approaching this subject, is the matter of terminology. In my book Eternal Hostility: The Struggle Between Theocracy and Democracy, published...

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Holy Smoke Part I: The Origins of Christian Nationalism

Barry Goldwater once said in an interview that the Christian Right scared the  hell out of him. It's a position with which I, and many other Kossacks, heartily concur.  This group has a great deal of...

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Holy Smoke Part II: From Christian Reconstructionism to Christian Nationalism

NOTE: If you haven't read Part I of this series, you need to do so because it defines terms and explains exactly what Dominionism and Christian Reconstructionism are, and what their goals are. As...

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Holy Smoke III: Danger on the Right.

Once the coalition on Revival took hold, and televangelists like Robertson and Falwell hopped aboard the express,  Christian Nationalism became empowered. And the real goals became apparent: they...

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Supervixens #17: Why Women SHOULD Feat The Christian Nationali

If you are a woman, and the Christian Nationalists don't scare the bejeezus out of you--you haven't been paying attention.  Tinight we'll talk abotu why fear is a sane response--and what we can do to...

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Regents for King George

As I’ve been thinking about the prosecutor purge, something I read ... somewhere ... rattled around in the back of my mind.  I woke up this morning wondering if I'd be able to find it again.I recalled...

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Christian Reconstructionists, Again.

Seems like only yesterday but it was 2 years ago when I wrote about this very scary group for the first time; and, here they are, in the news, bigger and scarier than ever. The article is on truthout...

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Theocracy Goes Mainstream

Theocracy is going mainstream -- if you consider some of the the top organizations of the religous right mainstream that is.  And if a recent major religious right conference in North Carolina is any...

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Southern Baptist Leader Asks God to Smite His Enemies

Rev. Wiley Drake, the former Vice President of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC); current pastor of First Southern Baptist Church of Buena Park, California; and current darkhorse candidate for...

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Theocracy Now: A Video by Max Blumenthal

"Max Blumenthal takes us on another shocking trip to the far shores of the Christian right, this time to the 2007 Value Voters Summit. Starring Mike Huckabee, Rudy Giuliani (momentarily in drag), James...

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Alan Keyes Headlines a "Biblical Worldview" Hoedown in Ohio - w/poll!

Theocratic activist Dave "Coach" Daubemire has announced that his Ohio based Minutement United and Pass the Salt Ministries are sponsoring a political conference titled A Gathering of Eagles: America's...

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Huckabee's Key AR Adviser a Christian Reconstructionist !

As Mike Huckabee's national profile has grown media scrutiny, concerning his past political associations, has intensified and a number of ties have emerged linking presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee to...

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Gimme That Old Spice Religion w/poll!

I have a story on Religion Dispatches today that tells the story of how an up and coming Alabama Religious Right pol-- won the Old Spice-sponsored Art of Manliness Man of the Year competition. I don't...

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Attn. Women: Please Submit Your Vote to Your Husband

The other day I wrote piece for Religion Dispatches (Gimme That Old Spice Religion) that highlighted, among other things, one of the struggles of today's theocrats living in a constitutional democracy...

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Frank Schaeffer:  Killing Gays for Jesus

Many on the religious right would consider Frank Schaeffer an apostate.  The son of an important founder of the modern religious Right, Francis Schaeffer, Frank Shaeffer has moved from his previous...

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Glenn Beck's History 'Expert' Endorses Biblical Slavery

[you also can vote up this story at reddit.com. thanks for your support.]As Glenn Beck gushed when he introduced David Barton to Beck's national audience on April 29, 2010,"I brought David Barton in...

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Glenn Beck: promoting his own stoning and slavery

Or maybe it's "promoting his own slavery and stoning," because I doubt once you've been stoned you'll be much of a slave.  Yesterday Troutfishing posted a rec listed diary entitled: "Glenn Beck's...

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"Witchcraft" video rocks Hawaii GOP gubernatorial campaign~!

[you can vote this story up at reddit.com here and here. thanks - brucew]action item: email this story/video to people you know in Hawaii. Witchcraft again? Yes - again, witchcraft."If you have any...

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Swallow &"smashing Native American vessels"

Nearly one century and a half after the death of Roman Nose, Apostle Jay Swallow is on the War Council, has accepted the apology from the United States on behalf of all Tribal Nations, wars against...

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"We put our foot on Hawaii !"-video of GOP candidates at bizarre event

[help promote this story by voting it up on reddit.com, here and here]As shown in video from the event, in November 2009 Hawaii Republican candidate for United States Senate Cam Cavasso, currently...

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"The Lord Places People in This or That Country - Uganda (Edited)"

Julius Oyet is represented in the video.Oyet is a self-designated Apostle and leader of the Lifeline Ministries. He has found favor with President Museveni for praying against areas of Northern Uganda...

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"Christian" Fascists & Cultural Genocide: Burning Native Objects

The burning of the Library of Alexandria is either attributed to Theophilus, Patriarch of Alexandria, to Julius Caesar, or to Moslem Caliph Omar. Regardless of whoever destroyed "The loss of the...

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Hate, Violence, and the Religious Right

In light of the attempted murder of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) in a shooting spree resulting in the death of 6 (including federal judge John Roll) and the wounding of 12 others, I want to...

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American Theocracy

Kos wrote about the American Taliban, and I agreed with virtually every word he wrote. But it's even scarier than I thought.

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NYT Columnist Pooh-Poohs His Own Story

While many journalists, scholars and activists have done serious writing about the theocratic Christian Reconstructionist movement and its influence on the development of the Religious Right -- others...

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Thoughts on Christianity Flame Wars... From a Jaded Ex-Fundamentalist

OK. I must admit it. Even though I try to deliberately avoid the religion flame wars of late, I sometimes feel compelled to read a few of the diaries anyway. However, I'm nonetheless saddened by all...

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A must-read by Frankie Schaeffer

at Alternet, titled Michele Bachmann Was Inspired By My Dad and His Christian Reconstructionist Friends -- Here's Why That's Terrifying. It is, for an online piece, long.But remember, Schaeffer was...

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Blitzer and Cafferty: Never Heard of Dominionism

In case we were wondering why the Religious Right often seems to get such uncritical, or at least misguided coverage from so much of the mainstream media -- we need look no further than a recent...

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Another Blogger Makes Good

My Talk to Action colleague Rachel Tabachnick will be discussing the New Apostolic Reformation on NPR'sFresh Air with Terry Gross, Wednesday, August 24th. (Although that announcement may not be posted...

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Fresh Air to Discuss Dominionism Tonight

My Talk to Action colleague Rachel Tabachnick will be discussing the New Apostolic Reformation and dominionism on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross, tonight, Wednesday, August 24th. The interview at 39...

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Deep Background on Dominionism

After the recent round of silliness in which top journalists confessed to either not having heard of dominionism and the New Apostolic Reformation, or claimed that neither actually exists, or sought to...

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Another Journalist Revels in Ignorance about Dominionism

In recent weeks, we have seen an odd flurry of articles and conservative op-ed columns attacking a number of authors and journalists who write about the Christian Right.  Religion writer Mark I. Pinsky...

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When the Unnamed Speak, People Start to Talk

It was bad enough when Mark I. Pinsky recently took to the op-ed page of USA Today to smear four Jewish writers who have had the temerity to write critically and well about dominionism and related...

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When the Unnamed Speak

It sounds like a movie timed for Halloween. And indeed, this is, horrors, a zombie diary with unfinished business. I posted last night at an odd time, so I thought I'd give it another chance.It was bad...

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Michele Bachmann's Theocratic Outreach

Michele Bachmann is the kind of Christian Right candidate that would have been difficult to imagine just a generation ago.  Hers is a tricky project: trying to be the hardest core of Christian...

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This is What a Theocracy Would Look Like: Kentucky Church Bans Interracial...

I have been married to a wonderful woman whose parents came over to the United States from Japan in the mid-1950's. I met her in law school, we fell in love (my story) or "he just wouldn't go away"...

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Slavery wasn't so bad, says book published by OR Republican for Congress

"the negroes on a well-ordered estate, under kind masters, were probably a happier class of people than the laborers upon any estate in Europe." -- from George Alfred Henty's book With Lee in Virginia,...

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More Facts for Domionism Denialists

In several recent posts, I've sought to highlight a few points about the theocratic dominionist movement in the U.S.  In The Next Denialism about Dominionism, I discussed the campaign of denialism and...

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Dominionist Author Renews his Call for Martyrs

Christian Right political operative David Lane based his recent call for Christian revolution largely on the work of Christian Reconstructionist author Peter Leithart. (Lane's provocative essay,...

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A Point About The Paul Temptation

As we approach the launch of the Ron Paul home school curriculum, which is being prepared in consort with theocratic theorist Gary North and Catholic neo-confederate Thomas Woods, let's take a quick...

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Holocaust Denial, Libertarianism, Charles Koch & Gary North

Journalist Mark Ames has an important story -- about the roots of much of modern libertarianism in Holocaust denial -- adding a further disturbing dimension to the neo-confederate movement of our...

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Dominionism Deniers Must Be Getting the Vapors

Pity the poor pundits who have staked their professional reputations on dominionism denial.  Like their analogues in the climate denial industry, and the media conveyor belts of denialist opinion, we...

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A Theocratic Star Flames Out

We may never know the full story of the marital infidelity of Doug Phillips, a San Antonio, Texas-based, theocratic homeschooling entrepreneur of national significance.  But one thing is clear: The...

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Know It or Not, Like It or Not, We ARE at War

For far too long Progressives, Liberals, and Secularists have allowed themselves to be complacent about the realities of Conservatism's position towards us.  The opposition's stiff-necked attitude...

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A Theocratic Campaign Against Public Education in South Carolina

Ray Moore, best known for his efforts to get Southern Baptists to take their children out of the public schools, is running for the Republican nomination for Lt. Governor of South Carolina.  The field...

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American Exceptionalism? ISIS and the Christian Right are More Alike Than...

American Exceptionalism is a state of amnesia.It allows the American people to look abroad, aghast at the barbarism of ISIS and how the latter burns human beings alive, while proclaiming “such a thing...

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Cruzing to Dominion

Dominionism is one of the little remarked upon features of modern American politics. As someone who has written a great deal about it, I can report that it has generally been a topic that has been off...

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What's Past is Prologue: Dominionism is Still Rising

For a half century, a theocratic political movement has been rising in the U.S.  Like any large, successful movement in history, it has a variety of sources and tendencies.  A number of scholars and...

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“They’re looking at Donald Trump” as the messiah, ..."

No longer fringe, the end times crowd is now firmly seated in our nation’s control booth.Merry Christmas one and all.www.rightwingwatch.org/…“They’re looking at Donald Trump” as the messiah, Horn said...

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J. Swallow "Smashing Native American Vessels" = Cultural Genocide Update: He...

  Nearly one century and a half after the death of Roman Nose, Apostle Jay Swallow is on the War Council, has accepted the apology from the United States on behalf of all Tribal Nations, wars against...

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