Posted on 01/18/2007 10:12:56 AM PST by neverdem
Excellent post -- thanks.
Who is Hedges and why should I care?
The world is full of idiots. And full of idiots who know how to write.
If I use my precious, God given time to read such drivel, am I not an idiot too?
What continually amazes me is how much the tactics of the left in this country are beginning to resemble those of the NSDAP in late '20s/early '30s Germany. If any group in the US has taken up the "fascist" mantle, it's the radical left.
This sounds a lot like the atheist left.
It's the left that continues to find ways to cheat at the ballot box and keeps demanding, and getting, extra rights for homosexuals.
Trashist sow!
He's crazy. Certifiable! He should spend some time in Iran, or Korea, or Saudi Arabia to see some real fascists. An entire book on projection.
Alas, this idiot won a Pulitzer.
It seems to me that the liberal theologians are the true dominionists. They no longer believe in the afterlife or God's judgment and are obsessed with furthering their political agenda. Check out the website of the United Methodist or Episcopalian churches.
He also warns that, if the dominionists have their way, “Women will be removed from the workforce to stay at home, and all those deemed insufficiently Christian will be denied citizenship. . . . The only legitimate voices in this state will be Christian. All others will be silenced.”
What "movement" is this guy talking about?? I've read about the "Christian Reconstructionists" that hold these views, but I believe their international headquarters consist of a trailer out in the California desert. There is a war on freedom in America, waged both by the "secular" left and the "religious" right, but if it were a movie, the "dominionists" wouldn't even be extras.
ping for later.
"Alas, this idiot won a Pulitzer. "
Atlas Shrugged. There comes a point in time where the fools and inmates do overrun the asylum. I think we are at that point.
Therefore, wasting what is left of my time in this life looking at the gibberish of fools and idiots, is just not on the schedule.
Besides, after 40 years of resisting this nonsense, I already know, down to the dotted 'i' and crossed 't', what these barking moonbats believe.
No, me and John Gault are gone fishin.
More sobriety from the left.
This nonsense was espoused by Kevin Phillips in his book American Theology. It is in no way supported by anywhere near even 1% of American Evangelicals.
This is another publication in the genre of which Rabbi Lapin has warned.
Another Koolaid drinking author writing lies to make money.
I have thought this for many years. It comes down to a lack of true training in history, we are about to make the same mistakes that the Germans, Italians and yes even the Fascist in France made in the 20's and 30's.
If you look at the platform of NAZIs and the progressive movement, they are pretty much identical except exchange Nationalist for Internationalist (or even no borders), Aryan for Multicultural (but still anti-Jew and anti-Evangelical (just like Hitler)). The NAZIs wanted to turn Poland into a vast natuaral wilderness for the Germans to visit and recreate in, much like the environmentalist of today. The NAZIs were really against capatilism (the real kind).
When I have gotten into debates with leftist on campus and point out that their views are very closely aligned with Der Frueher and mine are actually the exact opposite, they get very upset. Of course not all leftist are this extreme, but they are deceived in my opinion.
Hmph... I thought us Jews controlled America.
I thought Hedges was a leftist nut a few years back when he was hooted off a commencement stage after ranting about the "evil" U.S. He has now confirmed his insanity with this book.
Why is that remarkable? Delusion, paranoia and sensationalism are commonplace among elite journalists. Dan Rather, MoDo, Krugman, Jason Blair and Helen Thomas ring any bells?
I began to count the lies and then he began to distort, spin, twist, deceive, corrupt, embellish, and just plain bald faced lie so much that I began to wonder if he was a sane man. I am not speaking in hyperbole, the man really did come off as a man struggling with his own sanity and barely clinging to reality.
Almost every accusation he made toward the "religious right" was a lie.
However his hysterical accusations of power grabbing, constitution violating, court abusing, hate mongering, cursing, and baiting did match one particular group, that group is the one to which HE belongs.
Hedges is just your typical far left secular or religous fanatic who hates America.
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