Issues aren't always what they seem on the front lines of the culture wars. A lot of times battle lines are being drawn by players you might not expect. From The Poor Man
"...the battle between the Christian right and advocates of church/state separation is not necessarily a left/right ideological conflict. The conflict is, in fact, only one theatre in a worldwide battle between fundamentalism and the Enlightenment. In this context, the Dominionist wing of the Christian right probably has more in common with Hamas than they do with the staff of William Buckley’s National Review..."
-Max Blumenthal
One thing people could do is stop referring to this movement as “Christian” - it isn’t. And I don’t mean that like “they aren’t true to the spirit of Jesus’ message” or any of that crap - while the core of the movement is Christian Dominionists, they are more than willing to join forces with anyone with an anti-modern agenda, and that’s what makes them so dangerous...
As [Sun Myung] Moon owns the Washington Times, the flagship newspaper of “respectable” wingnuttery, Blumenthal is going to be waiting quite some time for National Review’s Kurtz or WSJ Editorial page’s Taranto to acknowledge that there’s something else going on here than decent American Christians just trying to practice their religion without being hassled by militant atheists.
But there isn’t any point in waiting. This is not a Christian movement - sure, there are Christians in it, but most Americans are nominally Christian, so that can hardly be considered a distinguishing feature. It is an anti-modern, theocratic, and radical right-wing movement. Calling it “Christian” movement is not only inaccurate, but it cedes the middle ground to this fringe freak show. This was obvious with Schaivo, it is obvious in Kansas, and it’s obvious to anyone who isn’t one with them or paid to do their PR...
Go read it all, and get a little Enlightenment.
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