Followers of the religious movement currently booming in America are calling themselves "born-agains" and "evangelicals" rather than the historically tainted term "fundamentalist." This is supposedly a sect of Protestant Christianity, but observation and research prove that it is no such thing.
This religion is more like a cross between hyper-Calvinism, civil patriotism, and Adam Smith-style economics. It believes only in the bloodiest parts of the Old Testament and almost totally ignores the New Testament. Its only requirements to entry are hatred of abortion, evolution and homosexuality. It doesn't care about the poor and thinks corporate America should be able to run wild. Its followers don't know or care about Jesus' teachings. They praise his birth and death, but never his life. They hold George W. Bush up as a Pharoah: God on Earth, or God's direct representative. They call hate, greed and violence "faith."
Is this a new kind of Christianity, or a whole new religion?
2006-09-13
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