This article exposes everything... maybe you been a victim yourself. I'd love to hear what you think about the sustained tricks these people get up to to achieve a conversion.
http://www.alternet.org/story/50934/
2007-04-23 23:27:13 · 4 answers · asked by CHEESUS GROYST 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
"With this, the process of deconstructing an individual and building a submissive follower, one who no longer has any allegiance to the values of the open society and the democratic state, begins."
2007-04-23 23:33:16 · update #1
you don't tihnk a guy writing a book entitled American Fascists might be a bit biased?
Still, this is hardly new, it's just becoming standardised. The whole idea of hell was concocted to troops before going into battle so they would fight harder, because not fighting their best was a sin against the church-state and they would be punished. Any religion which punishes those in their faith, and those not in their faith, is twisted.
2007-04-23 23:38:51 · answer #1 · answered by jleslie4585 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would be a better piece with more concrete examples. Most of the article simply tells us "this is what they do" without giving any evidence for it. I'm not saying he's wrong, but his failure to do so makes it hard to judge the merits of his claims. At best, this is a shoddy journalistic tactic, since it leaves the reader unable to determine whether he is accurately portraying them or merely pandering to his readers' religious (or anti-religious, as the case may be) prejudices. But if he is correct, I would agree that such manipulation is wrong.
Far more disconcerting, the article gives the impression that these tactics are representative of the Christian Right as a whole and that the Christian Right includes anyone who believes "that one has to be born again to be a Christian." Furthermore, he leaves the impression that it's wrong for the Christian Right to decide who is Christian or to determine the worth of another person's religious experiences while doing just that for those of members of the Christian Right. In a sense, he must, since they are contradictory and therefore cannot both be correct no matter how hard the syncretists try to join them together: either Jesus is THE way, THE truth, and THE life or he is not. And before anyone accuses me of being exclusivist, the syncretists are just as exclusivist with their beliefs, since they don't include mine. Truth by its very nature is exclusive.
2007-04-24 00:56:12 · answer #2 · answered by Deof Movestofca 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Taliban, Christian Right, fanatics are the same across the world.
I pray for the good and well meaning people who are trapped by these cults.
2007-04-23 23:52:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chris Hedges is my hero- I would suggest all who think of the "Christian" right as innocuous should read his new book "American Fascists"
2007-04-23 23:41:01 · answer #4 · answered by rainbowharold 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋