Rise of American Fascism by Chris Hedges (KO's guest) [View All]

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This is an article by Chris Hedges that no major publication would
print.

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Dr. James Luther Adams, my ethics professor at Harvard Divinity School, told us that when we
were his age, he was then close to 80, we would all be fighting the "Christian fascists."

The warning, given to me 25 years ago, came at the moment Pat Robertson and other radio and
televangelists began speaking about a new political religion that would direct its efforts at taking
control of all institutions, including mainstream denominations and the government. Its stated
goal was to use the United States to create a global, Christian empire. It was hard, at the time, to
take such fantastic rhetoric seriously, especially given the buffoonish quality of those who
expounded it. But Adams warned us against the blindness caused by intellectual snobbery. The
Nazis, he said, were not going to return with swastikas and brown shirts. Their ideological
inheritors had found a mask for fascism in the pages of the Bible.

more at:

http://www.dallasuu.org/re/adult/huumanist/HedgesFascism.pdf