Did anyone hear the Fresh Air interview today with D. James Kennedy?

[Up2Late]

I'm pretty sure he actually said that Non-Christian's are completely ignorant of what a Christian is or about. And as soon as Terry started asking him tough questions about something that he wrote in his book, he starts comparing the current state of the U.S. Government (with it's church state separation), to Hitlers Nazi Germany or Stalin's Russia.

I think she manage to ask him 2 tough questions before he got pissed off and ended the interview.

Here's the rundown for the first part of the program:

Closing the Gap Between Church and State

by Terry Gross

Fresh Air from WHYY, May 18, 2005 · The stated purpose of D. James Kennedy's religious network is to reclaim America for Christ, closing the gap between church and state that is written into the Constitution. The evangelist minister, who preaches from the Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Coral Ridge, Fla., has radio and TV shows that are heard around the world.

Coral Ridge is considered to be a mega-church, with 10,000 members. Kennedy is also the founder and president of Evangelism Explosion International. He runs the Statesmanship Institute, designed to give holders of public office tools for integrating biblical principles into lawmaking. He holds nine degrees from schools including Columbia Theological Seminary and Southwest Baptist University.

Here's the rundown for the rest of the show:

Church and State: 'Eternal Hostility'

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by Terry Gross

Fresh Air from WHYY, May 18, 2005 · Author Frederick Clarkson wrote the book Eternal Hostility: The Struggle Between Theocracy And Democracy, on the growing religious movement to influence government. Clarkson is a journalist who specializes in covering the radical right and religious figures like D. James Kennedy of Reclaim America.

Clarkson has written articles on the religious right's plans to take over the Republican Party, and how elements of the right encouraged citizen militias. He's also an expert on the Reverend Sun Myung Moon.

Red vs. Blue Politics: A Linguist's Perspective

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Listen to this story... by Geoff Nunberg

Fresh Air from WHYY, May 18, 2005 · Political analysts have been dividing the country into red states and blue states for several elections now, but it's only in the last year or two that the distinction has really caught on with the media and the public. As our linguist Geoff Nunberg points out, the odd thing is that the new usage seems to reverse the traditional political meanings of red and blue.

The full show is a this link:
<http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=13>

[Flammable Materials]

1. As he walked out of the studio ...

... he underlined her name in his little pocket book under the heading: "FIRST TO BE LINED UP AND SHOT AFTER THEOCRACY IS ESTABLISHED"

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3. Reverend Kennedy

Should make sure he's not the one against the wall, or on the end of a rope.

[Maat]

2. Thanks for the post.

We sort of discussed it on this thread here.

I'm Maat, and I research the Religious Right - someday I'm going to write a book (dominionists, Really Conservative Christians, whatever).

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3682774

[Up2Late]

4. Wow, what a sick hobby, You know, I think they have12 Step programs

for that.

I'm already overwhelmed just catching up on all the Hidden U.S. History they never taught us in the Indiana school system. I think I'd burst a blood vessel, in my brain, if I did that.:crazy:

How, or maybe I should ask, Why would you want to put yourself through something like this? You must be part of the "intellectual elite." :tinfoilhat:

Hey, your town is spelled the way that my town is pronounced.

[Maat]

5. You're cracking me up! LOL!

I'm a recent law graduate, who really enjoys doing constitutional law research. I made 'separation of church and state' my specialty, so-to-speak.

In conjunction with studying how to preserve that separation, I began to study the Religious Wrong, which are the prime threat to that separation.

You are right, however - it can be a love/hate thing.

I'm fascinated by what I dig up - how crazy a particular human being can get, as this interview shows.

After listening to this interview, however, I'm sick to my stomach. I hope everyone here is aware that Kennedy has the pResident's ear on a regular basis. Rove speaks with members of this Religious Reich weekly, supposedly, including representatives of the Arlington Group, of which Kennedy is a member.

It was stunning how he didn't even know how he was contradicting himself, and, despite talking about everyone's freedom to exercise their own faith (or lack thereof), spoke loudly and persistently about enacting law which reflected HIS Biblical worldview. He was completely obvious to how a non-Christian would feel living in that world.

By the way, he's spouting the same old myths. To prove it, I am going to offer up a link from au.org (Americans United for the Separation of Church and State), from 1999, that addresses these tired old dogs.

http://www.au.org/site/News2?JServSessionIdr003=cg5w0ezpj1.app7b&abbr=pr&page=NewsArticle&id=6453&news_iv_ctrl=1461