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kallistiiMany people who know me have heard me say, at least once...and usually more often than that, saying the main driving force for the seemingly disjointed policies of the Bush administration is the fact that it is dominated by Fundamentalist Christians who believe that "The End Times" are near. Because of this, they have no need to plan for the long term, as the world will be ending soon. Why conserve energy? Why reduce the national debt? Why preserve the environment? And why not make sure you are comfortable in the Last Days, even if it destroys the pensions of those who have paid into them for the past 20+ years? And why no allow as many people in the US as possible, so that they have a chance to be saved b the One True Faith?
The list can go on and on...and I have been a voice in the wilderness saying this. But I am not alone. In fact, I have some good company.
Kevin P Phillips is the person who, literally, wrote the book on the Republican Party. His book, The Emerging Republican Majority published in 1969 is considered the book that set the policies that enabled the Republican Party to dominate Congress, Senate and Presidency as they do today. Today, he appeared on CNN's Lou Dobbs show plugging his latest book, American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century. During the interview, he said all of the things that I have been saying since I spent time in North Carolina where I experienced Fundamentalist Christianity first hand, through my employer...that Fundamentalist Christianity's intoxication with "The End Times" has impaired their judgement on a wide spectrum of policies, domestic and foreign, and are slowly killing the country that the Founding Fathers of United States of America envisioned.
[edit you can read the interview with Lou Dobbs, ignore the error where they call Phillips, Stevens: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0603/20/ldt.01.html ]
The list can go on and on...and I have been a voice in the wilderness saying this. But I am not alone. In fact, I have some good company.
Kevin P Phillips is the person who, literally, wrote the book on the Republican Party. His book, The Emerging Republican Majority published in 1969 is considered the book that set the policies that enabled the Republican Party to dominate Congress, Senate and Presidency as they do today. Today, he appeared on CNN's Lou Dobbs show plugging his latest book, American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century. During the interview, he said all of the things that I have been saying since I spent time in North Carolina where I experienced Fundamentalist Christianity first hand, through my employer...that Fundamentalist Christianity's intoxication with "The End Times" has impaired their judgement on a wide spectrum of policies, domestic and foreign, and are slowly killing the country that the Founding Fathers of United States of America envisioned.
[edit you can read the interview with Lou Dobbs, ignore the error where they call Phillips, Stevens: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0603/20/ldt.01.html ]
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