Scarey! ( )

Despite the three stars I believe reading this book was a good use of my time.

The book had a bit of repetition and fear mongering but his basic message was that the Christian leadership in America has abandoned the salvation mission of Billy Graham and has consumed itself with the quest for power. Instead of trying to convince people to accept salvation they are determined to pass laws to make people act like christians.

"Democracy keeps religious faith in the private sphere, ensuring that all believers have an equal measure of protection and practice mutual tolerance. Democracy sets no religious ideal. It simply ensures coexistence. It permits the individual to avoid being subsumed by the crowd--the chief goal of totalitarianism, which seeks to tell all citizens what to believe, how to behave and how to speak. The call to obliterate the public and the private wall that keeps faith the prerogative of the individual means the obliteration of democracy."
Hedges, C. (2006). American Fascists. Free Press: New York. p 196 ( )

Scary and mobilizing. ( )

As with everything about this group, frightening. ( )

Frightening but hopeful ( )

It has alot of things I have read before but alot of interesting facts on James Dobson and James Kennedy. ( )

http://glacia2000.vox.com/library/pos... ( )

Hedges went out in the field and talked to all sorts of extremely conservative Christians. And quotes them at length. I would have enjoyed (...if that's the right word...) the book more if we had heard more from Hedges, and less from various scary wingnuts.

But the last 10 pages of Hedges' conclusions make up for the third-of-a-book's worth of scary dominionist wingnuttery.