'Make no mistake: the well-funded, well-armed alliance of motivated extremists...constitutes the greatest domestic danger this nation has faced since the Civil War.'
The Supreme Court's disastrous rulings on prayer on public school property and abortion rights have finally focused proper attention on the role of religious extremism in undermining democratic self-rule. For decades, not only has it been underestimated, most of the media has misunderstood Christian fundamentalism's goals.
Katherine Stewart, who has written on the religious right for many years, has redressed this misunderstanding in a. She straightforwardly says that Christian fundamentalism's goal is"breaking American democracy," and that this is not an unintended byproduct of fundamentalism's political activity. No, it"is the point of the project."
Based on my own experience, I have no disagreement with Ms. Stewart's thesis. I do believe she may have understated the danger by the fact that her analysis is incomplete. While accurately evaluating the movement, she did not explain how it leverages tactical alliances with other, disparate groups that at first sight seem to have little in common with Christian fundamentalism.
First, there is a substantial overlap in membership, as strange as this might sound. In recent decades, many Christian nationalist leaders have begun obsessing over"" by any means necessary, including violence. This is unsurprising, because fundamentalist Christianity broods over violence and mayhem as a theological tenet, emphasizing the gorier parts of the Old Testament such as the Israelites' mass slaughter of the Canaanites.
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