U.S. AIR FORCE: The Cancer From Within

[Brad & Linda]

Interesting article.  Would've been even more interesting if it had been 
written by somebody who didn't have an obvious anti-evangelical bias.

To put overly zealous evangelical Christians in the same category as Hitler 
and Mussolini (and when the author uses the term "fascism", that's exactly 
what he's doing) is nothing short of slanderous (in the general sense of the 
word, not the legal definition).  And given the attempt to make some kind of 
connection between Abu Gharib and the My Lai massacre to evangelical 
activity at the Air Force Academy, it's quite clear that the use of the term 
fascism was not accidental.

As an evangelical myself, I have written in opposition to evangelicals who 
have crossed the line (such as when Jerry Falwell blamed 9/11 on feminists, 
homosexuals, the ACLU, etc.).  I have written in opposition to Fred Phelps, 
who seems to think he is an evangelical Christian, when he hatefully attacks 
homosexuals and horrifically misrepresents God in the process.  Some of the 
acts described here are troubling, and if they truly did occur in the 
context as they were described, they were clearly wrong.

But "Christian supremacist fascism"?  Evangelicalism as "Cancer"?  Abu 
Gharib and My Lai?  Puh-leeze!  It seems pretty clear that it was a 
deliberate attempt to put down and silence conservative evangelical 
Christians as a whole.  For someone as concerned with the honor code as the 
author purports to be, you'd think he would therefore conduct himself 
honorably.  In his "reporting" (if you can really call it that), though, the 
final score is: Bias 1, Credibility 0.

Brad Pardee