U.S. AIR FORCE: The Cancer From Within

[Susan Freiman]

I understand your reaction.  Some of us, though, are genuinely scared by 
evangelical fervor and the threat of Christian supremacists, though I'm 
sure you're perfectly nice.

Susan  (Jewish)

Brad & Linda wrote:
> 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 
>
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