The Vanity Fair article by Michael Gross keenly illuminates that the fuel powering the Sarah Palin-Glen Beck racist revivalism is Christian Reconstructionism. Their ceaseless rhetorical fires tan the appallingly pallid faces of their predominantly white audiences as they bask in the reflected glow of the firestorms they create.
Now they think they can score another “win” on the AntiMuslim 9-11 platform (at $225 a pop), but their blind rage is too strong to contain to just one ethnicity. They couldn’t help but take a “wild ride” back through the Jim Crow era. While on their rose colored ride along Route 66, a sheriff in Arizona yelled “Remember the Alamo”, so they’ve added a good dose of Latino/Mexican slander to their sermons.
The growing percentage of Christians in America are Latino Catholics and Blacks, demonstrably one of the most outwardly religious folks in the US. Reconstructionists are a minor subset of Christianity if America. There’s no argument that the White Nationalist Christian Reconstructionism portion of American Christendom is small. Any honest debate would concentrate on whether it be regarded as a sect or as a cult. Why we should care? These irrational and overconfident religiosocial arsonists cannot win enough support for the Presidency. There aren’t enough of them, no matter how much Fox news tries to pretend otherwise.
We should care because they are irrational and violent. Many of their prominent organizers have violent, criminal pasts. They prefer anarchy over democracy and they are heavily armed, which in and of itself is fairly American, but their unquestioning belief that they are God’s warriors is real cause for concern. There is no sin too great. No lie too tall. No line too far to cross that their God will not forgive them in their means-justifies-the-ends rationality.
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The Tim Channel 