WE HAS MET THE ENEMY, AND THEY IS US"
"Today a vast and extraordinarily complex religo-political system has emerged in the United States - a keiretsu-like network of conservative religious and political organizations with interlocking boards of directors, similar sources of funding and 'cross-over' memberships - which aims at taking over the country. The actual number of organizations which are a part of this system is mind-boggling; so intertwined have these organizations become that it is difficult any longer to separate out the secular component from the religious component. Sadly, it is into this 'right-wing web' that countless numbers of Christians are being drawn - a web which historically has been permeated with racist, anti-Semitic and fascist ideas. Most Christians, of course, will deny that they are being affected at all by such thinking; but in the end, the only people they may be kidding are themselves.
"Our network of associations with one another - whether civic, religious, social, or personal - forms an integrated system of arteries down through which notions of all sort journey - sometimes to our benefit, and sometimes to our detriment. By such means, ideas become infectious; uplifting us on the one hand, and corrupting us on the other. It is in this way that we can properly speak of the contagion of evil; if left unchecked within a community, evil, like a vicious cancer, has a treacherous way of using the network of our social, political and religious relationships to spread it's venom throughout the entire body; of using the bands which connect us together as channels of corruption. By such means evil can demolish not only the individual Christian, but the entire Christian community. The Bible says,
'A little leaven leavens the whole lump.' (Gal. 5:9)
"And just how far the interconnection between far-right ideologues and the Christian community has progressed can be easily demonstrated. To pick just a few examples, take Robert Grant. Grant is considered a 'big hitter' in the Christian Right and is associated with Christian Voice, a publication which receives financial backing from the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church, a group which teaches that Christ failed in His effort to save us, and that He had sex with the women who surrounded Him. Grant told Christianity Today that it was necessary for Christians to form political ties with 'philosophical allies' from other communities in order to build up an effective political alliance strong enough to 'take the country back for Christ and the church.' |
