by Chris Hedges
6. Pam Belluck, “To Avoid Divorce, Move to Massachusetts,” New York Times, November 14, 2004, as quoted in Michelle Goldberg, Kingdom Coming, 67.
7. By 2010, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, if the proposed federal cuts remain in place, elementary and secondary education funding will be cut by $11.5 billion, or 12 percent; 670,000 fewer women and children will receive assistance through the Women, Infants and Children Supplemental Nutrition Program; 120,000 fewer children will be served through Head Start; and 370,000 fewer low-income families, elderly people and people with disabilities will receive rental assistance with rental vouchers. See Sharon Parrott, Jim Horney, Isaac Shapiro, Ruth Carlitz, Bradley Hardy, and David Kamin, “Where Would the Cuts Be Made under the President’s Budget?: An Analysis of Reductions in Education, Human Services, Environment, and Community Development Programs,” Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, February 28, 2005, http://www.cbpp.org/2-22-05bud.html.
8. Dale Maharidge, “Rust and Rage.”
9. Arlie Hochschild, “The Chauffeur’s Dilemma,” American Prospect 16: 7 (July 2005), 53.
10. Ibid.
Chapter Three: Conversion
1. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Faith in Community (New York: HarperCollins, 1954), 330.
2. D. James Kennedy, Evangelism Explosion, 4th ed. (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House, 1996), 59.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid., 60.
5. Ibid., 137.
6. Ibid., 2.
7. Ibid., 139.
8. Ibid., 103.
9. Ibid., 22.
10. Margaret Thaler Singer, Cults in Our Midst: The Continuing Fight Against Their Hidden Menace (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2003), 114.
11. Robert Jay Lifton, cited in Denise Winn, The Manipulated Mind (Cambridge, MA: Malor Books, 2000), 21.
12. William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience (Mineola, NY: Dover, 2002), 187
13. “Staff Biography: ‘Dr. James Kennedy,’ ” Center for Reclaiming America for Christ, http://www.reclaimamerica/org/pages/AboutUs.aspx?pg=djk.
14. “Dr. Kennedy’s Profile,” The Kennedy Commentary, http://www.kennedycommentary.org/default.asp?pg=djk; Truths That Transform, Coral Ridge Ministries, http://www.truthsthattransform.org/ITT.asp?page=about; “About the Coral Ridge Hour,” The Coral Ridge Hour, http://www.coralridgehour.org/coralridgehour.asp?/page=crh.
15. Terry Gross, “Closing the Gap Between Church and State,” Fresh Air from WHYY, May 18, 2005.
16. Ibid.
17. Bob Moser, “The Crusaders,” Rolling Stone, April 7, 2005, http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/7235393/the_crusaders/?md=1140382586732&has-player=false.
18. Ibid.
19. Ashley Fantz, “Cross Purposes: The Rev. D. James Kennedy Teaches That Homosexuality Is a Sin. Richard Murphy Loves Him Anyway,” Broward–Palm Beach New Times, May 2, 2002.
20. Worthy Creations, http://www.worthycreations.org.
21. Rob Boston, “D. James Kennedy: Who Is He and What Does He Want?” Americans United for Separation of Church and State, http://www.au.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5936&abbr=cs_.
22. Kennedy, Evangelism Explosion, 72.
23. Ibid.
24. Ibid., 73.
25. Ibid., 84.
26. Ibid., 42.
27. Ibid.
28. Paul Tillich, “You Are Accepted,” in The Shaking of the Foundations (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1948), 155.
29. Kennedy, Evangelism Explosion, 48.
30. D. James Kennedy and Jerry Newcombe, The Gates of Hell Shall Not Prevail (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 1996), 135.
31. “Aggregated Grants to Coral Ridge Ministries, Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church and Evangelism Explosion” (grants cover January 1998 to February 2004), Media Transparency, http://www.media transparency.org/coralridgeaggregate.php.
Chapter Four: The Cult of Masculinity
1. Klaus Theweleit, Male Fantasies (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1987), 1:218.
2. Francis FitzGerald, “A Disciplined, Charging Army,” New Yorker, May 18, 1981, 53, quoted in Robert Smart, “The Passion of the Christ: Reflections on Mel’s Monstrous Messiah Movie and the Culture Wars,” Jump Cut 47 (Winter 2005), http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/jc47.2005/melsPassion/text.html.
3. Karen McCarthy Brown, “Fundamentalism and the Control of Women,” in Fundamentalism and Gender, ed. John Stratton Hawley (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), 176.
4. Ibid., 182–183.
5. “Dobson’s Choice: Religious Right Leader Becomes Political Power Broker,” People for the American Way Foundation, February 24, 2005, http://www.pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=17932&print=yes&units=all.
6. James Dobson, Dare to Discipline (New York: Bantam, 1977), 23.
7. “Dobson’s Choice.”
8. “Right Wing Organizations: Focus on the Family,” People for the American Way Foundation, http://www.pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=257#.
9. “Dobson’s Choice.”
10. James Dobson, “The Gender Gap,” Focus on the Family, http://www.family.org/married/comm/a0009661.cfm.
11. Mark Edmundson, “Freud and the Fundamentalist Urge,” New York Times, April 30, 2006.
12. Ibid.
13. Susan Friend Harding, The Book of Jerry Falwell: Fundamentalist Language and Politics (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000), 176.
14. Joost A. M. Meerloo, Mental Seduction and Menticide: The Psychology of Thought Control and Brain-Washing (London: Jonathan Cape, 1957), 163–164, 184.
15. B. A. Robinson, “Promise Keepers, Pro and Con: Part 1,” Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance, November 2, 2003, http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_pk.html.
16. Jena Recer, “Whose Promise Are They Keeping?” National NOW Times, August 1995, http://www.now.org/nnt/08–95.html.
17. James Dobson, “Building Moral Character in Kids,” radio broadcast, Focus on the Family International, February 8, 2006, http://www.one place.com/Ministries/Focus_on_the_Family_International/?swndate=2/8/2006.
Chapter Five: Persecution
1. Tony Kushner, Angels in America (New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1995), 46.
2. James Dobson, Marriage under Fire: Why We Must Win This Battle (Sisters, OR: Multnomah, 2004), 41.
3. “Focus on the Family,” Citizen Magazine January 2003, quoted in Jeff Lutes, A False Focus on My Family (Lynchburg, VA: Soulforce, 2004), 8.
4. Dobson, Marriage Under Fire, 49.
5. James Dobson, Bringing Up Boys (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House, 2001), 127.
6. Robert Knight, “The Homosexual Agenda in Schools,” Family Research Council, quoted in Matthew Shepard, “Nazi Anti-Jewish Speech vs. Religious Right Anti-Gay Speech,” Hatecrime.org, http://www.hatecrime.org/subpages/hitler/hitler.html.
7. P. Gibson, “Gay Males and Lesbian Youth Suicide,” in M. R. Feinleib, ed., Report of the Secretary’s Task Force on Youth Suicide, Volume 3: Prevention and Interventions in Youth Suicide (Rockville, MD: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Public Health Service; Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration, 1989; DHHS publication ADM 89–1623), 110.
8. Pat Robertson, quoted in Richard K. Fenn, Dreams of Glory, 8.
9. Kavan Peterson, “Washington Gay Marriage Ruling Looms,” State-line.org, March 7, 2006, http://cms.stateline.org/working/ViewPage.action?siteNodeId=136&contentId=20695; “Same-Sex Marriage Measures on the 2004 Ballot,” National Conference of State Legislatures, November 2004, http://www.ncsl.org/programs/cyf/same-sex.htm.
10. Mel White, Stranger at the Gate (New York: Penguin, 1995), 25.
11. Ibid., 22–23.
12. Ibid., 29.
13. Ibid., 14.
14. Ibid., 49–50.
15. Ibid., 96.
16. Ibid., 107.
17. Ibid., 142.
Chapter Six: The War on Truth
1. Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (N
ew York: Harcourt, 1979), 353.
2. Scott LaFee, “Local Scientists, Doctors and Professors Talk About ‘Intelligent Design,’ ” San Diego Union Tribune, June 8, 2005, F-1.
3. Frank Newport, “Third of Americans Say Evidence Has Supported Darwin’s Evolution Theory,” Gallup Poll, November 19, 2004, http://poll.gallup.com/content/default.aspx?ci=14107&pg=1.
4. Keith Graham, Biology: God’s Living Creation (Pensacola, FL: A Beka, 1986), 404.
5. Alfred M. Rehwinkel, The Wonders of Creation (Minneapolis, MN: Bethany House, 1974), in Graham, Biology, 133.
6. Graham, Biology, 163.
7. Graham, Biology, 351.
8. Carl Wieland, “Darwin’s Bodysnatchers: New Horrors,” Creation 14:2 (March 1992), 16–18.
9. Carl Wieland, “Apartheid and ‘The Cradle of Humankind,’ ” Creation 26:2 (March 2004), 10–14.
10. “What Happened When Stalin Read Darwin?” Creation 10:4 (September 1998), 23.
11. Jerry Bergman, “Darwinism and the Nazi Race Holocaust,” Technical Journal 13:2, 101–111.
12. “Evolution and the Hutu-Tutsi Slayings,” Creation 21:2 (March 1999), 47.
13. Graham, Biology, 347.
14. Jerry Bergman, “Was Charles Darwin Psychotic? A Study of His Mental Health,” Impact (January 2004).
15. Raymond Hall, “Darwin’s Impact—The Bloodstained Legacy of Evolution,” Creation 27:2 (March 2005), 46–47.
16. Graham, Biology, 347.
17. Ibid., 349.
18. Hannah Arendt, Origins of Totalitarianism, 371.
19. “Intelligence Report,” Southern Poverty Law Center (Spring 2005), 4. http://www.splcenter.org/intelreport/article.jsp?pid=869.
20. Union of Concerned Scientists, “Scientific Integrity in Policy Making: An Investigation into the Bush Administration’s Misuse of Science,” March 2004, 2; 32, http://www.ucsusa.org/assets/documents/scientific_integrity/RSI_final_fullreport_1.pdf.
21. This lecture was taped and transcribed by Timothy Nunan of Princeton University.
Chapter Seven: The New Class
1. Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1971), 1:96.
2. Max Blumenthal, “Justice Sunday Preachers,” The Nation, May 9, 2005 (Web edition only), http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050509/blumenthal.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. David Kirkpatrick, “Club of the Most Powerful Gathers in Strictest Privacy,” The New York Times, August 28, 2004.
6. Ibid.
7. Max Blumenthal, “Who Are Justice Sunday’s Ministers of Ministry?” Talk To Action, January 6, 2006, http://www.talk2action.org/story/2006/1/6/103859/7034.
8. Quoted in Daniel Lev, The Terrorist Next Door (New York: Thomas Dumae/St. Martin, 2002), 27.
9. Jean Hardisty, Mobilizing Resentment (Boston: Beacon Press, 1999), 107–108; Rob Boston, “If Best-Selling End-Times Author Tim LaHaye Has His Way, Church-State Separation Will Be . . . Left Behind,” Church & State Magazine, February 2002.
10. Mariah Blake, “Stations Of The Cross: How evangelical Christians are creating an alternative universe of faith-based news,” Columbia Journalism Review, May/June 2005.
Chapter Eight: The Crusade
1. Elias Canetti, Crowds and Power (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973), 22.
2. Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents, edited and translated by James Strachey (New York: W. W. Norton, 1961), 67.
3. Ibid., 66.
4. Steve Blow, “Turning Textbooks into the Good Book,” Dallas Morning News, March 5, 2006.
5. Mary Ann Zehr, “School of Faith,” Education Week, December 7, 2005.
6. See http://www.ed.nces.gov.
7. Laurel Elizabeth Hicks, Old World History and Geography (Pensacola, FL: A Beka, 1991), 247, as cited in Frances Patterson, “Teaching Religious Intolerance,” Rethinking Schools Online, http://www.rethinkingschools.org/special_reports/voucher_report/v_into162.shtml.
8. Hicks, Old World History and Geography, 210, as cited in Patterson, “Teaching Religious Intolerance.”
9. Hicks, Old World History and Geography, 213 and 214, as cited in Patterson, “Teaching Religious Intolerance.”
10. Patterson, “Teaching Religious Intolerance,” 2.
11. Jerry Combee, History of the World in Christian Perspective (Pensacola, FL: A Beka, 1997), 86.
12. Patterson, “Teaching Religious Intolerance,” 2.
13. Hicks, Old World History and Geography, 47, as cited in Patterson, “Teaching Religious Intolerance.”
14. Combee, History of the World, 279.
15. Hicks, Old World History and Geography, 212, as cited in Patterson, “Teaching Religious Intolerance.”
16. Heritage Studies for Christian Schools 6 (Greenville, SC: Bob Jones University Press, 1998), 41.
17. Kurt S. Grussendorf, Michael R. Lowman, and Brian S. Asbaugh, America, Land I Love—Teacher Edition (Pensacola, FL: A Beka, 1994), 636.
18. Ibid., 631.
19. Ibid., 630.
20. Ibid., 593. Italics added.
21. Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, Glorious Appearing: The End of Days (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House, 2004), 10.
22. Ibid., 12.
23. “UnCommonSense,” J. Kenneth Blackwell, Ohio Secretary of State, http://www_sos.state_oh.us/sos/initiatives/OCCC.aspx?Section= 108.
24. Ibid.
25. Ibid.
26. Ibid.
27. Andrew Welsh-Huggins, “Ohio Televangelist Takes to Politics,” FortWayne.com, December 3, 2005, http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/living/13319862.htm.
28. Sarah Posner, “With God on His Side,” American Prospect, November 2005.
29. Jim Bebbington, “An Empire of Souls,” Columbus Monthly, May 1993, 35, quoted in G. Richard Fisher, “Rod Parsley: The Raging Prophet,” Personal Freedom Outreach, 1999.
30. Posner, “With God on His Side.”
Chapter Nine: God: The Commercial
1. Walter Lippmann, Liberty and the News (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920), 64.
2. William Lobdell, “The Prosperity Gospel; Pastor’s Empire Built on Acts of Faith and Cash,” Los Angeles Times, September 19, 2004, B1.
3. Ibid.
4. Andre Gumbel, “Scandal, Sex and Sanctimony,” New Zealand Herald, September 18, 2004, B16.
5. Paul Crouch Sr., Praise the Lord, November 7, 1997, quoted in “Paul Crouch and TBN,” On Doctrine, http://www.ondoctrine.com/10tbn.htm.
6. Lobdell, “Prosperity Gospel.”
7. Gumbel, “Scandal, Sex and Sanctimony.”
8. Benny Hinn, Praise the Lord, October 19, 1999, quoted in “Paul Crouch and TBN.”
9. Benny Hinn, Larry King Live, quoted in “Benny Hinn—Truth or Consequences, Part 3,” Let Us Reason Ministries Apologetics Index, http://www.apologeticsindex.org/h04.html.
10. Gumbel, “Scandal, Sex and Sanctimony.”
11. Paul Crouch Sr., Praise-a-Thon, April 2, 1991, quoted in “Paul Crouch and TBN.”
12. Gumbel, “Scandal, Sex and Sanctimony.”
13. William Lobdell, “Ex-Worker Accusing TBN Pastor Says He Had Sex to Keep His Job,” Los Angeles Times, September 22, 2004, B1.
14. Lobdell, “Prosperity Gospel.”
15. Ibid.
16. Mark A. Beliles and Stephen K. McDowell, America’s Providential History, 19
17. Ibid., 3.
18. Ibid., 214.
19. Ibid., 265.
20. Ibid., 197.
Chapter Ten: Apocalyptic Violence
1. Stephen D. O’Leary, quoted in James A. Morone, Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin in American Society (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004), 108.
2. Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, Glorious Appearing: The End of Days, 286.
3. Ibid., 273.
4. Katherine Yurica, “Tim LaHaye, the Richest Divinator in the World,” The Yurica Report, http://www.yuricareport.com/RevisitedBks/TimLaHayeDivinator.html.
/> 5. Ibid.
6. See Richard Hofstadter, “The Paranoid Style in American Politics,” Harper’s, November 1964, 77–86.
7. Cited in Davidson Loehr, America, Fascism and God, 81–82.
8. James Luther Adams, The Essential James Luther Adams: Selected Essays and Addresses, ed. George Kimmich Beach (Boston: Skinner House, 1998), 25–26.
9. Quoted by Michelle Goldberg, Kingdom Coming, 187.
10. Samuel Clemens, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (New York: Charles L. Webster, 1885), 270–272.
11. Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate, trans. Robert Chandler (New York: Harper and Row, 1985), 410.
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