The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power

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by Jeff Sharlet


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  *In a fit of pique or stunning stupidity, the recipient immediately responded to inform the Family that he accepted the rebuke and had made multiple copies of it for the other South African operatives as well, one of which survives. James F. Bell to Ross Main, May 19, 1975. Folder 25, Box 254, Box 459, Billy Graham Center Archives. Main to Doug Coe, June 19, 1975. Ibid.

  * After she’d revealed her true purpose in contacting me, the woman I call “Kate” asked that I not identify her.

  *Sample lesson: “Above all, one must never come to see the propagation of the free market as an end in itself. The free market merely sets the stage for an unhindered propagation of the gospel of Jesus Christ.”

  †For instance: the “Protestant Wind” with which, according to an eleventh-grade text, God helped the British defeat the Spanish Armada so that the New World would not be overly settled by agents of the Vatican.

  *The Minutemen United should not be confused with the anti-immigrant Minutemen militias. Coach Dave’s outfit is every bit as militaristic in its rhetoric—one related ministry is called Polished Shaft—but educational in its operations, offering, for instance, instruction in America’s “godly heritage” for schoolteachers.

 

 

 


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