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Infiltrating the U.S. Military: Gen. Boykin’s “Kingdom Warriors” On the Road to Abu Ghraib and Beyond

Submitted by gbmaster on Sun, 2011-04-10 19:16
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Katherine Yurica
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October 12, 2004

"Since GOP leaders have tasted the heady stuff of unlimited power and watched the success of their bullying tactics, they seem to take pride in the fact that intimidation and coercion silences all opposition. They’ve begun to step more boldly toward the goal of taking control of the judiciary—and it appears that nothing can stop them from destroying the system of checks and balances built into our constitution. Americans don’t seem to mind. We love the swagger of the cowboys in charge.

David Barton: Propaganda Masquerading as History

Submitted by gbmaster on Sun, 2011-04-10 16:20
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"In 1987, God reportedly told David Barton, a one-time science teacher at a fundamentalist Christian school that grew out of a church started by his own parents, that he was “to search the library and find the date that prayer had been prohibited in public schools [and] obtain a record of national SAT scores … spanning several decades.” Predictably, the result of Barton’s unscientific study was to find a “correlation” between theallegedbanning of prayer and a

What is Christian nationalism?

Submitted by gbmaster on Sun, 2011-04-10 16:14
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Michelle Goldberg
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Thu May 11, 2006 at 03:12:12 PM EST

"Christian nationalists believe in a revisionist history, which holds that the founders were devout Christians who never intended to create a secular republic; separation of church and state, according to this history, is a fraud perpetrated by God-hating subversives. One of the foremost Christian revisionist historians is David Barton, who , in addition to running an organization called Wallbuilders that disseminates Christian nationalist books, tracts and videos, is also the vice-chairman of the Texas Republican Party.

Two Decades of Christian Nationalist Education Paved Way for Today's War on Labor

Submitted by gbmaster on Sat, 2011-04-09 16:49
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Rachel Tabachnick
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Sun Feb 20, 2011 at 06:12:52 PM EST

"While some religious leaders have come together to voice support for public employees in Wisconsin, others view the attack on the public sector and unions as a holy war. Fundamentalist textbooks and other media have been used for indoctrination into a worldview in which unregulated free markets are divinely mandated.

Biblical Capitalism - The Religious Right's War on Progressive Economic Policy

Submitted by gbmaster on Sat, 2011-04-09 15:09
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Rachel Tabachnick
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Tue Feb 01, 2011 at 01:21:59 PM EST

"There is nothing new about Tea Party ideology as can be seen in an examination of fundamentalist textbooks used to teach students in some private schools and homeschooling. The Tea Party's "Christian Libertarianism" is a creative repackaging of narratives that have become increasingly popular over the last three decades.  These narratives blend radical free market ideology with theocratic ideology.  In other words, regulatory powers of the federal government would be eradicated and the void would be filled and society controlled through adherence to biblical law."

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