Tuesday, July 21, 2009
The Family
I'm delighted Jeff Sharlet & his book, "The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power," are receiving some of the national attention they deserve. Sharlet is the expert on the C Street cult of conspiratorial, theocratic fanatics, an organization that has tremendous success infiltrating & poisoning our government & armed forces. They accomplish this largely by hiding in plain sight, posing as a bunch of prayerful, morally upright, Bible-studying, ordinary Christians. Even Hillary Clinton participates in the sham, & President Obama fears them enough to leave them unchallenged. However, sex scandals have knocked a peephole in the C Street clubhouse, & we had better have a look before this powerful, secretive "Christian mafia" patches it closed.
You can conveniently learn the basics of C Street culture, doctrine & tactics by reading Sharlet's essay in Salon, "Sex and power inside "the C Street House".
Also, hopefully, the Orthodox Jews patroning Elizabeth Public Library will begin checking out the four undercirculated copies & learn about the true agenda of Pro-Israel Evangelical "allies." The Family undermines the generally progressive domestic political agenda American Jews support, attacks the separation of church & state, & uses the armed services to evangelize military personnel & in the Muslim nations where our personnel are serving & fighting.
Through its influence in the Pentagon, The Family rush planted an ultra- right wing chaplain inside Camp David on a three-year duty assignment before the new Commander-in-Chief unpacked his study Bible & looked around the place, perhaps an unfortunate result of the President's surprisingly naive denominational waffling (would they have tried it on a President Biden?). The Family & its supporters are doing this throughout the chaplain corps & service academies. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation was formed to defend the religious liberty of our servicemen & women, many of whom are subject to aggressive proselytizing. It's an issue of great concern to an online acquaintance, raised an Air Force brat & darned proud of it.
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
You can conveniently learn the basics of C Street culture, doctrine & tactics by reading Sharlet's essay in Salon, "Sex and power inside "the C Street House".
If sexual license was all the Family offered the C Street men, however, that would merely be seedy and self-serving. But Family men are more than hypocritical. They're followers of a political religion that embraces elitism, disdains democracy, and pursues power for its members the better to "advance the Kingdom." They say they're working for Jesus, but their Christ is a power-hungry, inside-the-Beltway savior not many churchgoers would recognize. Sexual peccadilloes aside, the Family acts today like the most powerful lobby in America that isn't registered as a lobby -- and is thus immune from the scrutiny attending the other powerful organizations like Big Pharma and Big Insurance that exert pressure on public policy."The Family" is now available in paperback & is #11 at Amazon & hopefully will creep up to Glenn Beck's tracts on the NYT nonfiction pb list.
Also, hopefully, the Orthodox Jews patroning Elizabeth Public Library will begin checking out the four undercirculated copies & learn about the true agenda of Pro-Israel Evangelical "allies." The Family undermines the generally progressive domestic political agenda American Jews support, attacks the separation of church & state, & uses the armed services to evangelize military personnel & in the Muslim nations where our personnel are serving & fighting.
Through its influence in the Pentagon, The Family rush planted an ultra- right wing chaplain inside Camp David on a three-year duty assignment before the new Commander-in-Chief unpacked his study Bible & looked around the place, perhaps an unfortunate result of the President's surprisingly naive denominational waffling (would they have tried it on a President Biden?). The Family & its supporters are doing this throughout the chaplain corps & service academies. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation was formed to defend the religious liberty of our servicemen & women, many of whom are subject to aggressive proselytizing. It's an issue of great concern to an online acquaintance, raised an Air Force brat & darned proud of it.
Labels: Barack Hussein Obama, blogging against theocracy, religion, what I'm reading
