Do You Know Who Our Actual Adversary Is? --A Fresh Look At American Religious Fundamentalism
In the spirit of the great author Sinclair Lewis, the creator of the characters Elmer Gantry and Babbitt, I present the following-- America's religious Right Wing of all persuasions, particularly Evangelicals, hard right Catholics and Ultra-Orthodox Jews, have embraced Fascism, Insurrection, and the authoritarian model of Trump's GOP. This is an incontrovertible fact. Why is this, one should ask? In part, because corrupt fundamentalist religious leaders do not think about the world as we wish to believe. They think in terms of millennia in regard to their institutions, and the short term with respect to their personal ambitions. They reject Secular institutions and treat politics, government, and social movements as either a recruitment vehicle for their own ends, or something which is seen as a threat, not as a means for doing the good or advancing society for all. Autocratic Religious leaders live by an amoral sort of ethical calculus of power which see...
