Mencken, thou shouldst be living at this hour

[s-t-t at juno.com]

Chip Berlet wrote:
> The LaHaye Jenkins books are teaching millions to despise liberalism 
> and the left, international cooperation, and anything that weakens the 
> patriarchy. The books are encouraging unthinking support for the
> most hardline policies of Israel, since Jews must control the temple
> mount and rebuild the temple (after destroying a current mosque)
> before Christ returns.

Tim LaHaye co-wrote with David A. Noebel a non-ficiton work recently
called _Mind Seige_.  It's an explicit call to arms for evangelicals to
reclaim the government from 'secular humanists' and their fellow
travelers.  The causes are familiar: ousting evolution from biology
classes, compulsary prayer, claims that morality is only possible with a
scriptural basis, and flushing the heathens from the government and other
major positions in society.

All the readers of the Left Behind series obviously aren't flooding into
the ranks of the Identity Christians, but a million-selling series about
the heroism of an evangelical militia is enough to render the phrase "one
nation under God" an imposing threat.

Review of the "Left Behind" Tribulation Novels: Turner Diaries Lite
by Edmund D. Cohen
<http://www.secularhumanism.org/library/fi/cohen_21_2.html>

-- Shane

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