Focus on the Fundies
One nice thing about the Colorado papers is that they keep close tabs on the Christian crypto-jihadists down in Colorado Springs and publish frequent profiles and articles, giving the smiling fundies plenty of rope to hang themselves with. In the July 23 Rocky Mountain News, a profile of Focus on the Family founder James Dobson -- who doesn't even claim to be a minister but feels perfectly comfortable telling everyone how to run their lives under cover of his career as a "family psychologist," and whose first best-seller was entitled "Dare to Discipline" -- "sees the Republican Party as a means to an end," namely instituting a Christian form of sharia in the U.S.
And look at this: Ted Haggard, the leader of one of Colo. Springs' most influential megachurches -- it was the subject of a Jeff Sharlett article in the May Harpers -- is trying to lease land in Israel so conservative Christian tourists can come and cement their alliance with the Israeli far right. This Haggard statement reported by Non-Prophet suggests the reasons behind this alliance-building:
Pastor Ted says that Jews and Christians are forming an alliance to literally fight a war against Islam that will happen in the near future. Pastor Ted says that his greatest fear is that our children, right here in America, will grow up living in an Islamic Nation.
To be fair, the statement from Haggard was reported second-hand and Non-Prophet expresses some scepticism.
Earlier: Sharlett on Haggard.
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