Focus on the Fundies™: Documentation mounts

Joining in the rising chorus of condemnation for the methods of modern-day evangelicals and fundamentalist Christians, a new book on the movement and its influence has the non-word mincing title American Fascists. Today Salon.com interviews the author.

You say they would like to impose a totalitarian system. How much of a conscious goal do you think that is at the upper levels of organizing, with, say, somebody like Rod Parsley?

I think they're completely conscious of it. The level of manipulation is quite sophisticated. These people understand the medium of television, they understand the despair and brokenness of the people they appeal to, and how to manipulate them both for personal and financial gain. I look at these figures, and I would certainly throw James Dobson in there, or Pat Robertson, as really dark figures.

The link to Parsley is to a Sep. 2005 story which quotes Parsley as saying "Americans must become 'Christocrats'."