NOW story on Chris Hedges Christian Fascism story

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""Former New York Times war correspondent and senior fellow at The Nation Institute, Chris Hedges comes to NOW to talk about the role of religion in American politics. In May 2005, HARPERS magazine published an article by Hedges which has aroused the ire of the Christian right.

Stanley Kurtz responded in THE NATIONAL REVIEW with the following:

The most disturbing part of the HARPER's cover story (the one by Chris Hedges) was the attempt to link Christian conservatives with Hitler and fascism. Once we acknowledge the similarity between conservative Christians and fascists, Hedges appears to suggest, we can confront Christian evil by setting aside "the old polite rules of democracy." So wild conspiracy theories and visions of genocide are really excuses for the Left to disregard the rules of democracy and defeat conservative Christians — by any means necessary.
At the heart of this particular battle of religious wills is the definition of "Dominionism." The broad concept of Dominionism is based on the Bible's text in Genesis 1:26:
"Then God said, 'Let us make man in our image, in our likeness and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth and over all the creatures that move along the ground.'"
This text is interpreted by some Christians to suggest that God gave humans a stewardship role over the Earth, rather than total control. Some Christians, however, apply a more assertive interpretation — that God has commanded Christians to bring their faith to the Earth as a whole through religious and secular institutions. This is, some critics maintain, tantamount to establishing a theocracy — ensuring tough-fought battles over the interpretation of separation of church and state.""

from http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/hedges05.html

Hedges is receiving the same treatment I got when I made my earlier posting on what I called Catholo-fascism (due to the 'end-times' component of Bush's base.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=1814901

What Hedges shows as a linkage between fascism and Christianity isn't obviously ALL Christianity, just as my theory on end-times origins and Catholicism isn't directed at ALL Catholics. The point was the ability to abuse Christian beliefs in a way that favors fascism, just as what Hedges is saying.

It is curious that right-wingers are using the phrase "Islamo-fascism" when the exact same description could be applied to much of their belief system.