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You might want to read this [0]. It starts: As someone who participated in the rise of the religious right in the 1970s and 1980s, I can tell you that you can

You might want to read this [0]. It starts: As someone who participated in the rise of the religious right in the 1970s and 1980s, I can tell you that you can’t understand the modern Republican Party and its hatred of government unless you understand the evangelical home-school movement. [0] http://www.salon.com/2015/01/20/the_rights_home_school_conspiracy_how_i_helped_gop_launch_a_religious_war/ http://www.salon.com/2015/01/20/the_rights_home_school_consp...

strictnein 12y ago
Salon... where I would definitely go for a straight forward and honest view of something on the right. The place to go to reaffirm your hatred of people who you disagree with. It was neat how he worked in the evil Kochmonsters at the end there. And Halliburton. And Palin. Great article... next up, a FreeRepublic discussion of public unions...
- hga 12y ago
  Indeed. Any essay discussing this topic without mentioning Jimmy Carter siccing the IRS on Christian schools is ... by someone not quite inhabiting the same universe as I do. Maybe. This essay doesn't really go into that, its thesis at 0th approximation is that Christians setting up an independent school system/society is axiomatically illegitimate ("diversity", as many have noted, doesn't extend to thought/worldviews/ideology, and "liberalism" or whatever you want to call it is a competing non-religion religion every bit as doctrinaire and severe as these Christians'). But the article claims that this had an outsized affect on politics and particularly the Republican party, and that simply would not have happened without Carter's action. "Live and let live" is an old and sound American tradition. Taking people's children away from them, in wherever on the scale of figurative to literal in this case you'd put it ... well, you might as well try it with a mother bear and her cubs. That's what really energized the Religious Right in politics, and why its time in the sun was so short.
- iak8god 12y ago
  Frank Schaeffer has better first-hand knowledge of this topic than just about anyone else alive. Wikipedia[1] would be a fine place to start educating yourself about his and his father's outsized roles in the formation of the religious right. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Schaeffer#Political_activism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Schaeffer#Political_ac...

strictnein 12y ago

Salon... where I would definitely go for a straight forward and honest view of something on the right. The place to go to reaffirm your hatred of people who you disagree with. It was neat how he worked in the evil Kochmonsters at the end there. And Halliburton. And Palin. Great article... next up, a FreeRepublic discussion of public unions...

hga 12y ago
Indeed. Any essay discussing this topic without mentioning Jimmy Carter siccing the IRS on Christian schools is ... by someone not quite inhabiting the same universe as I do. Maybe. This essay doesn't really go into that, its thesis at 0th approximation is that Christians setting up an independent school system/society is axiomatically illegitimate ("diversity", as many have noted, doesn't extend to thought/worldviews/ideology, and "liberalism" or whatever you want to call it is a competing non-religion religion every bit as doctrinaire and severe as these Christians'). But the article claims that this had an outsized affect on politics and particularly the Republican party, and that simply would not have happened without Carter's action. "Live and let live" is an old and sound American tradition. Taking people's children away from them, in wherever on the scale of figurative to literal in this case you'd put it ... well, you might as well try it with a mother bear and her cubs. That's what really energized the Religious Right in politics, and why its time in the sun was so short.
iak8god 12y ago
Frank Schaeffer has better first-hand knowledge of this topic than just about anyone else alive. Wikipedia[1] would be a fine place to start educating yourself about his and his father's outsized roles in the formation of the religious right. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Schaeffer#Political_activism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Schaeffer#Political_ac...