Contest: name this social movement

[Dane S]

They aren't the ones who take over Phil. It's the people who know how to use them.

[Case Closed]

phil,

I think you have to add a vowel between Christ and Nazi. Like Christanazis or Christonazis. I think it makes the term flow a lot better.

[Dane S]

Blights Templar

[Bill Haywood]

Several posters repeat themes like:

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The cries of "christiofascism" simply sound like hysteria and hyperbole

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I agree, they do SOUND like hype, which is why I find it particularly striking that Chris Hedges has written a book on the subject. He's a graduate of Harvard Divinity school and for many years a NYT foreign correspondent. He is not excitable. I urge you to checkout the links. Granted, it's early, and this movement is not close to controlling Google's search protocol (like in China), it is there and it is trying.

Hopefully, a police state of the Cross is impractical.

But if fascism can arise in America, this is where it will come from.

The Christian nationalists are consciously trying to end separation of church and state, and a lot of grassroots ministers are behind them. I'm not suggesting a terrifying new bogeyman just popped up. The Kevlar Christians are the latest incarnation of what is sometimes called the Evangelical right. It is the natural progression of a large social movement, not a conspiracy. The movement is there -- check the links, keep an open mind about the reality of the threat, but don't dismiss it. If it had a name, it would be easier to analyze its potential.

Here are several bits of evidence suggesting the significance of the neocrusaders:

The US Air Force Academy is in their hands and they are hazing non-evangelicals.

Bush says God told him to invade Iraq. He's not going to say anything that crazy unless there's a constituency for it. The war is the biggest evidence of the growing presence of the Kevlar Christians. How do you explain the absolute certainty with which these guys invaded Iraq, even when MOST of the security apparatus argued against it? This war demonstrates how powerful is the dogma that possesses the White House, and the evangelical right is its most important constituency.

Many people are convinced that now that the state of Israel has been established, the second coming, Armageddon, and the end of time are nigh. What's new is how many are now in high office and the military brass.

The New Right has been picking up momentum since the 70s. A modern Christian crusader state is the logical progression of their ideas. A permanent war with Islam provides the perfect fertilizer. War is the health of the state.

Now put your thinking caps on, and name this movement. We'll decide in 100 years if the danger was hyped.

[Brainwalter]

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Christian dominionism

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What's wrong with this name?

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Christian dominionism

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What's wrong with this name?

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We need to include "facio" and "nazi" somewhere so that people will know to oppose them without having to think it through. That's how "isms" work.

[Brainwalter]

OK, how about fasco-nazi?

[mosdef]

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OK, how about fasco-nazi?

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Not enough marketablility. I suggest "Fascio-nazi-transfat-gun violence-ism".

[Bill Haywood]

Christian statists

omnicrosses

Christocrats, churchocrats,

crusadists

Bunker something. Bunker pulpits.

[Brainwalter]

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Not enough marketablility. I suggest "Fascio-nazi-transfat-gun violence-ism".

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It does have a certain ring to it.