What's Wrong With Evangelism and How We Can Save It?

Thanks for posting your article on this important subject. I'm Jesuit-trained Catholic, and at no time in my life have I been more concerned regarding the hijacking and perversion of evangelism and Christianity by the "religious right."



Without exaggeration, the type of right-wing religious fundamentalism and extremism that has become front and center in America is the same type that the mass-murdering Norway Shooter, Anders Breivik, looked to for his inspiration. And people like Rick Santorum are helping spur on the right-wing "religious war" being waged to impose their Sharia-esque Sovereignty over our society.



I'm also appalled by how Republicans are cloaking themselves in the "borrowed robes" of this Sharia-esque religious extremism and its presumed "moral- authority/superiority" to mask their/its white-s/prmacy, as well as shared agenda of privatizing the public sphere (e.g., public schools, prisons, social security, medicare, etc.) and foisting "full spectrum dominion" on both our minds and bodies (including bodily fluids, contraceptive, health, and partnership choices, zygotes, embryos, etc.).



For more, please see my articles on the abuse of religion for political purposes by the Conservatives in the United States:

"Crusader Christians, GOP/Tea Party Cult, & the Left"

http://open.salon.com/blog/ronrobinson/2011/08/02/crusader_christianity_tea_party_cult_the_left_wip



"Rick SATANorum's "Sly Lies" & Sociopathic Political Theology"

http://open.salon.com/blog/ronrobinson/2012/02/20/rick_santorums_sociopathic_political_theology
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