Taking America to a dark place

This morning I'd like to recommend a very brief article that I found over at Alternet. Here's the headline:

I Was a Right-Wing Evangelical Pastor -- Until I Saw the Light

Here's a brief excerpt:

I want you to know that the fundamentalist political movement is the beginning of a cultural revolution that will take our nation to a very dark place. You have to understand that this has been methodically planned and is being carried out with the utmost vigilance. In accordance with their worldview, my old friends do not in the least care about what you think. They are against democracy, and they are seeking to end the rule of the majority in our great country.

They truly believe that if you have not been “saved,” you are living under a curse and are incapable of knowing what is best and that because of this you should be ruled over. You should also know they do not believe that even centuries-old Christian communities (Catholics, Anglicans, Greek Orthodox, etc.) are “saved,” only those who think like they do.

You might be thinking that a minority fundamentalist group of zealots can’t really take over the direction of a society. Just look at Iran, or the countless other places where people have allowed this to happen.

This is a message from the "inside" people. Others have told us before; this is just one more voice - a voice to which we ought to listen, in my humble opinion.

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