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Over the past eight years, I have tried to make sense out of something that seemed horribly wrong in our society. I am Christian . . . have been one all of my life in one form or another, and will continue through my last breath . . . but have felt like the main character in an episode of The Twilight Zone. I have helplessly watched subtle changes take hold of a religion, changing it into the exact opposite of everything I once knew to be true. I have tried to scream, but like the common nightmare, I hear no sound. I could never completely bring it into focus, but the raised hairs on the back of my neck seldom lied. Something (I shudder using the word) Satanic had seized my country and my LORD with the express intent of dominating one, diminishing the other, destroying both in its quest for absolute power over the hearts, minds, and souls of the world. Just when I thought I had isolated the enemy, it shifted, changed, evaded detection, and I scratched my head in frustration, wondering if I would ever finally solve this, worrying that I couldn’t before it was too late. I even began to wonder if I was wrong.

Then I discovered the book, American Fascists by Chris Hedges (©2006, New York, Free Press), and it all became crystal clear.

The Fourth Reich

(May 28, 2007)

Chris Hedges, a graduate from Harvard Divinity School and an award winning foreign correspondent for The New York Times, delivers a wake up call with his exposé on the radically neo-conservative evangelical wave that has swept our nation under the guise of promoting family values, Christian love, and world peace. Unlike the many other warning cries, this comes from within, the voice of a fundamentalist who witnessed first hand the subversion of his own belief system, attending its seminars, workshops, and programs forbidden to the "liberal, secular media." From behind closed doors he shows us the truth behind the lie . . . the motives, money, methods, and machinations of a select group with an all too familiar, sinister agenda. From within he reveals the true faces behind the names we all know, and with painstaking journalistic care he demonstrates how closely it resembles a face, symbol, ideology, and movement that necessitated our last global war. Careful to maintain the distinction between a longstanding, well established, religious mind set that has guided many to lead peaceful, productive lives and those who would use it for profit and political control, he only calls out the ones who are truly at fault. He is not out to destroy a religion; he simply describes what happens when it gets into the hands of bad people, and how good people can be led to do bad things. Our country is becoming born again before our eyes, but not as a "Christian Nation." Though the book stops short of actually saying it, what we are really experiencing are the birthing pains of the Christianazi Fourth Reich.

But don’t take my word for it.

If you love Jesus, buy the book, American Fascists, by Chris Hedges. If you love The United States of America, read it. If you truly want to make this a better world, take its sobering message to heart. If you are part of the movement, I dare you to prove it wrong. If you truly wish to stand for the family, you owe it to them to listen to what the book has to say. If you home school your kids, put it on their reading list . . . yours too. If you don’t care or think this is all going to go away, you should. War has been declared on everything we call good, and if we do not wake up now and take action through our system, there will not be one left. Much like the people of Germany, a sunrise we so easily take for granted will usher in a nation where we are the enemy and the desire to think for ourselves are our only crime. Unlike Germany, our new overlords will have control of the means to bring about Armageddon if we don’t comply. If we let it happen, we will only have ourselves to blame. Time is running out.