01.30.10
9/11 and religious right??
The connection to the religious right had never occurred to me, as I always assumed that Machiavellian secularists were at work here.
James said,
January 29, 2010 at 5:14 pm ·
Buck is correct in asserting that we shouldn’t jump to conclusions on Israel based on incomplete evidence, but, as Chris Hedges documents, there are some strange forces at work in our society:
http://www.amazon.com/American-Fascists-Christian-Right-America/dp/0743284437
Hedges does offer a caveat: we shouldn’t think of this as some organized conspiracy by the Christian Right given that most of them are probably being unwittingly manipulated:
“JW: In former Bush White House insider David Kuo’s book Tempting Faith, he indicates that Bush Administration bureaucrats routinely made fun of the Christian Right leaders. And he made this clear in an interview he did with me (see “Screwtape Lives: Tempting Faith”). According to Kuo, White House officials thought of them as boobs. In other words, the White House had a Machiavellian approach to the Christian Right. They manipulate them in order to have access to their voter base. Do you think the Christian Right’s powers are more illusory than real?
CH: I believe Kuo is correct in that this is how the neo-cons like Karl Rove, Dick Cheney and Paul Wolfowitz look at the Christian Right, without question. Also, we know that the neo-cons are very cynical about religion. They come out of that Straussian school, which looks at religion as a kind of opiate. It is a way of allowing people to follow along behind you because the religious types don’t have the intellectual firepower to understand how the world works. I am summing up what Strauss thinks. Thus, they certainly do look at the Christian Right in this way. They look at them as buffoons and as people they can manipulate. ”
http://www.rutherford.org/Oldspeak/Articles/Interviews/OldSpeak-Hedges07.html