Falwell's Legacy. Monica who?

[stilltrucking]

The New Establishment
How Evangelicals Became Part of Washington's Fabric
By Hanna Rosin
Friday, May 25, 2007; Page A19

To the Bush haters of America, the young Monica Goodling is a footnote of this wretched era, one of the many Washington types that they'll be happy to get rid of come January 2009: Venal Vice President, Ex-Lobbyists Turned Regulators and, in Goodling's case, Young Evangelicals in High Places...
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Goodling is part of a new generation of evangelicals ushered in by Falwell, who insisted that Christians get involved in politics. They are graduates of the exploding number of evangelical colleges, which no longer aim to create a parallel subculture but instead to train "Christian leaders to change the world," as the Regent mission statement reads…
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It used to be that being 33 and in charge of 93 U.S. attorneys would mean you'd been top of your class at Harvard or Yale or clerked at the Supreme Court. Now, Christian schools are joining that mix. Regent has had 150 of its graduates working in the White House; the school estimates that one-sixth of its alumni are in government work. Call them the Goodlings: scrubbed young ideologues, ready to serve their nation, the right's version of the Peace Corps generation…
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It took the conservative political movement 30 years to become a fixture in American politics, and it's taken evangelicals about the same. Like conservatives, evangelicals may remain chronically ambivalent, afflicted with a persecution complex despite their obvious successes. But they are embedded firmly enough into Washington to provide jobs for smart young Christians for generations to come.


washingtonpostdotcom

Hanna Rosin, who covered religion for The Post, is the author of "God's Harvard: A Christian College on a Mission to Save America," due out in September. Her e-mail address is hanna.rosin@gmail.com.

[mtmynd]

seriously, is there any real differences between this christian evangelicals and the islamic fundamentalists? both to me sound bound and determined to not only defend but force others into their ways of thinking.

TY, truck, for the link. i passed it on...

[e_dog]

sounds just like capitalists, too.

and the neo-conservatives.

[mnaz]

"if you're not with us, you're against us"...

(it's all clearly in the Bible, y'see....)

[e_dog]

Jer-ry Falwell's God.

Huh!!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=MyE5wjc4XOw

Roy Zimmerman rocks tha house! or should we say the hizouse!