Christian Fascism
• Polity
From a review of American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America by Chris Hedges:
Hedges carefully distinguishes this strand of Protestant Christian evangelicalism, known as “dominionism,” from traditional fundamentalism, which “has not tried to transform government … into an extension of the church.” Under Christian dominion, Hedges writes, “Labor unions, civil rights laws and public schools will be abolished…. and all those deemed insufficiently Christian will be denied citizenship.” The Christian right could come to power, he suggests, if we had “another catastrophic terrorist attack, an economic meltdown or huge environmental disaster.” At that point, Hedges asserts, evangelical leaders such as Kennedy, Falwell and Robertson could be “calling for the punishment, detention and quarantining of gays and lesbians — as well as abortionists, Muslims and other nonbelievers.” Thus, Hedges concludes, the United States today faces an internal threat analogous to that posed by the Nazis in Weimar Germany.
The whole review: How conservative evangelists are trying to make the United States a Christian nation