Craig Unger -- what he heard on a trip to the Holy Land with lehaye and about 90 evangelicals:
[ As LaHaye sees it, the word "secular" is not merely a morally neutral term that means "worldly." It means "ungodly," and, in his view, there are godly people--who are on the road to Rapture--and then there is the rest of the world, which is either complicit with the Anti-Christ, or, worse, actively assisting him. As a result, LaHaye argues, good evangelicals should no longer think of humanists merely as harmless citizens who just happen not to attend church. "We must remove all humanists from public office," he writes, "and replace them with pro-moral political leaders."
These views may sound extreme, but that does not mean they are marginal. The Council for National Policy, a powerful but secretive umbrella group founded by LaHaye more than 25 years ago, has had extraordinary access to the Oval Office during the Bush-Cheney era. As the late Jerry Falwell told me in 2005, "Within the Council is a smaller group called the Arlington Group. We often call the White House and talk to Karl Rove while we are meeting. Everyone takes our calls." Falwell added that they were consulted on crucial issues such as Supreme Court nominees.
Reports of the death of the Christian Right have been greatly exaggerated. This time around, their man is Huckabee. ]
The rapturists testify to how they eagerly await the seas of blood when the billions of non-christians are killed.
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I think that the religious right's strength has always been overrated. I think the 2008 elections will pound the nail in their coffin.
I hope so. Put Huckabee up there.
But I do not by any means under-estimate their strength, not after all these decades with them being entwined with hate radio, which is all you hear in most of the country, and you hear it 24/7.
They have money, power and influence, and they are the gop base.
Love, C.
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