"The Family" by Jeff Sharlett

[Steven E. Webster]

Friends,

I'm reading a book: "The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power"

It's a fascinating book. Reminds me of Mel White's "Religion Gone Bad" but it gives a different angle on the problem--but Sharlet is also describing a religion gone bad!

Here's a link:
http://jeffsharlet.blogspot.com/2008/02/blog-post.html

Anyone else reading this stuff? What do you think?

Steven Webster

[pnggrad79]

Wow! Firghtening stuff. It is amazing to me how the church has become nothing like Jesus and all too much like a power trip. It is just picking and choosing from the Bible what we want to justify and forgetting the rest. I will get this book and read it. I am sure it will be astounding, fascinating and unnerving! Thanks for posting about this.

[labguy22]

http://www.kpfa.org/archives/index.php?show=31

Above is a link to the podcast for The Visionary Activist Show. Caroline interviews the author on Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Theocratic Elite Hidden Fundamentalism versus Democracy.
Very scary stuff, the whole "Prayer Breakfast". What is really scary is that if asked, they don't deny anything.