Palin and 'the cracker fundamentalist South'
Alaska Dispatch |
Oct 14, 2009
In a lengthy story and interview with Raw Story, a former member of the "evangelical royalty," Frank Schaeffer, has a harsh warning for America: Actual violence may be on its way from the ultra-religious, far-right elements of the conservative movement, which he says includes Sarah Palin supporters. "These are the Sarah Palin 'He's Not-A-Real-American' Obama haters. These are the people waiting for Jesus to come back and/or the UN to take over the world or the Army to take their guns," he tells Raw Story. Schaeffer says that the fundamentalist, zionist ideological extremities of Christianity have become "the far, far loony right of the Republican Party," and are "represented by oddities like Sarah Palin." Most of all Schaeffer fears that all the movement's "lies, myth and hate" may spur real violence, in the manner of another Oklahoma City bombing or even an assassination. All those are just select tidbits, though, the interview is really long, contains a bunch of pot-stirring statements, and covers lots of ground, including the origins of today's irony, in which Schaeffer is now speaking out against a powerful form of political Christianity that he and his family once helped to create. Read much more here, but beware, there are patches of coarse language -- in excerpts from actual hate-mail that people have sent to Schaeffer. |












