I heard about this book on NPR and I haven't had a chance to read it yet, (I do however have it on order ), but it sounds like something some here on DTT might be interested in checking out, especially those of us who like to debate religion, especially as it relates to public policy.

The book is written by Chris Hedges, who is also the author of War is the Force that Gives Us Meaning and Losing Moses on the Freeway: The Ten Commandments in America.

Here's the review from Publishers Weekly
The f-word crops up in the most respectable quarters these days. Yet if the provocative title of this exposé by Hedges sounds an alarm, the former New York Times foreign correspondent takes care to employ his terms precisely and decisively. As a Harvard Divinity School graduate, his investigation of the Christian Right agenda is even more alarming given its lucidity. Citing the psychology and sociology of fascism and cults, including the work of German historian Fritz Stern, Hedges draws striking parallels between 20th-century totalitarian movements and the highly organized, well-funded "dominionist movement," an influential theocratic sect within the country's huge evangelical population. Rooted in a radical Calvinism, and wrapping its apocalyptic, vehemently militant, sexist and homophobic vision in patriotic and religious rhetoric, dominionism seeks absolute power in a Christian state. Hedges's reportage profiles both former members and true believers, evoking the particular characteristics of this American variant of fascism. His argument against what he sees as a democratic society's suicidal tolerance for intolerant movements has its own paradoxes. But this urgent book forcefully illuminates what many across the political spectrum will recognize as a serious and growing threat to the very concept and practice of an open society.
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