Joe,
You are very astute. I've read most of your website and enjoyed all that I read. I usually come away from one of your articles with an epiphany or two. I especially like your insight into fundamentalism's impact on the screwed underclass. As a young lad, I myself was sent to the gulag of Bob Jones University (the operative word there being "sent"). Your article on BoJo alumnus Tim LaHaye and his "Left Behind" books is the best I've read, bar none. Lahaye is arguably the most dangerous graduate of a most dangerous institution.
Lahaye began his post-BoJo career as a lecturer for the John Birch Society. From the git-go he was both a religious and political fanatic. Flash forward twenty years or so, and there's Lahaye with fellow Birchers Nelson Bunker Hunt and T. Cullen Davis (billionaires) founding the Council for National Policy. Bob Jones III is also a CNP member.
According to Rolling Stone magazine, the impeachment of Bill Clinton was plotted at a meeting of the Council for National Policy in 1997. When Hillary Clinton accused "a vast right-wing conspiracy" for her husband's troubles, she was derided as a moonbat. However, the CNP exists for the specific purpose of planning, coordinating, and funding the many tentacles of the "vast right-wing conspiracy". Everything from talk radio to fundamentalist "voter guides" to intelligent design litigation, and so on.
Just compare where our country was the day Bill Clinton walked out of the White House with where we are now under Bush, the BoJo candidate. We are in the twilight of religio-corporate fascism, BoJo-style. Garrison Keillor is fond of joking that "we're all Republicans now." Well, I would say that we're all BoJos now.
Check out my website, Nobojo (http://www.nobojo.org), a look inside the wacky world of Bob Jones University.
Bill McArthur/nobojo
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Dear Bill,
I want to encourage anyone with an interest in the fundamentalist movement in America to visit the NoBoJo site. No one I know has done anything remotely as good as this, and it should be the basis for a book -- or better yet, a documentary film.
In art and brotherhood,
Joe
