Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Lock up the Christians

Chris Hedges, a rabid anti-evangelical and the author of American Fascists openly proclaims what I have been telling people for years. His view of what should be done with Evangelicals is summed up by this quote he uses from Karl Popper-

"If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them… We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant. We should claim that any movement preaching intolerance places itself outside the law, and we should consider incitement to intolerance and persecution as criminal, in the same way as we should consider incitement to murder, or to kidnapping, or to the revival of the slave trade, as criminal."

One of many things in which I would disagree with Chris Hedges is that he claims the left is too timid to enforce the oppression of those they percieve as intolerant. Obviously he hasn't encountered the liberals in the mainline denominations.