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How faith, power, and politics became the same thing.
I was there. I knew a lot of the people Keri is writing about, worked with them, lived with some of them, and was part of the rise of the religious right. And I’ve been writing about and saying these things for the last 40 years since I left, especially about how the secular media totally ignored it and underestimated it. They were more comfortable talking about economic policy than religious motivation. And there seemed to be an absolute misunderstanding of the power of the movement. Everyone thought it was too fringe to warrant serious attention.
But it wasn’t.
And now we’re looking at something that was there all along and just wasn’t taken seriously.
American Dominion: The Rise and Radicalization of a New Christendom
bookshop.org/a/99692/9798216275763
frankschaeffer.substack.com/p/keri-ladner-and-the-world-inside?utm_source=youtube
How faith, power, and politics became the same thing.
I was there. I knew a lot of the people Keri is writing about, worked with them, lived with some of them, and was part of the rise of the religious right. And I’ve been writing about and saying these things for the last 40 years since I left, especially about how the secular media totally ignored it and underestimated it. They were more comfortable talking about economic policy than religious motivation. And there seemed to be an absolute misunderstanding of the power of the movement. Everyone thought it was too fringe to warrant serious attention.
But it wasn’t.
And now we’re looking at something that was there all along and just wasn’t taken seriously.
American Dominion: The Rise and Radicalization of a New Christendom
bookshop.org/a/99692/9798216275763
frankschaeffer.substack.com/p/keri-ladner-and-the-world-inside?utm_source=youtube
