”Dominionism, born out of a theology known as Christian reconstructionism, seeks to politicize faith. It has, like all fascist movements, a belief in magic along with leadership adoration and a strident call for moral and physical supremacy of a master race, in this case American Christians.”
Hedges, Chris (2006) American Fascists. Free Press - Simon & Schuster: New York, New York. p. 11.

”The dominionist movement, like all totalitarian movements, seeks to appropriate not only our religious and patriotic language but also our stories, to deny the validity of stories other than their own, to deny that there are other acceptable ways of living and being. There becomes, in their rhetoric, only one way to be a Christian and only one way to be an American.”
Hedges, Chris (2006) American Fascists. Free Press - Simon & Schuster: New York, New York. p. 11.

”Dominionists and their wealthy, right-wing sponsors speak in terms and phrases that are familiar and comforting to most Americans, but they no longer use words to mean what they meant in the past. They engage in a slow process of "logocide," the killing of words. The old definitions of words are replaced by new ones. Code words of the old belief system are deconstructed and assigned diametrically opposed meanings.”
Hedges, Chris (2006) American Fascists. Free Press - Simon & Schuster: New York, New York. p. 14.

”This seemingly innocent hijacking of language mollifies opponents, the mainstream and supporters within the movement who fail to grasp the radical agenda. It gives believers a sense of continuity and tradition. Radical logocides paint themselves as the defenders of an idealized and more virtuous past.”
Hedges, Chris (2006) American Fascists. Free Press - Simon & Schuster: New York, New York. pp. 16-17.

”Justice, under this process of logocide, is perverted to carry out injustice and becomes a mirage of law and order. The moral calculus no longer revolves around the concept of universal human rights; now its center is the well-being, protection and promotion of "Bible-believing Christians.”
Hedges, Chris (2006) American Fascists. Free Press - Simon & Schuster: New York, New York. p. 17.

”While a majority of Christian Americans embrace a literal interpretation of the Bible, only a tiny minority--among them the Christian dominionists--are comfortable with this darker vision of an intolerant, theocratic America. Unfortunately, it is this minority that is taking over the machinery of U.S. state and religious institutions.”
Hedges, Chris (2006) American Fascists. Free Press - Simon & Schuster: New York, New York. p. 19.

”Traditional evangelicals, those who come out of Billy Graham's mold, are not necessarily comfortable with the direction taken by the dominionists.”
Hedges, Chris (2006) American Fascists. Free Press - Simon & Schuster: New York, New York. p. 20.

”Dominionists wait only for a fiscal, social or political crisis, a moment of upheaval in the form of an economic meltdown or another terrorist strike on American soil, to move to reconfigure the political system.”
Hedges, Chris (2006) American Fascists. Free Press - Simon & Schuster: New York, New York. p. 21.

”Widespread discontent and fear, stoked and manipulated by dominionists and their sympathizers, could be used by these radicals to sweep aside the objections of beleaguered moderates in Congress and the courts, those clinging to a bankrupt and discredited liberalism, to establish an Amnerican theocracy, a christian fascism.”
Hedges, Chris (2006) American Fascists. Free Press - Simon & Schuster: New York, New York. p. 21.

”The power brokers in the radical Christian Right have already moved from the fringes of society to the executive branch, the House of Representatives, the Senate and the courts. The movement has seized control of the Republican party.”
Hedges, Chris (2006) American Fascists. Free Press - Simon & Schuster: New York, New York. p. 22.

”Faith-based organizations are consistently winning a larger portion of federal social-service funding, a trend that has tremendous social and political consequences if it continues.”
Hedges, Chris (2006) American Fascists. Free Press - Simon & Schuster: New York, New York. p. 24.

”But then the Christian Right and radical Islamists, although locked in a holy war, increasingly mirror each other. They share the same obsessions. They do not tolerate other forms of belief or disbelief. They are at war with artistic and cultural expression. They seek to silence the media. They call for the subjugation of women. They promote severe sexual repression, and they seek to express themselves through violence.”
Hedges, Chris (2006) American Fascists. Free Press - Simon & Schuster: New York, New York. p. 24.

”Tens of millions of Americans rely exclusively on Christian broadcasters for their news, health, entertainment and devotional programs. These followers have been organized into disicplined and powerful voting blocs. They attend churches that during election time are little more than local headquarters for the Republican Party and during the rest of the year demand nearly all of their social, religious and recreational time. These believers are encased in a hermetic world There is no questioning or dissent.”
Hedges, Chris (2006) American Fascists. Free Press - Simon & Schuster: New York, New York. p. 26.

”Most of America's fundamentalist and evangelical churches are led by pastors who embrace this non-reality-based belief system, one that embraces magic, the fiction of a "Christian nation" in need of revitalization, and dark, terrifying apocalyptic visions.”
Hedges, Chris (2006) American Fascists. Free Press - Simon & Schuster: New York, New York. pp. 26-27.

”The leading American institutions tasked with defending tolerance and liberty--from the mainstream churches to the great research universities, to the Democratic Party and the media--have failed the country.”
Hedges, Chris (2006) American Fascists. Free Press - Simon & Schuster: New York, New York. p. 33.

”This is the awful paradox of tolerance. There arise moments when those who would destroy the tolerance that makes an open society possible should no longer be tolerated.”
Hedges, Chris (2006) American Fascists. Free Press - Simon & Schuster: New York, New York. p. 33.

”Passivity in the face of the rise of the Christian Right threatens the democratic state. And the movement has targeted the last remaining obstacles to its systems of indoctrination, mounting a fierce campaign to defeat hate-crime legislation, fearing the courts could apply it to them as they spew hate talk over the radio, television and Internet.”
Hedges, Chris (2006) American Fascists. Free Press - Simon & Schuster: New York, New York. p. 33.

”Despotic movements harness the power of modern communications to keep their followers locked in closed systems. If this long, steady poisoning of civil discourse within these closed information systems is not challenged, if this movement continues to teach neighbor to hate neighbor, if its followers remain convinced that cataclysmic violence offers a solution to their own ills and the ills of the world, civil society in America will collapse.”
Hedges, Chris (2006) American Fascists. Free Press - Simon & Schuster: New York, New York. pp. 33-34.

”The dominionist movement is the response of people trapped in a deformed, fragmented and disoriented culture that has become callous and unforgiving, a culture that has too often failed to provide the belonging, care and purpose that make life bearable, a culture that, as many in the movement like to say, has become "a culture of death.”
Hedges, Chris (2006) American Fascists. Free Press - Simon & Schuster: New York, New York. p. 36.

”A group of religious utopians, with the sympathy and support of tens of millions of Americans, are slowly dismantling democratic institutions to establish a religious tyranny, the springboard to an American fascism.”
Hedges, Chris (2006) American Fascists. Free Press - Simon & Schuster: New York, New York. p. 36.

”Those arrayed against American democracy are waiting for a moment to strike, a national crisis that will allow them to shred the Constitution in the name of national security and strength.”
Hedges, Chris (2006) American Fascists. Free Press - Simon & Schuster: New York, New York. pp. 201-202.

”Debate with the radical Christian Right is useless. We cannot reach this movement. It does not want a dialogue. It is a movement based on emotion and cares nothing for rational thought and discussion.”
Hedges, Chris (2006) American Fascists. Free Press - Simon & Schuster: New York, New York. pp. 201-202.

”The attempts by many liberals to make peace would be humorous if the stakes were not so deadly. These dominionists hate the liberal, enlightened world formed by the Constitution, a world they blame for the debacle of their lives. They have one goal--its destruction.”
Hedges, Chris (2006) American Fascists. Free Press - Simon & Schuster: New York, New York. p. 202.

”The accelerated rate of global warming could, within a decade, bring about epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves. To face this challenge, to do something about it, is to embrace a theology of hope, of life. To do nothing, to paint these ecological catastrophes as messages from an angry God rather than the folly of humankind, to believe blithely that global warming is a fiction and God alone determines human fate, is to accept this theology of despair, this radical evil.”
Hedges, Chris (2006) American Fascists. Free Press - Simon & Schuster: New York, New York. p. 203.

”The radical Christian Right calls for exclusion, cruelty and intolerance in the name of God. Its members do not commit evil for evil's sake. They commit evil to make a better world. To attain this better world, they believe, some must suffer and be silenced, and at the end of time all those who oppose them must be destroyed. The worst suffering in human history has been carried out by those who preach such grand, utopian vioions, those who seek to implant by force their narrow, particular version of goodness.”
Hedges, Chris (2006) American Fascists. Free Press - Simon & Schuster: New York, New York. p. 205.

”Dreams of a universal good create hells of persecution, suffering and slaughter.”
Hedges, Chris (2006) American Fascists. Free Press - Simon & Schuster: New York, New York. p. 205.

”Ironically, it is idealism that leads radical fundamentalists to strip human beings of their dignity and their sanctity and turn them into abstractions. Yet it is only by holding on to the sanctity of each individual, each human life, only by placing our faith in tiny, unheroic acts of compassion and kindness, that we survive as a community and as individual human beings.”
Hedges, Chris (2006) American Fascists. Free Press - Simon & Schuster: New York, New York. p. 205.

”I do not deny the right of Christian radicals to be, to believe and worship as they choose. But I will not engage in dialogue with those who deny my right to be, who delegitimize my faith and denounce my struggle before God as worthless. All dialogue must include respect and tolerance for the beliefs, worth and dignity of others, including those outside the nation and the faith. When this respect is denied, this clash of ideologies ceases to be merely a difference of opinion and becomes a fight for survival.”
Hedges, Chris (2006) American Fascists. Free Press - Simon & Schuster: New York, New York. p. 207.

”I do not believe that America will inevitably become a fascist state or that the Christian Right is the Nazi Party. But I do believe that the radical Christian Right is a sworn and potent enemy of the open society. Its ideology bears within it the tenets of a Christian fascism.”
Hedges, Chris (2006) American Fascists. Free Press - Simon & Schuster: New York, New York. p. 207.

”In the event of a crisis, in the event of another catastrophic terrorist attack, an economic meltdown or huge environmental disaster, the movement stands poised to manipulate fear and chaos ruthlessly and reshape America in ways that have not been seen since the nation's founding.”
Hedges, Chris (2006) American Fascists. Free Press - Simon & Schuster: New York, New York. p. 207.

”All Americans--not only those of faith--who care about our open society must learn to speak about this movement with a new vocabulary, to give up passivity, to challenge aggressively this movement's deluded appropriation of Christianity and to do everything possible to defend tolerance.”
Hedges, Chris (2006) American Fascists. Free Press - Simon & Schuster: New York, New York. p. 207.

”The attacks by this movement on the rights and beliefs of Muslims, Jews, immigrants, gays, lesbians, women, scholars, scientists, those they dismiss as "nominal Christians," and those they brand with the curse of "secular humanist" are an attack on all of us, on our values, our freedoms and ultimately our democracy. Tolerance is a virtue, but tolerance coupled with passivity is a vice.”
Hedges, Chris (2006) American Fascists. Free Press - Simon & Schuster: New York, New York. p. 207.