CHRIS HEDGES

”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. p. 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.