The kook left gets a little kookier – Barbara Ehrenreich in The Nation:
There’s a reason Hillary Clinton has remained relatively silent during the flap over intemperate remarks by Barack Obama’s former pastor, Jeremiah Wright. When it comes to unsavory religious affiliations, she’s a lot more vulnerable than Obama.
You can find all about it in a widely under-read article in the September 2007 issue of Mother Jones, in which Kathryn Joyce and Jeff Sharlet reported that “through all of her years in Washington, Clinton has been an active participant in conservative Bible study and prayer circles that are part of a secretive Capitol Hill group known as “The “Fellowship,” also known as The Family…
…The Family takes credit for some of Clinton’s rightward legislative tendencies, including her support for a law guaranteeing “religious freedom” in the workplace, such as for pharmacists who refuse to fill birth control prescriptions and police officers who refuse to guard abortion clinics.
What drew Clinton into the sinister heart of the international right? Maybe it was just a phase in her tormented search for identity, marked by ever-changing hairstyles and names: Hillary Rodham, Mrs. Bill Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton and now Hillary Clinton. She reached out to many potential spiritual mentors during her White House days, including New Age guru Marianne Williamson and the liberal rabbi Michael Lerner. But it was the Family association that stuck.
Sharlet generously attributes Clinton’s involvement to the under-appreciated depth of her religiosity, but he himself struggles to define The Family’s theological underpinnings. The Family avoids the word Christian but worships Jesus, though not the Jesus who promised the earth to the “meek.” They believe that, in mass societies, it’s only the elites who matter, the political leaders who can build God’s “dominion” on earth. Insofar as The Family has a consistent philosophy, it’s all about power–cultivating it, building it and networking it together into ever-stronger units, or “cells.” “We work with power where we can,” Doug Coe has said, and “build new power where we can’t.”
Interesting. Here’s a 2002 Los Angeles Times article on the group – which doesn’t quite paint it in that sinister a light, which thus proves that the LA Times is also deep in the sinister heart of the international right.
That aside – what the article shows is two things:
1. The far left really has it in for Hillary.
2. The far left cannot imagine anyone just being a Christian – if you are such, it must be for a nefarious purpose. They ain’t buying any of that “love your neighbor” nonsense…they know that what Christians want is to oppress everyone and force people to believe the world is 6,000 years old.
I didn’t know – but am pleased with the knowledge – that Hillary attends Bible study. Naturally, I’d prefer it for her to attend RCIA, but any exposure to the Word of God is a good thing. Given that we recently found out that Gorbachev was a closet Christian and this might have helped him to pursue a reasonable course, it can only be good for Hillary to get a bit of God into her worldview. Some day, she might even wake up from the haze of anti-human, far left policies which have infected far too much of what was once an honorable (though still mistaken) liberalism. Only in the minds of the hate-filled left can the fact that someone is seeking after the truth be considered evidence of evil intent.
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Mark – I think the word you’re looking for is “certifiable”. Good grief!
Uh, oh! – “New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson Endorses Barack Obama for President, FOX News Confirms”
Heh. Heh. Poor Hillary. /sarcasm!
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Ugh!
Its still too early to really show the cards on the Hill.
Wait till the DNC is finished with its favorite son to finish tearing down the house. By then, the Hill will be all they got….
Richardson…VP wannabe
Mother Jones? Doesn’t that qualify as a form of cannibalism?
Just a few months ago Mark was saying there is a vast left wing conspiracy to buy votes and get Clinton into the White House. Ironic….
InDaVa,
Huh?
OK, I admit I can’t stand Hillary, but Barbara Ehrenreich’s piece is a joke. Huge innuendo and little substance. She’s a long time atheist with an axe to grind against people of faith. In 1999 she won the Freethought Heroine Award, from the Freedom From Religion Foundation. You can read her acceptance speech here: It’s called, “My Family Values Atheism”.
http://ffrf.org/fttoday/2000/april2000/ehrenreich.html
Frankly, Hilary at ANY Bible Study is NOT going to be a plus for Barbara!
Hillary Clinton has been a regular at meetings of this group but as a progressive wouldn’t you want to be close to those that are thwe biggest threat to civil liberties in your country?
The LA Times bit was pap back in 2002. The best most in depth look from the inside of the Doug Coe run Fellowship was done in Harper’s in March 2003 by Jeff Sharlet.
Oh, Diane, your pretzeling is becoming embarassing. So you are explaining that Hillary’s participation in this group is really just an effort to keep an eye on, even spy on, “… those that are thwe (sic) biggest threat to civil liberties in (her) country..”
And this insight is based on……….???????
This from an anti-religionist who simply must find a way to discount any relationship to any religion by anyone she likes, as far as I can tell.
Diane, you simply must stop finding or inventing some wackadoo conspiracy to “explain” everything that goes against your extremely limited worldview. It just gets sillier and sillier. Untangle yourself, get a grip, and stop inventing weird rationales for the irrational.
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