Religious Fundamentalism and the Growing Threat to Democracy
With the re-election of George W. Bush, religious fundamentalism seems to be in overdrive in its effort to define politics through a reductive and somewhat fanatical moralism.
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Nov2004/Giroux1129.htm
From Information Clearing House
Leo Strauss and the Grand Inquisitor:
There is a certain irony in the fact that the chief guru of the neoconservatives is a thinker who regarded religion merely as a political tool intended for the masses but not for the superior few. He therefore taught that those in power must invent noble lies and pious frauds to keep the people in the stupor for which they are supremely fit.
http://207.44.245.159/article7395.htm
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Nov2004/Giroux1129.htm
From Information Clearing House
Leo Strauss and the Grand Inquisitor:
There is a certain irony in the fact that the chief guru of the neoconservatives is a thinker who regarded religion merely as a political tool intended for the masses but not for the superior few. He therefore taught that those in power must invent noble lies and pious frauds to keep the people in the stupor for which they are supremely fit.
http://207.44.245.159/article7395.htm
Starmail - 30. Nov, 23:17
