QUOTES FROM FUNDAMENTAL EVANGELISTS
The Cultural Revolution of the Far Right Fringe
"We're not just in a war against the terrorist, where we face external and internal violence against our system, our culture, but we're in a war against the secularists in our own culture who have tried to supplant our Judeo-Christian value base with their secular humanist value base."
-- David Limbaugh, brother of radio right-winger Rush Limbaugh, Family Ties, Joseph L. Conn, Church & State, Vol. 58, No. 5, May 2005
"The ACLU's got to take a lot of blame for this. And, I know that I'll hear from them for this. But, throwing God out successfully with the help of the federal court system, throwing God out of the public square, out of the schools. The abortionists have got to bear some burden for this because God will not be mocked. And when we destroy 40 million little innocent babies, we make God mad. I really believe that the Pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America. I point the finger in their face and say, 'You helped this happen.'"
-- Jerry Falwell on the reason for the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America, Sept. 13, 2001 'The 700 Club,' Christian Broadcasting Network
"Separation of Church and State has long been the battle cry of civil libertarians wishing to purge our glorious Christian heritage from our nation's history. Of course, the term never once appears in our Constitution and is a modern fabrication of discrimination."
-- 'Falwell Fax,' April 10, 1998, (reported in Church & State, May 1998, p. 18)
"Modern U.S. Supreme Courts have raped the Constitution and raped the Christian faith and raped the churches by misinterpreting what the founders had in mind in the First Amendment of the Constitution.... [W]e must fight against those radical minorities who are trying to remove God from our textbooks, Christ from our nation. We must never allow our children to forget that this is a Christian nation. We must take back what is rightfully ours."
-- Jerry Falwell in a March 1993 sermon, (reported in Church & State, May 1993, p. 14)
"The world of the Christian activist can be a very lonely place. War is always tough on those who are called to fight it."
-- James Dobson, Christianity Today, June 19, 1995
"[Tolerance is a] kind of watchword of those who reject the concept of right and wrong. It's a kind of a desensitization to evil of all varieties. Everything has become acceptable to those who are tolerant."
-- James Dobson, Focus On The Family radio broadcast, Nov. 4, 1996
"Unfortunately, the terms multiculturalism and diversity have come to have very different meanings when used by the cultural elite. They are a kind of Trojan horse in which to smuggle the concept of moral relativism into the heartland of Western culture."
-- James Dobson, Solid Answers (Tyndale House Publishers), 1997, p. 537
"This is our land. This is our world. This is our heritage, and with God's help, we shall reclaim this nation for Jesus Christ. And no power on earth can stop us."
-- D. James Kennedy, Character & Destiny: A Nation In Search of Its Soul, (Zondervan Publishing House, 1997) (written with Jim Nelson Black)
"How much more forcefully can I say it? The time has come, and it is long overdue, when Christians and conservatives and all men and women who believe in the birthright of freedom must rise up and reclaim America for Jesus Christ."
-- D. James Kennedy, Character & Destiny: A Nation In Search of Its Soul, (Zondervan Publishing House, 1997) (written with Jim Nelson Black)
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