Meet 'The Family'

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Is this a refreshingly bureaucracy-free Christian organization for people involved in public service that has helped bring good into the world or a dangerous proto-fascist group that shares an organizational structure with Al Qaeda and has supported some of recent history's greatest autocrats?

― g@bbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 5 March 2004 22:51 (twenty-one years ago)

The reach of Jesus Plus Nothing.

I like how their official (?) site links to Debka and emphasizes the centrality of Israel to Christians.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 5 March 2004 22:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Not only is Bill Nelson, Dem Senator of Florida and warm to hot VP prospect, a member, his wife is on the Board of Directors.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 5 March 2004 22:55 (twenty-one years ago)

The most concise paraphrase of the evidence that these people are scary

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 5 March 2004 22:57 (twenty-one years ago)

there was an article in Harper's about a year ago about this--somewhat tinfoil-hattish but frightening nonetheless. i don't remember the author's name, but he did write for http://www.killingthebuddha.com/.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 5 March 2004 23:07 (twenty-one years ago)

this is serious, we need to realize that religion needs to be tended to, and realize that these peoples christendom is not the only christendom there is.

― anthony, Friday, 5 March 2004 23:38 (twenty-one years ago)

there's no arguing with zealots

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 5 March 2004 23:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Replace "christian" with Jewish and there'd be a storm over this article even existing.

― torrent, Friday, 5 March 2004 23:43 (twenty-one years ago)

there was an article in Harper's about a year ago about this

it's linked-to in two of the pieces I linked

this is serious, we need to realize that religion needs to be tended to, and realize that these peoples christendom is not the only christendom there is.

did anyone say it was? i'm far from an expert but some might question whether this is in fact "christendom".

Replace "christian" with Jewish and there'd be a storm over this article even existing.

are you sure?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 5 March 2004 23:45 (twenty-one years ago)

except the president of the united states is not jewish, and is not engaging with extremely conserative jewish orgs to have leg. pushed through.

(ie rumsfeild, the assemblies of god; gwb and the baptists)

― anthony, Friday, 5 March 2004 23:45 (twenty-one years ago)

is not engaging with extremely conserative jewish orgs to have leg. pushed through.

I first read that as 'orgies' and then things got strange.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 5 March 2004 23:46 (twenty-one years ago)

"is not engaging with extremely conserative jewish orgs to have leg. pushed through."

Really? What are AIPAC and the other Likudnik lobbying groups?

― Honshu, Saturday, 6 March 2004 05:48 (twenty-one years ago)

"Just who are these Christians anyway? I guess they must be a new sect who holds intolerance, bigotry and arrogance to be virtuous. I have no doubt that had they been alive in the 1930’s, they would have supported Hitler"

What lies beneath the administration's agenda in regard to it's Christian bent? Who is taking exception to the influence of their Christian view? What is potentially being stripped away in regard to freedoms bit by bit because of it?

― kt, Friday, 12 March 2004 12:08 (twenty-one years ago)

four years pass...

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/4/4/145233/7447/590/466231

― gabbneb, Saturday, 5 April 2008 03:42 (seventeen years ago)

one month passes...

http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/11164

an hour with Jeff Sharlet

― gabbneb, Saturday, 24 May 2008 17:05 (seventeen years ago)

Clinton's connections to the Family

http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2007/09/hillarys-prayer.html

― gabbneb, Saturday, 24 May 2008 18:02 (seventeen years ago)

I thought this would be about this 'The Family'. (NSFW)

― Abbott, Saturday, 24 May 2008 18:57 (seventeen years ago)

eleven years pass...

Anyone watch the netflix doc (or read the book it was based on)? It was good but a bit scattershot and while through most of it I was justifiably repulsed, the conversation with the guy in the small group in Portland was great. I just couldn't tell if this signaled that there were people associated with the Family that were kind of against some of the more conservative shitty elements in it, or what.

― akm, Sunday, 25 August 2019 16:50 (six years ago)

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