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Evangelical Terrorism: Censorship, Falwell, Robertson & the Seamy Side of Christian Fundamentalism

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Dr. Ide let's his opinion out in this summary of what appears to be his life's work. Almost every paragraph is footnoted although not all of these notes seem easy to locate and then deliver the information asserted. He has an excellent style and a wide vocabulary.
In the end I learned a great deal about Reagon politics and the women bashing, religous fundementalist, movements of the all to powerful televangelists of the 80's.

Sums up the lunacy of the far right in a great, well-written book.

Evangelicalism is a DISTINCT religious movement from Fundamentalism. The fact that the author IN HIS OWN TITLE confuses two different religious movements proves immediately that his book is just a slice of knee-jerk liberal paranoia.
In fact, most Fundamentalist writers (the vast majority of whom are self-published) have dwelt obsessively on the "apostasy" of Evangelical Christians in recent years. Even Jerry Falwell himself, when he thought he could take control of the Fundamentalist bus, wrote a book ("The resurgence of Conservative Christianity") that called Evangelicalism a movement led by "academics" that was "in neutral" while Fundamentalism was "in overdrive." Of course, the years have proven Falwell wrong, as Fundamentalism has declined and fragmented into a degenerate cultic fringe.
Confusing Evangelicals and Fundamentalists is like confusing Roman Catholics and Russian Orthodox. Ide should write about something he knows about.