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Berlet: Islamophobic Norway Shooting Suspect Using Antisemitic "Cultural Marxism" Model

Islamophobic Norway Shooting Suspect Using Antisemitic "Cultural Marxism" Model

Anders Behring Breivik, charged in the terror attacks in Oslo, Norway, described himself in online posts as a cultural conservative and a Christian conservative who felt that Protestantism had lost its way and that Christianity should recombine under the banner of a reconstituted and traditionalist Catholic Church. These views are almost identical to the views of the late Paul Weyrich, founder of the Christian Right epicenter in the United States, the Free Congress Foundation. Weyrich and Lind developed an aggressive theory of Cultural Conservatism as a way to save Western Culture. Lind addressed the right-wing group Accuracy in Academia in February 2000. See also: What is Cultural Marxism? by William S. Lind.

via www.talk2action.org

As Gore Vidal demonstrated in his essay, "The Meaning of Timothy McVeigh," it can be as overly-simplistic--reckless even--to dismiss a politically-motivated mass killer merely as "crazed" as it can be to assign blame for a politically-motivated mass killer's actions to an entire movement, even a hate-based one.

via www.religiousrightwatch.com

It takes the insanity and the political thought both.

Anders Behring Breivik, charged in the terror attacks in Oslo, Norway, described himself in online posts as a cultural conservative and a Christian conservative who felt that Protestantism had lost its way and that Christianity should recombine under the banner of a reconstituted and traditionalist Catholic Church. These views are almost identical to the views of the late Paul Weyrich, founder of the Christian Right epicenter in the United States, the Free Congress Foundation. Weyrich and Lind developed an aggressive theory of Cultural Conservatism as a way to save Western Culture. Lind addressed the right-wing group Accuracy in Academia in February 2000. See also: What is Cultural Marxism? by William S. Lind.

via www.talk2action.org

As Gore Vidal demonstrated in his essay, "The Meaning of Timothy McVeigh," it can be as overly-simplistic--reckless even--to dismiss a politically-motivated mass killer merely as "crazed" as it can be to assign blame for a politically-motivated mass killer's actions to an entire movement, even a hate-based one.

Fulford: Of gods and opera

Brooding over the lowly status of the Greek gods sent me back to a remarkable book, Julian, Gore Vidal’s biographical novel about the brief reign of the fourth-century Roman emperor (355-363CE) whom Christians call Julian the Apostate. He decided that Constantine had embraced Jesus for crass political reasons and out of a weird attraction to “the mad haggling of bishops.” The world was “diseased by the quarrels and intolerance” of this radical Christianity business, Julian decided. He set about restoring the old gods — not, as fate would have it, a successful project.

Vidal’s biographer says he feared that in 1964 Christian disapproval would seriously limit the book’s sales. But even the Book of the Month Club loved it. Julian became a bestseller.

via arts.nationalpost.com

Vidal's Julian would be good material for an opera.