This book is an encyclopedic indictment of the extreme Christian right, but. can be applied to any extremist belief system.

This book is an encyclopedic indictment of the extreme Christian right, but. to an unabashedly apostolic theocracy.

The Fundamentals of Extremism book. Blaker's carefully documented and compelling narrative exposes the full spectrum of issues on the Christian fundamentalist agenda

The Fundamentals of Extremism book. Blaker's carefully documented and compelling narrative exposes the full spectrum of issues on the Christian fundamentalist agenda. Rarely have these issues been examined so thoroughly. At least one has never been examined and exposed nationally. The Fundamentals of Extremism is an absorbing exposE. It urges mainstream Americans to recognize and oppose the encroachment of Christian fundamentalism on our secular society.

Kimberly Blaker’s The Fundamentals of Extremism: The Christian Right in America is not just another book on the Religious Right. John Shelby Spong, bestselling author of Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism calls Blaker’s book a thorough analysis of a present crisis

Kimberly Blaker’s The Fundamentals of Extremism: The Christian Right in America is not just another book on the Religious Right. John Shelby Spong, bestselling author of Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism calls Blaker’s book a thorough analysis of a present crisis. Blaker’s carefully documented and compelling narrative exposes the full spectrum of issues on the Christian fundamentalist agenda.

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Or at least, that’s the argument laid out by Kimberly Blaker in her 2003 book, The Fundamentals of Extremism: The Christian Right in America. Conflating leaders like James Dobson of Focus on the Family with Islamic fundamentalists, Blaker argued that America’s traditionalist Christians also seek to indoctrinate youth with oppressive views of women, minorities, and LGBT persons through mind-control tactics and intimidation.

Kimberly Blaker, Edward M Buckner, Edwin Frederick Kagin. The politics, educational policies, and social values perpetuated by Christian fundamentalists are exposed in this critical perspective on the religious right's role in American society. Statistics and studies of the movement are offered that provide insight into the causes and characteristics of fundamentalism and its effects on minority groups including women, children, African Americans, gays, and lesbians.

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A Humanist Manifesto. Galvanized by the January 22, 1973 US Supreme Court case guaranteeing a woman's right to choose - Roe v. com/) - Christian fundamentalists embarked on a 30-year long crusade that has led them to violent actions, infiltration of local governments and organizations, domination of school boards all.

Kimberly Blaker's The Fundamentals of Extremism: The Christian Right in America is a book-length expose of the menace of the Christian Taliban (not under that name). Faith and homosexuality. In Afghanistan under the Taliban, the official punishment for homosexuality was execution, by the tasteful method of burial alive under a wall pushed over on top of the victim. The 'crime' itself being a private act, performed by consenting adults who were doing nobody else any harm, we again have here the classic hallmark of religious absolutism. My own country has no right to be smug.