Chilling article at Salon about the Fellowship

[el_bryanto]

By Jeff Sharlet, called "Ditto boys: An elite Christian education." It's chilling how far away this seems from anything like mainstream Christianity, even at it's most annoying.

Jesus without Christ. It haunted me more than Jesus plus nothing. It positively buzzed, or maybe that was the wind—I couldn’t say. Whatever the noise that phrase generated in my skull was, it scared me. Scared me stupid, literally. There was this dumb idea that bothered me at times, usually late at night, driving up the spine of California in the pitch black, or lying in the dark in a blank, empty apartment in Wheaton. I think the first time the idea crossed my mind was under a streetlight in Arlington, three in the morning, I’d been up late reading some documents a member of the Fellowship named Josh Drexler had given me. That was the first time I read the word invisible, this invisible organization, the odd allusion to conspiracy without the actual trappings of conspiracy. It was a theology that wanted to be invisible to the world and wanted insiders to know that it was invisible to the world. To them—to me, since I had for the time being become one of them—invisibility hinted at power.

Anyway well worth reading; I don't know how prevalent this group is in DC but it is kind of creepy.

Bryant

[hedgehog]

1. Is that the group that sponsors the National Prayer Breakfast/ Day of prayer?

[gopiscrap]

2. Yes, I am pretty sure they are.

[el_bryanto]

4. Yes - that is apparently their one public act

The rest of the time they keep pretty quiet - so much so that members won't admit they belong to it or that it even exists.

Bryant

[gopiscrap]

3. This crew of so called "christians" has so many adulterers, killers and crooks in it

it's not even funny!

[cbayer]

5. Too long to read right now, but looks really good.

There has been a lot of speculation about this group's involvement with leaders in Washington.

And there has been a lot of controversy about their sponsoring the Annual Prayer Breakfast for Congress.

[rug]

6. Kissinger's coming to lunch.

http://blogs.westmont.edu/2013/09/13/kissinger-to-speak-at-westmont-luncheon/

[okasha]

7. This group includes state and national

level officeholders. It is directly responsible for the current wave of murderous homophobia in Uganda.

[el_bryanto]

8. They are bastards so I don't want anybody to think I support them, but that last statement

seems fishy - could you explain a bit more? I do know that they support the murderous homophobia but took it to be more a holding Uganda's coat while they stone them rather than being directly responsible. Surely the Ugandans are more responsible?

But possibly I am missing something.

Bryant