Watching Rachel Madow: When GOP says "family values"

[jasi2006]

just what "family" do they mean? It must mean the "family" being exposed on Rachel's show.
Totally un-Christian family values. I have to read this book: The Family

[eleny]

1. It's an excellent progam tonight

And welcome to DU! :hi:

[Tangerine LaBamba]

7. Are we due for another visit to

alibris.com, and don't forget that the code for the $1 discount this month is POLITICS?

(I just got a brand new hardcover for $6.99 + shipping - code discount = $9.98!)

[eleny]

10. Yeah - My copy of Renegade got here fast

I just finished a library book so I can get into Renegade tonight.

I'm on the Alibris mailing list now, too. It's so much of a savings compared to B&N and Amazon. :D

[polichick]

2. I only caught a bit of that, but I'm looking at the book on Amazon...

Fascinating stuff.

[KamaAina]

3. She better not fly on any small planes

:scared:

[TahitiNut]

4. "The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power"

http://www.amazon.com/Family-Secret-Fundamentalism-Heart-American/dp/0060559799

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51B8VqVGrrL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA240_SH20_OU01_.jpg

From Publishers Weekly
Checking in on a friend's brother at Ivenwald, a Washington-based fundamentalist group living communally in Arlington, Va., religion and journalism scholar Sharlet finds a sect whose members refer to Manhattan's Ground Zero as "the ruins of secularism"; intrigued, Sharlet accepts on a whim an invitation to stay at Ivenwald. He's shocked to find himself in the stronghold of a widespread "invisible" network, organized into cells much like Ivenwald, and populated by elite, politically ambitious fundamentalists; Sharlet is present when a leader tells a dozen men living there, "You guys are here to learn how to rule the world." As it turns out, the Family was established in 1935 to oppose FDR's New Deal and the spread of trade unions; since then, it has organized well-attended weekly prayer meetings for members of Congress and annual National Prayer Breakfasts attended by every president since Eisenhower. Further, the Family's international reach ("almost impossible to overstate") has "forged relationships between the U.S. government and some of the most oppressive regimes in the world." In the years since his first encounter, Sharlet has done extensive research, and his thorough account of the Family's life and times is a chilling expose.
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[Fuzz]

5. He kept saying 'the leader'. well, who is it?!

[polichick]

9. Doug Coe is the leader right now, according to a review on Amazon...

From the review by "Rio":

Doug Coe, the present day leader of the Family, notes: "I do what Jesus did: I don't turn my back to anyone. You know the Bible is full of mass murderers."

[Fuzz]

12. Thanks. My father is a former Assemblies of God minister. I have to ask him

if he's heard of this guy.



Edit:

Want to hear something strange?

I didn't even know there was an Assemblies of God connection before I heard the name or anything. I hadn't googled one thing. As soon as I got the name, sure enough.

Shit, do I know the cult I grew up in or WHAT?

[csziggy]

14. I think when Jesus said not to turn your back on people he meant somthing different

I was taught in Sunday School that Jesus taught to help people and not turn away from the needy. These guys have to worry about a knife in the back because that is what their fellow "Family" members will do if they see a weakness.

It is people like this why I am not a Christian.

[spiritual_gunfighter]

6. I just ordered the book on Amazon

I am sure many more will too after that segment.

[valerief]

8. C St. must stand for Crime St. nt

[ColbertWatcher]

11. Good point. k+r, n/t

[HOLOS]

13. Love Rachel