Author: Frederick Clarkson

The Dominionists are coming! The Dominionists are coming! Some contemporary Paul Revere’s of the internet write breathlessly about the Christian Right as if the advocates of theocracy have all but won.  They conflate...

File this under ‘this is what theocracy looks like.”   What happens when faith meets a reality that is not included within its world view? One answer is to try to cure it with evangelism; and then pass off the...

Much has happened in the wake of the first Justice Sunday, a national rally for theocracy led by Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council and  James Dobson of Focus on the Family in April. The showdown over the nuclear...

The Christian Right has always sought cast their opponents as “opponents of faith,” “anti-Christian,” “secular humanists,” and more recently, “secular fundamentalists.” But the...

Marci Hamilton, a constitutional lawyer has a fine commentary on Alternet in which she attacks the bogus history undergirding Christian Nationalism, one of the ideological building blocks of the theocratic Christian Right. She...