5/20/2023 0 Comments Demonic Visions by Chris Robertson![]() ![]() Adams was eventually detained and interrogated by the Gestapo, who suggested he might want to consider returning to the United States. He had been in Germany in 19 and worked with the underground anti-Nazi church, known as the Confessing Church, led by Dietrich Bonhoeffer. He was not a man to use the word fascist lightly. Their ideological inheritors had found a mask for fascism in the pages of the Bible. ![]() The Nazis, he said, were not going to return with swastikas and brown shirts. ![]() But Adams warned us against the blindness caused by intellectual snobbery. It was hard, at the time, to take such fantastic rhetoric seriously, especially given the buffoonish quality of those who expounded it. This call for fundamentalists and evangelicals to take political power was a radical and ominous mutation of traditional Christianity. Its stated goal was to use the United States to create a global Christian empire. The warning, given 25 years ago, came at the moment Pat Robertson and other radio and television evangelists began speaking about a new political religion that would direct its efforts toward taking control of all institutions, including mainstream denominations and the government. James Luther Adams, my ethics professor at Harvard Divinity School, told his students that when we were his age - he was then close to 80 - we would all be fighting the “Christian fascists.” ![]()
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