What Does the Religious Right Fear the Most?

By John McKay
Talk2Action
Sun May 25, 2008

A poll that one of the giants on the right, Coral Ridge Ministries, sent to their members gives a revealing insight into their world view.

They asked "How dangerous are the following to the spiritual health of America?" and provided the following list of possible threats:

* The ACLU and similar groups
* Pro-homosexual indoctrination
* Abortion
* Islamic terrorism
* Hollywood
* News Media
* Darwinism/evolution
* Cults and false religion
* Atheism
* Courts
* Apathetic/uninformed Christians
* Colleges and Universities
* Public education (K-12)
* Congress

They might as well have only given their flock four choices: education (evolution, college, and public schools), democracy (congress and the courts), sex (abortion and the homosexual agenda), and people who don't think exactly as they do (Hollywood, Islam, other Christians, Atheists, and the ACLU). The flock answered like a Pavlovian conditioned dog to the standard talking points of their culture warrior leaders; most of them chose all of the above. The order of the list is from most threatening (96 percent for the ACLU) to least threatening (63 percent for congress). Their fear of the modern world outside the close confines of their community is palpable. The outer world is all gays, free thinkers, and strangers who are out to get them.

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