To All The Sheep: Wake Up! That's A Wolf!

I really like Sharlet as a writer and how well he covers this subject. I look forward with pride to be able to someday say, "Why are you so surprised? Jeff Sharlet has been telling us about this for years!"

Of course, he's not the only one. There are several of us who are keeping watch. Sharlet has his finger on the pulse when he says:

"The Family is not a conspiracy. A conspiracy is a secret agreement to break the law. It is not interested in law. God-led government is not a specific agenda but rather a perspective through which all decisions, personal as well as political, should be evaluated. The Family is not a conspiracy but a religious worldview, . . . The Family believes it values the "least of these," the poor; which is why it must serve the powerful, those blessed by God with the authority to dole out aid to the deserving.

. . . The idea that the powerful are powerful because they have been "given" their rank and position -- that they did not grasp for it, that they did not politick -- is as deceptive as "noblesse oblige," a moral sleight of hand that exists to preserve social class. So, too, its corollary, that the poor should be grateful for whatever blessings trickle down to them." (pp. 81-82)

This point was made in Sharlet's previous book, The Family, and it is this kind of twisted thinking that concerns me. Although, I must say that nothing that the fundamentalist elite does comes as a shock to me anymore, when their entire religion has been shaped and molded for centuries by those in power, always "making it up" as they go along. "Jesus plus nothing" my ass! These people are greedy and manipulative, and they will not be satisfied until all of us nonbelievers are locked up and rotting away in some labor camp!