“They have built a vision of America that is radically — and a vision of this — and latched onto a religious movement or awakening that is radically different from previous awakenings...This one is very, very different. It is about taking control of secular society.”

—  Chris Hedges

The Christian Right and the Rising Power of the Evangelical Political Movement, (May 2005)

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