uuworld.org: Has fascism come to America?
UUWorld, the official publication of the Unitarian Universalist Association, has an article by Charles Derber interviewing the Reverend Dr. Davidson Loehr. Tom Stites precedes the interviewing beginning with these words ...On the Sunday after Election Day 2004, the Rev. Dr. Davidson Loehr took to his pulpit at the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Austin, Texas, and delivered a sermon entitled “Living Under Fascism.”“I mean to persuade you,” he told his parishioners, “that the style of governing into which America has slid is most accurately described as fascism, and that the necessary implications of this fact are rightly regarded as terrifying.”
Fascism is a hot-button word, and posting the sermon on the church website pushed the button. Word of the sermon “began spreading through the Internet like wildfire,” Loehr said in a recent interview. Bloggers started writing about it, and linking to it, and before long the church’s server was overwhelmed by such a flood of hits that it crashed. ...
posted by Paul Wilczynski @ 10:46 AM
2 Comments:
Fascism? I am an American and I don't feel the effects of fascism. Perhaps the author does, but I do not see it.
I expect that most people don't feel it in every way every day. I think the author makes a valid point that there are tendencies in both the political and fundamentalist religious arenas for types of fascism to be present.
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