This is unfucking believable brothers and sisters. I think this is a piece which should be posted on Tear it Down… but I’m just too fucking enraged, and too damn newly fangled to post there today.
I just recieved the following email at university:
“Evangelist John Das comes to us from Washington DC. He is part of a large organisation which works primarily with college campus’s and student bodies across America. He is often to be seen in large stadium events with Ron Luce and other top speakers on Christian TV. John has consistently over twenty years or so led thousands of young people to Jesus. He is known right across the African Continent for large crusade events. But John is best known for his youth work establishing a number of youth ministries including the two thousand strong youth choir in Nairobi, Kenya.”
Now I am currently reading American Facists by Chris Hedges (buy your copy today its rad!) and this Ron Luce guy is a total fucking asshole.
Some have criticized his organization, citing frequent militant statements by him such as: “This is war. And Jesus invites us to get into the action, telling us that the violent—the ‘forceful’ ones—will lay hold of the kingdom,” and exhorting his young followers to proclaim in unison: “I will keep my eyes on the battle, submitting to Your code even when I don’t understand.”
Luce has also publicly condemned “purveyors of popular culture” as “the enemy,” who according to Luce are “terrorists, virtue terrorists, that are destroying our kids… they’re raping virgin teenage America on the sidewalk, and everybody’s walking by and acting like everything’s OK. And it’s just not OK.” This type of imagery is said to be used under the context of a spiritual “battle” between good and evil.
I’m sure the type who associate with this movement of Evangelicals will be just as fucking retarded.
Check out that Chris Hedges book, and send angry emails to: er.pressoffice@northumbria.ac.uk
