"The Family" - Fundamentalism, Friends In High Places (Fresh Air - NPR) 1/3

[MenwithHill]

This is why we must KEEP NPR !

[trifulquita15]

I can't believe, seems this woman thinks anti-abortion is soem kind of atrocity. LOL

I wll search The Family, seems they are the only christians with common sense

[oldikins]

This was the reason that Billy Graham, a few months ago, made a statement that " I wish I had stayed out of politics". The Rev. Graham has been involved in many political attempts to manipulate govt . I always thought he was a really good speaker, just didn't know he wasn't always such a good human being. Sad when your heroes fall.

[trifulquita15]

@oldikins christians are extremely stupids, they supports secular State, in fact they made a secular State, atheists will never support or create a Christian State... so i think atheists are more intelligent than modern christians.

[illywacker1]

America might end up with a theocracy after all - then try and get rid of them while they are claiming God is on their side.

[imaginativelads]

@illywacker1That's why the only way to solve this problem is to exterminate the high ranking members of the c street family.Violence may not solve all the problems but it is a temporary solution.My suggestion is to use the Godfather as a model for the systematic extermination of all high ranking c street members.Now, that being said, I would not personally do this, which automatically frees me from any legal responsibility, BUT a lone wolf who is paid very to do it,I would applaud and support.

[Friida182]

i've read that they think people should express their love through sex. Sex with everyone, kids, related etc. This is crazy, poor poor children who are born in to this shit!!!!!!!!!!!

[ALLFOR95PERCENT]

THIS PUTS LIGHT ON THE REPUBLICAN FAVORITS--DON'T HELP THE HELPLESS, DON'T HELP THE UNFORTUNATE, PRIVATIZE SOC SEC, LEAVE BIG BUSINESS AND WALL STREET ALONE. JUST GATHER WEALTH FOR YOURSELF AND YOUR BUDDIES.--THE RICH WILL HELP EVERYONE.-YEH, RIGHT. THIS SEEMS TO BE THE WAY CURRENT REPUBLICAN LEADERS THINK----I WONDER HOW MANY OF THEM BELONG TO "THE FAMILY". VERY SCARY. SEE" MARILYN ON NOVEMBER ELECTIONS".

[grandpadewey]

The most scary thing about this is that 1,000 years from now (if we're all still here), is that modern day religion will be looked at as 20th Century Mythology. Think about it. As the level of intellectualism rises, the need to rely on religion will diminish. Organized religion is based on fear and superstition, not science and spirituality, which is the true wave of the future.

[ScaperSteph]

I'm reading this book right now... It's bizarre/scary stuff to me... feels like I'm reading about an alien world. I'm the exact opposite of them as an atheist who is VERY libertarian... I don't trust authoritarians at all.

[ScaperSteph]

One more thing... isn't what these men want to happen in this country treason?

[asubjectiveopinion]

No wonder atheists have such a hard time in the US.

[Wiggy1138]

We the U.S export suffering. Then we are surprised when it is imported. Most do it out of love but not all of them. Don't pay attention to the man behind the curtain.

[jsr1200]

what you should worry about,is when things really start to happen.Things that will leave people no alternative but to seek the GOD stuff.They will be there, to further basterdize what's been written.They will be put into power by those who don't truly know what's what with the GOD stuff.Enslavement will follow.These people are not of GOD,not by a longshot.

[Arcane1Soldier]

You are right, but remember, all the players in the officer on BOTH and ALL sides are their pawns. Even if we take them all out of office and alike, they will just get replaced by more minions. I will say this with a sad heart, but for nearly 300 years, these so called Elite groups, have spread their roots and extended their reach in ever part in the world. Just like Terminator movies, there is no Super computer and way to stop it, they are every where.

[ModernPatriotsUnited]

I am sure that when investigated further,there will be evidence of high treason. Sam Brownback is a member according to the author of The Family. Brownback proclaims conservative values but is involved in a freakish cabal like this. Voters must research their reps!

[Sigolet]

This is all about as surprising as, say, the revelation that NPR has a pro-Jewish, pro-Israeli, generally left-leaning bias that they do not explicitly acknowledge.

Shocking!

[Arcane1Soldier]

I only found out about this Family today. More confusion to be added to my roster of who rules the world. So i guess this Family is bigger then Rotchschilds? Jesuits? Illuminaty? ahhhhhhhhhh, to damn many secret societies. I still say that even though many say Rothschilds are at the top of the pyramid, i agree and still think there is another 1 that sits at teh top{ not satan}, just a small family that powers over all and no one knows of it at all.

[oregonopps]

I found out about it yesterday. Did you hear the coast to coast am show were this author talked about this as well? We are screwed if we don't take these bitches out of office now.

[Wiggy1138]

There are many pyramids. Not just one. We are humans not ants who bow down before one queen. If one family thinks its at the top of the pyramid 50 others think the same thing. Unless there is something super-natural going on behind the scenes. Maybe there is.

[MannyMoonz81]

Reason why people don't pay atention is because they don't care unless it effects their life. These religious idiots are political satanists. This mafia needs to register as a lobbiest group or go to prison for tax evasion.

[RadarKat73080]

Every church has said that the others have got it wrong.

[mrgoodvibrations]

Trickle down Reagans motto! Never made it down to the working class....

[CERCARIA]

Give me the Gideon's.

Hey Coe! Heard any voices lately. Like why did God cast a light upon your secretive powerful fellowship?Secrets and darkness and submerge your image,bad.Light,good..

You have mis-used your privilege mister.And my grand idea is to ship you and your secret club over to Afganastan,drop you off on to one of those brown rolling hills,make sure everyone sees it,give you a map with the co-ordinates of where your weapons cache is and let you have your own personal armageddon.

[badboiryan]

the family... the american taliban

[ibejoestern]

Not Taliban. Taliban is a nationalist group. Al Qaeda is the religious one.

[witchwild]

From a UK perspective this is very scary! Please US media & people keep this issue in the headlines. Don't let these Hypocritical Satanists' practices just disappear into the ether, or later be called a 'myth' like the Bohemian Grove story.

[TainaAtheist1]

According to Jeff Sharlet's book, George W. Bush was born again in Texas under a program sponsored by the C Street Gang. Watch to movie W., to see an interesting intepretation of W.'s conversion.

[DWTS2006LMF]

Obviously the message isn't getting out. Why don't people pay attention?

[ar4216]

Chip Pickering is the third Republican who lived at the C Street building to be accused of having an affair. (his wife just filed a lawsuit this week). According to the AP he

cast himself as a defender of decency, particularly on television and the Internet, and was among House members urging then-President George W. Bush to declare 2008 "the National Year of the Bible."

[rhabdoviridae]

There has been murmuring about "the Family" for some time now, but the message has managed to stay under the wire; until now, that is. I hope this story doesn't disappear into the memory hole, as it's very important that this information gets out. The U.S. Constitution has no provisions for a theocracy. These people are dangerously deluded & must be removed from the levers of power.

Otherwise, "The Handmaid's Tale" could become a reality.

[ar4216]

There are reports about yet another of these C Street hypocrites fucking around on their wife. This time Congressman Chip Pickering of Mississippi. His estranged wife says in a recently filed lawsuit he was banging a old college friend while he was living with all his holier than thou pals in the building on C Street. Guess they do a little more than Bible studying and praying there. LOL! How fucking stupid can a person be to vote for these phony assholes?

[rhabdoviridae]

Yeah, I just heard about that. Why am I not surprised? These hypocrites are so fucking delusional. As to your question, it's frightening to consider the amount of total cretins out there who drink the Kool-Aid these criminals are serving. Really, 2 or 3 neurons are all it takes to see through the charade.

[bloomingdedalus]

@rhabdoviridae Extremely dangerous and morally bankrupt people.

[imaginativelads]

@bloomingdedalus "Extremely dangerous and morally bankrupt people" flourish because good men like you do nothing. The ONLY solution to this problem, unfortunately, is a FINAL SOLUTION. The extermination of these rabid animals should be fairly easy if one were to go about it the right way.After all, how hard could it be? Look the police can't monitor everyone, all of the time, so why doesn't someone simply step up to the play and take one for the team? Where did all the crazies on the left go?

[GrievousCommander]

@imaginativelads

And you called me crazy.

I think you shouldn't take acid before making YouTube comments.

[armadilloze]

We real Americans had better wake up and start publicly tracking these cultists. the politically active will hear about this, but we're a tiny fraction of the population. Willful ignorance abounds. Maybe Michael Moore will? do a "FaMILYO" documentary. Needs that level of exposure to protect us from tyranny.

[CERCARIA]

Thank you Sen.Ensign and Gov.Sanford for taking the cover off the "family".

It's a good day.Got two family values hypocrites and a conservative organization that wanted to be secretive now out into the light.MMMMM this is tasty fare.I don't like holier than thou and I don't like hypocrites.Obviously(adjective over used by the previous administration)a higher power has a hand in this.

Get your karma straight bright and clean boys.We aren't the dumb masses and you're not the puppet masters.

[ar4216]

These hypocritical religious fanatics are scary and must be stopped.