Gene Lyons: Embattled faith needs enemies for focus

[robbedvoter]

First, fundamentalist Christianity is an embattled faith, requiring an everevolving enemies list to keep its focus. One year it’s Satan worshippers, "secular humanists" the next. Panic over supermarket bar codes allegedly harboring the Mark of the Beast yields to worry that Harry Potter novels may seduce America’s youth into witchcraft. This year’s enemy is Democrats. Even secular pundits have taken up the cry. The soulless pseudo-sophisticates of Boston and Seattle, we’re told, must henceforth take moral instruction from backwoods Mississippi.
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