For those who missed it, last week CNN ran a six hour series on fundamentalist forms of religion throughout the world. Here are some of the clips on Christianity. The other four hours were devoted to Islam and Judaism. I caught the series on television so I haven’t watched the youtube clips myself. I apologize if there are any repeats. The clips on the group “Battlecry” are especially interesting.
You can view the clips:
here,
here (Jimmy Carter),
here (Battlecry),
here (Environmentalism and the NEA),
here (Homeschooling and Battlecry),
here (Battlecry),
here (Battlecry),
here (Church and State, Liberty University),
here (Fallwell, Republican Candidates),
here (Impact on Elections),
here (Lobbyists),
here (Zionist Christians), and
here (Christians for the social gospel. This guy is really interesting).
Larval Subjects . 
August 28, 2007 at 3:53 am
Dr Sinthome I am now going to blurt out the terrible thought that has been incubating ever since I saw that documentary on the antigay Bible thumpers: I think the current fanaticism fetish in the United States is rather one pole of a national bipolar psychosis than the independent entity you make it out to be (as if there exists some kind of a REAL balance on the American Left, which to my foreigner´s eyes is equally parodic). This is the reason why the documentary immediately associated Lost Highway, in which the Moebial narrative shows a bipolar psychosis at work. Both on the Left and on the Right you see real-life parodies of a Marxist (Col. Chabert) and a fanatic (Bush): they are somehow hyperreal, more real than they should be.
August 28, 2007 at 3:54 am
So faith in God can´t be the cause of this phenomenon, because at its core, as in a Moebius strip, is just a hole, and it´s all collapsed onto one and the same totalitarian plane of immanence.
September 2, 2007 at 6:48 pm
I think I may have heard this guy (last one linked), or at the very least someone up to the exact same business, last summer on the radio. At the time I would turn it from the public-broadcasting station, which aired a music program I was less than interested in listening to, to listen to Bill O’Reilly’s program. I found it entertaining.
This one day, O’Reilly was off and he had a substitute. This sub interviewed a guy who took partisian politics out of his congregation, and too lost a lot of his followers. What sent my heart soaring, albeit not a Christian, was how he told the sub (when asked if he’d still pray for our soilders) that he’d pray for not just our soilders but our enemies fighting them too.