… from the evil done in Your name.
Chuck Colson is mad as hell and isn’t going to take it anymore. He has published a temper tantrum screed called “The Manhattan Declaration: A Call of Christian Conscience.” Colson, the Watergate-conspirator-turned-Christian-Nationalist, has produced a manifesto of Christianist jihad, a mishmash of factual and contextual errors and distortions, gross misreadings of history and other documents, and an utter betrayal of both the Constitution and what Jesus stood for. The word “conscience” shouldn’t be allowed within a thousand miles of this piece.
Chuck also badly needs an editor.
Because I have some personal experience with Colson’s — to be polite to the point of self-censorship — disingenuousness, I was going to fisk the thing, and I expected that that fisking was going to take days. Fortunately, instead of starting last night, I went to bed sick, and when I woke up this afternoon, I found that tristero had done the job for me, addressing everything from the factual inaccuracies to the not-so-subtle comparison of Obama and the Democrats to Hitler and the Nazis.
I’m not entirely sure what Chuck Colson is, but I can give you a quick list of things he is not: Telling the truth. Well-meaning. Changed in any meaningful way from the thuggishness of his Watergate days. A patriot. A Christian. Anything but evil.
UPDATE: Fec’s wife’s stepmother’s son … um, I guess that would make him Fec’s stepbrother-in-law … shows Colson how it’s done.
Thanks. We found out last night how he got home from his last trip. After gaining permission to leave France, he was supplied funds to retrace some of his route until he could buy a plane ticket home, from Romania, I think. The quid pro quo was he had to stand in for some poor guy in a Las Vegas courtroom who was being threatened by the Mafia over some property.
So, in addition to having three fatwas over his head and the requisite threat of murder with a rusty knife, the mob is also looking for him. Fortunately, rusty knives are increasingly harder to come by. Personally, I’m worried about what he might do to the Mafia, who are nowhere near so organized as the Muslims.
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