"Creeping Fundamentalism" Watch IV

It's a common trope of environmentalists who are hostile to Christianity that Christians, because of their belief in Christ's return, don't give a rodent's hindquarters about environmental issues.

Bill Moyers is just the latest voice of doom to hop aboard the fearmongering bandwagon, warning his readers that Christians are destroying the future and There Is No Tomorrow!

I worked myself into a froth over his column in a post here at Stones Cry Out. Other bloggers have weighed in as well, including Doug at Bogus Gold, Dave Kopel at the Volokh Conspiracy, and even the Great Lileks himself.

Last week Hugh Hewitt got a little worked up over a passage by Jonathan Rauch in the current issue of The Atlantic. The passage went like this:

"On balance it is probably healthier if religious conservatives are inside the political system than if they operate as insurgents and provocateurs on the outside. Better they should write anti-abortion planks into the Republican platform than bomb abortion clinics. The same is true of the left. The clashes over civil rights and Vietnam turned into street warfare partly because activists were locked out of their own party establishments and had to fight, literally, to be heard. When Michael Moore receives a hero's welcome at the Democratic National Convention, we moderates grumble; but if the parties engage fierce activists while marginalizing tame centrists, that is probably better for the social peace than the other way around."

Hugh made this passage the focus of his first "Vox Blogoli" of 2005 (which I heard about too late to enter). And while I think it's important to draw attention to the way Rauch depicted evangelicals, I think Moyers more so than Rauch is definitely deserving of a Blog Swarm after the bigotted garbage he had published in the Star Tribune yesterday.

Go get 'im gang.