Jesus Plus Nothing, Undercover Among America’s Secret Theocrats.
This is one creepy article.
I mean, check out this excerpt:
“Like the Mafia,” Doug clarified. “Look at the strength of their bonds.” He made a fist and held it before Tiahrt’s face. Tiahrt nodded, squinting. “See, for them it’s honor,” Doug said. “For us, it’s Jesus.”
Coe listed other men who had changed the world through the strength of the covenants they had forged with their “brothers”: “Look at Hitler,” he said. “Lenin, Ho Chi Minh, Bin Laden.” The Family, of course, possessed a weapon those leaders lacked: the “total Jesus” of a brotherhood in Christ.
“That’s what you get with a covenant,” said Coe. “Jesus plus nothing.”
You can’t tell me that comparing yourself with those guys is a good thing. This kind of thing scares me. Sure, they do good work – the article talks about that – but they clearly do questionable work too, and there’s potential there for some really unpleasant things if you’re not on their side of the belief spectrum (which, for the record, I’m not).
{{{shudder}}}
