(January 12, 2015 at 3:34 am)Alex K Wrote:(January 12, 2015 at 3:28 am)NathanHawks Wrote: Look into all the ways in which tax money is given to faith-based organizations which then parlay that money into successful big-money lobbying. Oligarchy or corporateocracy are both inadequate words; I don't think we have an adequate word for the intersection of fascistic influences at work in my homeland.
Are you talking about the tax-exemption for churches? I'm not aware that outside of that, very large sums are directly given to faith-based organizations, but maybe you know more.
Well, for starters, a huge portion of our GDP and tax dollars - a huge portion of that 50+% chunk of our lives, which is devoted to building a military - goes to supporting Israel for no other reason than because the Bible tells us to.
A single example from a nice mainstream website:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/28/opinio...rches.html
A slew of examples from a risky, independent website:
http://www.theocracywatch.org/
How much we can talk about this, depends on how detailed we're going to get. One could summarize and sound like a nutter talking with no context; one could also copy/paste whole bodies of select books. I just discovered theocracywatch.org in answering your post, but seeing that its reports about Zionism do not contain anti-Semitism, I feel tentatively comfortable using it as a shortcut to answering your prompt.
And finally, the huge elephant in the room:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/01/ameri...xtremists/