re: #5 iceweasel

re: #3 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

That never gets old for me.

Back OT, I wonder how many of these C Street bastards have to be exposed before politicians keep kowtowing to the Family.

The Fellowship, aka “the Family,” is one of the most sinister organizations in the United States. It probably matches the conspiracy industry’s “all-powerful secret society” trope more closely than any other real world group. They literally believe they have a different set of rules, based on instant forgiveness for powerful men.

Journalist Jeff Sharlet did intensive research in the Fellowship’s archives, before they were closed to the public. He also spent a month in 2002 living in a Fellowship house near Washington, and wrote a magazine article describing his experiences. In his 2008 book about the Family, he criticized their theology as an “elite fundamentalism” that fetishizes political power and wealth, consistently opposes labor movements in the U.S. and abroad, and teaches that laissez-faire economic policy is “God’s will.” He criticized their theology of instant forgiveness for powerful men as providing a convenient excuse for elites who commit misdeeds or crimes, allowing them to avoid accepting responsibility or accountability for their actions.