VERY interesting piece

spirituality and sex (and NOT the within marriage kind either)

secret religious societies, politics and hypocrites. would make for a good novel BUT IT'S REAL

(i have written about 'the family' before). here's MORE scoop hot poop on 'em

Nikolas Kozloff: C Street Family -- Sex Scandals, Moral Hypocrisy, and Far Right Agenda in Central America
BUZZFLASH GUEST COMMENTARY
by Nikolas Kozloff

As the Republican Party implodes, the public is becoming aware of a secretive Christian society known as the Family or the Fellowship. The group was founded in 1935 in opposition to FDR's New Deal and its adherents subscribe to a far right Christian fundamentalist and free market ideology. A minister named Abraham Vereide founded the Family after having a vision in which God visited him in the person of the head of the United States Steel Corporation (no, I'm not making this up). The Family has a connection to house on C Street in Washington, D.C., known simply as C Street. Officially registered as a church, the building serves as a meeting place and residence for conservative politicians.

Few members of the fellowship talk about the group's mission. The organization organizes the annual National Prayer Breakfast that is attended by the president, members of Congress, and diplomats from around the world. Earlier this year, Obama presented his Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships at the event. According to Jeff Sharlet who wrote a book about the group, the Family's philosophy is based on "a sort of trickle-down fundamentalism," that believes that the wealthy and powerful, if they "can get their hearts right with God ... will dispense blessings to those underneath them." True believers in market orthodoxy, Family members think that God's will operates directly through Adam Smith's "invisible hand.".................

what do hitler, the blob (movie) and 'the family'

have in common? turns out A LOT and it's scary as shite. who needs horror movies when reality is WORSE?

Worse Than Fascists: Christian Political Group 'The Family' Openly Reveres Hitler
By Lindsay Beyerstein, AlterNet

Did you know that the National Prayer Breakfast is sponsored by a shadowy cabal of elite Christian fundamentalists? Jeff Sharlet's new book, "The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power," offers a rare glimpse of this remarkable network, which is known variously as the Family, the Fellowship and the International Foundation.
The Family was founded 70 years ago by Abraham Vereide, a Norwegian immigrant evangelist based in Seattle. In 1935, Vereide said, God appeared to him in a vision and revealed where Christianity had gone wrong: preoccupation with the poor, the weak and the suffering.
The down-and-out were in no position to bring about the Kingdom of God, Vereide realized. Some Christians believe that the rapture is imminent, but not the Family. They're convinced that Jesus won't return until we get our collective house in order. If they were to wait for the down-and-out to remake the world in God's image, we could be here forever.
Besides, in Seattle in the 1930s, union agitators were making a play for the down-and-out. Christianity promised rewards in the hereafter, but workers in the Pacific Northwest were starting to wonder why they had to wait so long. Instead of competing for market share with the Industrial Workers of the World, Vereide sought a different niche.
His new plan was to target men who were already powerful and turn them to God -- and wouldn't you know it, God hated unions, too.
Through personal relationships and small group encounters, Vereide united captains of industry and politicians as a Biblical bulwark against the increasing power of organized labor..........