"I heard a lot of these types of sermons by fundamentalist preachers during the two years I crisscrossed the country for my book American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America. I attended Bible studies, prayer groups, conventions, tapings of Christian television shows, rallies held by Patriot Pastors, talks by leaders such as James Dobson, D. James Kennedy and Tony Perkins and creationist seminars. I visited the 50,000-square-foot Creation Museum in Petersburg, Kentucky, took an Evangelism Explosion course, joined congregations at numerous megachurches for Sunday worship and participated in right-to-life retreats. I spent hundreds of hours interviewing scores of believers.

The simplistic message was always the same. The world was divided into us and them, the blessed and the damned, agents of God and agents of Satan, good and evil. Millions of largely white Americans, hermetically sealed within the ideology of the Christian Right, yearn to destroy the Satanic forces they blame for the debacle of their lives, the broken homes, domestic and sexual abuse, struggling single parent households, lack of opportunities, crippling debt, poverty, evictions, bankruptcies, loss of sustainable incomes and the decay of their communities. Satanic forces, they believe, control the financial systems, the media, public education and the three branches of government. They believed this long before Donald Trump, who astutely tapped into this deep malaise and magic thinking, mounted his 2016 campaign for president."

• Chris Hitchens

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I believe that

Plenty of non-evangelicals commit sexual atrocities. Religion in general certainly doesn’t help. Nor does a patriarchal society that treats women as objects for men to take what they want

Sex is a natural function of life

And reading this I have to say Oh THANK GOD that when I was a married Xian I didn't buy that BS. My ex had enough inhibitions and enough practice pleasing himself I never even considered anything else. That article made me shake my head hard enough I may have whiplash. And need another shower. There are some mightily deluded people in this world, glad I am no longer counted amongst them.

Well, it sure contributes to the motives of mass-murdering fuckheads.

Yes; that and Disney princesses.