Interesting critical report of the goings on at the National Religious Broadcaster’s convention, with emphasis on the involvement of various Jewish groups.

The NRB folks think they are persecuted, it seems, even though they are essentially in full control of the power structure of the USA. The writer thinks that’s hilarious.

Air Jesus: With The Evangelical Air Force: “The NRB’s influence was best summarized by its new CEO, Frank Wright, who, in describing a recent lobbying excursion to Capitol Hill, said, ‘We got into rooms we’ve never been in before. We got down on the floor of the Senate and prayed over Hillary Clinton’s desk.’ Wright went on to rally support for the NRB’s handpicked candidate for FCC commissioner, whom he refused to name, and rail against federal hate crime legislation because, ‘Calls for tolerance are often a subterfuge when everything will be tolerated except Christian truth.’

Given the NRB’s political muscle, the persecution mentality that undergirded its convention seemed more like a justification for its members’ aggressive profiteering and politicking than a cry for social justice. But at a gathering where women who had had multiple abortions organized to prevent other women from doing the same, where Israeli Jews heaped effusive affection upon evangelicals who cheerfully predicted their doom at the dawn of the apocalypse, and where evangelical leaders who warned of Islam’s imperial ambitions hatched plans to ‘take over cities for Christ,’ the theme of victimization was only one of many contradictions looming just beneath the surface.”