In Case You Were Wondering

Sarah Posner of The American Prospect does a "this week in religion and politics" column entitled The FundamentaList. In commenting on why the conservative movements see President Obama as a socialist, she referenced an article from the PublicEye.org which quotes Tim LaHaye - he of the Left Behind Series of books - on the Satanic origin of Roosevelt's New Deal. I am including the salient quote and the references. I will confess that I tried to check the primary sources, but they were evidently too dated. From The Public Eye:

Christian Right leader Tim LaHaye, for example, claims it was the Satan himself who engineered the “crafty election of Franklin D. Roosevelt as president for twelve years.”

This was part of a secret conspiracy to turn the “American constitution upside down,” in order to “use our freedoms to promote pornography, homosexuality, immorality, and a host of evils characteristic of the last days,” states LaHaye, in an open reference to the apocalyptic End Times prophesied in Revelation. 9 In another article, LaHaye also believes that the “Anti-Christ philosophy already controls America and Europe.”10

LaHaye asserts that: “All thinking people in America realize an anti-Christian, anti-moral, and anti-American philosophy permeates this country and the world.”11 The subversive conspirators include godless secular humanists and others who secretly manipulate the news media, the entertainment industry, the universities, and even the court system. These evil forces have turned the “American constitution upside down,” warns LaHaye.12 “I have no question the devil is behind what the apostle Paul called ‘the wisdom (philosophy) of this world’ and controls many of our courts and other areas of influence,” LaHaye writes.13

According to LaHaye, the liberal, secular humanist, antichrist conspiracy: dominates the public school system from kindergarten through graduate school. It controls the media from the daily print press to popular magazines (from porno to mainline), the six major TV networks, most of all cable TV; it dominates the entertainment industry, and it elects a predominance of liberals to both parties in our national government.

This alien philosophy does not come from the Bible, but is antithetical to it. In this country it flies under the banner of “liberalism,” but in reality it is atheistic socialism at best and Marxism at worst.

We are the only nation that can halt the socialist Marxist enthronement of the UN as THE GLOBAL GOVERNMENT of the world, but it will require a conservative administration and Supreme Court committed to judicially interpreting our nation’s laws that were originally based on moral Biblical principles.14

9 LaHaye, (T.) “119 Million American Evangelicals in these Last Days?” Pre-Trib Perspectives, Vol. 8, No. 1, (April 2003), pp. 1-3, quote from p. 2.
10 LaHaye, (T.), “Anti-Christ philosophy already controls America and Europe,” Pre-Trib Perspectives, (September 1999), http://www.timlahaye.com/about_ministry/pdf/sept.tim.pdf, (accessed July 4, 2006).
11 Ibid.
12 LaHaye, “119 Million American Evangelicals in these Last Days?” p. 2.
13 Ibid.
14 LaHaye, “Anti-Christ philosophy already controls America and Europe.”

I guess I have been found out. Either I am not a "thinking person" or I am not "in America" or I am already in the clutches of the Satanic socialists.

Now, I was not alive during FDR's terms, but it seems to me that a lot of people were saved from starvation because of his policies, that people finally were able to have some guarantee of money when they retired, and that people were put back to work - among other things. So, this is Satanic? What do you think?