God's Fundamentalist Politics: A Critical Review

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Notes

⁶⁰ Associated Press, August 7, 2004.

⁵⁹ New York Times, February 14, 2003.

⁵⁸ New York Times, November 4, 2003.

⁵⁷ Matthew 1:18; Luke 1:35.

⁵⁶ Ephesians 6:5; see also I Peter Z: 18.

⁵⁵ Romans 13:1–7; I Peter 2:13–14.

⁵⁴ Luke 3:14.

⁵³ Matthew 26:11, 28; Revelation 6:10–11, and the discussion in my History as Mystery (San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1999), pp. 54–76.

⁵² I Timothy 2:11–12.

⁵¹ I Peter 3:1–2.

⁵⁰ Colossians 3:18.

⁴⁹ I Corinthians 11:3,9.

⁴⁸ Genesis 3:16.

⁴⁷ I Corinthians 14:34,35; I Timothy 2:9, 11–12 and 5:13; Luke 7:45–46; John 12:3.

⁴⁶ For an incomplete listing, see Acts 7:43; 15:20; 17:16, 29; Romans 1:23; I Corinthians 5:1 and 6:9; Acts 15:20; Revelation 2:14, 20–21 and 17:2; I Peter 2:11; Romans 1:26–27.

⁴⁵ Leviticus 20:13.

⁴⁴ Zechariah 14:18–19.

⁴³ Leviticus 25:44.

⁴² Malachi 1:14.

⁴¹ Deuteronomy 13:6–10.

⁴⁰ Deuteronomy 13:13–15. On idolatry, see also Exodus 20:4–5, 23; Deuteronomy 4:16–18, 23, 28; Jeremiah 10:3–5; II Isaiah 40:18–20, 41.7, 44.9–20. These citations are not a complete listing.

³⁹ Numbers 15:32–36.

³⁸ Deuteronomy 22:23–24.

³⁷ Leviticus 21:9.

³⁶ Job 42:11–13.

³⁵ Job 10:1–3.

³⁴ Job 2:3–7; 3:2–16.

³³ Job 1:14–22. Some people apparently try to cover up for God. Thus the phrase “poor as Job” is explained in one reference book this way: “The allusion is to Job being deprived by Satan of everything he possessed.” But it was God, not Satan, who reduced Job to penury: Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 14th edn, by Ivor H. Evans (New York: Harper & Row, 1989), p. 870.

³² Job 1:10–11.

³¹ Job 1:1–5.

³⁰ Malachi 2:2–3.

²⁹ Judges 11:1, 31–33, 38–39.

²⁸ II Samuel 11:2-17, 27; 12:15–18.

²⁷ Deuteronomy 21:18–21.

²⁶ Genesis 19:26.

²⁵ Genesis 22:1–12.

²⁴ Exodus 15:3.

²³ I Kings 18:40.

²² Numbers 16:1–35.

²¹ Proverbs 10:4.

²⁰ Joshua 6:21–24.

¹⁹ I Samuel 27:8–9,11; I Chronicles 20:3.

¹⁸ Judges 20:48.

¹⁷ I Samuel 15:3, 15:18, and 18:27.

¹⁶ Deuteronomy 2:32–35.

¹⁵ Numbers 21:33 and Deuteronomy 3:3–6.

¹⁴ Deuteronomy 20:16–17.

¹³ Numbers 31:17–18.

¹² Deuteronomy 20:11–14.

¹¹ Deuteronomy 20:4.

¹⁰ II Kings 19:35; see also Amos 1:1–14 and 2:1–4 and passim.

⁹ I Samuel 6:19.

⁸ Genesis 19:24–25.

⁷ Genesis 9:11–15.

⁶ Genesis 6:5–13.

⁵ See Thomas Frank, What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America (New York: Henry Holt, 2004).

⁴ San Francisco Chronicle, November 30, 2004.

³ Gene Lyons “The Apocalypse Will Be Televised,” Harper's, November 2004.

² Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh (New York: New American Library, 1960 [1884]).

¹ See G. W. F. Hegel, “Realization of Spirit in History,” in Lectures on the Philosophy of World History (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1975), p. 47.