An observation by Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party

December 28, 2013 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us

The crude and venomous rantings of Phil Robertson, "patriarch" of the "Duck Dynasty," show once again how, especially in the U.S., Christian fundamentalism is closely bound up with racism, slavery and Jim Crow (old and new), anti-gay hatred, "traditional" oppression of women, and in general a thoroughly outmoded, all-around reactionary worldview and values. Robertson's invocation of Biblical scripture, as justification for vicious oppression, is yet another vivid illustration of the fact that "The Bible, taken literally, is a horror."

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