Part 2: The Captains of the Guard

The second installment of Threshing Floor’s exposé details:

• The financial, spiritual, and political foundations behind Blackwater, through the formal beginnings of the “New Christian Right” in the mid 1970s via Third Century Publishers and their takeover of theDePew Charitable Trust-founded Christian Freedom Foundation.

• How direct linkages to the The Council for National Policy’s leadership brought Amway founder,Dick DeVoss—father-in-law of Betsy Prince—into alliances with leading Evangelical leaders such asBill Bright, Gary Bauer, The late Rev. Dr. Jerry Falwell, Dr. James Dobson (Focus On The Family), to galvanize the NeoCon movement.

• How Erik Prince’s conversion, from his Dutch Calvinist roots, to Roman Catholicism was initiated by the Catholic priest who now heads a conservative “pro-busines” think tank—and his own ties to the Vatican.
• The roots of the theological proposition known as Dominionism through Calvinism and Roman Catholicism—and how it created the atmosphere for a “Christianized” Imperialist Americam militarism which permeated the entire structure of the American churches and the Bush Administration.