Confronting Christofascism: Healing the Evangelical Wound

by Carolyn Baker

Gerard Colby and Charlotte Dennett document through their in-depth research the purported relationship between Nelson Rockefeller, missionaries in South America, and the modern genocide of Amazonian Indians. (Thy Will Be Done: The Conquest of the Amazon: Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil.) “The authors describe the links between the SIL's (Summer Institute of Linguistics) in-depth knowledge of indigenous people and their languages and the creation of a sophisticated communications and intelligence-gathering network serving the business interests of multinational corporations and the anti-communist policies of the US government.”