ABSTRACT
It is important to place Christotainment and political fundamentalism in a larger historical context to help explain why so many Americans have bought into such a potentially fascistic movement. Such a metahistorical consciousness helps construct an awareness of the contemporary appeal of regressive, oppressive, and undemocratic social, cultural, political, educational, and theological activities. Whenever any text is interpreted literally without the benefit of historical, social, and cultural contextualization and consideration of its relationship with other texts, much understanding and meaning is lost. Political fundamentalist power and ideological influence is still growing in the United States and in other parts of the world. The media empire that political fundamentalists and Dominionists have constructed in less than three decades boggles the mind. The political fundamentalist media empire is, at the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century, an omnipresent feature of the American theological and political landscape.
