So far, such dubious uses of rightwing foundation money in academia have received comparatively little attention. But major funding entities such as the Templeton Foundation are underwriting efforts that paint giant, predatory corporations as upholding spiritual and moral values in society.

Templeton Foundation money has also backed an academic effort, spearheaded by American sociologist Margaret Poloma, that depicts major figures in the New Apostolic Reformation, such as C. Peter Wagner and Che Ahn, as "exemplars of godly love".

The NAR, perhaps the most aggressive and extreme element of the contemporary Christian right, is closely tied to Uganda's so-called "Kill the gays" bill and its leaders call for NAR followers to burn or destroy objects, scripture, and books associated with competing belief systems.

Co-architect of the religious right Colonel V. Doner, in a new book titled Christian Jihad: Neo-Fundamentalists and the Polarization of America, has warned that the movement he helped create, inspire, and organize, now risks becoming a Christian analog to parallel militant, violent Islamic movements such as the Taliban.

Doner identifies Sarah Palin, and the NAR movement from which she emerged, as the vanguard of the increasingly militant tendency within politicized Christianity.