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To: unclewest who wrote (18713)	12/6/2003 12:49:14 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (2) of 793883

Geez you correct me and Boykin and insist this is not a religious war than tell me we are fighting Islam. I do believe that is exactly what Boykin suggested. I said that we are fighting fundamentalist Islam, a fanatical fringe movement that spun off from Islam. It is not a religious war because it is not a case of one religion fighting another. This is not a fight between Christianity and Islam, or between Christianity and fundamentalist Islam. It is certainly not a fight to determine which of the two Gods is “bigger”, one of the most spectacularly stupid notions to cross the public sphere in a long time. It is a fight between a doctrine-driven totalitarian movement and everybody who values freedom. The same could be said of the fights against communism and fascism, or any other movement that demands unquestioning acceptance of doctrine. Fascism and communism are not religions. The differences are so minimal as to be unworthy of mention. Fascism could be described as fundamentalist nationalism. In each case we have the insistence on unquestioning acceptance of doctrine, and in each case we have absolute control by an unaccountable leadership. One of them demands fealty to the party, one to the great leader, one to the great leader’s imaginary friend. What’s the difference? Many other movements, fundamentalist environmentalism for example, have adopted so many characteristics of religion that the differences are no longer significant. Atheism is attempting to rewrite how our Constitution is interpreted on a number of levels. Will you join us in resisting that too? Maybe, if you cite an example. I have yet to see any indication that organized atheism exists as a political force.

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