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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK
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To: Johnathan C. Doe who wrote (4961)9/23/1998 12:03:00 PM
From: j_b  Read Replies (1) of 67261
 
<< that I was deeply involved with the Evangelicals >>

There is no such thing as THE Evangelicals. There are hundreds if not thousands of different Christian sects. What makes a group fundamentalist is their belief that the Bible is absolutely true, and should be the basis of your life. You were probably associated with a fringe group. All ideas have them - even liberals. There are fringe gay groups, fringe environmentalist groups, fringe feminist groups, etc. Just because they are extreme, they get a lot of press. The majority of people that ascribe to an idea or a belief are not extremist, and therefore are ignored by the press.

You cannot tar everyone that has a core belief with the extremist views and actions of a very small group. If you were to ask the average fundamentalist (which the media did on a regular basis in relation to the clinic bombings) you will find that they, too, condemn the actions of the extreme fringe. You do the huge majority of Christian fundamentalists a grave disservice when you associate them with that fringe. To put it another way, how would you like to be associated with one of the militant liberal groups from the 60's and 70's such as the SLA (of Patty Hearst fame) or the Weathermen? They claimed to belong to the mainstream liberal movement of the time, but of course were no such thing.

<<You don't think these groups are comfortable with violence; I can tell you they are>>

There you go again - "these groups". These groups do not represent the majority of the fundamentalists out there. Don't try to lump them all together. That would commonly be known as "prejudice". You don't want to judge a group by the actions or ideas of a small number of its members.
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