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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (1618)	10/8/2000 5:37:59 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10042

I don't think you have to look too far to see what happens when ANY religious extremist group gets ahold of the helm: there are examples with Moslem, Hindu, Jews, and Christians. I'm thinking that Buddhism is practically exempt, but I think that has more to do with the mechanics of Buddhism: It's hard to force people to enlightenment when you believe that it is a personal path chosen. We should all ask ourselves, and I'm suggesting this to Christians too, would you want to live in a world where the Mormons, Moslems, Catholics, Buddhists or Fundamentalists were in control. Now if you hold one of these beliefs you might think you did, until I point out that demographics change. People here are becoming more Catholic. So what if we have a surge of Catholics and all the Protestants out there found that their Lords Prayer is changing, or that their version of the Bible has significant differences. If the political system is designed in a way that demographics can produce large moral swings due to the power held by a sizable fraction, it is not likely to produce a stable state. I'd argue that where religious fundamentalism of any kind is prevalent, that instability certainly follows.