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

To: cosmicforce who wrote (5864)	11/13/2000 5:59:52 PM
From: Dan B.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10042

Cosmicforce, Re: "Bible-thumpers scare the heck out of me because they are absolutely sure they are right and everyone else is wrong. It is core to their philosophy." Boy oh boy, do I ever agree with you there. Mind you, I'm tolerant, but I'll never understand them. I see no logic with them, and I see them too often commit worse acts than the common guy generally would- and then they still feel above non-believers, because they have repented. But many if not most simple churchgoers, however, can be as reserved and "normal" as anyone else. For decades, the average politician, IMO, has likely attended church and paid lip-service to same, largely for show first and foremost, and we all suspect this in the back of our minds even if it ain't really so, eh? IMO, George W. Bush is either one of those, or is just, as I was saying, one of those quiet "normal" Christians. I mean, really. Yeah yeah, I've heard him talk to the church crowd and it makes me feel like I need a bath. Same with Gore, Clinton, Reagan, Carter, Ford, Nixon, Johnson, Kennedy....wow, I was 10 in '64. Yuk. Well, all candidates are always a potential religious risk. I view Gore as MORE of a religious risk in this election. He's got "I believe in obsessive true believerism" written all over him. The widely recognized crazy conclusions he extended himself to in the writing his book are grand evidence, IMO. I just find myself incapable of much fearing bible thumpers, Pat Robertson's candidacy never had a prayer. re: "I'm never sure I'm absolutely right so I'm reluctant to act with such hubris and unwarranted self-confidence. They have far less to fear from me than I have to fear of them. History supports my position." Well, that's certainly true, that's true. I'm just far more worried about essentially foriegn religions which preach an eye for an eye. Without knowing you, I'd wager your faith in your true lack of hubris, as may be generally so for most of us, is likely overstated. Freedom works, Dan B