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To: LPS5 who wrote (12868)	12/5/2001 3:01:29 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 281500

Yes, I did. Here is the exact quote, from that post In seriousness, though, I personally regard a guy like him in the exact same category as I do Bin Laden, the key determinant being fundamentalism, regardless of the religious strain it infests." And that's why I replied that the most important consideration was the willingness to use or support violence and terror. There are a number of peaceful fundamentalists. I think Falwell is one of them but even if he is not it is not IMO useful to lump all fundamentalists together and say they are all like bin Laden. Many are very peaceful people a good example would be the Amish. but as for support...I don't know. Against those who disagree with his philosophies, I'd guess that it might be a toss-up. I've never met him either, but his comments re: the U.S. essentially deserving what we got on 9/11 aren't terribly far from that, are they? Actually they are pretty far. I don't agree with him, and I think the comment was very inappropriate but the idea behind them is not that the attacks where a good thing, but rather that since we have sinned so much as a nation we leave ourselves open to attack. I disagree, I think we were open to attack because no security system is perfect and ours was lacking in several ways, and also because its hard to stop determined people who don't care if they die as long as they get to hurt you in the process. If think that people in the US were nicer or more moral then we are, we still would have been at risk for the attack, but Falwell apparently believes that God is more directly involved in these things and that he lets bad things happen mostly to people who are in his opinion guilty of sin. His comments are pretty out there, but they don't indicate support for the attack or the attackers. Tim