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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (102938)	6/26/2003 12:15:22 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

Don't they seem "lethally detached from reality"? Maybe they aren't as numerous, but they are more powerfull (and therefore, potentially more of a threat to the world) than the Islamists. Really? Whom do they blow up?

To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (102938)	6/26/2003 7:57:32 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 281500

Jacob, in a democracy, we can keep the Jerry Falwells on a short leash. The separation of mysticism, superstition and state is a key ingredient of civilized democracy, though the mystics continually push for mysticism to rule the corridors of power. The end-of-days Christians can go up mountains and wander around in sack cloth and crowns of thorns till the cows come home for all I care. They don't drag the infidel non-believer heretic pagan heathens out for a beating, limb dismemberment, head removal or months long flogging. Sure, they would if they could [some of them] but it's not part of the official line and certainly not part of civil authority or democratic will. Moslems don't seem to have that hobbyist attitude to religion, where people can get their dose of penance on a Sunday then attend the boozer and ravish the girls all week. Moslems seem to mean it [unless it involves a good looting when civil authority is over-turned or other opportunity to sin presents itself and they have to decide for themselves what ethical standards to apply instead of depending on a watchful mullah to wield the fear of god]. The USA was founded as a non-religious entity [albeit with plenty of trappings such as swearing on the bible and other nonsense]. That's one of its many attractions. It's somewhat unnerving when the word crusade pops up and groups of soldiers pray for God to be on their side. Mqurice