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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (34263)	7/8/2004 2:12:17 AM
From: Patricia Trinchero	Respond to of 81568

The bar has been lowered. The standard of our President is in the Marianna Trench.

To: American Spirit who wrote (34263)	7/8/2004 2:21:38 AM
From: Patricia Trinchero	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

There is a strange story developing about this Lebanese soldier..........he was supposedly beheaded by a band of thugs who announced it on their website............but now he is alive in Lebanon? No one knows for sure! Who goofed????

To: American Spirit who wrote (34263)	7/8/2004 7:50:47 AM
From: lorne	Respond to of 81568

Robert Reich: God worse than terrorism Ex-Clinton labor secretary has problem with those who believe in higher authority July 7, 2004 Robert Reich Robert Reich, the former U.S. labor secretary under President Bill Clinton, believes people who follow God pose a more significant threat to the modern world than terrorists do. "Terrorism itself is not the greatest danger we face," writes Reich in a column titled "Bush's God" published in the American Prospect. Reich begins his column criticizing the Bush administration as he pushes for a liberal understanding of America's separation of church and state. He uses the term "religious zealots" and says their problem is that "they confuse politics with private morality." Reich concludes his column by taking aim at those who believe in God: The great conflict of the 21st century will not be between the West and terrorism. Terrorism is a tactic, not a belief. The true battle will be between modern civilization and anti-modernists; between those who believe in the primacy of the individual and those who believe that human beings owe their allegiance and identity to a higher authority; between those who give priority to life in this world and those who believe that human life is mere preparation for an existence beyond life; between those who believe in science, reason, and logic and those who believe that truth is revealed through Scripture and religious dogma. Terrorism will disrupt and destroy lives. But terrorism itself is not the greatest danger we face. "This makes me sick," says WorldNetDaily reader Sandra Binder. "Never has anyone who has gone this high in our government made such sinister comments." Reich's remarks did not go unnoticed by Ramesh Ponnuru, a senior editor for National Review who responded in his own column titled "Robert Reich's Religion Problem." "This goes well beyond the common denunciation of 'fundamentalism' where that term is meant to describe an ideology that seeks the imposition of religious views on non-believers," writes Ponnuru. "It is a denunciation – as a graver threat than terrorists – of people who believe that the world to come is more important than this world, or that all human beings owe their allegiance to God." But Ponnuru doesn't think most people will jump on Reich's bandwagon. "Many millions of Christians, Jews, Muslims, and other religious believers will reject Reich's witless rhetorical oppositions," he says. "One can believe in the political 'primacy of the individual,' the obligation of all people to answer to God, and the wrongness of any governmental attempt to make them answer to Him, all at the same time. But if our choice is between the primacy of individuals and the primacy of God — if, that is, we are to choose between individual human beings and God — then the vast majority of traditional religious believers would have to choose God. I certainly would."