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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (40647)	4/5/2005 7:52:28 AM
From: Doug R	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 173976

The mechanism that leads to your plight was triggered by and part of the intent of 9/11. The perpetrators of 9/11 have BEATEN YOU. Misery loves company so you try to force others to become as BEATEN as you are. You are a scared little mind and since you don't have the capacity for independent thought you latch onto the first authority figure that you can find no matter how stupid that authority figure is. Every time you attack others for their own independent thought it shows your fear and insecurity. "How can you NOT hide behind George Bush", you cry. There are many like you who have fallen for snake-oil salesmanship. It's a shame. Excesses and Regressions in Personal Faith At first glance, there may seem to be a contradiction in terms involved in grouping excesses in faith along with regressions in faith, but on closer examination we will see that the two occurrences are usually closely related. What often strikes us most negatively about persons who have undergone conversion or even simple "intensification experiences" (ie 9/11) as described above is their tendency to become fanatic and intolerant of all others who do not agree with them. One of the most common examples of this danger in the movement into personal faith can be seen when religious "conversion" involves an outright reversion to the literal stage, sometimes mixed with the more negative elements of intuitive faith. As we have seen, much of American "born -again" Christianity exhibits these traits. Not that these Christians are not sincere, or even that their faith commitment is not a personal one. But this genuinely personal commitment is mixed up with certain security needs that have taken on the literalistic and fundamentalistic approaches... angelfire.com