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

To: JeffA who wrote (49724)	6/14/2005 2:48:46 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

Oops, I meant to say that they ARE NOT normal, rational Americans but fanatics. That the largely jewish Neocons are in bed with this group of 'haters' is really quite sad. secularhumanism.org "...But look at the public scene portrayed in these books. In this respect, Left Behind and Turner Diaries are exactly the same. In both, mainstream American public life and civic leaders are depicted as degenerate, irrelevant, useless, and ready to crumble. Democratic institutions play no role at all. No Communist or Nazi propaganda ever treated them any worse. Neither work has the slightest use for pragmatic, tacitly secular American civilization. LaHaye and Jenkins are indirectly teaching millions of Americans that passionate commitments to upholding democratic institutions, to making them work—to getting along with those from whom one is different or with whom one disagrees—are false, futile, sinful, discredited values.10 For the Trib Force and for the Order alike, chaos, bloodshed, and devastation are to be welcomed and joyfully embraced. They are mere milestones along the way to the devoutly desired, radically transformed utopian destination. That thousand-year kingdom is neither a democracy nor a republic. It is a totalitarian, theocratic monarchy. Such are the “values” LaHaye and Jenkins bring to the “public square.” In this millennium, those values are slow poison. In the short run, Left Behind does not seem likely to incite anyone to drastic action. Still, how dissatisfied must the fans of these books be with normal, quiet lives—how much repressed anger against those in authority over them must they harbor—to identify so strongly with Trib Force? Why is the idea of the world they know being torn to pieces so alluring to them? It is troubling to contemplate what mischief might develop as masses of North Americans, induced year after year to become so fundamentally alienated, get tired waiting for God to send up the balloon."