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To: LindyBill who wrote (128740)	7/31/2005 1:07:26 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 793939

For certain enlightened liberals on university faculties, the lesser intellectual stature of Christians and conservatives is so much taken for granted that they do not hesitate to write about them in terms dripping with condescension and contempt. There's an ugly subtext to this piece that I am going to point out -- not all Christians are fundamentalists. Not all Christians are what is called "Religious Right." Not even all Conservative Christians. It's true that some atheists are bigots who think all believers are idiots. But it's also true that most fundamentalists think that only fundamentalists are Christians. Thus, anybody who rejects fundamentalism is called anti-Christian. If, for example, you believe (as I do) that the Ten Commandments should be displayed in church but not in court, then you're tarred and feathered as an atheist who hates Christians and there's simply no reasoning with them. God said it, they believe it, and that's the end of it. And then they wonder why they're rejected? They raise their kids that way, too, and then wonder why their kids have a hard time getting ahead in places like universities. Well, if you teach them that anybody who believes in the Big Bang and evolution is a godless communistic Satan-worshipping atheist, they're going to have a few disadvantages in life. And they call US bigots!