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To: tejek who wrote (270204)	1/27/2006 6:22:41 PM
From: steve harris	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583500

I'll take radical Christians over you and your radical brethren any day...

To: tejek who wrote (270204)	1/27/2006 9:27:28 PM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583500

Well, our country has been around for 230 years and we have a long proud tradition of denouncing bad leaders. In the Muslim world, they have a long proud tradition of kissing their leaders' asses, because if they denounce them, they get killed, tortured, or jailed. That's a big difference. I hope you see that, because if you don't, then you don't truly appreciate the incredible degree of freedom Americans enjoy.

To: tejek who wrote (270204)	1/28/2006 5:08:10 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583500

Re: The major difference between radical Christianity and radical Islam is that we have never allowed radical Christians to get control of the gov't although they keep trying. You're telling me! You did allow, however, radical Christians to call the shots in the GOP --the political party that, in turn, has been calling the shots in the US government for the past six years! Gus House of God? News: By quietly taking power on the state and local levels, the Christian right has become an unparalleled force in national politics. But who are the people leading the movement? What do they believe? And how close are they to controlling the presidency? By Adele M. Stan November/December 1995 Issue [...] The Christian right is a confounding phenomenon; every time it does itself in, it rises from its own ashes in an even more virulent strain. Neither the death of Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority, the scandals of television preachers Jimmy Swaggart and Jim Bakker, nor the failure of Pat Robertson's absurd 1988 presidential candidacy have managed to finish it off. The history of evangelical Christianity in America predates even the founding of the republic, and its influence on our society cannot be exorcised without unraveling the very fabric of our culture. Born of the Great Awakening in the 1730s, Christian evangelism is a product of the American soil, an outgrowth of Massachusetts Puritanism, conceived in answer to the terrors of wilderness life in territories inhabited only by the "heathen" Indians. After the Constitution and the secular state it created became the law of the land, America's revivalist religion preached a doctrine advocating "separation from the world," which all but forbade involvement in such a worldly pursuit as politics. But 200 years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Jimmy Carter heralded a new age when he ran for president. His description of himself as "born again" in the '76 campaign won him the votes of Southern evangelicals. And there the right saw its opening. [...] motherjones.com