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To: KonKilo who wrote (26614)	8/15/2006 5:46:40 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541018

I just tiptoed through a bunch of articles. Bush himself refers to the fact that he is "born again". There's a lot that goes along with that- and I'm not sure people who aren't born again know how much goes along with that. And there's nothing "wrong" with that, or with being a fundamentalist. I got the sense that Dale thought I was trying to insult Bush- and I guess if you think the fundamentalists are "whackos" it might be an insult, but I don't find them any more whacko than Mormons, or devout Jews, or anyone else. Now I do think that when fundamentalist religion informs US policy then we do need to be informed about it, because it has ramifications for all of us. But that's not because anyone is whacko, it's because so many people believe it, and believe it deeply and uncritically, that I think we need to really get this out in the open and debated. When you look at born again Christians as a group, and you look at their beliefs, it is statistically likely that Bush believes in the rapture. That HAS to be important. Not because it has anything to do with calling him names, or labeling him a whacko, but because it could be a critical part of his thinking about the ME (among other things.)