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To: ig who wrote (188759)	12/6/2006 10:28:42 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793990

Are their any -ists who don't think the world would be a better place if everyone thought like them? I doubt it, but I don't think that's the point. Non-ists may also think the world would be a better place if everyone thought like they do. I certainly think the world would be a better place if folks would adopt my paradigm. I wouldn't have adopted it myself if I didn't think it preferable. But that doesn't make me an "ist." I'd be an "ist" if I were trying to impose my paradigm on others. There's a difference between thinking the world would be a better place "if" and using power to establish or maintain dominion. If you think other people are entitled to find their own paradigms by their own criteria, then you're not an ist.

To: ig who wrote (188759)	12/6/2006 2:09:25 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 793990

"People who believe in the Gospels of Jesus Christ are Christians. People who use the Gospels of Jesus Christ for political gain, and for a political program of right or left, are Christianists." Far too broad a brush to be meaningful. Using this, you could define any pol who makes a show of his faith as a "Christianist". Coining a term "Christianist" strongly implies that there is a Christianity-based political program behind it, with at least theocratic overtones, if not outright theocracy. As there is none that I can see, except perhaps in some small & localized Evangelical groups. the term is overwrought and misleading. Certainly, there is no rise of Christianist parties anywhere comparable to the Islamist parties of the Middle-East. There is no Christian version of the Muslim Brotherhood, whatever Sullivan may think.