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To: Threshold who wrote (16821)	4/10/2007 8:44:51 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217906

They began chanting death to America before the Iran-Iraq war and never stopped. Just a historical note for you. You think that the evangelicals wouldn't be stoning women for adultery if they took over America. That's right, I think they wouldn't. But it doesn't matter. Evangelicals aren't trying to take over the country and make it a theocracy. They're just trying to keep godless liberals from remaking the country into Sweden. Didn't they burn witches last time they were in power? No, they hanged them. And they haven't hanged any for 400 years. Again, it doesn't matter as evangelicals aren't trying to establish a theocracy. Didn't they elect Bush because he talks to god and lies about family values. That explains your hatred.

To: Threshold who wrote (16821)	4/11/2007 3:10:48 AM
From: 8bits	Respond to of 217906

You don't think you would be chanting death to Iran if they had been inserting madmen to lead your country or arming your enemies for decades. Can you fill in the details on this statement... You think that the evangelicals wouldn't be stoning women for adultery if they took over America. The possibility of evangelicals taking over the US is very low. There have been times when a much greater percentage of the US populace were practicing Christians, yet by and large they co-existed with secular laws. Didn't they burn witches last time they were in power? "Witches" have never been executed since the US has been a sovereign nation. There was a bizarre incident in Salem during the colonial era where a number of people where hung, the governor of the colony (himself a rather religious man..) interceded and stopped the "trials". That was more than 300 years ago. In the interim the US freed slaves, gave women the right to vote, produced aircraft, automobiles, TV, developed the internet.. so a few changes in the interim. Islam at least in the Middle East and Pakistan seems to be going full bore in the opposite direction. Hell I read that one could see women in mini-skirts at the University of Kabul before the Soviets invaded Afghanistan.. Osama Bin Laden allegedly used to get into drunken fistfights over barmaids in Beirut in the 1970s. Pass the KoolAid. The irony of that phrase, in the context of your discussion, is that its origins came from the Jonestown massacre, Jim Jones was a staunch lefty. (Not that dispensing cyanide laced (not Koolaid..) Flavoraid has anything in general to do with the left) Noam Chomsky would never debase himself in such a manner.