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To: epicure who wrote (37815)	5/24/2007 2:52:14 PM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 542139

No, I see your point. I see the contemporary conflict and the argument that feeling under attack leads to an attempt to gain more political clout. You can certainly make the case that folk like Falwell, Robertson, et al felt themselves under attack and so began their movement. But the growth of the movement required an audience, something going on in the culture that gave resonance to Falwell et al. As for Elroy's point about the decline of the Catholic Church, it was, of course, not secularism, whatever that might come to mean, by our old friend, the Reformation with its emphasis on interpreting scripture via individual consciousness rather than the church fathers.