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To: combjelly who wrote (343095)	7/13/2007 10:34:46 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1574097

'Make him stop' "I decided to flip on Al Gore's 'Live Earth' concert on Saturday. ... About two hours after stapling my eyelids to my forehead to ensure that I didn't miss a single epiphanous second, I got bothered. ... "Reminiscing about a 1975 Newsweek cover story entitled 'The Cooling World' in which the scientific community was then allegedly predicting the next Ice Age and suggesting that, among the options, we consider purposely melting the Arctic ice cap, and now 30 years later we're to believe that after 3.5 billion years of life (and 1 million years of human life) on this planet, we are collectively on the verge of going up like a Roman candle because of the amount of Aqua Net consumed by Bon Jovi groupies — no, the fickle nature of the global alarmists didn't bother me either. "What bothered me, what truly bothered me was three words uttered by Al Gore, 'Thank you, Leo.' 'Leo' as in Leonardo DiCaprio who introduced Gore to the global audience. "I'll sign Gore's 7-point pledge. I'll install CFL light bulbs in my home. I'll buy a car that runs entirely on switchgrass. I'll even stop clubbing baby seals. I'll do anything they want me to do as long as Al Gore stops his 'hep cat' routine. Watching Gore keep it real with his Hollywood friends is kind of like watching your dad shake his groove thing at a wedding. "Global cooling, global warming, sign me up for whatever. Just make him stop." — Dan Proft, writing on "A Deal for Gore, 'Live Earth' Artists," Tuesday at Humanevents.com

To: combjelly who wrote (343095)	7/13/2007 12:27:50 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574097

CJ, > Did you read the article? Did you? > Puritanism seems to have risen out of discontent with the Elizabethan Religious Settlement, which was felt by the more radical Protestants to be giving in to "Popery" (i.e., the Roman Catholic Church). While Protestant movements in Europe were driven by issues of theology and had broken radically with Catholic models of church organization, the English Reformation had brought the Church under control of the monarchy while leaving many of its religious practices intact. In the eyes of the Puritans, doctrine had been made unacceptably subservient to politics. Persecuted under Mary I of England ("Bloody Mary"), Protestants like Thomas Cartwright, Walter Travers, and Andrew Melville had gone into exile as Puritans in Europe, where they came into close contact with the magisterial reformers in Calvinist Geneva and Lutheran Germany. These contacts shaped their position towards Elizabeth's religious via media (middle way). Tenchusatsu