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9/28/01 9:33:22 PM

9/29/01 4:27:37 PM

Well, we've got our problems here in the US.

The Christian fundamentalists have been awfully political in the last quarter century and have made a "full court press" on the Republican party and governments at all levels in general.

Alex

Whom the gods destroy, they first make mad. -- Euripides

Edited by a6l6e6x Sept. 29, 2001, 04:27:37 PM EDT

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Post #10,863

9/28/01 9:52:25 PM

Thou sayest..

My view is that the parallels are biting us on the nose. Fundament-alists' methods are here simply adapted to our vulnerabilities:

Exploit the 24/7 two-working parents fact of Corporate hegemony - use your leisure time to pack school boards, waste their energies in combatting prayers in school; 'Creation science' and other patent religious dogma.

Parlay the chaos sown into rendering the public school system even less effective than it has become = kill it finally, by sending voucher money. Thus end the ideal of Murican Founding Mothers - an education for all. (But please to call it: 'for bizness efficiency')

Instead get: hundreds of sects, raising new little partisans for God, all unaware of the diversity of 'beliefs' out there = all unaware of any idea of community.

(And that's just One parallel with the aims of such as the Taliban, and Ayatollahs everywhere - right here) Methinks 'fundamentalism' is the folder; Taliban, Ayatollah, bin Laden or Foulwell - just the files within.

A.

Roots Of Rage: U.S. policy mixed with Islamic triumphalism? - (brettj) - (46) - Sept. 28, 2001, 08:41:07 AM EDT

The alternatives to meddling. - (marlowe) - Sept. 28, 2001, 01:06:22 PM EDT

Re: Roots Of Rage: U.S. policy mixed with Islamic triumphali - (gtall) - (44) - Sept. 28, 2001, 01:14:01 PM EDT

'73 oil embargo.. Ah yes, I remember it well. - (Ashton) - (1) - Sept. 28, 2001, 06:07:55 PM EDT

Re: '73 oil embargo.. Ah yes, I remember it well. - (Steve Lowe) - Oct. 1, 2001, 11:26:29 AM EDT

Good Intentions != Good Perceptions - (tablizer) - (41) - Sept. 28, 2001, 07:40:15 PM EDT

However... - (a6l6e6x) - (31) - Sept. 28, 2001, 08:05:20 PM EDT

oil and water? - (tablizer) - (2) - Sept. 28, 2001, 09:08:28 PM EDT

Well, we've got our problems here in the US. - (a6l6e6x) - (1) - Sept. 29, 2001, 04:27:37 PM EDT

Thou sayest.. - (Ashton) - Sept. 28, 2001, 09:52:25 PM EDT

Re: However... - (gtall) - (27) - Sept. 29, 2001, 09:25:25 AM EDT

IIRC Mahatir binM was interviewed on PBS some years back - (Ashton) - (11) - Sept. 29, 2001, 02:17:54 PM EDT

Re: IIRC Mahatir binM was interviewed on PBS some years back - (gtall) - (10) - Sept. 29, 2001, 07:44:36 PM EDT

Re: I concur with your picture of Indonesia & Malaysia - (dmarker2) - Sept. 30, 2001, 12:09:18 AM EDT

Concur with the ideas - (Ashton) - Sept. 30, 2001, 03:37:03 AM EDT

Question about your interpretation of religion. - (brettj) - (7) - Sept. 30, 2001, 04:08:51 PM EDT

Logic obviously tellls us... - (CRConrad) - (4) - Sept. 30, 2001, 05:39:03 PM EDT

I took your bait once ... - (brettj) - (1) - Sept. 30, 2001, 05:41:32 PM EDT

If you *could* "take my bait", I'd have to throw you back... - (CRConrad) - Sept. 30, 2001, 05:51:52 PM EDT

I would say no more than 40% of Americans are losers. - (marlowe) - (1) - Oct. 1, 2001, 05:56:08 PM EDT

How DARE you criticize... - (CRConrad) - Oct. 1, 2001, 06:19:21 PM EDT

Re: Question about your interpretation of religion. - (gtall) - (1) - Oct. 1, 2001, 07:56:49 AM EDT

Thanks for the polite response. - (brettj) - Oct. 1, 2001, 10:49:18 AM EDT

Sure, as soon as you make Taiwan a State. What, ain't gonna? - (CRConrad) - (14) - Sept. 30, 2001, 05:36:30 PM EDT

A piece of Turkey is in Europe, CRC. -NT - (a6l6e6x) - (1) - Sept. 30, 2001, 08:38:22 PM EDT

Yeah, I know, the bit around Mikkelgarth[*]. And I'm sure... - (CRConrad) - Oct. 1, 2001, 09:10:45 AM EDT

Well, I don't know 'zactly what Hawaii is . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (2) - Sept. 30, 2001, 11:21:02 PM EDT

It's an archipelago. HTH! :-) -NT - (CRConrad) - (1) - Oct. 1, 2001, 09:04:12 AM EDT

That's pronounced, "archipelago". HTH! :-) -NT - (tseliot) - Oct. 1, 2001, 12:37:48 PM EDT

Re: Sure, as soon as you make Taiwan a State. What, ain't go - (gtall) - (8) - Oct. 1, 2001, 10:16:30 AM EDT

I don't think you quite understand the issues here. - (CRConrad) - (7) - Oct. 1, 2001, 11:33:05 AM EDT

Arnt you folks overrun by turks as it is? - (boxley) - Oct. 1, 2001, 12:09:33 PM EDT

Re: I don't think you quite understand the issues here. - (gtall) - (1) - Oct. 3, 2001, 07:47:32 AM EDT

mfff, snort, ROFL! this could get good. -NT - (boxley) - Oct. 3, 2001, 10:09:57 AM EDT

United States of Europe? - (admin) - (3) - Oct. 3, 2001, 10:16:32 AM EDT

Dunno, but I think it's at least not quite impossible - (CRConrad) - (2) - Oct. 3, 2001, 12:17:36 PM EDT

The French? - (wharris2) - Oct. 3, 2001, 12:49:37 PM EDT

More like the United kindoms of Greater Briton :) -NT - (boxley) - Oct. 3, 2001, 12:53:09 PM EDT

Re: Good Intentions != Good Perceptions - (wharris2) - (8) - Sept. 29, 2001, 09:51:47 AM EDT

You are too kind. - (Ashton) - (7) - Sept. 29, 2001, 02:24:42 PM EDT

Please get your masses right. - (Another Scott) - (6) - Sept. 29, 2001, 05:01:36 PM EDT

Re: Please get your masses right. - (Ashton) - (5) - Sept. 29, 2001, 06:43:53 PM EDT

Your missing something Ash. - (Silverlock) - (4) - Oct. 1, 2001, 09:40:46 AM EDT

So are you and, above all, they. Here's the fallacy: - (CRConrad) - (1) - Oct. 1, 2001, 09:56:50 AM EDT

Well, ..... of course. - (Silverlock) - Oct. 1, 2001, 10:19:11 AM EDT

Not missing it, nor do I argue with that narrow thesis - (Ashton) - Oct. 3, 2001, 04:35:25 PM EDT

SUV Safety - (pwhysall) - Oct. 3, 2001, 04:41:33 PM EDT

No, not really.
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