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Old 12-21-2004, 09:08 AM   #25 (permalink)
Tophat665
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TRUTH ABOUT CONSERVATIVES #2
They Don't Want a Religious Dictatorship

TRUTH ABOUT CONSERVATIVES #5
They Believe American Culture Has Become An Insult to God
I think putting those two next to each other is interesting. I agree that the Religious Conservative Block (hereafter RCB) does not want a dictatorship, though I frequently refer to ttheir actual aim as "Theocracy". However, in the light of the second item, the RBC certainly wants to exclude a very broad range of viewpoints from public policy based on a book, the value of which can most certainly be argued.

Add in the above article about coercively shaping public discourse about homosexuality, and that pattern snaps into sharp focus.

I mean, people are people regardless of what birth made them. What happened to, "What is done to the least of my followers is done to me?" What's up with motes and beams? Anyone who attends to their own soul and leaves me to mine is OK in my book. Anyone who prays that I will come around to their faith and so save myself has my (slightly amused) thanks. Anyone who tries to force me to come around to their faith has my enduring enmity.

Further, don't may of those in the RCB follow faiths that believe that those who will be saved are predestined to be saved, and that the rest are damned anyway?

Bottom line, all of the RCB believes in Revelations, and some of it is actively trying to bring it about. Whether it's bunk or not is immaterial. These people are trying to bring about the end of the world and for that alone they are all guilty of criminal intent on a staggering scale.
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