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There is one key difference between Falwell (and his type) and bin Laden. The laws of the US prevented him from going "to far". Put him in a lawless culture and he would have been just as likely to do far worse than he did.
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The above is like saying child sodomy, cannibalism and incest are the norm absent any so-called laws. Same goes for just about every human "deviance" or extreme one might come up with. That "one key difference" you mention makes all the difference. The fact of the matter is America *is* a lawful society, and there *is* separation between church and state, so religious extremists like Falwell are a sideshow, not the the law of the land. It is the height of nonsense - and par for certain lefties - to compare Jerry Falwell (as asinine as he was) to religious totalitarian maniacs running whole countries, stoning their citizens to death, keeping their women in burlap sacks, killing all the homos and political dissidents, threatening the existence of other countries, and developing nuclear weapons that they can then siphon off to their terrorist buddies. Etc. etc. etc.