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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1813032/posts
Easter "Hit" Parade-cultural elites launch a blizzard of attacks on
religion during holiest season.
FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | April 6, 2007 | Brian Fitzpatrick
Posted on 04/06/2007 6:00:38 AM PDT by SJackson
Christians and Jews are accustomed to cultural elites trying to
undermine their religious faith during Lent, Passover and Easter - but
it's never been as bad as this year.
Beginning on February 26, the news and entertainment media have fired
a stunning barrage of criticism at religious beliefs, religious
practice, and religious symbols. Nothing is too sacred to attack this
year, not even the most crucial teachings of Judaism and Christianity.
On Easter Sunday, the History Channel will question whether the Bible
is God's genuine revelation to mankind.
The current - Holy Week - issue of Newsweek teases readers with the
headline "Is God Real?," and features a debate between a prominent
evangelical pastor and an outspoken atheist. National Public Radio
also carried an atheist/Christian debate.
An April 3 New York Times article dismisses the story of Moses
parting the Red Sea as a "myth."
Newsweek's March 19 cover story, "The Evolution Revolution," showcases
the latest evolutionary theories attempting to explain the development
of humanity without God. A March 4 New York Times Magazine piece,
"Darwin's God," describes religious belief as "an outgrowth of brain
architecture that evolved during early human history."
The arts world has mocked Jesus with a life-sized, nude, anatomically
correct sculpture made of chocolate, reducing Him to the level of the
Easter Bunny.
On March 4, the Discovery Channel took the prize. Discovery aired a
documentary, "The Lost Tomb of Jesus," that claims to have disproved
the foundational belief of Christianity: that Jesus rose from the
dead.
This year's Easter "Hit" Parade began just five days after the
beginning of Lent, at a February 26 press conference. Hollywood =FCber-
director James Cameron and Emmy Award-winning director Simcha
Jacobovici announced to the world that they have found Jesus' remains,
thereby knocking the central pillar out from under the Christian
edifice. As the apostle Paul wrote, "if Christ is not risen, your
faith is futile; you are still in your sins!" (1 Corinthians 15:17).
Cameron's and Jacobovici's conclusions were quickly shredded by a
phalanx of Jewish, Christian and secular scholars, but the media's
Easter "Hit" Parade marched on.
The Washington Post chose to question the Resurrection in a March 31
story, "A Debate for the Millennia: Did Jesus Rise from the Dead?"
The story, by Daniel Burke of Religion News Service, quotes expert
witnesses on both sides of the debate, but fairness and balance isn't
the issue. The real issue is why the Post decided to raise this
particular subject just before the beginning of Holy Week.
Also on March 31, a New York Times story suggested that a "secret"
gospel of Mark may describe "Jesus initiating his disciples" with a
"homosexual rite." The text, which may be a hoax, was supposedly found
in 1958. The discoverer or hoaxer, Columbia historian Morton Smith,
wrote a book about it in 1973, and three other authors wrote books
about Smith's work in 2005. Reporter Peter Steinfels never explains
why the story suddenly became newsworthy on the eve of Holy Week,
2007.
On April 4, author Susan Jacoby posted a column on the Newsweek/
Washington Post website, asserting, "You either believe that Jesus
rose from the dead or you don't. The proposition is not subject to any
kind of natural proof." However, the Resurrection is subject to
historical evidence, such as the eyewitness accounts recorded by
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Belief in the Resurrection is not
based on blind faith, as Jacoby suggests.
The news and entertainment media routinely take shots at religious
faith every Easter season. Honest questioning of all beliefs, sacred
or secular, is commendable. How else are we to know whether our
beliefs are true? However, the media largely ignore religious
doctrine most of the year. The challenges usually come during the
holiest seasons, and the timing of these often scurrilous attacks on
faith displays a profound hostility toward both God and the faithful.
Expect the Easter "Hit" Parade to continue.
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| User: "Lisbeth Andersson" |
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| Title: Re: During Holiest Season, Liberal Elites Launch A Blizzard Of Attacks On Religion |
13 Apr 2007 07:31:57 AM |
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"Sound of Trumpet" <sound_of_trumpet@warpmail.net> wrote in
news:1176276860.742887.58010@d57g2000hsg.googlegroups.com:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1813032/posts
FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | April 6, 2007 | Brian Fitzpatrick
Posted on 04/06/2007 6:00:38 AM PDT by SJackson
the History Channel
Newsweek
National Public Radio
New York Times
Newsweek's
New York Times Magazine
The arts world has mocked Jesus with a life-sized,
nude, anatomically correct sculpture made of chocolate, reducing
Him to the level of the Easter Bunny.
the Discovery Channel
Hollywood
über- director James Cameron and Emmy Award-winning director
Simcha Jacobovici announced
The Washington Post
Religion News Service,
New York Times
Newsweek/Washington Post
The above companies and people thanks you for the free publicity, at
least they would if they were aware of your efforts on their behalf,
except FrontPageMagazine.com who would be pissed about it if they knew
because you copied their material without permission, and possibly the
Lab Gallery in Manhattan who was not mentioned by name and it really
should have been.
Lisbeth.
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The day I don't learn anything new is the day I die.
*What we know is not nearly as interesting as *how we know it.
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| User: "raven1" |
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| Title: Re: During Holiest Season, Liberal Elites Launch A Blizzard Of Attacks On Religion |
11 Apr 2007 03:39:58 PM |
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On 11 Apr 2007 00:34:20 -0700, "Sound of Trumpet"
<sound_of_trumpet@warpmail.net> wrote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1813032/posts
Easter "Hit" Parade-cultural elites launch a blizzard of attacks on
religion during holiest season.
FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | April 6, 2007 | Brian Fitzpatrick
Posted on 04/06/2007 6:00:38 AM PDT by SJackson
Christians and Jews are accustomed to cultural elites trying to
undermine their religious faith during Lent, Passover and Easter - but
it's never been as bad as this year.
Beginning on February 26, the news and entertainment media have fired
a stunning barrage of criticism at religious beliefs, religious
practice, and religious symbols. Nothing is too sacred to attack this
year, not even the most crucial teachings of Judaism and Christianity.
That's exactly right. If those teachings are true, they should hold up
to critical scrutiny; if not, they deserve to be jettisoned.
--
"O Sybilli, si ergo
Fortibus es in ero
O Nobili! Themis trux
Sivat sinem? Causen Dux"
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| User: "3295 Dead" |
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| Title: Re: During Holiest Season, Liberal Elites Launch A Blizzard Of AttacksOn Religion |
11 Apr 2007 04:01:12 PM |
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raven1 wrote:
On 11 Apr 2007 00:34:20 -0700, "Sound of Trumpet"
<sound_of_trumpet@warpmail.net> wrote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1813032/posts
Easter "Hit" Parade-cultural elites launch a blizzard of attacks on
religion during holiest season.
I have no sympathy. The minute various Christian sects decided to enter
the political arena, they became just another political party.
As long as they want to mix church and state, they will get the same
scrutiny as any other political faction.
FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | April 6, 2007 | Brian Fitzpatrick
Posted on 04/06/2007 6:00:38 AM PDT by SJackson
Christians and Jews are accustomed to cultural elites trying to
undermine their religious faith during Lent, Passover and Easter - but
it's never been as bad as this year.
Beginning on February 26, the news and entertainment media have fired
a stunning barrage of criticism at religious beliefs, religious
practice, and religious symbols. Nothing is too sacred to attack this
year, not even the most crucial teachings of Judaism and Christianity.
That's exactly right. If those teachings are true, they should hold up
to critical scrutiny; if not, they deserve to be jettisoned.
--
"O Sybilli, si ergo
Fortibus es in ero
O Nobili! Themis trux
Sivat sinem? Causen Dux"
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| User: "God-fearing American" |
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| Title: Re: During Holiest Season, Liberal Elites Launch A Blizzard Of Attacks On Religion |
11 Apr 2007 09:25:18 AM |
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On Apr 11, 3:34 am, "Sound of Trumpet" <sound_of_trum...@warpmail.net>
wrote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1813032/posts
Easter "Hit" Parade-cultural elites launch a blizzard of attacks on
religion during holiest season.
FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | April 6, 2007 | Brian Fitzpatrick
Posted on 04/06/2007 6:00:38 AM PDT by SJackson
Christians and Jews are accustomed to cultural elites trying to
undermine their religious faith during Lent, Passover and Easter - but
it's never been as bad as this year.
Beginning on February 26, the news and entertainment media have fired
a stunning barrage of criticism at religious beliefs, religious
practice, and religious symbols. Nothing is too sacred to attack this
year, not even the most crucial teachings of Judaism and Christianity.
On Easter Sunday, the History Channel will question whether the Bible
is God's genuine revelation to mankind.
The current - Holy Week - issue of Newsweek teases readers with the
headline "Is God Real?," and features a debate between a prominent
evangelical pastor and an outspoken atheist. National Public Radio
also carried an atheist/Christian debate.
An April 3 New York Times article dismisses the story of Moses
parting the Red Sea as a "myth."
Newsweek's March 19 cover story, "The Evolution Revolution," showcases
the latest evolutionary theories attempting to explain the development
of humanity without God. A March 4 New York Times Magazine piece,
"Darwin's God," describes religious belief as "an outgrowth of brain
architecture that evolved during early human history."
The arts world has mocked Jesus with a life-sized, nude, anatomically
correct sculpture made of chocolate, reducing Him to the level of the
Easter Bunny.
On March 4, the Discovery Channel took the prize. Discovery aired a
documentary, "The Lost Tomb of Jesus," that claims to have disproved
the foundational belief of Christianity: that Jesus rose from the
dead.
This year's Easter "Hit" Parade began just five days after the
beginning of Lent, at a February 26 press conference. Hollywood =FCber-
director James Cameron and Emmy Award-winning director Simcha
Jacobovici announced to the world that they have found Jesus' remains,
thereby knocking the central pillar out from under the Christian
edifice. As the apostle Paul wrote, "if Christ is not risen, your
faith is futile; you are still in your sins!" (1 Corinthians 15:17).
Cameron's and Jacobovici's conclusions were quickly shredded by a
phalanx of Jewish, Christian and secular scholars, but the media's
Easter "Hit" Parade marched on.
The Washington Post chose to question the Resurrection in a March 31
story, "A Debate for the Millennia: Did Jesus Rise from the Dead?"
The story, by Daniel Burke of Religion News Service, quotes expert
witnesses on both sides of the debate, but fairness and balance isn't
the issue. The real issue is why the Post decided to raise this
particular subject just before the beginning of Holy Week.
Also on March 31, a New York Times story suggested that a "secret"
gospel of Mark may describe "Jesus initiating his disciples" with a
"homosexual rite." The text, which may be a hoax, was supposedly found
in 1958. The discoverer or hoaxer, Columbia historian Morton Smith,
wrote a book about it in 1973, and three other authors wrote books
about Smith's work in 2005. Reporter Peter Steinfels never explains
why the story suddenly became newsworthy on the eve of Holy Week,
2007.
On April 4, author Susan Jacoby posted a column on the Newsweek/
Washington Post website, asserting, "You either believe that Jesus
rose from the dead or you don't. The proposition is not subject to any
kind of natural proof." However, the Resurrection is subject to
historical evidence, such as the eyewitness accounts recorded by
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Belief in the Resurrection is not
based on blind faith, as Jacoby suggests.
The news and entertainment media routinely take shots at religious
faith every Easter season. Honest questioning of all beliefs, sacred
or secular, is commendable. How else are we to know whether our
beliefs are true? However, the media largely ignore religious
doctrine most of the year. The challenges usually come during the
holiest seasons, and the timing of these often scurrilous attacks on
faith displays a profound hostility toward both God and the faithful.
Expect the Easter "Hit" Parade to continue.
You do realize that it is only right wingers who find that evolution
conflicts with religion, the religious left has no problem
comprehending God's miracle of evolution. It isn't those with faith
that have trouble with science. It is those who have little faith who
have the problems.
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http://www.cafepress.com/bush_doggers?pid=3D2794571
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| User: "*Anarcissie*" |
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| Title: Re: During Holiest (and every other) Season, Reality Launches A Blizzard Of Attacks On Religion |
11 Apr 2007 09:48:05 AM |
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On Apr 11, 10:25 am, "God-fearing American" <defendu...@yahoo.com>
wrote:
On Apr 11, 3:34 am, "Sound of Trumpet" <sound_of_trum...@warpmail.net>
wrote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1813032/posts
Easter "Hit" Parade-cultural elites launch a blizzard of attacks on
religion during holiest season.
FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | April 6, 2007 | Brian Fitzpatrick
Posted on 04/06/2007 6:00:38 AM PDT by SJackson
Christians and Jews are accustomed to cultural elites trying to
undermine their religious faith during Lent, Passover and Easter - but
it's never been as bad as this year.
Beginning on February 26, the news and entertainment media have fired
a stunning barrage of criticism at religious beliefs, religious
practice, and religious symbols. Nothing is too sacred to attack this
year, not even the most crucial teachings of Judaism and Christianity.
On Easter Sunday, the History Channel will question whether the Bible
is God's genuine revelation to mankind.
The current - Holy Week - issue of Newsweek teases readers with the
headline "Is God Real?," and features a debate between a prominent
evangelical pastor and an outspoken atheist. National Public Radio
also carried an atheist/Christian debate.
An April 3 New York Times article dismisses the story of Moses
parting the Red Sea as a "myth."
Newsweek's March 19 cover story, "The Evolution Revolution," showcases
the latest evolutionary theories attempting to explain the development
of humanity without God. A March 4 New York Times Magazine piece,
"Darwin's God," describes religious belief as "an outgrowth of brain
architecture that evolved during early human history."
The arts world has mocked Jesus with a life-sized, nude, anatomically
correct sculpture made of chocolate, reducing Him to the level of the
Easter Bunny.
On March 4, the Discovery Channel took the prize. Discovery aired a
documentary, "The Lost Tomb of Jesus," that claims to have disproved
the foundational belief of Christianity: that Jesus rose from the
dead.
This year's Easter "Hit" Parade began just five days after the
beginning of Lent, at a February 26 press conference. Hollywood =FCber-
director James Cameron and Emmy Award-winning director Simcha
Jacobovici announced to the world that they have found Jesus' remains,
thereby knocking the central pillar out from under the Christian
edifice. As the apostle Paul wrote, "if Christ is not risen, your
faith is futile; you are still in your sins!" (1 Corinthians 15:17).
Cameron's and Jacobovici's conclusions were quickly shredded by a
phalanx of Jewish, Christian and secular scholars, but the media's
Easter "Hit" Parade marched on.
The Washington Post chose to question the Resurrection in a March 31
story, "A Debate for the Millennia: Did Jesus Rise from the Dead?"
The story, by Daniel Burke of Religion News Service, quotes expert
witnesses on both sides of the debate, but fairness and balance isn't
the issue. The real issue is why the Post decided to raise this
particular subject just before the beginning of Holy Week.
Also on March 31, a New York Times story suggested that a "secret"
gospel of Mark may describe "Jesus initiating his disciples" with a
"homosexual rite." The text, which may be a hoax, was supposedly found
in 1958. The discoverer or hoaxer, Columbia historian Morton Smith,
wrote a book about it in 1973, and three other authors wrote books
about Smith's work in 2005. Reporter Peter Steinfels never explains
why the story suddenly became newsworthy on the eve of Holy Week,
2007.
On April 4, author Susan Jacoby posted a column on the Newsweek/
Washington Post website, asserting, "You either believe that Jesus
rose from the dead or you don't. The proposition is not subject to any
kind of natural proof." However, the Resurrection is subject to
historical evidence, such as the eyewitness accounts recorded by
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Belief in the Resurrection is not
based on blind faith, as Jacoby suggests.
The news and entertainment media routinely take shots at religious
faith every Easter season. Honest questioning of all beliefs, sacred
or secular, is commendable. How else are we to know whether our
beliefs are true? However, the media largely ignore religious
doctrine most of the year. The challenges usually come during the
holiest seasons, and the timing of these often scurrilous attacks on
faith displays a profound hostility toward both God and the faithful.
Expect the Easter "Hit" Parade to continue.
You do realize that it is only right wingers who find that evolution
conflicts with religion, the religious left has no problem
comprehending God's miracle of evolution. It isn't those with faith
that have trouble with science. It is those who have little faith who
have the problems.
It's just the real world coming to bother them.
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11 Apr 2007 05:45:33 PM |
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On Apr 11, 3:34 am, "Sound of Trumpet" <sound_of_trum...@warpmail.net>
wrote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1813032/posts
Easter "Hit" Parade-cultural elites launch a blizzard of attacks on
religion during holiest season.
Buy a clue, you fucking redneck. We outnumber you, and we're not going
back to the 1850s. Liberals are not "elites"-they're average. The
problem is that shitstains like you and your unemployed, fat-assed,
cousin-kissin' kinfolk are so *below* average that you think we're all
intellectual giants.
Well, I suppose to the likes of *you*, we are. Go back to MacDonald's,
you ignorant piece of Trailer Trash.
Hey, look! I found SoTurd's house on the internet!
http://www.missouritrailertrash.com/4-sale.htm
-Panama Floyd, Atlanta.
still on hiatus, but this one pissed me off...
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| User: "Nosterill" |
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11 Apr 2007 03:48:11 AM |
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On Apr 11, 8:34 am, "Sound of Trumpet" <sound_of_trum...@warpmail.net>
wrote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1813032/posts
Easter "Hit" Parade-cultural elites launch a blizzard of attacks on
religion during holiest season.
FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | April 6, 2007 | Brian Fitzpatrick
Posted on 04/06/2007 6:00:38 AM PDT by SJackson
Christians and Jews are accustomed to cultural elites trying to
undermine their religious faith during Lent, Passover and Easter - but
it's never been as bad as this year.
Beginning on February 26, the news and entertainment media have fired
a stunning barrage of criticism at religious beliefs, religious
practice, and religious symbols. Nothing is too sacred to attack this
year, not even the most crucial teachings of Judaism and Christianity.
On Easter Sunday, the History Channel will question whether the Bible
is God's genuine revelation to mankind.
The current - Holy Week - issue of Newsweek teases readers with the
headline "Is God Real?," and features a debate between a prominent
evangelical pastor and an outspoken atheist. National Public Radio
also carried an atheist/Christian debate.
An April 3 New York Times article dismisses the story of Moses
parting the Red Sea as a "myth."
Newsweek's March 19 cover story, "The Evolution Revolution," showcases
the latest evolutionary theories attempting to explain the development
of humanity without God. A March 4 New York Times Magazine piece,
"Darwin's God," describes religious belief as "an outgrowth of brain
architecture that evolved during early human history."
The arts world has mocked Jesus with a life-sized, nude, anatomically
correct sculpture made of chocolate, reducing Him to the level of the
Easter Bunny.
On March 4, the Discovery Channel took the prize. Discovery aired a
documentary, "The Lost Tomb of Jesus," that claims to have disproved
the foundational belief of Christianity: that Jesus rose from the
dead.
This year's Easter "Hit" Parade began just five days after the
beginning of Lent, at a February 26 press conference. Hollywood =FCber-
director James Cameron and Emmy Award-winning director Simcha
Jacobovici announced to the world that they have found Jesus' remains,
thereby knocking the central pillar out from under the Christian
edifice. As the apostle Paul wrote, "if Christ is not risen, your
faith is futile; you are still in your sins!" (1 Corinthians 15:17).
Cameron's and Jacobovici's conclusions were quickly shredded by a
phalanx of Jewish, Christian and secular scholars, but the media's
Easter "Hit" Parade marched on.
The Washington Post chose to question the Resurrection in a March 31
story, "A Debate for the Millennia: Did Jesus Rise from the Dead?"
The story, by Daniel Burke of Religion News Service, quotes expert
witnesses on both sides of the debate, but fairness and balance isn't
the issue. The real issue is why the Post decided to raise this
particular subject just before the beginning of Holy Week.
Also on March 31, a New York Times story suggested that a "secret"
gospel of Mark may describe "Jesus initiating his disciples" with a
"homosexual rite." The text, which may be a hoax, was supposedly found
in 1958. The discoverer or hoaxer, Columbia historian Morton Smith,
wrote a book about it in 1973, and three other authors wrote books
about Smith's work in 2005. Reporter Peter Steinfels never explains
why the story suddenly became newsworthy on the eve of Holy Week,
2007.
On April 4, author Susan Jacoby posted a column on the Newsweek/
Washington Post website, asserting, "You either believe that Jesus
rose from the dead or you don't. The proposition is not subject to any
kind of natural proof." However, the Resurrection is subject to
historical evidence, such as the eyewitness accounts recorded by
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Belief in the Resurrection is not
based on blind faith, as Jacoby suggests.
The news and entertainment media routinely take shots at religious
faith every Easter season. Honest questioning of all beliefs, sacred
or secular, is commendable. How else are we to know whether our
beliefs are true? However, the media largely ignore religious
doctrine most of the year. The challenges usually come during the
holiest seasons, and the timing of these often scurrilous attacks on
faith displays a profound hostility toward both God and the faithful.
Expect the Easter "Hit" Parade to continue.
So imagine how those earlier faiths felt when the Jesus-come-lately
christians decided to hijack their sacred festival and reduce the
Eostre bunny to the level of human sacrifice.
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| User: "zzpat" |
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11 Apr 2007 10:22:09 AM |
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Sound of Trumpet wrote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1813032/posts
Easter "Hit" Parade-cultural elites launch a blizzard of attacks on
religion during holiest season.
FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | April 6, 2007 | Brian Fitzpatrick
News is driven by the polls. You may not be aware of the polls that show
more Americans are questioning the existence of God than in any previous
poll. There are also many people questioning the relevancy of their
religion and/or Church.
Finally, young people are turning away from religion but most of all
Americans of all stripes are turning away from the pseudo Christianity
on display in this White House and conservatives religious beliefs
(which are more about the politics of failure than religion).
IMO, people of faith put their hopes and aspirations in Bush and were
burned. Instead of blaming Bush and the GOP or Christian Conservatives,
they do what they've always done...blame liberals.
--
Impeach Bush
http://zzpat.bravehost.com/
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