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23 Jun 2005 08:09:41 PM |
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You ain't seen nothing yet |
You ain't seen nothing yet
http://www.economist.com/world/na/displayStory.cfm?story_id=4102212
Jun 23rd 2005 | COLORADO SPRINGS, MANASSAS AND WASHINGTON, DC
From The Economist print edition
Christian America's political arm is more complex and more dynamic than
it first appears. And it will be hard to stop
THIS week, for the fourth year in a row, President George Bush broke
from affairs of state to address the Southern Baptist Convention. He
promised the strict evangelical group, which has 16m members, that he
would work hard to ban gay marriage and abortion, and that their
"family values" were his values, too.
After the Scopes Monkey trial in 1925, where creationist ideas were
widely discredited, the idea of fundamentalists from the Bible Belt
ruling the roost would have looked foolish. In the 1960s, many liberal
Americans thought they had banned religion from the public square for
good. Yet nowadays the president, the secretary of state and the House
speaker accept the evangelical label. A packed prayer breakfast takes
place every Thursday in Congress. And liberals regularly contend that
one of America's two great parties is bent on creating a
theocracy-backed by a solid core of somewhere between a quarter and a
third of the population.
Religious right
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/8ba03c3be221ade4
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| Title: Re: You ain't seen nothing yet |
23 Jun 2005 08:17:51 PM |
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This will not change until the religious right is defeated at the
polls. Until then, expect their power to grow.
HB
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| User: "In The World Before Clayton, Primal Chaos Reigned!" |
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| Title: Re: You ain't seen nothing yet |
23 Jun 2005 11:10:27 PM |
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<hbarwood@troyst.edu> wrote in message
news:1119557871.748548.309330@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
This will not change until the religious right is defeated at the
polls.
Kind of hard when the religious right are in control of the election
results!
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| User: "someguy" |
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| Title: Re: You ain't seen nothing yet |
24 Jun 2005 04:37:24 AM |
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One would hope that this could be changed by a revival of the 19th century
freethought movement. If we had someone like Ingersoll touring the US, on
the stump against Christianity, holding the Light of Reason to the cobwebs
of religious superstition, there would be some hope.
If we have to face them at the polls, and they are allowed to propagate
their superstition unchecked (they call this "evangelism") we are in
trouble...
<hbarwood@troyst.edu> wrote in message
news:1119557871.748548.309330@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
This will not change until the religious right is defeated at the
polls. Until then, expect their power to grow.
HB
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