On Sun, 04 May 2008 13:03:57 -0500, weberm@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Ubiquitous)
wrote:
>manley.power@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>
>>Dr. James Luther Adams, my ethics professor at Harvard Divinity
>>School , told us that when we were his age, he was then close to 80,
>>we would all be fighting the "Christian fascists."
>>
>>The warning, given to me 25 years ago, came at the moment Pat
>>Robertson and other radio and televangelists began speaking about a
>>new political religion that would direct its efforts at taking control
>>of all institutions, including mainstream denominations and the
>>government. Its stated goal was to use the United States to create a
>>global, Christian empire. It was hard, at the time, to take such
>>fantastic rhetoric seriously, especially given the buffoonish quality
>>of those who expounded it. But Adams warned us against the blindness
>>caused by intellectual snobbery. The Nazis, he said, were not going to
>>return with swastikas and brown shirts. Their ideological inheritors
>>had found a mask for fascism in the pages of the Bible....
>
>And you thought this was relevant to this group because?
Because Americans and their TV Networks make such a big fuss blown out
of proportion with Religions while Needed Serious Unbiased Discussions
of Global Competitiveness with cheap labor wages which Multinationals
sponsors your elected officials for one.
Hey I'm happy keep the personality and religion discussion going hey
I'm a shareholder of Multinationals ripping your economy apart. As
long as I get my expected return on investment which is never good
enough I'm laughing my way to the bank.
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