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Comments on the "Theocracy" comments
From Brian T:
"Yeah, and let's be clear, we're talking born-again evangelical Christianity, and not any other form."
Absolutely. And not all born-again evangelical Christianity, either. I have no problem with street-corner or subway preaching; I don't even mind the Jehovah's Witnesses who ring the doorbell on Sunday morning, provided they go away politely when I tell them politely I already have a religion I'm fond of. (They usually do.) As far as I'm concerned that sort of thing is part of the public discourse, part of the tapestry. It doesn't impinge on my life or my rights beyond, say, the length of a subway ride. It's when the values of any particular species of religion are brought into government and become the basis for the values of the state in which I live -- and I live here as much by right as anyone -- that I object and resist.
Which brings me to:
From Justine:
"I must add too that as a liberal (in all sense of the word) secular Jew, I would lump Jewish fundamentalists trying to run Israel with their theology in with the Christian and Islamic zealots anywhere else."
Absolutely, again.
From FredTownWard:
"Briefly it is the difference between elected representatives trying to protect the laws and the Constitution from the fantasies of unelected judges, and a bunch of dictators murdering anyone who disagrees with them."
The people who wrote the Patriot Act can in no way be said to have been trying to protect the Constitution.
From Cindy:
"Even George Will was lamenting the hit Enlightenment values had taken!"
If you mean the "Enlightenment" editorial in the NY Times, that wasn't George Will, it was Garry Wills. It's a nice thought, that the intellectual right would see the danger in appealing, as the Bush campaign did, to the worst in people: their fear, anger, and hate. But they don't.
"Yeah, and let's be clear, we're talking born-again evangelical Christianity, and not any other form."
Absolutely. And not all born-again evangelical Christianity, either. I have no problem with street-corner or subway preaching; I don't even mind the Jehovah's Witnesses who ring the doorbell on Sunday morning, provided they go away politely when I tell them politely I already have a religion I'm fond of. (They usually do.) As far as I'm concerned that sort of thing is part of the public discourse, part of the tapestry. It doesn't impinge on my life or my rights beyond, say, the length of a subway ride. It's when the values of any particular species of religion are brought into government and become the basis for the values of the state in which I live -- and I live here as much by right as anyone -- that I object and resist.
Which brings me to:
From Justine:
"I must add too that as a liberal (in all sense of the word) secular Jew, I would lump Jewish fundamentalists trying to run Israel with their theology in with the Christian and Islamic zealots anywhere else."
Absolutely, again.
From FredTownWard:
"Briefly it is the difference between elected representatives trying to protect the laws and the Constitution from the fantasies of unelected judges, and a bunch of dictators murdering anyone who disagrees with them."
The people who wrote the Patriot Act can in no way be said to have been trying to protect the Constitution.
From Cindy:
"Even George Will was lamenting the hit Enlightenment values had taken!"
If you mean the "Enlightenment" editorial in the NY Times, that wasn't George Will, it was Garry Wills. It's a nice thought, that the intellectual right would see the danger in appealing, as the Bush campaign did, to the worst in people: their fear, anger, and hate. But they don't.
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