# Republicans have become the propoganda arm of Al Queda

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [October 20, 2006, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-have-become-the-propoganda-arm-of-al-queda/377250 "2006-10-20T17:26:59Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 21, 2006, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-have-become-the-propoganda-arm-of-al-queda/377250/41 "2006-10-21T21:26:55Z")

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[QUOTE=wring]  
I was a politically abused child  
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Heh. Great line, **wring**!

Psychologist: “And where did your daddy touch you?”

Patient: (Hesitates slightly, quivering, almost crying, and, after hearing some reassuring words, finally points to the heart, and then to the amygdala portion of the brain).

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**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2006, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-have-become-the-propoganda-arm-of-al-queda/377250/42 "2006-10-21T23:51:43Z")

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[QUOTE=Der Trihs]  
I expect he likes it better than a secular state.  
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He doesn’t strike me as one of those “half-a-loaf-is-better-than-none” types, actually.

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**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2006, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-have-become-the-propoganda-arm-of-al-queda/377250/43 "2006-10-21T23:54:46Z")

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Like most liberals, he’s amenable to compromise.

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**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2006, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/republicans-have-become-the-propoganda-arm-of-al-queda/377250/44 "2006-10-22T00:16:57Z")

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[QUOTE=kaylasdad99]  
He doesn’t strike me as one of those “half-a-loaf-is-better-than-none” types, actually.  
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Oh, I’m sure he’d prefer his own brand of lunacy installed instead. One thing I’ve noticed about religious true believers over the years, however; many of them, perhaps most, hate secularism more than _any_ rival religion. I think it’s because the simple existence of secularism ( or outright atheism ) undercuts their desire to regard their beliefs as _necessary_. Like all the religious types who simply can’t believe that any person can be moral without religion; they refuse to believe that religion is just an option. Or like the people who want _The Wizard of Oz_ banned from scools because Dorothy solves her own problems, instead of letted God handle it.

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