Wasn’t the contrast between a relatively peaceful sect of Christianity like the Amish and Koresh’s Branch Davidians the point of the original comment?
When I see a person with a BOOK which he says I must just have faith in without being rational, I reach for my gun.There are dozens of such books, all disagreeing with each other.
Religion is being used as a figleaf for power wars. Bush is no more a Christian than Saddam is a Moslem.Bush was into booze & coke until he was told to shape up for top office then BANG! he suddenly sees the light. Does anybody believe in Saddam’s piety?
These politicians who walked out on a prayer did it for votes, stupid. The clue is in their job title : politician, a lying scumbag who will say whatever you want to get your vote, then crap all over you.
Strange, when you kick a dog it remembers it.With people you can bull them into thinking you did them a favour(hey, I was dislodging your fleas!)
Use your brain, these are politicians!!
diffdam:
Please do two things regarding your posting just above:
[list][li]Look at the forum title & description. It says Great Debates; it does not say Muckraking Myths.[/li][li]Provide some reputable evidence (aka, the opposite of myth) for each of the at least eleven things you’ve asserted there.[/li][/quote]
And if a mod/admin who wanders by would be so kind as to do one thing for my posting above: change the close tag to a close list tag. Thanks!