Is this a parody of smug elitist bigotry toward Christians or is this an actual belief?
-CB
----- Original Message ----- From: Gordon Fitch <gcf at panix.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2000 9:42 AM Subject: Re: religious crackpots in public life, was Re: The heart of a leftist
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> I'm going to suggest that it's largely a species of entertainment,
> a participatory, vernacular art form. Additionally, in the
> case of fundamentalism it might offer lower-class traditionalists
> and nostalgics relief from bourgeois cultural pressures and
> continuous modernization. It asks mostly to be decor; hence
> the uncomprehending offense taken when even vague, pro-forma
> religious expressions are kicked out of school, even from the
> important sentimental apparatus of football games and
> graduations.
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