religious crackpots in public life, was Re: The heart of aleftist

[Tom Lehman]

Charles---Know anything about a big environmental meeting that was held at the King Solomon Baptist Church in Detroit recently.  Don't Dump on Detroit or something like that was the theme of the meeting. I read that the spirit of Thurgood Marshall, Malcom X and a poor fellow who had
been lynched in the 50's for whistling at a white woman were all present.

Btw, is Michigan State in the Ivy League or just their law library?:o)

Tom

Charles Brown wrote:


> Here's an old hypothesis. Religion is sigh of the oppressed creature, heart of a heartless condition. It is the opium of the people. Maybe Americans are  more oppressed or depressed than the news lets on, living in the most heartless conditions , in need of an opiating painkiller.
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> CB
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> >>> michael at ecst.csuchico.edu 07/07/00 07:11PM >>>
> Fundamentalism is associated with fear.
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> > Doug Henwood wrote:
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> > > Seems odder than, say, Canada and Mexico, to pick two nearby
> > > examples. Both have richer political cultures, as far as I can tell,
> > > and fewer religious crackpots in public life.
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> > Any hypotheses as to why the U.S. should be so uniquely plagued by
> > religiosity? One can understand it in Iran and some other Islamic nations as
> > a reaction to western imperialism. But why in the U.S.?
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> > Carrol
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