[lbo-talk] 77% of Americans support the cretinous judge

[C. G. Estabrook]

I think Nathan's got it right.  The village-atheist tone of some of these
posts is getting a bit shrill.  Remember that the form of Christianity
espoused by, say, Tom Delay (an heretical form, I'd say) is held by only a
minority of US Christians.  Others take quite different positions, as is
noted by (of all people) Noam Chomsky -- who thinks that all God-talk is
incoherent, but points out, e.g., that Christian churches and church
groups were far more active than the soi-disant Left in opposing the
Reagan wars in Latin America.  --CGE

On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Nathan Newman wrote:


> ----- Original Message ----- 
> 
> Without agreeing with Judge Moore, a lot of people feel comfortable
> with separation of church and state, as long as no particular church
> is getting favoritism, which is what honest history says the first
> amendment was about. Promoting the Ten Commandments doesn't even favor
> Christians against Jews or Muslims, since all respect Moses.  Okay,
> the Buddhists and atheists aren't happy, which is why the federal
> court decision was right, but this is hardly incipient theocracy
> rearing its head to want tokens of faith around.  They shouldn't get
> it by court doctrine but I don't see anything that terrible with folks
> wanting otherwise.
>