[lbo-talk] Barack Obama

Luke Weiger lweiger at umich.edu
Sun Nov 7 10:03:13 PST 2004


I'd thought that a Marxist would be willing to fill in my enthymeme. These days, smart educated folk tend (I'm judging anecdotally) not to be Christians.

-- Luke

----- Original Message ----- From: "andie nachgeborenen" <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2004 12:47 PM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Barack Obama


>
> Yeah, only morons like Augustine, Aquinas, Anselm,
> William of Occam, Duns Scotus, Dante, Descartes,
> Leibniz, Newton, Kant, and Hegel are Christians.
>
> --- Luke Weiger <lweiger at umich.edu> wrote:
>
> > Well, you do have to wonder if people as smart and
> > well-educated as Clinton,
> > Gore, Obama et al. are actually all Christians.
> >
> > -- Luke
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "andie nachgeborenen"
> > <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com>
> > To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
> > Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2004 9:35 AM
> > Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Barack Obama
> >
> >
> > >
> > > If you find that sort of statement unsettling, you
> > > Yhave to get out and meet people. Barak Obama is
> > an
> > > extremely liberal U of C constitutional law
> > professor,
> > > not a no-brow Texas fundamentalist. Like most of
> > this
> > > country, excluding people on this list, and
> > especially
> > > like most black people, he's also a believing
> > > Christian. That doesn't mean that he's gonna go
> > out
> > > and smite the infidel in the name of the Lord. My
> > > black friends say things to me like, Have a
> > blessed
> > > day, and they mean it, like Jesus should bless me.
> > And
> > > they know I'm a commie Jewish atheist. People
> > here
> > > have to learn to get out some. Find a Christian
> > and
> > > have her or him invite you to church services, it
> > > would not hurt. Listen to people talk about their
> > > faith (without arguing).
> > >
> > > jks
> > >
> > > --- ravi <gadfly at exitleft.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Michael Perelman wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > m I the only one who was not particularly
> > > > impressed by him? He seemed nice. He had
> > > > > a nice story. He had nice credentials. And
> > maybe
> > > > he was good in Illinois politics?
> > > > > I don't know.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > i must admit that his "we worship an awesome
> > god"
> > > > bit scared me a bit...
> > > >
> > > > --ravi
> > > >
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