[lbo-talk] Re: Blaming the lobby

Carl Remick carlremick at hotmail.com
Wed May 3 20:54:09 PDT 2006



>From: "Michael Pugliese" <michael.098762001 at gmail.com>
>
>On 5/3/06, Carl Remick <carlremick at hotmail.com> Niebuhr is a
>>prime example of the liberal as Jekyll & Hyde -- a rampaging anticommunist
>>one minute, a hand-wringing critic of the consumerist society the next.
>
> Yup, so anti-Communist he came out against the Vietnam War in 1966.

And he was first and foremost a theologian, hence dangerously deranged by profession. One web source note that Niebuhr "opposed increased secularization of American society and the removal of state support for Christian religious practices." <http://atheism.about.com/library/glossary/western/bldef_niebuhrreinhold.htm>

God spare us from the religious.

Carl



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