But there you are: Bush and his crew of Mayberry Machiavellis wouldn't be in power now if not for the tractable legions of the nation's faithful, history's most numinous useful idiots, who were perfectly willing to believe GWB & Co.'s claim to be doing God's work.
Carl
>Carl Remick wrote:
>
>>>From: joanna <123hop at comcast.net>
>>>
>>>Right now, we don't look too good. Neither the left with "religion is
>>>idiocy" nor the right with their Pat Robertsons.
>>
>>
>>I don't see any equivalence there at all. The leading threat to world
>>peace right now is militant religion not militant atheism. I used to
>>think of religion as harmless idiocy and now view it as malignant idiocy.
>>Religion encourages the kind of stupefying credulousness that underlies
>>contemporary America's worst failings -- e.g., a willingness to believe
>>that there were WMDs in Iraq when there was no evidence for that claim, or
>>a willingness to believe that "God will provide" instead of adopting
>>effective social benefit programs. Religion is glorified dementia.
>>
>>Carl
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