[lbo-talk] HRC, theologian

Lenin's Tomb leninstombblog at googlemail.com
Fri Mar 9 12:55:59 PST 2007


Doug cited:


> What say you? She [Hilary Clinton] may not see eye to eye with Evangelicals on
> abortion and gay rights, but she will make the case (like many
> Democrats do) that biblical values run deeper to include poverty, the
> environment, the war in Iraq, stopping the genocide in Darfur, etc.

Interesting inclusion of Darfur there. Arguably, the humanitarian interventionists share with the Christian fundies the reduction of politics to a set of catechisms or even to a secular decalogue: thou shalt not kill, torture, maim, commit genocide, promulgate Islamist repression etc.



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