[lbo-talk] Kucinich saw UFO on Shirley MacLaine's porch, was deeply moved

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 10/24/07, Jeffrey Fisher <jeff.jfisher at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/24/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Oct 24, 2007, at 1:33 PM, Steven L. Robinson wrote:
> >
> > > Query - If Maclaine was such a BIG friend of Dennis the K, why
> > > would she put in her book, especially in an election year? Smells
> > > of a dirty trick to me.
> >
> > You gotta be kidding. If Kucinich were riding high in the polls,
> > maybe. At 1%, why bother? When you're that low, any publicity is good
> > publicity - and besides, he might attract some of the nut vote, which
> > is probably not small. In fact, maybe the secular left should reach
> > out to UFO constituency. Who are we to question their faith?
>
> I'm not sure the UFO constituency *isn't* the secular left.

If the UFO constituency isn't the "secular left," it probably is a
sizable part of the rest of the "secular" America.  Americans who
leave their religious faith tend to adopt one secular superstition or
another as a substitute.  Give them that good old-time religion
instead, like Islam, Presbyterianism, or historical materialism.

On 10/31/07, Jerry Monaco <monacojerry at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just a general interest question:
>
> Why is believing that we are being visited by beings from another planet any
> nuttier than believing that a guy name Jesus rose from the dead or that
> Muhammad rose into heaven or that there are inexorable laws of history that
> will lead to a socialist future?

The question is not which is nuttier -- it's which is cheesier.  The
answer is clear.
-- 
Yoshie
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