--- On Thu, 6/26/08, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> Except that the Pew study shows a considerable degree of
> flexibility,
> tolerance, even syncretism in a lot of American religious
> thinking
> today. What you say about white fundies is true, but
> they're a
> declining percentage of the national population. Thank God,
> so to speak.
>
[WS:] I wish I could share your optimism, Doug. As I see it, a conservative is a liberal who got a corporate job and moved to suburbia. And from that alienated wasteland it is only a small step to fundamentalism and reactionism.
Wojtek