On Mar 25, 2010, at 10:12 AM, Carrol Cox wrote:
> In the present thread the error appears in the form of explaining the
> politics of fundamentalists in terms of their religius thought rather
> than explaining their religious thought in terms of their politics.
You mean that fundamentalism as a pre-existing condition of American life has no effect on the political evolution that people take? That the religiosity of Americans compared to other first worlders isn't something of interest to be explained, but just some sort of secondary phenomenon?
Doug