From: Ellen K. 

The neocon Christians don't go around blowing up people just because they
have a different religion.

On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 14:35:05 +1100, John Beckett
 wrote in message
:

>Gary Britt  wrote in message
>news::
>> Happy Thanksgiving to everyone here.  I know I'm thankful I don't live in a
>> country ruled by a religious council of idiot savant monkey men!!
>
>And Happy Thanksgiving in return...
>
>Your post echoes two thoughts I have been chewing over recently.
>
>First, we who are affluent enough to congregate here really are lucky
>compared with many others. What I despise most about our Prime Minister
>John Howard (and others of his ilk) is his complete inability to imagine
>life from the other side. I'm sure that he believes that if he had been
>born in an impoverished outback Aboriginal community, that his natural
>talent would have shone through, and he would be a successful lawyer
>instead of sniffing petrol or similar.
>
>Second, whereas it's easy to see how completely absurd is the intellectual
>position of religious leaders in Iran etc, it's becoming harder to see any
>fundamental distinction between a necon christian from Washington and a
>whacko islamist from the other side of the world.
>
>John

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