Hi, Carl.
CT> MN> Saved to my Encyclopedia Michael Nellis, under the heading:
CT> MN> PROMISE KEEPERS.
CT> Well, it's not the best quotation I've come up with to describe them,
CT> but it's not bad.   I think the best was when I was describing these
CT> pinheads to a friend.  I told him, "You know the absolute worst thing
CT> about these guys coming here?" [...] "They won't let you shoot 'em."
"But, officer, it's tourist season and I have license right here."
CT> MN> you might very well have 60,000 fundamentalist christians
CT> MN> descending on your front lawn to pray for your soul. :-)
CT> Well, my soul can use all the prayer it can get.
Twenty four hours a day, seven days a week, month after month? 
A neat trick of brainwashing Heinlein used in _Revolt In 2100._
CT> I don't have a problem with religion, as long as it's spiritually
CT> based and not a power trip or a means to make money from saps who
CT> should know better. I am a fairly spiritual person myself, although
CT> not religous at all.
Great minds think alike.
CT> I think it will eventually come to the point that it's illegal to do
CT> what they're doing, but until then, we have to put up with their
CT> nonsense.
Hmmmm.  You know, in my Federated Unity, there is a non-
denominationalist policy, and proselytizing in public or actively
soliciting membership by organized religions is not allowed on Unity
property. People are allowed, of course, to worship according to the
dictates of their own consciences, just not to scream about in holy
fervour in public.
I don't think any such law will ever be passed in North America, though.
The religionists would never stand for it.
CT> The good news is that someone is finally paying attention.  I
CT> just heard that Pat Robertson just got whacked with a humongous fine
CT> for some of the stuff he's doing.
I will never understand how that idiot wasn't slapped with charges of
blasphemy for that "God is a Democrat" remark during his campaign.
CT> Seems someone figured out that he's using
CT> a non-profit (right) organization to further his political beliefs.  He
CT> was using part of the 300 million, (you read that right) dollars that
CT> suckers were donating to him every year to pay for getting certain
CT> people elected to public office.
So much for the idea of a separation between church and state.  It
should be strictly illegal to run on a platform of religion.
Personally, I wonder how long it would be, should the slavering-
lunatic, ultra wrong-winged fundamentalist geeks ever get into office,
before they start stoking up the ovens for the jews again.
 * SLMR 2.1a * Call your mother.  No, no...VOICE!
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