--- Nick Arnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Horn, John wrote:
> 
> > This is one of the most terrifying things I have read in a long,
> > long, LONG time.  
> 
> Me too.  Especially coming from Bill Moyers.  The statistics really 
> stopped me.
> 
> I'm religious, but I know the difference (I think) between what is 
> irrational and what is non-rational.  I'm deeply disturbed, even 
> frightened, by the growth and seeming acceptance of irrationality in our 
> culture.  Irrationality seems increasingly confused with the
> non-rational.

Last time I was home in New England, a rather enlightened and liberal
place, free of most of the trappings of religiosity, I wandered past a
couple debating whether Jesus would be upset with them for buying Easter
egg coloring kits.

> I ask myself, what provokes widespread irrational beliefs -- what are 
> these people reacting to?  Some sort of vast sense of helplessness? 

Your questions remind me that I need to read "What's the matter with
Kansas?"  

-k-

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