--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In a message dated 1/6/08 10:55:28 A.M. Central Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > In the first place, he says explicitly that > becoming a Christian wasn't an epiphany, it > was a choice. He didn't go the "born-again" > route. > > In the second place, if he'd been a Muslim, > it wouldn't have been the rise of the Christian > Coalition (using the term "Christian" very > loosely) that would have made it a disadvantage, > it would have been 9/11. > > In the third place, *there wasn't anything to > bury*. He was never a Muslim. You know that. > You're just trying desperately to come up with > some rationalization. > > > But, who knows? > > Anybody who's been paying attention. > > > I really doubt anybody that reads FFL cares, do you?:) > > One more time: Most people here, I'm sure, are > aware that Obama was never a Muslim. What some > of us care about is the right-wingers' cynical > attempt to exploit xenophobia and ignorance to > turn folks against Obama, or--in your case here-- > to troll for outrage among knowledgeable people > and then pretend the outrage is evidence of > xenophobia on our part. Any decent-minded person > would find that insulting in the extreme. > > If he didn't go the born again "route" he's not a Christian.
Bullshit. You know what I mean by "born-again route." <snip> > Excuse the cynicism No. It's inexcusable and dishonest. <snip> > I never trolled for outrage. It spews forth spontaneously from > you and acidreflux. Do you honestly believe anybody that reads > FFL would be offended if Obama was a Muslim? So why should you if > he is incorrectly or not, labeled one. <snip> > I really doubt my question could have influenced, as nefarious, > as you seem to think it was, anybody on this list's opinions > about Obama I've now explained to you at least three times why I jumped on you, including in the post you're responding to. It's not rocket science, and you aren't stupid. Anybody who thinks MDixon is being straightforward about all this, reread the paragraph from my post quoted above beginning "One more time..."
