--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote:
> > >
> > > --- In [email protected], "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote:
> > > <snip>
> > > > Are you suggesting that the largest new age organization of the
> > > > 70's wasn't a target of the most fanatical evangelical 
> Christian 
> > > > president we'd ever had?
> > > 
> > > Oh, PLEASE.  Jimmy Carter is *not* a "fanatic" by any
> > > stretch of the imagination.  To the contrary, he embodies
> > > the very best of Christian fundamentalism and lives his 
> > > faith in a way few on this forum could claim to emulate.
> > > 
> > > That's not to say he didn't have serious problems with
> > > TM, but it wasn't a function of "fanticism."
> > 
> > OK, the msot devout and dedicated-to-a-fault
> > fundamentalist/evangelical Christian President 
> > we've ever had (unlike Bush, who is simply
> > arrogant and unable to reassess his own 
> > behavior).
> 
> No argument with this!
> 
> No kidding, when people complain about fundie
> Christians all being fanatics and intolerant and
> so on, Carter's the counterexample (not the only
> one, but the most prominent).
> 
> It isn't fundamentalism per se that's the problem,
> it's the individual fundamentalist.
> 
> (And it's no accident that Carter is a Democrat!)
>

I remain unconvinced that Carter is a good counter-example. He's a pacifist, 
but he's still 
intolerant.







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