--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > <<Let's address your premise. First of all Bush's decision to go to war with Iraq had absolutely nothing to do with his religion or anybody else's. >>
Lol, you are incredibly naive about fundamentalist Christians and their (now waning) Fundamenstalist big money backers. <<<It was based on the history of Saddam Hussein and intelligence provided by the CIA as well as intelligence provided by other nations and the lack of compliance by Saddam with UN resolutions.>> Incorrect. It was entirely based on Bush et al's complete arrogance about themselves as superior fundie Christians. They put pressure on everyone to sex up the intelligence and if you WERE NOT WITH THEM, YOU WERE AGAINST THEM. They outed CIA agent whose husband questioned the flawed and exaggerated intelligence. The UN inspectors said there was no evidence. The pressure to conform was HUGE on all those invlovled with the administration. It was not based on REASON, but on ARROGANCE, the absolute core of which was the administrations belief in their religious superiority. You don't even know that John Ashcroft, for example, (I know someone who knows him personally) was a FANATIC born-again Christian, and believed without any DOUBT, that you are inferior and that you are going to Hell. Bush, Rice, Rove, and several others believed the same....vehemently. <<The rest of your diatribe is equally flawed.< BTW the Christians I know, don't feel superior to anybody. They don't believe they stand a snowball's chance in hell of entering the Kingdom of Heaven based upon their own works or efforts because they are just as flawed as a human Being as anybody else. I don't know a Christian who believes he deserves to go to heaven based upon his own conduct in life. They believe they are saved by the Grace of God by admitting they are flawed, repenting of their sins, and trusting Christ as their savior. >> You do not know a lot of Fundamnetalist Christians if you have not heard that they believe you are going to Hell for your inferior religious stance, and that you work for Satan unless you conform, and they consider themselves superior to other humans...just like fundie Muslims do. <<Further more they believe it is a gift, free, not costing $ 2,500.00 or more, to all that call on the name of Christ. >> Strawman...plus THEY DO ASK FOR MONEY...BIGTIME, and make them feel guilty and terrorise them with threat of Hell, if you are not a good Chritstian, and a good Christian according to them supports the preachers with everything they can. How naive can you get !? <<<last sentence, above, can equally be said to describe an awful lot of Transcendental Meditators as well. >> Not even close. Pure make-believe on your part. OffWorld .
