These folks live a very insular life. The mix only with one another. Many only read something if it is biblically related. Often they do not take a news paper.
Hey, could someone e-mail me when the Florida voting results come in? [:>)} Bill Ward Tampa, FL On Wed, 11 Sep 2002 09:08:21 -0400 "Ed Weick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Karen, it wasn't me that wrote. I believe it was William Ward, who > made a > very interesting point about the focus on the afterlife. I recall > that > focus when, as a kid, I lived in a German Baptist immigrant > community in > rural Saskatchewan. It wasn't that the here and now was unimportant. > It was > just that everything one did in it was about getting to the > hereafter - > merit and demerit points for eternity - with God keeping score. The > more one > stoically suffered the vagaries, persecutions and indignities of > life on > earth, the more certain one was of being endowed with God's grace > and > getting to heaven. > > I'm certain that my own little fundamentalist community was not the > only one > that saw the world that way, and I've sometimes wondered how that > kind of > perspective has infused itself into the North America outlook - how, > despite > our much greater sophistication, it still informs how we behave and > divide > the world into good and evil. > > Ed > > Ed Weick > 577 Melbourne Ave. > Ottawa, ON, K2A 1W7 > Canada > Phone (613) 728 4630 > Fax (613) 728 9382 > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Karen Watters Cole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: "William B Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 11:00 PM > Subject: RE: Keystone Cops reappear in Florida > > > > Bill, I just finished reading about Florida Voting Disaster, the > sequel. > > Sorry to hear it. Really. > > (see > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62468-2002Sep10.html. > > Karen > > Ed wrote: I would guess that you have hit the nail on the head. > The USSR > was > > brought down with fax machines. I have spent a lot of time with > the > > Christian right. When we lived overseas, we would have a lot of > visitors > > of such ilk who realized that we did not watch their every move > and > > phrase the way that their coreligionists did. We also found these > > individuals to be very sincere and very caring but unquestioning > as you > > mentioned. We spent a year and a half going to an 'end of the > earth' > > church here in Tampa because the 2 foster teens living with us new > a > > bunch of people there. I do feel that their focus on the afterlife > has a > > lot to do with their failure to examine the here and now. > > > > > Bill, I still have the impression that the Old Guard advising > le > > > dauphin > > > Bush were not completely aware of the power of the internet and > the > > > changing > > > communication environment since they last had been inside the > > > Beltway. > > > There is today a much greater public appetite for openness in > > > government, > > > following on Watergate, but also from the tell-all books and > > > punditry that > > > has proliferated since Reagan-Bush. > > > It's almost as if they underestimate the press and the public's > > > ability to > > > disseminate information that is presented to them by their > > > leadership, as if > > > they lived in CEO vacuums oblivious to what the voting and > > > pension-building > > > public had become. > > > On the other hand, if your voting base is a group of > conservatives, > > > many of > > > them apostolic Christians who believe in the Bible literally > down to > > > the > > > commas, then they are presumed to be much more trusting and > > > accepting of > > > authority and top-down diktats. Therefore, if you motivate > your > > > base to > > > outnumber your opposition, that's all that matters. > > > Which brings us back to the voting booth: like so much else in > life, > > > half of > > > success is just showing up. > > > Karen > > > Karen quoted: > > > > > > "information from foreign informants have concluded they cannot > > > validate two > > > prominent allegations made by high-ranking administration > > > officials: > > > links between Hussein and al Qaeda members who have taken refuge > in > > > northern > > > Iraq" > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________________________________________ > > GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! > > Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! > > Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: > > http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/. > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/.
