> Ray Evans Harrell wrote:
>
> Good point Brad but it gets worse. When the gold that wasn't melted
> down arrived in Holland it was observed by none other than Albrecht
> Durer who said that the articles were the most beautiful things he had
> ever seen. That included gold and silver work as well as armour,
> clothing, and other fine things. So how did those Spaniards of less
> that five hundred defeat a city of 250,000 and bring back only the
> gold? The answer? Smallpox. We may very well get a taste of
> such things again and experience a rag/tag group of terrorists taking
> credit for decimating the third largest nation on the face of the
> earth.
>
[snip]
I fail to see the analogy, since we already have the
pox [deregulation].
Neither do we have a national myth that a Great Man in a
White Turban is coming from the East to save us in 2001.
--
And we have seen that "these people" have immunity
to secular bourgeois materialism: Mohammad Atta
engaged in all kinds of sinful American activities and was not
deflected from his purpose -- unlike Americans who do not
just do sinful acts but succumb in their hearts too.
I think a better analogy would have been if the Aztec
and Inca empires were so rotten to the core that all
the COnquistyadores had to do to defeat them was to
knock their human sacrifice alters off the top of their
pyramids for their whole society to topple: "Exhalted
Inca, Sir! The unimaginable has happened to us! Those
axes of evil pushed the sacrificial alter down the
side of the pyramid! Nobody, Sir, could ever have
imagined such a thing!" "Thank you Counsellor Reiz.
I shall issue a Fatwa [translate this English
word into Aztec/Inca] against these people
without souls! They will not succeed in
destroying our commitment to free enterprise, --
I meant human sacrifices!"
\brad mccormick
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Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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