Great post, Clark.
A couple short comments:
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> I don't think Gore is a born again Baptist, any more than Clinton is. I
> suspect both men are religious skeptics
The media reported during Gore's campaign that he had aggressively
renewed his faith in the recent past,and is a born-again Southern Baptist.
Whether he would have imposed his religious values upon his office,
had he been elected, is unknown. However, Gore made it clear that
he was behind Leiberman's pet project to beef up mandatory ratings-
maybe even some sort of censorship-in the entertainment industry,
also a long standing crusade for Tipper Gore. The allusions to this
issue seemed to stem from concerns that are not that far from the
religious right; God and family.
> As I mentioned in a previous
> post, one of the ideas of the Reagan years that made me genuinely ill was
> Reagan's personal belief that the Rapture was coming soon. Reagan believed
> we didn't need to worry about exploiting the environment as Jesus was coming
> soon to straighten out everything and recreate the world order for a thousand
> years of peace.
Funny, I was just thinking about that this morning. Reagan believed
he was going to be presiding over the apocalypse, which would be
global nuclear war. James Watt was convinced of the same.
Religious fanaticism combined with the awesome powers of
the upper government is a wee bit dangerous.
In the Rolling Stone interview with Gore this summer, the
reporter notes that there is a guy with Gore at all times that
carries the "football", an electronic device capable of launching
nuclear war by remote control. I don't really feel comfortable
letting anyone have that kind of power.
RR
