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From: donnella whitacre 
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 6:43 PM
Subject: Re: [rhetoric-list] The Brownshirting of America

donnella asks:
"if religion has nothing to do with it , why bring it up?"

I mis-stated... "Religion" actually has a lot to do with it. 

"Religion", as most of us act on it, is a cultural institution,
not a spiritual institution. And as such, it answers to society's 
requirements, including war for oil. "Thou shalt not kill" is
interpreted as "Thou shalt not murder" to allow our Judeo-
Christian nation to engage in wars with the flimsiest of
rarionalizations.

The "Christians" are as culpable as "Jews" on this issue.
(notice the quote marks)

The funny thing is: How often people would scream "anti-semitism" 
for saying 50% of the neofasc... I mean cons are Jewish, but they
wouldn't say I was "anti-Christian" for saying: "50% of them are 
Christians".

Same facts, different responses... It's food for thought.

It's to your credit that you didn't "jerk" the anti-semitism 
"knee", Donnella. In the years to come, the more rational 
and critical minds working on the problems that face 
humankind as a whole... the better.

Leigh Meyers
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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