At 05:38 PM 5/6/2004 -0500 Dan Minette wrote: >If going to Bob Jones University, .... > is required to win the Republican primary in South Carolina, .... > Otherwise why go?
Yeah, democracy's a real bitch. I don't know that it was required to win to go to Bob Jones University, but the idea that Catholics should object to, say, Seventh Day Adventists voting for the same candidates as we would - is, well, nothing short of absurd. Indeed, anybody who says otherwise doesn't understand the first thing about democracy. After all, the alternative is a set of deep sectarian divisions in which adherents of different religions do not mix and instead stay loay solely to their own sectarian parties. Indeed, Tom Beck is apparently expressing surprise that at least one Catholic has rejected this disutopian alternative, and has instead chosen to be an active participant in a pluralist democracy. Then again, every single thing that Tom Beck has ever had to say about Christianity, let alone Catholics, on this list has been absurd - and its kind of weird that I'm the only guy here who will call him on it. This is no different than that long rant he posted about how worried he was that Christians were daring to *pray* for the President of the United States. Oh the horror!!!! Let me put it this way, if George Bush were to come to Columbia Union College (the Seventh Day Adventist College) in Takoma Park and speak, not only would I not be offended - but I would probably try and get tickets to go. JDG - Not getting into the "Republicans Appeal to Racists" chestnut... we have Fools around here for that topic.
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