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TVBlogger - I had run into the "Land Letter" in the past but I do

appreciate the link.

I'm not a big Lou Dobbs fan and almost wanted to say aloud: "no shit Gumby" as I was reading the article, but then I realized how important it is that someone such as him relays this message. The scary part of the Land Letter (if memory serves) is that of the 5 who signed this document, most of them are religious educators of some sort. It should also be mentioned in fairness that there was a fairly vocal opposition to this document from within the Christian ranks but a lot of that was political postering.

posted by gomedome on May 9, 2007 at 3:27 PM | link to this | reply

sannhet - thank you . . . and we can demand a recount

posted by gomedome on May 9, 2007 at 3:19 PM | link to this | reply

strat - thank you

To this day I still have trouble listening to the people who want to traditionally define their God as all loving yet personify the worst of dscriminative human practrices themselves. They just don't seem to understand what the words spewing out of their mouths actually mean as they advance their religious messages.

posted by gomedome on May 9, 2007 at 3:18 PM | link to this | reply

Gramsci - that's funny and in your jest lies a good question

posted by gomedome on May 9, 2007 at 3:12 PM | link to this | reply

Xeno-x -if I had to pick a place where religious gobbly gook lost me it was

the first time I heard the phrase: "created in his own image".

Which at the time was being taught, enforced and exemplified to be a very caucasian white skinned image.

posted by gomedome on May 9, 2007 at 3:11 PM | link to this | reply

Guess it isn't me.

HAH! This is somewhat off topic, but I read an article that if you haven't see, I thought you'd want to... it's an article by Lou Dobbs about how religion and politics are converging in the US.

One thing that just appalled me was this quote, "Five evangelical Christian leaders signed the "Land Letter" to President Bush in 2002 affirming a Christian theological basis to invade Iraq." I had never heard this fact and I doubt most Americans have. A Christian basis to attack another nation that had not attacked us?.... Jesus must be rolling over in his... oh wait... well, I'm sure he'd be pretty damn annoyed. "That's NOT what I came to teach!"

posted by TVBlogger on May 9, 2007 at 2:19 PM | link to this | reply

Gome -

Two words: Well said! (Actually, I guess that is technically four words . . .)

posted by sannhet on May 9, 2007 at 11:25 AM | link to this | reply

As always,

this well written and thought out. And we all know that history shows again and again that well articulated logic generally scares and bewilders the Bejesus out of a lot of these folks.

Oh, well.

posted by strat on May 9, 2007 at 8:11 AM | link to this | reply

Hi Gome

Guess it's not me that's blocked.

I always find it quite interesting when people can think that "God" made all of us, and that he made us the way we are, yet he is going to punish most of us with "Hell" for the way he made us.