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Tonk, I EXPECT that crap from Leftists. But to encounter such America-hatred from the Right, and HERE, turns my stomach.

Some on this thread have praised Saddam Hussein "because he was nice to Christians", which is a mixture of naievete and predjudice I don't even wish to consider the implications of.

This is not Catholicism or even Christianity...it is fanatical extremism of the sort that has killed millions down through history regardless of which religion's mask it wore.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

"Tonk, I EXPECT that crap from Leftists.
But to encounter such America-hatred from the Right, and HERE, turns my stomach."

I learned long ago, just because someone posts on Free Republic does not they are sane.
Look at the "idiots" who back a traitor like Hanoi Kerry.

[SJackson]

This kind of thing gets to me. I grew up in a family of Italian/German origins in…

You’ve good reason to be outraged. On one of these threads you made an excellent point, that there’s a risk that a causal reader sees the posts of theocratic fascists wrapped in a false flag of “Christian America” and “conservatism”, and falsely presumes this is the view of the Republican party. It reinforces a stereotype of bigotry that the party hasn’t earned, but which persists. The concept of saving the “heretics” being defended here differs in no way from the concept of “saving” the unbelievers and uniting the world through jihad.

Hopefully the “Revising the Inquisition” threads will soon make their way to the chat and Religion forums. Out of sight, out of mind, and out of the political arena.

I’ll repeat what I said earlier, thanks to the wisdom of our founders, they knew the nature and persistence of European religious bigotry.