[JCEccles]

Anyone who believes that American Christian conservatives and the Taliban are substantially the same needs to live among the Taliban for a week. That's like saying orange juice and hydroflouric acid are sunstantially the same thing. I say: guzzle a quart of each and get back with me with your findings.

[Sentis]

And where did I say they are exactly the same? Akin but not the same. The religious right has made advances into the present century that would honestly disgust Christians in the past. Thats a good thing and some of us don't want to fall back that far.

[Artemis Webb]

I think what Sentis is saying, if I can be so bold: Is that any type of theocracy has the capacity for zealous totalitarianism. So obviously at this point in time when we live in a country of "one man, one vote" Christian Conservatives are simply a participating force in US politics.

Were Christian Conservatives in defacto totalitarian control they would in fact be every bit as prone to the same horrific behavior as the Taliban.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

I say all this for the sake of discussion and that I'm too bored to go play pinochle. I do not for a minute consider a Christian conservative coup to be anywhere in the realm of possibility.