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To: Elsie
I believe our freedoms under our Constitution are absolute...

Only if they are fought for!

Indeed. And some of us have at various points in our lives sworn an oath (in my case an affirmation) to defend that constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. The question is, when the Christian Reconstructionists such as Gary North reject that constitution, why don't they fall under the rubric of 'enemies foreign and domestic'? You said 'Evo dudes' were trying to divide Christians. Shouldn't you be divided from them on this?

Incidentally, lest anyone think these are merely a fringe movement, the major financier of the Discovery Institute, Harold Ahmanson, is a Christian Reconstructionist

917 posted on 09/15/2005 7:55:49 AM PDT by Right Wing Professor (... just call me Pangloss.)
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To: Right Wing Professor

Correction: that's Howard Ahmanson.


918 posted on 09/15/2005 7:57:16 AM PDT by Right Wing Professor (... just call me Pangloss.)
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To: Right Wing Professor
The question is, when the Christian Reconstructionists such as Gary North reject that constitution, why don't they fall under the rubric of 'enemies foreign and domestic'?

Fair point, but let's be honest, we are talking about a group of utter fantasists with delusions of self-importance and daydreams of world domination. Thoughts, however delusion al, aren't a crime.

Actions can be. No need to point out that some Islamic jihadists also have fantasies of world domination and imagine that someday the United States will follow sharia law--and have acted on those delusions. They cannot win (if only because there will always be enough of us to take the oath or affirmation to defend our freedoms, as you pointed out). But it is genuinely frightening to me that our home-grown theocrats use a perverse 'logic' that seems to me indistinguishable from Communism; it is certainly a tyrannical vision, at odds (in my view, at least) with our freedoms.

1,009 posted on 09/15/2005 12:59:39 PM PDT by SeaLion ("Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man" -- Thomas Paine)
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To: Right Wing Professor

There are nuts everywhere; of every type and financial status.


1,226 posted on 09/16/2005 5:45:25 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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To: Right Wing Professor
There are nuts everywhere; of every type and financial status.

Of course; no TRUE Scotsman is nuts!

1,227 posted on 09/16/2005 5:46:14 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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