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Religious extremism is alive and well in this country. If you don't believe that, perhaps you should read the following quotations from Randall Terry (Operation Rescue and Terri Schiavo):

1. "When I, or people like me, are running the country, you'd better flee, because we will find you, we will try you, and we will execute you. I mean every word of it. I will make it part of my mission to see to it that they are tried and executed...If we're going to have true reformation in America, it is because men once again, if I may use a worn out expression, have a righteous testosterone flowing through their veins. They are not afraid of contempt for their contemporaries. They are not here to get along. They are here to take over..." (Randall Terry, Addressing a banquet sponsored by the US Tax Payes Alliance, Aug. 8, 1995)

2. "I want you to just let a wave of intolerance wash over. I want you to let a wave of hatred wash over you. Yes, hate is good...Our goal is a Christian nation. We have a biblical duty, we are called by God to conquer this country. We don't want equal time. We don't want pluralism." (Randall Terry, The News Sentinel, Fort Wayne, IN, Aug. 16, 1993)

Or, we could examine Pat Robertson, and his public call for the assassination of Venzuelan President Chavez. I will not argue whether or not it is right or wrong to use assassination to further national security. However, it is really stupid and shows a total lack of judgement, to publicly call for an assassination.

Firstly, I am not a Randall Terry fan, but I would like to see his comments to make certain they are not being taken out of context. I am almost certain you have done so.

Secondly, Robertson was wrong to have said what he did, but they are not the policy of any Christian church that I am aware of except maybe the a few in the Christian Identity Movement, and to label those as true Christians is INSANE.

Or, we could examine Pat Robertson, and his public call for the assassination of Venzuelan President Chavez. I will not argue whether or not it is right or wrong to use assassination to further national security. However, it is really stupid and shows a total lack of judgement, to publicly call for an assassination.

At what point do you cross the line? Is calling for the Assassination of Saddam Hussein, or Pol Pot, or Stalin, or the Chicoms unjustified?

And what about Randi Rhodes on Air America?

Just stirring the pot...

When I, or people like me, are running the country, you'd better flee, because we will find you, we will try you, and we will execute you.

Randall Terry is a nut, but you're not stupid enough to think he wants to harm non-Christians, are you? This statement was addressed to Euthanizers: people who have killed someone to "end their misery". Terry believes euthanasia is murder, and that murderers should be executed.