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To: COL. FLAGG
No, I think she was making a facetious allusion to the Constantinian heresy of the Crusaders. The Crusaders thought people could be converted at sword point. Almost no one in Christendom believes this nonsense anymore.

Ah, but the Muslims do accuse us of being Crusaders! So, she pressed the matter with an ironic vengeance. She is always indulging in this kind of flamboyant irony, I might add.

If she was kidding, then why was she canned? Because most people, even most conservatives, do not have a Christian's sense of irony. And most people do not like aggressive Christianity--even rhetorically aggressive Christianity.

70 posted on 12/30/2001 6:52:57 AM PST by the_doc
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To: the_doc
No, I think she was making a facetious allusion

Ah Doc, sorry burst your bubble, but she wasn't being facetious when she initially made that statement in a column that she wrote for National Review shortly after 9/11.

She wrote "We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity"

National Review dropped her as a columnist shortly thereafter. They did not consider her words facetious.

72 posted on 12/30/2001 7:05:46 AM PST by COL. FLAGG
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