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I understand you antipathy towards Swaggart...I have it too. But I would like to know what Robertson or Fallwell have done exactly to merit your wrath.

They are conservative,advocating reduced government,less taxes, more freedoms especially religious freedoms. I've read the histories on Islam, we can see how the more extreme elements would like to see Islam spread and practiced...can you say Burcka boys and girls? Even in more"enlightened" Islamic societies, personal freedoms are stifled. These men are calling a spade a spade and oddly enough I don't see them arguing from a religious point of view but rather an old fashioned American common sense one.

They are arguing that it is all well and good to be an open tolerant society, to embrace all cultures and faiths. But you can't embrace a viper to your bosom and not have it bite you! You might argue that that Falwell and Robertson have an extreme faith that you can not stomach, but they haven't advocated taking a 747 and flying it into the Kaaba stone at Mecca...or suicide bombing "innocent" Moslem children either.

If the attacks on our Christian Right leaders continue by the Government for simply calling spades as spades...I will work mightily among my friends and fellow church goers to vote against the Republicans in 2004! Terror may be the enemy, Messieurs Bush and Powell, but you need to get a grip as to what is fueling it, it's not a couple of guy's in black suits with reverend or doctor after their names...calling a spade a spade!

I understand you antipathy towards Swaggart...I have it too. But I would like to know what Robertson or Fallwell have done exactly to merit your wrath.

I have heard both of these idiots pronounce a sentence of hell at various times on different people. Falwell said that to Alan Dershowitz face on Geraldo's old show, adding "I'll pray for you..."
Now I, as with many FReepers, can't take a whole lot of A. "Dirt-for-wits" but I sure as hell don't know his ultimate fate. And for those with the arrogance to proclaim they DO KNOW is something, I believe, Jesus admonished us carefully about!