[Ogmios]

Most, if they think about it, will realize that it is the extremes that cause the problems.

The world is on a pendulum swinging right and swinging left, religious theocracies, antireligious dictatorships, one extreme to the other, both are just as bad as the other.

A mix, that is the ticket, and that is what we have in this country, right down the middle, sure it goes a little far right and a little far left now and again, but it is self correcting, and it will correct itself, and will continue.

You think that it has gone too far left, and it will come back right, but then it will come too far right, and will have to go left again.

The left has the advantage right now, but the pendulum is swinging.

[dangus]

I disagree... Your pendulum theory is another thing my left-wing professors always said to try to suggest that the present excesses would disappear, and subtly suggest that if anyone had a problem wit them, they would help swing the pendulum too far the other way.

There is nothing wrong with an excess of true religious spirituality. Look at the greatest religious extremist of all time, Jesus Christ. Not a bad guy! The problem is religoius frauds, irreligious people who cloak themselves in religion to lead people astray, and nut jobs who overcompensate for their insecurity about their *lack* of faith by becoming sticklers for outward appearances. (The religious equivalent to the homophobic gay.)

I can't prove it, but look at the days the terror-bombers lived immediately before they struck... did their actions demonstrate a love for God? (Hookers, drugs, gambling.) Or look at the whack job Calvinists who give fundamentalists a bad name... Does their belief that God will destroy and eternally torment everybody but them speak of a faith in God's love?