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last post had incorrect to: was in response to c-five posting.

The comment did, actually address the article. New McCarthyism. McCarthyism was, in essence, about singling people out, slapping a label on them, and persecuting/prosecuting them. Step one- label.
I chose the words that I did from being of rural upbringing living in an urban area and have been given this label far too many times by those who criticize rural America and all of it's ways and means without ever settting foot outside of the city. It's irksome, irritating, as you must be able to relate to, the tag seems to bug you as well. It should. To throw simplified tags onto a group accomplishes nothing, takes us further away from the notion of, "One Nation, under God, with liberty and justice for all."
After a few days of scrolling through endless blogs and message boards of many viewpoints it strikes me that there is too much oversimplification from both sides. Liberals and Conservatives both are too quick to resort to these propagandistic tactics, "McCarthyism" "Nazism" "Wing-nuts" "Crackers" make your own list, there are plenty of terms out there.
The attacks on Christianity have gone on since the birth of Christ, and historically, haven't adopting the practices and teachings of Christ been the most effective ways of dealing with the cynics and critics? When did it become Christian to judgmentally label for effect, fear-monger through semantics, or beat a war drum? What's wrong with the idea of taking the moral and ethical high ground, ask Jesus to forgive them and continue to pray in public places, to espouse our Christian values wherever and whenever we wish, (everyone else is doing it- anyone do a Buhrka count lately?) and not sink to the level of secular agitators with the pointless name calling that is doing nothing but dividing our Nation even further?
An aside- what does my registration date have to do with anything? I don't think or have a valid contribution to a discussion until an arbitrary grace period goes by? This forum appeared to have the best content (site in entirety) of the many I looked at. Sorry if joining the team is somehow offensive.

to insist that all liberals are anti-christian makes about as much sense as insisting that anyone who lives in a rural area is a gun toting swivel head drinking corn from a jelly jar. When is discussion, criticism, and discourse going to get out of the realm of half-assed name calling and cute little witticisms- on both sides- left and right?