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I recently discovered a Scottish nationalist web site with an interesting and refreshingly honest statement on its religious position. It was so refreshingly honest that it has given me new insight as to why I, as a rural heartland Anglo-American from a Fundamentalist Protestant background, am denied any ethnic identity but am forced to be the world’s only human abstraction.

Siol nan Gaidheal takes the view that Religion is a cultural activity and that this offers the only realistic, modern and yet sympathetic interpretation of an often damaging theme. Our proper indigenous religion has long since been eclipsed by the florid Christian ethos which has subsequently elaborated layer upon layer of its creed by means of evangelisation and at the reformation of unhappy memory, by force; to its eventual arrival at our current level of division and uncertainty. In spite of all the resultant confusion and the legacy of sectarian bitterness, we are strongly inclined towards religious tolerance, believing that...

If you go to the web page of the current issue of The New American you will see that one of this month's articles (not posted online) is entitled "Not a conservative victory," with the following summary: The real winner in the 2002 congressional election is neoconservatism, an archenemy of the core principles of old-line American conservatism. Well, well, well. Would anyone care to guess what the definition of a "neoconservative" is? It's a conservative--any conservative--who supports Israel. Looks like Liberty Lobby Lite is coming out of the closet at last! Of course, there is the claim that "neoconservatives" are...