“We may need another 9/11,” he declared slowly, a teacher reciting a lesson, “to bring about a full spiritual revival.”

This is the most frightening news article I have ever read.

If you should go skating,
On the thin ice of modern life,
Dragging behind you the silent reproach,
Of a million tear-stained eyes,
Dont be surprised when a crack in the ice,
Appears under your feet.
You slip out of your depth and out of your mind,
With your fear flowing out from behind,
You as you claw the ice.

wwjd?

hey mcgarpat..that poem reminded me of an old Jethro Tull song I haven't heard in years....Skating Away (on the thin ice of a new day)..not really relevant but hey

That poem reminds me of Pink Floyd

hahaha

Ian Anderson is great. I just saw him in concert. AWESOME

I had a friend who's theory was that religious fervor is strongest in areas where people are the poorest. 'Look around the world.', he says, 'where do you find these fanatics? Wherever there is poverty.'

As we see the masses get poorer and poorer relative to a smaller and smaller percentage of elite wealthy types, we see the fanatical religion taking stronger and stronger a hold.

If only this were true, then maybe real christians would exist..... it is however unfortunate that the christofascists (god forgive me) are based in the middle to upper classes of white america, most of whom could honestly could give less than two shits about poor people

interesting stuff, although a little stilted against the right.

The actual past no more serves the imagination of secularism than that of fundamentalism. Liberals like to point out that many of the Founders were not, in fact, Christian but rather deists or downright unbelievers. Fundamentalists respond by trotting out the Founders’ most pious words, of which there are many (Franklin proposing prayer at the Constitutional Convention; Washington thanking God for His direct hand in revolutionary victories; etc., etc.). Liberals shoot back with the Founders’ Enlightenment writings, and note their dependence on John Locke; fundamentalists respond that Locke helped the Carolinas write a theocentric constitution.

But fundamentalist historians can also point, accurately, to the subsequent instances of overlooked religious influence in American history—not just Sergeant York’s Christian trigger finger and Stonewall Jackson’s tragic example but also the religious roots of abolitionism, the divine justification used to convert or kill Native Americans, the violent piety of presidents—not just Bush and Reagan but also Lincoln and McKinley and Wilson and even sweet Jimmy Carter, the first born-again president, led by God and Zbigniew Brzezinski to funnel anti-Communist dollars to the bloodthirsty Salvadoran regime.

Ends strongly but I'm still disturbed.

Religion is a crutch for a weak mind.

'They don’t silence sex; they promise sacred sex to those who couple properly—orgasms more intense for young Christians who wait than those experienced by secular lovers.'

Why didn't they say so in the first place. I want Xtian orgasms!