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                                             March   31, 2005
                                             January  5, 2007
                                             November 5, 2009

There's a popular view among
people of my ilk (or one of my
ilks-- that is to say, the
secular humanists)--

An image of Christian Fundamentalists as
a massively powerful force for evil in       FUNDAMENT
the United States, and hence the world.


                                         I often felt like this was
                                         an exaggerated portrait...

                                         How big are their
                                         numbers, after all?

                                         The Republicans don't need to do
                                         much more than toss them a few
                                         bones now and then-- and they
                                         can't do too much more than
                                         that, because what the fundies
                                         really want-- or think that they
                                         want-- includes some extremely
                                         unpopular ideas, such as making
                                         abortion illegal.


But then, they've been the
core constituency of a
particularly nasty
Republican regime...

And watching these people in
action against the rather mild       But then, it could be that we're looking at
and moderate Obama administration    phonies, hired guns who are just using that
does make one wonder.                as their cover. Astroturf. (Or perhaps,
                                     "astroturds".)

After the 2004 election, Mark
Crispin Miller has had a tendency
to rant about "theocrats"...
That was how the Right could
rig elections: they had an               This is his answer for the
infinite supply of do-or-die             objection "Too many people
fanatics for whom any crime              would have to be in on it".
could be justified.
                                         For me, the solution is simpler:
                                         I don't really think that it
                                         took all that many people (not
                                         with automated election rigging
                                         machines on their side).

But how is it possible that the                Though I suppose it *could* be
"mainstream" media has been so                 that this is one of the things
badly rigged?  There's not really              that motivated the core group...
much doubt on that score at this
point, is there?



Back in the 80s, you often
heard people (John Stockwell
comes to mind) complaining
that the Fundamentalists were             I've always found this hard to
actively *trying* to destroy              believe: it's logically
the world, because they                   consistent with what some of
believed that will bring                  them say, but that means next
about the end times, and lead             to nothing where religious
to the Rapture.                           belief is concerned.

                                          Christians have a long history
                                          of ignoring any part of their
                                          doctrine that seems inconvienient.



                  So here we have yet another
                  orgy of waffling on my part,
                  a "thoughtful" debate with myself
                  where I dodge back and forth
                  among the issues and end up
                  nowhere.  The best lack all
                  conviction, or so I tell myself.



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