Reply #13: well put. it's a slightly different take on where I was at... [View All]

[PretzelWarrior]

that basically we gotta figure out the best calculus on this. Keeping the VALUES people out front and center may very well be a way to get the ball rolling that ultimately flattens them.

It's weird. THis badness started when some religious leaders took Christ's teachings and twisted them to fit some egomaniacal, greedy purpose. Then the wider group of Christian denominations bought into it. THen they got politically organized and active. Now the Republican party is taken over by them. And now they are trying to take over the whole country's dialogue and direction.

It would be something to read more and more reports out of European news agencies commenting on these nutcases similar to how an AP or CBS or NYTimes guy might go write a long form piece on the whacked Taliban or the earlier fascination with Ayatollah Komeini and that brand of arch conservative Islam. THese folks should be treated like the National Geographic oddity they are.