Reply #44: If we REALLY wanted to fight dirty, it MIGHT be usable... [View All]

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Remember Susan Smith? The lady who drove her two little boys into the drink, and at first blamed some African-American carjacker?

Does anyone remember what Newt Gingrich said about this, after her story was blown?

Does anyone remember how he got up on his soap box and said (paraphrasing) how this is what happens when you vote for Democrats?

I mean, to me, TRYING for a moment to stand aside from my roaring partisanship, I'm a lifelong Catholic. I went to Catholic school from K through 12. We did a LOT of Bible study, scriptural analysis, comparative religions, catechism, church history, LOADS of religious-related stuff. In an attempt to use that filter, alone, my gut would respond that - "JEEZ. This is what happens when you go overboard with the extreme fundamentalism crap." I tend to react that way, politics aside, when I hear anything of this sort. When I hear about the "creation science" BS being shoved down our kids' throats by some agenda-driven "teachers" and school boards, and when bush himself spews such baloney as "the jury's still out" on evolution. I mean, PUH-LEEEEEEEEZE! I went to wall-to-wall Catholic school, taught by nuns and Jesuits and Jesuit drop-outs, whose agenda was certainly anything but to drive students away from God, and I can still come to some truly secular, objective conclusions.

THIS IS WHAT YOU GET when you bet the farm on fundamentalism. And, certainly, the extremist Islamic fringe is sufficient evidence to support this. Different religion. Same basic whacko-ism. I'd sure like to see that message get out, overtly OR covertly.