Re: American Empire as Gated Community

[Richard Zvonar <zvonar@zvonar.com>]

At 10:12 PM +0000 1/3/03, Steve Lawson wrote:

>To be fair, I don't think being God-fearing is the problem...since 
>when did Jesus talk about the darwinian onward march of the 
>free-market or the clamp-down on freedom of speech... I seem to 
>remember blessed are the poor in there somewhere too...

Religion has never of itself been the problem, but the co-option of 
religion by the politically ambitious has commonly led to great 
"evil" (to use their terminology. There are many fine and sincere 
Christians who oppose war and embrace the core teachings of Christ, 
but they are not the ones in charge. I propose adoption of the term 
"Christianist" (cf. "Islamist") to denote those who would pervert 
Christianity for political and economic gain.
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