Reply #35: Fundamentalists still have tax-exempt status, even as they preach partisan hatred... [View All]

And the only churches the government prosecutes are Unitarians and Quakers who preach peace and war resistance.

We must revoke the tax-exempt status of EVERY religion. The good ones will survive. The real-estate scams and pedophile protectors will go under. They have done this in Europe, and it works. Its called something like secularization.

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But, to your post - yes, they "slowly reveal the gestalt", as Berman would put it. He says that the Hitler carefully titrated how much of his anti-Christian agenda was released. He clamped down hard on public spiritualists, even as his inner circle (especially Himmler) dabbled in the occult.

So, these crafted phrases like "Axis of Evil" introduce the religious connotation of "evil", i.e., the devil, into the political conversation. Everyone says Bush talks in code to the fundies. Bush blurs the line between the GWOT and the religious war against secularism, against being comfortable in your own body, against feminism.

arendt