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athenap · 7 months ago

No pro-choicer ever bombed a maternity ward.

katiec · 7 months ago

Great article. These bigots, anti-everything American are
hiding behind their false belief of Christianity.
And, they are dangerous. They have and continue to feed
hate, anger, unrest, Palin being an excellent example.
They are hypocrits of the worst kind.

clytemnestra · 7 months ago

because you can't be an environmentalist without being a left wing violent ecoterrorist - right?

I took a rwinger on over this because he said the report said said "conservative." (and had a racial component) I replied that it did not, in either case. I had gone through the document.

I asked him if he meant such and such section (giving the name and page number)_ which was the closest I could come to coming anywhere close to what he was claiming (which was still a country mile away) - he didn't respond.

I asked him if one could be a conservative or a republican without being a right wing extremist or is is saying that they are all the same thing - he didn't respond.

Gridlock · 7 months ago

That says it all. Do the world a favor: euthanize that person.

kladinvt · 7 months ago

Excellent article. I was wondering if anyone would remember to way back before 911, when the "turrorists" were people like Timothy McVeigh, or the Branch Davidians or the Ruby Ridge nuts. All of which were homegrown extremists, entrenched in the lunacy of the far-right fringe, who are paranoid, fearful, racist, homophobic, & armed to the teeth! The christian right, is just the "religious" arm of these hate-groups, whose purpose is to justify their hate & violence.
Gov Perry's comments of secession are an off-shoot of these groups as well.

vkobaya · 7 months ago

Ah, but the other side to this argument is that which we've seen here in the americablog comments that all Christians and all religious people are extremists and should be shot on sight as all Christians and religous people would do the same to non-Christians.Please grant that many Christians are moderates who don't demand that everyone else agree with them. I find my in deep conflict at the Christian evangelical movement.

cgindc · 7 months ago

Most religions throughout history, have had the bad habit of forcing people to agree with them, or be slaughtered, er, liberated. Think the Ottoman Empire, or the Inquisition. Add to that, if one studies the world's religions, one sees the same memes popping up again and again. Virgin Birth, Rising from the grave, etc. Chrisitianity didn't think these things up for the first time. Finally, you make a claim about "the other side of the argument" with rather shocking statements but then don't back them up with facts: who said this, when, in what comments? Putting aside that fact that this is not the "other side", (which would be that Religious and other extremists are not trying to influence newly returned veterans) I personally have never seen anyone advocate death by firings squad of all religious people here at America blog. While granting that some Christians are moderate, one must also agree that some are not, as with any faith. However, those who don't believe in the Abrahamic faiths have been thoughout history persecuted more often than those that do. All religions are constantly prostletyzing. Personally, I would love it if people realised that this is all we get and tried to make the best of it, which is what I believe. How many times do you get people coming to your door offering that as a solution. When I tell these people that's what I believe, how often do you think that's accepted with a smile?

Mum48 · 7 months ago

I must be missing something, because I really haven't seen very many comments on Americablog that allege that "all Christians and all religious people are extremists and should be shot on sight as all Christians and religious people would do the same to non-Christians." Of course many (probably most) Christians are moderates. And a significant number (and growing) are progressive/liberal. Let's be careful with generalities. They really do little to advance rational discourse.

threadmonitor · 7 months ago

What you write about AMERICAblog comments regarding Christians is untrue, vkobaya. More of it will be deleted and you will be banned.

sobyrne4 · 7 months ago

You know, I was watching re runs of the West Wing last night and I almost always cheer when Bartlett tells the Religious leaders int he first episode that they WILL denounce right wing extremist religious groups before they can wheel and deal with HIS White House.

That is what Obama should do publicly. Make the religious leaders denounce these fringe groups in public.

Next in the arsenal should be the exempt tax status that these religious groups have, take it away!!!

And finally they need to go after these groups like they went after the KKK, sue their God fearing asses into oblivion.

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leo · 7 months ago

Talk about soft on crime...

BRob · 7 months ago

The Southern Poverty Law Center reports in its Spring 2009 issue that there were 926 hate groups inh the U.S. in 2008 and that is a 50% increase since 2000. Moreover, "...the best government study" suggests that 210,000 people per year are the victims of hate crimes. Where were Cheney and his friends while this explosion of terrorist groups was occuring on his watch? Where is the American public's outrage?

Mum48 · 7 months ago

After first regarding it as a bit of overkill, I've come to really love the phrase "American Taliban" applied to the religious right. Having seen some of the posters that were deployed at the various teaparty/teabagging events on April 15, I think that the phrase can probably be applied to the entire right wing, religious or not.