As much as I respect religion and those who believe in it (ANY religion,
FWIW), it disturbs me a lot to have an elected official making his/her
decisions based on the Holy Scriptures or any other faith-based document.
IMHO, decision-making processes in political questions should be based on a
carefully weighed assessment of available options, risks, likely outcomes,
etc.

When I hear about GWB quoting the Bible, I'm disturbed. When I read about
this or that official building (Ala. Supreme Court ?) posting the 10
Commendments, I'm disturbed. When I read on greenbacks "In God we Trust",
I'm disturbed. When I follow the occasional threads aboug the Pledge being
read aloud in schools, I'm disturbed too. You guys in the States have the
largest Democracy on earth, yet you are clearly biased in favor of the
Christian religion and its various branches. You pretend to separate Church
and State, yet you do not make a clear distinction between both.

So when GWB shouts "Who's not with us is against us", it's clearly
Bible-based bias. It's also a good way to spoil a two-century old alliance
beyond recognition. And I certainly regret this.

Christian

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]]De la
> part de Greg Stigers
> Envoye : vendredi 19 mars 2004 23:36
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> Objet : Re: [HP3000-L] OT: The cycle of democracy
>
>
> Erik Vistica wrote
> > The idea of there not being any neutral ground came out of
> Jesus' mouth.
> Well... Yosef showed restraint in only quoting a single
> instance of such a
> point, that there are important "issues" on which there are
> no moderate
> positions. The coin has two only sides. And the law and the
> prophets and the
> writings have more instances than just the one Yosef alluded
> to. So, perhaps
> Jesus was being deliberately derivative. Certainly, GWB was being
> derivative, although I doubt that I want to get into why and
> whether was
> reasonable in so doing. Rather, I wanted to point out the frequently
> overlooked relationship between the words of Jesus, Paul, and
> others, and
> the Scriptures as they had them.
>
> Greg Stigers, MCSA
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