The Present Threat of the Religious Right to Our Modern Free
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The Present Threat of the Religious Right to Our Modern Freedoms.
Edward Tabash gave this speech to members of the Center For Inquiry during a recent cruise in the Galapagos. He will also be at the AAI 2007 Conference in DC, as advertised on RichardDawkins.net . Edward Tabash's website is at www.tabash.com . See more videos like this at: http://RichardDawkins.n
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However, IMO people with modest religious faith are better citizens (on average) than those without faith. I find them to be more tolerant and compassionate than those who are contemptuous of religion. I've found the most hateful, and potentially violent people are secular radicals on the Left. P
olitical ideology serves as their "religion".
My objection is the Left's hatefulness and ridicule of EVERYTHING related to religion. I don't think I've ever met a religious person who believes in literal interpretations of scripture to the point where they reject science and logic.
No, nothing has changed. The religious fringe has made ZERO progress in the courts or legislatively. And the reason is because Rep pols don't believe in it. They trot out the red meat at election time and then do nothing once in office. No threat at all
The threat from the religious lunatic fringe has been greatly exaggerated. The Left uses it to fear-monger...to scare the shit out of their Base and to generate campaign contributions and to turn out the vote. But I'm glad you agree that dictatorships have religious trappings; like our radical Le
ft.
Re the communists, I don't understand your points. A fundamental tenet of marxism is denial of god, therefore in USSR/China religion was banned. The marxists set the State up as god; it was a secular religion.
You keep missing my point. The Reps "TALK" about these hot-button issues all the time; they want to get voter turnout from the Base and to get campaign donations. But...once in office, they do virtually nothing. Bush is the perfect example. Your post proves my point; you can't come up with any c
oncrete examples of where Rep pols have crossed the church/state boundries.
You seem to keep compaining about something that doesn't exist. You keep implying that the religious Right has political power and/or is about to take control and establish a dictatorship. The religious Right has NO political power and never will. It's a fear tactic by the Dems to get people like
you cranked up.
My point was that there has been no legislation at the national level (by the Pres or congress) to ban gay anything. It's a hot-button issue the Reps use to get the Base energized...and then once in power they do nothing but talk. Also IMO, many of the state props are primarily a gut reaction to
radical initiatives of the Left. The Left's rhetoric is hateful and they go too far.
I'll admit that the only alternative to capitalism is a dictatorship. However, Marx was against social tyranny (like dictatorships). As a matter of fact, the communism of Marx resembles Earth, as depicted in Star Trek in many ways...