[Rhodes22-list] definition "religious kook" (as requested)

[Herb Parsons]

Really Pete? You have some sort of information that backs that up? Or is 
this just you imposing what you want others to believe? I'm a "right 
wing evangelical", care to tell me what it is that I believe, or am I 
free to chose that for myself?

petelargo wrote:
> yea really. even tho Brad makes fun of the obama-messiah, the truth is that
> the extreme evangelical stranglehold that supported and came in with Bush
> actually did believe that God ordained and sent Bush to strike down the
> infidels (non-believers) in Iraq.  
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> Todd Tavares wrote:
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>> Pete, If you changed a few words, it sound would sound exactly like the
>> present administration's foreign policy. Todd T
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>>   ----- Original Message -----
>>   From: petelargo
>>   To: rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org
>>   Subject: [Rhodes22-list] definition "religious kook" (as requested)
>>   Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 05:39:38 -0700 (PDT)
>>
>>
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>>   an individual who is driven by their religious Belief to impose their
>>   Belief
>>   on others in order to "save you" for what they believe is your own
>>   good by
>>   using their civic power and position to support and pass laws
>>   requiring your
>>   compliance with their Beliefs, hence making societal criminals out of
>>   people
>>   should they not share these particular Beliefs. Always combined with
>>   an
>>   inherent feeling of righteous seniority and intolerance of other
>>   beliefs,
>>   based on the belief that their Belief is superior to all other
>>   beliefs.
>>
>>   examples: 1) supporting and imposing laws that state what you can and
>>   cannot do with or put in your own body as an adult based on their
>>   specific
>>   religion 2) supporting restrictions and public bans of literature,
>>   books,
>>   movies, and art that may not support their religion 3) attempts to
>>   create
>>   laws that make their religion the 'official state' religion 4)
>>   imposing
>>   their religion as the 'truth' that must be taught in public forums
>>   over
>>   empirical contrary scientific evidence 5) wanting to change the
>>   Constitution
>>   of the United States in order to better reflect their specific
>>   religion 6)
>>   supporting deconstructing boundaries between church and state in
>>   order to
>>   more effectively implement the above
>>
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