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

[Todd Tavares]

Pete, With all of these e-mails flying back and forth, I got your post
confused with Herb's.  Herb, Pete answered the question for you.  Todd T.

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: "Herb Parsons"
  To: "The Rhodes 22 Email List"
  Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] definition "religious kook" (as
  requested)
  Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 11:38:33 -0500


  Todd,

  Do you have any examples, or is this just more left-wing venting of
  hot air?

  Todd Tavares wrote:
  > Pete, If you changed a few words, it sound would sound exactly like
  the
  > present administration's foreign policy. Todd T
  >
  > ----- 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)
  >
  >
  >
  > 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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