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>>>Bush's re-election will indeed be a pivotal event in world history.
>>>It sets America in a collision course with the rest of the world,

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>>YUP he is the first president to spend so much of the future
>>generation's money!

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> It was stunning with so much at stake that selfish evangelicals threw the
> election to Bush because they don't give a shit about the real world and real
> people. Now 45 million Americans (50 million by 2008) won't get any health
> insurance because the only thing those evangelical assholes care about is
> electing a president who mentions Jesus or uses evangelical code words every
> 4th sentence. Now tens of millions of children won't be getting health care
> because of those immoral and amoral evangelical assholes. Now millions more
> Americans are going to have their jobs exported and their life long careers
> destroyed because of those self centered jerks. Now American taxpayers are
> going to owe Asian countries trillions of additional dollars in Bush IOU's
> because the evangelical jerks are so insecure the only thing that matters to
> them is having a president who mentions Jesus every day. Never mind that Kerry
> was just as much a Christian as Bush and had the added benefit of not doing
> the opposite of what Jesus would do 100% of the time as the case with Bush.
>
> The kind of Christian I respect is the man or woman who quietly goes about
> following the _real_ values of Christ. Someone who is not so insecure and
> selfish in their beliefs they try to shove it in other people's faces. Some
> ugly problems arise when people's egos get so wrapped up with Church and
> Mosque they become a danger to society, themselves, and the world.
>
> It is important in the 21st century for everybody to understand and
> acknowledge that religion -- every monotheistic religion -- has an ugly side
> to it. I'm not saying that Christianity (Islam) is 100% bad and 0% good, I'm
> saying that neither the country nor the world can afford to ignore the ugly
> side. Lots of people automatically assume when they have kids that religion
> will make the kid turn out better. But it really doesn't make that much
> difference. Whether or not people understand good from bad when they grow up
> generally doesn't have much to do with how much religion they were tought.
> Ironically for lots of people religion can provide excuses and reasons to harm
> others. The greatest danger is that placing too much emphasis on religion for
> kids creates a big risk they will become a danger to society.
>


So what's your point?

Best regards, :-)
Bob