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Brent said:

The point I was making in my earlier post was that we have, on the one hand, a small but powerful movement of people whose religous beliefs directly inform their politics and who wish to apply their political power in a way that directly effects the lives of all of us.

But, of course, that statement could equally well apply to religious left. Well, except for the "but powerful" part.

People who support welfare programs because God said they should feed the hungry, are letting their religious beliefs inform their politics just as much as people who want to forbid gay marriage because it's an abomination before the Lord.

In fact, I, as a religious person, submit to you that anyone whose religion doesn't inform their politics is someone who doesn't take their religion seriously.

Furthermore, anyone who doesn't want to apply their political power in a way that directly effects all of us is someone who doesn't take politics seriously.

Then, there's a long history of English humor poking fun at the French (for example, the French knights in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail").

When I saw Henry V in New York last summer, the French jokes (that is, the jokes at the expense of the French, not the jokes in French) consistently got the most laughs.

That's our treasured cultural heritage, that is.

Meanwhile, it's good to know that at least one outfit in Iraq is taking the fight against Islamic fundamentalism to the streets . . .
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A comrade with a huge bush of facial hair proposes Molotov-cocktailing a mosque for each liquor store or cinema torched.
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Who are these tough-minded antiterrorists?

I think you've got an extra anti- there. The word for someone who throws Molotov cocktails at a mosque is terrorist.

I mean, I'm pretty sure that you're being ironic, but still, I don't think it follows that because somebody supports the war, that that person supports bombing mosques, whether or not it's being done by Communists.

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