[Peace-discuss] Clash of Fundamentalisms in the News-Gazette

[Robert Naiman]

There was a typo. I fixed it.

On 7/9/06, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at uiuc.edu> wrote:
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> Democracy is foreign concept to Christian culture
> Saturday July 8, 2006
>
> In his June 6 letter, Mark A. Lehman puts very succinctly what the
> present administration has failed to grasp – that democracy is a
> completely foreign concept to Christian culture and that it will never work.
>
> At the risk of being politically incorrect, centuries have shown us that
> the Christians are a quarrelsome and fractious people who have battled each
> other and everyone else from time immemorial.
>
> They have an inbred need to follow blindly some bloodthirsty preacher even
> unto self-demolition.
>
> As Lehman writes, it would take another 1,000 years of bloodshed for
> them to accept a civilized and peaceful life.
>
> Amen, Mr. Lehman, and thank you for speaking out. I have long wondered
> why most people seem to accept the madness of this senseless turbulence
> and death into which we have waded.
>
> I hereby resolve to speak out as often as possible.
>
> DOW COOKSEY
>
> Danville