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

[C. G. Estabrook]

No more true, of course, than either of the first two versions.


Robert Naiman wrote:
> There was a typo. I fixed it.
> 
> On 7/9/06, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at uiuc.edu> wrote:
> 
>> =====================
>>
>> 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
> 
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