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And FYI, you know whose trying to put their religion all over our government right now? Xians.
This might be a good time to step in and express something that's been rolling around my head for a couple of days.
Buz, you seem to have been expressing shock that anyone would find radical Christians more frightening than radical Muslims. On the surface, your shock would seem warranted. As far as who uses the most explosives, radical Muslims would seem to be in the lead.
But the bottom line is, no matter how many buildings groups like al-Qaeda destroy, they're not going to directly remove our freedoms. The US is not going to say, "Holy crap! al-Qaeda struck again! Let's give in to their demands!" Some lives might be lost, true. But ultimately, the living (who far outnumber the dead) will not have their lives irrevocably altered. (There might be, and has been, some freedom lost in the American response to radical Muslims, but that's a different story.)
However, radical Christian groups (which you seem to be defining differently than fundamentalist Christian groups, and for the purposes of this discussion so be it) are actively attempting to remove our freedoms, and are in a position to do so. The fight against gay marriage is a prime example... you might well be (and judging from your previous posts I'm guessing you are) morally opposed to gay marriage, but it's still a freedom being prevented from reaching the public because of radical Christianity. (And I know you to be smart enough to understand the difference between what God allows and what the government should allow, so I won't go into that.)
So basically, that's where our fear of radical Christians comes in. They are in a position to affect the freedom of a far greater number of Americans adversely than radical Muslims are.
I hope that cleared things up without rambling too much.
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The Day the Earth Stood Still
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