Interesting parallel

[Judy1]

Does anyone else see the parallel of religious fundmentalist neocon theocrats trying to take over this country and fundamentalist muslim theocrats taking over the middle east? Its a little scary, don't you think?

 

[Bo-4]

They have more in common than they'd care to admit. That's why they're known as "The American Taliban" ;-)

http://adultthought.ucsd.edu/culture_war/the_american_taliban.html

 

[Friday13]

"I want you to just let a wave of intolerance wash over. I want you to let a wave of hatred wash over you. Yes, hate is good...Our goal is a Christian nation. We have a biblical duty, we are called by God to conquer this country. We don't want equal time. We don't want pluralism."

"When I, or people like me, are running the country, you'd better flee, because we will find you, we will try you, and we'll execute you. I mean every word of it. I will make it part of my mission to see to it that they are tried and executed."

~Randall Terry

And then he says this...

"Our goal must be simple. We must have a Christian nation built on God's law, on the ten Commandments. No apologies."

 

[OldGaffer]

This has always been a country of cultists, but we have always kept them on the fringe, now they are mainstream.

 

[LeRoy_Was_Here]

LeRoy: Randall Terry sounds like he needs to calm down a bit.

[I am trying to become a master of understatement, and this is practice.]

 

[KnotaFrayed]

Does anyone else see the parallel of religious fundmentalist neocon theocrats trying to take over this country and fundamentalist muslim theocrats taking over the middle east? Its a little scary, don't you think?

THE theme is "TAKE AMERICA BACK"
to where is not specified, but it is apparent from history.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusades
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/European_History/Religious_Wars_in_Europe

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
-George Santayana

 

[LeRoy_Was_Here]

THE theme is "TAKE AMERICA BACK"
to where is not specified, but it is apparent from history.

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
-George Santayana

Hegel (paraphrased): The greatest lesson of history is that people never learn from it.

Mark Twain (not paraphrased): History may not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

Ambrose Bierce: History: An account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

The French Enlightenment philosopher Montesquieu: History tells us the names of kings' bastards, but tells us nothing of the origin of wheat.