Re both Dom's and Alison's messages:
yes! Dom mentions the illiberality of many church-going Christians, that I
know from experience, it is quite an experience to go to a church and hear
calls for the re-instatement of capital punishment, while the image of all
Muslims as mindless fundamentalists is a media-myth, one can look at +all+
the major religions, even Buddhism, and find instances of mob-mentality and
persecution of others. While distrust of the feminine is rampant in them,
pace Alison.
What has depressed me so much, post Sept 11th, has been the 'you are either
with us or against us' mentality, it seems to have had an insidious presence
in discourse far beyond the White House.
Best
Dave
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