Got it managed to open under previous thanks patrick
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Sent: 12 April 2005 16:02
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Subject: Re: Deeply disturbing Christian Right
Yup
& what begins to be really worrying is that this group seems to be
growing, &, ironically (not that they get irony) using the very icons
of the modernity they fear (ie, the technology which is based on the
science they hate) to get their hateful message out to more & more who
apparently fear the world the way they do.
I can't quite take them seriously either; I mean, it seems so clear
that what they think is simply wrong. But that's what they'd say about
my thinking, so there's the block.
Doug
On 11-Apr-05, at 4:35 PM, Alison Croggon wrote:
> Thanks for pointing it out, Doug. It's quietly appalling... It's very
> hard,
> if you're used to living in a mainly secular and sceptical society, as
> Australia has mostly been, to take this stuff seriously, as it just
> seems
> like an incredibly macabre joke. But clearly that inability to take
> this
> stuff seriously has been one of the reasons that it's spreading.
>
> My children brought back some American books from town one day as a
> joke -
> evangelical Christians were giving them away. I read them, as far as I
> could stand it, before throwing them out. (I didn't want such horrible
> books in the house; they made me feel cold with despair). They had
> chapter
> heading like THE END OF UNCERTAINTY and they were all about the Saved
> and
> the Apocalypse. I think this stuff is seriously scary. Like
> Fundamentalist
> Islam, it's a reaction to modernity, I suppose: contemporary life is so
> uncertain, so fast, so full of challenge, that people turn to these
> certainties and simplicities with relief, forming their identities as
> Good
> and certain other things as Evil.
>
> Best
>
> A
>
>
>
>
> Alison Croggon
>
> Blog: http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com
> Editor, Masthead: http://masthead.net.au
> Home page: http://alisoncroggon.com
>
>
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta T6G 2E5 Canada
(780) 436 3320
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
Hand and mind
and heart one
ground to walk on,
field to plough.
Robert Creeley
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