[Rhodes22-list] definition "religious kook" (as requested)

[Todd Tavares]

Pete, If you changed a few words, it sound would sound exactly like the
present administration's foreign policy. Todd T

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  From: petelargo
  To: rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org
  Subject: [Rhodes22-list] definition "religious kook" (as requested)
  Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 05:39:38 -0700 (PDT)



  an individual who is driven by their religious Belief to impose their
  Belief
  on others in order to "save you" for what they believe is your own
  good by
  using their civic power and position to support and pass laws
  requiring your
  compliance with their Beliefs, hence making societal criminals out of
  people
  should they not share these particular Beliefs. Always combined with
  an
  inherent feeling of righteous seniority and intolerance of other
  beliefs,
  based on the belief that their Belief is superior to all other
  beliefs.

  examples: 1) supporting and imposing laws that state what you can and
  cannot do with or put in your own body as an adult based on their
  specific
  religion 2) supporting restrictions and public bans of literature,
  books,
  movies, and art that may not support their religion 3) attempts to
  create
  laws that make their religion the 'official state' religion 4)
  imposing
  their religion as the 'truth' that must be taught in public forums
  over
  empirical contrary scientific evidence 5) wanting to change the
  Constitution
  of the United States in order to better reflect their specific
  religion 6)
  supporting deconstructing boundaries between church and state in
  order to
  more effectively implement the above


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