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

[Herb Parsons]

Todd,

Do you have any examples, or is this just more left-wing venting of hot air?

Todd Tavares wrote:
> 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)
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>   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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