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nam78_two Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-21-06 10:41 AM
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92. yup...many of the young "liberals" are liberal because its "hip"
Maybe earnest prosing may "bore" people or "turn people off", but honestly how much is someone going to care about something, if they just got into something to be "cool" and like all the other people they know.

It also seems to me that alot of it is just about feeling superior to those hick fundies. I am not talking here about honest frustration or anger at the Christian fundamentalists for their hatred of homosexuals etc. I am talking about people for whom it really seems to be just about sneering at people with accents they find laughable who are "jesus freaks".

I am not sticking up at all for the fundies here, but at least they believe in something other than the size of their own ass and how it looks in jeans :eyes:.
Maybe if the veil could be lifted from their eyes, they could start caring about poverty, the environment, animal welfare, healthcare etc. If all you ever think about is yourself then what can you ever care about :shrug:?

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