Page A3: Faculty Majority Distrusts Evangelicals; A4: In GOP, Religion Becomes Politics

[Faygo Kid]

Great back-to-back page irony in Saturday's Washington Post; on page A3, the headline is:

"Is There Disdain For Evangelicals In the Classroom?" http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/04/AR2007050401990.html

Apparently 53% of college faculty members polled have "unfavorable feelings" toward evangelical Christians. Next page:

"In GOP Presidential Debate, Religion Becomes Politics." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/04/AR2007050402076.html

Article about the debate: Which GOP candidate can out-extreme the other in catering to evangelical Christians?

Query: Might it not be "unfavorable feelings" towards evangelical Christians by college faculty as much as downright fear of this powerful group? These "Christians" have no right to complain about "disdain" for them, as they have clearly consented to being -- and have successfully become -- a wholly owned subsidiary of the Bush Administration.

[Oddball]

1. Well, said, is the photo...

...the Homecoming Game at Bob Jones University?

Regent Law School?

I think university faculty and the regular citizenry have cause to fear the religious extremists among evangelicals. And "Progressive Evangelicals" who hold more liberal views on social issues like poverty and the environment, yet who vote right along with the extremists because of abortion are as bad or worse than the actual extremists because they know better and yet enable these right wing thugs to ride rough-shod over the constitution and civil liberties at home, and in an illegal and immoral war in Iraq.

[Faygo Kid]

2. Well said, too. I included the photo because of the rabid look on the faces.

At some of the staged Bush rallies in 2004, we saw the same look as in this picture from 1930s Germany. Chilling. In fact, the article on the evangelical poll was accompanied by a photo of a young woman who was described as being discriminated against for her "Christian beliefs." A haunting look in the eyes, for sure.

[rasputin1952]

3. It is important to understand that the whole ideology behind

the Nazi's was to start a new religion, they succeeded, to quite an extent.

Those that rely too much on religion, regardless of the religion, are not the thinkers of this world, but rather the followers, and often, like the Nazi's, they will follow it to their demise.

For the record, I am not calling religious people facists, nora m I calleing them fools, I am religious myself, but I question what I hear...to do less than that is a failure as a human being.