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Thread #77956   Message #1396711
Posted By: GUEST,Amos
02-Feb-05 - 08:11 AM
Thread Name: BS: The flaw in Christian Theology
Subject: RE: BS: The flaw in Christian Theology
I disagree, Jim.

He cites specifics:James Watt, case in point; T. La Haye, case in point.

"Nearly half the U.S. Congress before the recent election - 231 legislators in total and more since the election - are backed by the religious right." Is th enumber wrong?

"Forty-five senators and 186 members of the 108th Congress earned 80 to 100 percent approval ratings from the three most influential Christian right advocacy groups. They include Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, Assistant Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Conference Chair Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, Policy Chair Jon Kyl of Arizona, House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Majority Whip Roy Blunt."

Some falsehood there?

"A 2002 Time-CNN poll found that 59 percent of Americans believe that the prophecies found in the book of Revelations are going to come true. Nearly one-quarter think the Bible predicted the 9/11 attacks."

You think Moyers invented this statistic?

"One of their texts is a high school history book, "America's Providential History." You'll find there these words: "The secular or socialist has a limited-resource mentality and views the world as a pie ... that needs to be cut up so everyone can get a piece." However, "[t]he Christian knows that the potential in God is unlimited and that there is no shortage of resources in God's earth ... while many secularists view the world as overpopulated, Christians know that God has made the earth sufficiently large with plenty of resources to accommodate all of the people.""

He might have specified how widespread this text is.

Or perhaps you think he did not read in "the news" the statements he says he did?

This is all pretty far from the rantings of a Limbaugh, Jim; Moyers does go rhetorical, but he does it inside the lines.

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