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Thread #90893   Message #1729557
Posted By: GUEST,AR282
28-Apr-06 - 07:07 PM
Thread Name: BS: Time for Heresy- Bill Moyers
Subject: RE: BS: Time for Heresy- Bill Moyers
>>>No, frogprince, It is that Moyers empowers himself by feeding people's need for a boogeyman/polical enemy by mischaracterizing a type of Christianity that he neither believes in, nor understands, and making that splinter of Christianity (now mis-defined) seem omnipotent.<<<

That sounds a lot more like Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell or Fred Phelps. It is, in fact, a bizarre claim that Moyers somehow tricks people into believing in a political enemy of his choosing. And who is this boogeyman? How is he mischaracterizing a type of Christianity he does not believe in unless you believe in it yourself?

>>>He empowers himself thus, and then, with little boy innocence and PBS/NPR arrogance says "who? ...ME?".<<<

He empowers himself by directing people to hate a group of his arbitrary choosing. Could you explain exactly HOW he goes about achieving this remarkable feat? Please explain this empowerment principle he employs so gainfully? Who is his flock and what do they donate to him? What voting block does he command?

>>>I would actually agree with the first few paragraphs -- before he, rather than dazzle with brilliance and insight, chose to obfuscate with misdirection and a flood of data which few sane people would take the time to address point by point. Debate by volume.<<

IOW, you can't address the issues he wrote about so you just dismiss it as something "few sane people would take the time to address point by point". Try.