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Pretending to be the outsider, the underdog, the persecuted has long been a favorite trick of the American Christian Fundamentalists even though many laws are framed in, most politicians bend to their interest. Their real complaint isn't that they don't have power but that their persecution of those they deplore aren't mercilessly locked away. The fundagelicals ideal of 'fairness' is control not parity.

"They have taken government. There's no doubt about it. They have more power than any time at least in our lifetime," said Goff, director of the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture there. "But they can't say that they have control, because then they lose power. They have to continue to use that rhetoric -- that paradigm of religious outsider -- in order to rally people to the cause.

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Richard Evans Lee
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The Christian Right has a schizophrenic interpretation of the 1st Amendment. They set the nonestablishment provision at war with the freedom provision. In short--they believe that their freedom of religion is violated when they are not allowed to establish it.

Posted by: Jarock | October 14, 2004 2:23 PM

I don't agree that Fundamentalists are in control. Recent studies posted in the Virginian Pilot indicate that liberals control the media and positions of power. Perceptions to the contrary notwithstanding, fundamentalists are losing what control they may have to a liberal ideology bent on subverting classic culture. A once theist or Christian culture. The producer of Nip Tuck was quoted (I am paraphrasing here) he wants to show a rear entry sex scene on network Tv, and that he would be proud to have that as his legacy, in primetime. That is a radical mindset but, it has not brought any comments of disagreement from the liberal elite.

Posted by: Ramσ | February 14, 2005 2:44 PM

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