Bagronk the Happy Orc
I found some words from mcresq@aol.com (Russ) in my phone cable...

I actually part company with Flame a bit here. I don't particularly like Christian fundamentalists and agree they are narrow-minded. On the other

hand,

they are not the bogeymen you make them out to be. You seem to have an especial dislike of Falwell, but to the best of my knowledge he never encouraged people to strap explosives on and walk into parties or to hijack airliners and slam them into buildings. Let's try to keep a little

perspective

here.

So why is Falwell more moderately than Osama, though they seem to share most arrtibutes (you mentioned fundamentalism and narrow-mindedness yourself)?

(Sorry if I seem to boil everything down to economics, but that's my Marxist pov, I can't help it).

Fundamentalism is bad on either side. But what it needs to stir that up from just a little annoying narrow-mindedness to a _deadly_ plane-hijacking fundamentalism is a) bad education up to illiterateness, b) a desperate economic situation,

c) a mighty foe which you can envy.

I do not say fundamentalists are harmless if you keep them well-fed and rich, either. They basically stay the same anyway. But maybe they finally get a bit lazy. And they won't find successors when they prepare themselves for their last journey to whatever-they-imagine.