There is not an insignificant portion of the population who believes this crap, that Al Queda is right and the US is wrong. The latest headline banned at http://democraticunderground.com talks about taking on the "American Taliban", complete with pictures of various Christians.
Even the talk yesterday with Glyn Ford, who called a man who walks in lockstep with the Pope's teaching a "fundamentalist Catholic" and "out of the maintstream of Catholicism" (my mind just doesn't bend the way it would need to in order to understand how the Pope's views could be out of the mainstream for Catholics), said essentially that Christianity is something that needs to be done away with and is a problem for the world and EU integration. Well, at least the expression of it anywhere that another person can see.
The volume, as it appears to me, is getting louder, because they've lost and they know it. The majority agree (at least in the US where we have alternative media sources and don't have to listen to
The only way these entire philosophical train of thought can persevere is suppression, intimidation, and eventually violence. They are going to get louder and more beligerent, and truly, it's a shame. Something is to be gained from having alternative points of view debate issues seriously and come to and honest consensus where possible. In the end, they've chosen the way childish ranting.
Well, if you don't want to run with the big dogs, then you can stay on the porch and piss with the puppies. Let them be puppies, it's time to attend to the serious business of running a nation.
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