One difference between Europe and the US

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Originally posted by be-bop
You go on about christian fanatics taking over, at least they can be removed.Don't see many Baptists, Methodists etc leaving bombs on trains/buses or sending women and children as human bombs..check it out when was the last time a watchtower blew up in your mailbox..the west aren't the ones screaming Jihad..

Nope. They're just the ones shooting abortion doctors. Or the ones calling for "a war on Islam" in general without differentiating between moderates and extremists, potential friends or foes.

They're actually more dangerous when their actions aren't violent, because more subtle actions often escape public notice. Rather than converting the country at gunpoint, they'd rather do it in the school board, in the school-textbook factory, in front of the abortion clinics, in courthouse lobbies in front of Ten Commandments plaques, or in the _legislatures_...

When there's a bill facing Congress now that would remove the Supreme Court's ability to rule on the Constitutionality of ANY religion-based issues (and would call for the impeachment of judges who dared to rule on them anyway), when it's a buddy of Pat Robertson's who crafted the bill, and when a party that's cozy with the religious right has control of the Presidency and both houses, I'D say that there's plenty of reason to worry. Wouldn't you?

Fundamentalism of _any_ denomination is a danger to the world at large, no matter what religion or creed it's devoted to. "Islamofascists" scare me a lot less than "Christofascists," because there are a hell of a lot more of the latter around trying to affect how I live _my_ life.