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- From: gsmith@lauren.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de (Gene W. Smith)
- Subject: Re: Religious Right (was Re: Rush Limbaugh: Victory from Defeat)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.142216.5685@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 14:22:16 GMT
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- In article <9799@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> dejst5+@pitt.edu (David E
- Joslin) writes:
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- >What phrase would you want them to use for the "religious right"?
- >"Religious" alone is clearly too broad; believe it or not, there are
- >some *liberals* who are deeply religious, too. The real problem with
- >the term "religious right" is that it is still too broad, since
- >there are religious people who are conservatives, but who are not
- >part of the movement that wants to impose fundamentalist values on
- >everyone. So, what name do you suggest instead?
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- I suggest the Party of God, since they are our version of the
- Hezbollah. Or we could call them "Christian extremists" or "Christian
- fundamentalist extremists", since that also is used all the time for
- Moslems.
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- Gene Ward Smith/Brahms Gang/IWR/Ruprecht-Karls University
- gsmith@kalliope.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de
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