humanities.philosophy.objectivism

On Mar 31, 11:14 pm, Gordon Sollars wrote:
> In article <89f3c7d0-0681-462e-9ddd-0511f6c81e52
> @m3g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>, cbel...@bellsouth.net says...
>
> > On Mar 31, 9:40 am, Agent Cooper wrote:
> > > That, as you all know, is from Hamlet. But I was thinking about Bush.
> > > It may come as a surprise to those who tuned in late that I look back
> > > on what is presumably now the completed record with great ambivalence.
>
> > > (1) He ran as, and governed symbolically as, the most openly and
> > > militantly Christian president in American history,
>
> > Nonsense.  For one thing, in recent history, Carter has that title.
>
> Nonsense - it was not a political issue for Carter, which was obviously
> Coop's point.

It certainly was a political strategy by Carter. That was all we heard
about in 1976, as some antidote to the corruption of Watergate and the
"moral malaise" of the country. He was the first since W.J. Bryan to
garner in large numbers the Christian fundamentalist vote which since
the start of the "Progressive" movement had gone to the left. The
political strategy (on the issue of abortion alone) of Reagan was to
convert that vote to the right. The religious right has always been a
misnomer even to this day, as the outlawing of abortion in the 19th
century and Prohibition were left-Christian Progressive issues, as is
the panoply of social-welfare programs. Bush's "compassionate"
conservatism was an implicitly Christian play to the LEFT of the
political spectrum, not to the RIGHT. Obama presents a far more
dangerous infliction of religious irrationality FROM THE LEFT by the
Black Liberation Theology, which is Black-Panther Marxism set in a
religious context. What makes Obama particularly odious is his attempt
at subterfuge with regard to his religious principles, whereas Carter
and Bush were clear and open.