[lit-ideas] Re: Not in the USA??
- From: "Andreas Ramos" <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 16:24:53 -0800
I wondered about this: what's the unifying thread? anti-abortion, pro-death
penalty,
pro-feeding tubes, pro-war, anti-gay, anti-secularism, anti-SpongeBob. It's
obviously
self-contradictory. What ties all of this together?
The Schiavo case really brings this into focus: the GOP demands that government
stay out of
the states and family decisions, yet in Schiavo, they tried to override state
and family
law. That was extremely inconsistent.
I think it's the will to power. They WANT power. Regardless of the "details".
yrs,
andreas
www.andreas.com
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From: <JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 4:03 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Not in the USA??
>
>
> I just got in via ILL Christine Todd Whitman's book and think it will be
> very interesting. I also read this today in the NY Times (Have you read
> this,
> Julie?)
>
>
> No, I hadn't. I'm glad you posted it. There are such, to me, inherent
> contradictions within the political positions of the Religious Right .....
> the
> Pope is not being taken off the feeding tube; the same people who scream in
> horror at the abortion of a severely damaged foetus which doesn't stand a
> chance of life for more than a few hours after birth, or the use of stem
> cells to
> cure severely ill and suffering people, also scream for the electric chair.
> The combination of "values" confuses me mightily. I see more than a lack of
> consistency; I see a blind determination to ignore coherence and continuity;
> a lack of real Integrity. But then, I'm sure people look at my weird
> combination of beliefs and ideas and find them likewise incomprehensible.
>
> Julie Krueger
> tired of the strife in the world
>
>
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