--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <sparaig@> > wrote: > > > > > <snip> > > > > > > Are you suggesting that the largest new age organization of > the > > > > > > 70's wasn't a target of the most fanatical evangelical > > > Christian > > > > > > president we'd ever had? > > > > > > > > > > Oh, PLEASE. Jimmy Carter is *not* a "fanatic" by any > > > > > stretch of the imagination. To the contrary, he embodies > > > > > the very best of Christian fundamentalism and lives his > > > > > faith in a way few on this forum could claim to emulate. > > > > > > > > > > That's not to say he didn't have serious problems with > > > > > TM, but it wasn't a function of "fanticism." > > > > > > > > OK, the msot devout and dedicated-to-a-fault > > > > fundamentalist/evangelical Christian President > > > > we've ever had (unlike Bush, who is simply > > > > arrogant and unable to reassess his own > > > > behavior). > > > > > > No argument with this! > > > > > > No kidding, when people complain about fundie > > > Christians all being fanatics and intolerant and > > > so on, Carter's the counterexample (not the only > > > one, but the most prominent). > > > > > > It isn't fundamentalism per se that's the problem, > > > it's the individual fundamentalist. > > > > > > (And it's no accident that Carter is a Democrat!) > > > > I remain unconvinced that Carter is a good counter-example. > > He's a pacifist, but he's still intolerant. > > Well, he's not a pacifist by any stretch of the > imagination. > > And what exactly do you believe he's intolerant > *of*? >
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