Re: [CPF0000] There is a Link There Isn't a Link BS...

[Alan <steelville@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > ...but I do admire the seriousness with
> > which you approach questions of faith and doctrine. Leaving aside whether that's how it "should be", I think you're unusual in this day and age (at least in my experience; which may be a shame, because I think you're definitely right on this one :-).
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Thing is, it's so intertwined with everything else, especially for 
believers, but for those who are not, as well. For example:

John F. Kennedy's Catholicism was an issue in 1960, and worry he would 
do the Pope's bidding. Now, Kerry's refusing to follow his professed 
doctrine would worry me more. He's a Catholic in church and leaves his 
religion behind when he leaves.

Because here's another example of the absolutely absurd idea of a 
private/public dichotomy. It falls with one question: if you saw someone 
steal a newpaper out a neighbor's lawn, would you honestly and truly 
trust him with your million-dollar bank account? When Nixon was 
candidate, I remember a political cartoon, a used car, and Nixon the 
salesman (he had been a used-car salesman). The caption: "Would you buy 
a used car from this man?"

I have a friend who got overpaid by his big-name stockbrokers something 
like $20,000. They told him he was wrong, keep it, it was his. He had to 
actually fight with them to get them to take it back, and he was right. 
He corrects the bank on its statements, off ten cents. He saved a bag 
full of ten thousand dollars cash once for the lady who had left it 
behind in the restaurant where he was working at the time. This is the 
kind of guy needed in power, so lacking today. Not some "white man speak 
with forked toungue", who is one thing on Sunday morning, something else 
at the political rally in the afternoon, and somebody else in "the 
Lodge" on Thursdays, and yet another character at the "Bohemian Grove" 
during selected summer days.

- Alan

(ducking and running hard)