The first thing that came up was an article about the very thing we were discussing.
Article.
Nothing really about Rand and Gingrich. Also, Newt Gingrich was not the architect of the Religious Right.
The question was about mixing "American is a Christian Nation" with "The good, say the mystics of spirit, is God, a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive- a definition that invalidates man's consciousness and nullifies his concepts of existence...Man's mind, say the mystics of spirit, must be subordinated to the will of God... Man's standard of value, say the mystics of spirit, is the pleasure of God, whose standards are beyond man's power of comprehension and must be accepted on faith....The purpose of man's life...is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know, for reasons he is not to question."
How do you mix "It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven" with "Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter."
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YuryTheEnglishTutor on
02/14/2009 02:02:10 AM EST
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