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Originally posted by valkyrie
But GP, she just posted a bunch of random quotes and then said she was going to the shooting range -- making it clear that she is not expected to return to try to actually discuss anything she posted.
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Blind ignorance of history and a firm belief in "guns and god" is perhaps the most damaging segment of the "conservative" movement in the US... the fact that she posted crap from at least 40 years after the founding (and including a statment that was greated as hypocritical even then) speaks of a willingness to ignore anything contradicting her beliefs, and a bias for statements that remotely support her beliefs... something that does not enure a strong trust of her sources...
Anyways the current US conservative movement is so divorced from it's historical foundings within the Tory movement it might almost be commical (for example the firm opposition to capital punsihment). I'd say that Christianity hasn't co-opted the conservative movement - but the evangelical movement of Christianity... in much the same way as fundamentalist Islam has co-opted many Middle East governments - in philisophical opposition to the tenats of each respective faith.
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