"fascistic disposition" paragraph

Terrance lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Thu May 15 19:17:05 CDT 2003



various fundamentalisms" -- I've heard of the Islamic fundamentalism
that promises me 72 virgins if I blow up
myself with some Jews or Americans of course but what is the other one
he's referring too? Could it be
Southern-US Christian fundamentalism?

You know, one of the problems is that the Foreword is fragmented. Why
does P bring this up and just drop it? Now that I think on it, he could
be talking about Christian fundamentalism too. I'm thinking Bosnia and
so on and not Texas, but  Christian fundamentalism is in the USA. It's
big. politically important and growing. 

What did W say when asked about his readings in Philosophy? 

Jesus is my Lord and Savior or some such.



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