Religious Fundamentalism in Orwell and Pynchon

[David Morris]

--- Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net> wrote:
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> pynchonoid wrote:
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> > --- Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > > Who are his born-again buddies and why have they an interest in this
so-called holy war?
> > 
> > I thought you followed the news and didn't need anybody to fetch it for
you? (If you'd like to learn how to use Google, just let me know...)
> 
> Social conservatives and Christian Fundamentalist in the USA don't support
Bush's foreign policy. They are not even too keen on a lot of the Ashcroft
Patriot Act stuff because, being fundamentalists after all, they are a target.
So you don't know what the hell you're talking about. What else is new?

Terrance is correct about both points above (and about the "what else is new").
 The one thing the religious right love about Bush is his anti-abortion-choice
position and the fact that he'll likely appoint a like-minded Supreme Court
Justice.  For that goal the religious right will swallow what they don't like
about Bush's foreign policy:  His stance on the creation of a Paletinian State
and for the return of territory by Israel.  And Terrance is also correct about
the fundamentalist's dislike of Ashcroft's Patriot Act controls on liberty. 
Fundamentalists are a mied-up bag wanting absolute liberty, no taxes, but
police in every womb.

DM



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