re: #484 Walter L. Newton

I’d love to see the Americans even try rooting out these guys. Religion has got its hooks deep in American politics and the evangelicals are just the worst offenders. The evangelicals are not some little group that, if harmful, could immediately be dealt with. As I said, they have lobbying power, money, all that good stuff. One might call them Haliburton on steroids. Haliburton, of course, is motivated by profit, unlike the evangelicals, who are motivated by religious zealotry.

A real simple way of looking at this: The politicized evangelical movement in the United States is a watered-down, American answer to the Taliban or the clerical rule in Iran, that’s why I can never take people like Jerry Falwell seriously when they complain about “Muslim extremists” - The evangelicals want the same thing, just a Christian version! Also, a little thing to think about: Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, look at the money they made. Financially, they were small-time compared to the stuff the evangelicals have going in their pursuit of political influence.