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Like the Little Satans We Are
7/26/08
For Sylvia
We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.
-William Ralph Inge, Outspoken Essays, 1922
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Answers to Sean Hannity, No. 20
My response: Serious and thoughtful the president's picture may be, but to call it realistic is utterly absurd. President Bush claims that terrorists are consumed with unconditional hatred for America and everything good it stands for, and that thus we have no choice but to wipe them off the face of the earth. In the president's mind, Islamic terrorists are portrayed as sub-human agents of the devil, and given up for hopeless because we cannot do anything to change their evil plans. This is not just unrealistic, it is defeatist.
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Answers to Sean Hannity, No. 19
My response: News of the evil character of Saddam Hussein has been greatly exaggerated. Hussein did flaunt the UN by refusing weapons inspectors entry into some parts of Iraq between 1987 and 1991 and between 1998 and 2002. He invaded Kuwait in 1990, and a few dishonorable troops in his army butchered scores of innocent people during that invasion. He unquestionably ran a tight ship of the central Mideast country, denying the Iraqi people many freedoms we take for granted and executing thousands of political dissidents. And when some treasonous Kurds and revolutionary Shiites plotted to overthrow Saddam's government in the 1980s, he overreacted by killing 175,000 people, most of whom were innocent.
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Answers to Sean Hannity, No. 4
My response: With the traumatic images of September 11 burned into our consciousness, it can be tempting to look on international "Islamic" terrorism as the greatest evil inflicted by human beings upon our civilization. However, this view is erroneous, pathetically myopic, unconsciously self-pitying, encourages unlawful revenge, and is hypocritical.
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Abortion, Murder & Moral Relativism
o, what if abortion IS killing a human being? Evidently it's one of those millions of human beings who are simply destined to never see the outside of its womb. And what's so wrong with that? We have too any people on the planet as it is. Why all the mourning for what amounted to a clump of cells, whether or not it DID have a soul?
Because when you get right down to it, this is a human being who never felt any emotion, never SAW anything of the world it was going to miss, never BREATHED AIR. Meanwhile we've got millions of ACTUAL human beings, you know, ones that are BREATHING AIR and all, with LIVES to be saved or bettered.
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