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• Tuesday, September 2, 2008 11:44 PM

  the rise of fundamentalism in america

  Just in case you are one of the clowns attempting to make so called jokes about this thing and expecting that it is all going to blow away in puff of smoke soon, here are a few bits of moose jerky to chew on that merit your attention.

  The real issue here is that Mz Palin is a fundamentalist. Just like the current sitting president, she has a direct line to the big guy in the sky and gets directions from him directly.

  Now this is nice when you are sitting there in your living room or at your kitchen table and the directions that you follow affect you and your immediate family. When it effects, in effect, everyone on the planet, that's a different story.

  If you read the Woodward books on GWB, you know that 'god told him to invade Iraq' and he did it and you are witnessing the effects of that mystical communication.

  Are you prepared for more of that? Do you have children?

  Please do not believe what I am saying, please find out for yourself. Go to this

  site and find out from a neighbor what it is that is happening in the great white north.

  http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/09/02/sarah-palins-preacher-problem-end-times-coming/

  make sure that you watch the video that is linked in that post where you will hear from the candidate herself exactly where her operating instructions come from and how.

  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/02/palins-church-may-have-sh_n_123205.html

  I've got a mountain of empathy for Mz Paliln, raised in a small very rural part of this earth, she was subjected to this brainwashing for more than 40 years with little else to thin it or

  help her understand how the rest of the world thinks, believes and operates. These tax evading alchemists have been around as you probably know for more than 2000 years and it's a pretty easy game to play so let's not go around pointing fingers or trying to figure out

  what or who is right or wrong. Let's look at the situation, understand it and take some action designed to eradicate what can be eradicated.

  The internet and the availability of information killed communism in China. There is no reason why it can not kill the spread of fundamentalism here in America. All it takes is

  rational, reasoned thinking and understanding and a little empathy.

  If 'the enemy' is 'doing the work of god' and

  If 'we' are 'doing the work of god'

  everyone is killing everyone else for the same reason so someone must be wrong.

  Is it that one side got the wrong message or the wrong instructions? or is it the case that both sides actually got the wrong message because there is no message.

  here's a possibility for everyone to consider with a fresh perspective.

  there is no tooth fairy, there is no santa claus, there is no boogeyman, all there is is us humans making up nice convenient stories in a constantly failing attempt to control

  something that can not even be controlled.

  I have young children and I want to see them grow up to be sane rational fully functioning

  individuals in this society of nearly seven billion human beings. I don't want to see them die in some vain attempt to prove that John McCain's opinion is more correct than someone else's. Is that what you are interested in for your children or for anyone's children?

  If it is then so be it.

  If not, do what you can to stop the insanity. It took Gandhi a lifetime and his own life to make a certain difference in the world. We all seem to have let much of that effort go to waste over the past seventy years. When will we learn? or is it more appropriate to ask

  Can we learn?

  I'm not a hoper and i love questioning every single belief that i have every single day of my life and i am pretty sure that we can learn, it just takes a little attention. i am also pretty sure that McCain/Palin is not the direction that this world needs to be headed in now or

  ever again so, if this makes sense to you, then i am asking you for the sake of my children and for the sake of every child in the world today to do what you can to make sure that

  the next administration running this country is not driven by instructions out of a 2000 year old book of myths. Or by messages from some unseen (you fill in the blank here please)

  that the rest of us are not able to communicate with. thanks for understanding.

  —a voice of reason Read a voice of reason's other letters
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