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• Monday, November 3, 2008 05:58 AM

  The Jim Jones 'Syndrome'

  ...the main thing on Boyd's mind. "I'm not going to tell you who to vote for," he said. "You pray, fast and vote for whoever God tells you represents your values. We have a biblical worldview here, so vote for candidates who are going to do that -- who are going to uphold the Biblical worldview we all have."

  And then there's this pronouncement: "I'm afraid Obama is going to change our country into a Muslim country," said Melody Edwall, 51, a manager for an air carrier who lives in Colorado Springs. "I do. I'm afraid of him." Edwall was pretty sure Obama wanted to change the country too much. "This is America -- you don't like it, leave," she said. She'd heard Obama wanted to change the flag and the symbols of the country somehow. "He wants it to be this one big -- I don't know -- it's not America. It's going to be something else, and I don't know what it's going to be."

  Fearful people like Melody, who will accept only the views of their religious leaders, are Peoples Temple equivalents who are quite willing to follow their leaders to the rapture experienced by their fellow Jonestown sheep.

  I, for one, am sick and tired of supporting these politically active 'believers' with my tax dollars. This loophole permitting the invasion of our states by churches is a grave danger to our republic and our individual privacy and freedoms.

  I will support any effort to end tax exemptions for churches and non-profits.

  —dsigeorge Read dsigeorge's other letters
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