Radical fundamentalists a threat to all Americans
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Radical fundamentalists a threat to all Americans
May 28, 2006
Your article in last Sunday's Controversy section by Michelle Goldberg ["The rise of Christian nationalism"] should be required reading for all Americans. Backed up by the reviews of books by Madeleine Albright and Jon Meacham, it provides a huge alarm bell to a very real and obvious threat to all Americans. Radical religious fundamentalists, Christian and Muslim, are trying their best to destroy America. They are corrupting our children's schools, they have infiltrated our government at the highest levels, and they murdered thousands of Americans on 9/11.
People like Roy Moore, former Alabama Supreme Court justice, and Osama bin Laden think they're better than everyone else. They think that everyone who is different from them is evil and deserves punishment and destruction. They present themselves as true believers, as people who have real religious faith, values and morality in a world of atheists and sinners. But that is a lie. Deeply held religious faith doesn't stop people like that from being child molesters, wife beaters and suicide bombers. And their deeply held belief that their god is better than my God certainly does not give these radical extremists the right to tell anyone else what to do.
They have hijacked the words "faith," "values" and "morality" for their own twisted and selfish agendas. Real values and morality are about treating others as you would have them treat you. Real values are about charity, compassion and understanding. But as far as I can tell, for people like Roy Moore and Osama bin Laden, values are about setting yourself up as a dictator and telling everyone else how to live their lives.
Sam Lipkin,
Lockport
Copyright by The Chicago Sun Times
Radical fundamentalists a threat to all Americans
May 28, 2006
Your article in last Sunday's Controversy section by Michelle Goldberg ["The rise of Christian nationalism"] should be required reading for all Americans. Backed up by the reviews of books by Madeleine Albright and Jon Meacham, it provides a huge alarm bell to a very real and obvious threat to all Americans. Radical religious fundamentalists, Christian and Muslim, are trying their best to destroy America. They are corrupting our children's schools, they have infiltrated our government at the highest levels, and they murdered thousands of Americans on 9/11.
People like Roy Moore, former Alabama Supreme Court justice, and Osama bin Laden think they're better than everyone else. They think that everyone who is different from them is evil and deserves punishment and destruction. They present themselves as true believers, as people who have real religious faith, values and morality in a world of atheists and sinners. But that is a lie. Deeply held religious faith doesn't stop people like that from being child molesters, wife beaters and suicide bombers. And their deeply held belief that their god is better than my God certainly does not give these radical extremists the right to tell anyone else what to do.
They have hijacked the words "faith," "values" and "morality" for their own twisted and selfish agendas. Real values and morality are about treating others as you would have them treat you. Real values are about charity, compassion and understanding. But as far as I can tell, for people like Roy Moore and Osama bin Laden, values are about setting yourself up as a dictator and telling everyone else how to live their lives.
Sam Lipkin,
Lockport
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