[Dialogue] More on fundamentalism

[george]

This is an interesting piece talking about the religious right and the 
Republican Party, http://www.crisispapers.org/essays/suckers.htm

My own experience with talking with neo-cons and fundamentalist friends 
and relatives is that if there is not trust and respect between us 
there is not going to be a conversation, or much of a debate.  The 
difficulty is not with the politics but at a much deeper level, and 
work needs to be done there first.  Remembering the art form method, 
the question is more important than the answer, I like to ask folks 
something like: If we are safer now, why hasn't the color code been 
lowered?  If we've turned the corner why have all the Food Pantries in 
town reported a doubling of clients in the past 6 months? Etc.  It's 
kind of fun to listen to the answers.

George Holcombe