really, really interesting

[winterbadger]

http://www.livejournal.com/users/wayfairer/456769.html

It's a bit long, but it's worth the read.

What it doesn't explain to me maybe the many, many pages of discussion do, but I have to do *some* work), is... OK, if that's the way people think and they see Bush as a Christian man fighting the forces of evil, then I can see why they would vote for him. But what I still don't get is *why* they would see Bush as a good Christian man. Surely not just because he says so. And if it were just based on his actiosn, that would be entirely circular: we support him because he's X, eveen if he does what might seem like bad things, but we think he's X because he does good things... Is it because of who endorses him? I'm still missing something.

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[winterbadger]

See, and IMO if one keeps just thinking of them as crazy and dismissing them, things will get worse, not better.

[kathygnome.livejournal.com]

Oh I don't dismiss them, I think our entire civilization is in danger from religious fundamentalism. But crazy? They are and that's really the issue. It's not possible to reason with them because they base their decisions on things that are mythical in origin. Since Saddam planned 9/11 and had the WMDs ready to attack again, how can you argue with them that the war wasn't a great idea? And of course if you try to prove those things aren't true, they simply deny that reality exists.