The further you get from the political centre the more lies you encounter.

[TaraJo]

Fundamental Christians should be voluntary Socialists there is no impetus to force it on everyone who isn't one of them

Why not? Fundamentalists of any belief system have a nasty habit of forcing their philosophy onto everyone else. Christians making everyone live up to Christian standards, socialists who outlaw private ownership, feminists eliminating and/or restricting access to pornography.

If anything, fundamentalist Christians should be the socialists; instead, they fear that word like the plague.

You don't understand the xtian capacity to reinvent their god whenever necessary, my dear.

I guess that's true. How else would they turn Jesus into a supporter of supply side economics when it includes slashing social programs, a supporter of military intervention any time possible and he was even a victim of the death penalty who is also a supporter of the death penalty. It's nothing new, either; Jesus was also a big supporter of slavery, at least according to the founders of the Southern Baptist Church he was. Hmmmmm...... Jesus was quite the flip flopper, wasn't he?

Read the Gospel of Supply-Side Jesus.

http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/03...anken.html

Yep, read it. I read Al Franken's books a long time ago, when they first came out; or, at least I read the first two. Not certain about the third one but I may have to look it up.