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Reason #128 it'll suck to be an atheist in America the next four years By: Mark Morgan on 2/4/2001; 12:11 AM John Ashcroft to non-Christians: "Fuck off." (Paraphrased.) Man, it's going to be like having the Pope as Attorney General.
Re: Reason #128 it'll suck to be an atheist in America the next four years By: Brian Carnell on 2/4/2001; 1:18 PM At 12:27 AM 2/4/01 -0500, Mark wrote: >John Ashcroft to non-Christians: "Fuck off." >(http://www.spectacle.org/0201/ashcroft.html) > >(Paraphrased.) > >Man, it's going to be like having the Pope as Attorney General. I didn't really see anything that objectionable or inaccurate in the Ashcroft speech. Ashcroft's claims about the role of religion in the founding of the United States are a bit oversimplified -- as one might expect from such a short speech -- but I think a bigger problem is that his own behavior suggests Ashcroft really doesn't believe anything he said in this speech. If he were a radical Christian defender of the Constitution, we'd be in good hands. Unfortunately he's a lot closer to the British tax collectors he reviles.
Re: Reason #128 it'll suck to be an atheist in America the next four years By: Mark Morgan on 2/4/2001; 3:24 PM I'll admit to being in a petulant mood last night, but I find it difficult to believe that any founding father said "there is no king but Jesus." Of course, I could be wrong. What alarmed me (and continues to alarm me) is the very idea that the United States should be governed by a spiritual authority, not a temporal authority--coming out of the mouth of the Attorney General. Ugh. That said, it wouldn't be the first time a politician said something that was merely rhetorically expedient.
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