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Tom Sholes of Larkspur writes:

Normally, I simply shake my head at the irrational ramblings of evangelical Christians, feeling somewhat sympathetic to the narrow-minded, braces-on-the-brain perspective into which they have been totally exploited. But George Lilly’s letter (September 15th, Talk Back to the Media), regarding anti-religious bias by providing greater coverage to Pavarotti’s passing than to the death of a Florida evangelist, deserves a response.
Mr. Lilly’s note reveals much more than he ever intended. By attempting to submerge Luciano Pavarotti’s “newsworhyness” below that of a Bible-thumping radio evangelist, he has displayed, and blatantly, the inability of those of his persuasion to look, see, and feel the beauty beyond the Biblical blinders that men like Rev. Kennedy so surreptitiously slipped onto him.
To refer to the greatest talent that ever graced the stage of lyric opera, a man who brought such artistic joy to millions worldwide with a voice of unbelievable range and tonal purity as a “singer” is like calling Einstein a math teacher. How sad it is to let one’s religion assassinate one’s ability to recognize and appreciate talent and the arts. But as the saying goes, “Fundamentalism stops a thinking mind.”

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Normally, I simply shake my head at the irrational ramblings of evangelical Christians, feeling somewhat sympathetic to the narrow-minded, braces-on-the-brain perspective into which they have been totally exploited. “Fundamentalism stops a thinking mind,” submits Tom the letter writer worth repeating beats what I say: "Religion stops a thinking mind."

Deicide Corner: “I'm an atheist. . . . how unfortunate it is to assign responsibility to the higher up for justice amongst people.” -- Ani DiFranco

And to achieve justice, the believer submits and imprecatory prayer which in Joshua's case stopped the sun so he could slaughter his enemies. Pat Robertson, et al, love to petition god to kill his enemies.

Today Iran's President I'm-a-nutjob, posed a question for Bush. Does the Christian faith permit one to invade another country and occupy that country, and also kill people?

"irrational ramblings of evangelical Christians"- redundant

Bumpo,

Also tautological; but so very accurate as well.

Sometimes the majority only means that all the fools are on the same side. Hey! I'm miffed over your namecalling of Sheila in the Atheist blog. She does not deserve such Keith-like diatribe. Heather should speak for herself; as for me, I am not evil; I'm a happy camper and I'd be happier 70-year-old if I could get laid once in a while.

Deicide Corner: "A just government, instituted to secure and perpetuate it, needs them not,” James Madison alluding to religions, who along with Thomas Jefferson despised Christianity and all the Founders opted to keep it out of the Constitution.

I retrieve old bread from where they give it away to feed the birds. I cracked open a large loaf well encrusted and out poured tiny fast crawling bugs. I scurried as if I was praying to avoid hell to kill all the critters (though I hate to kill any living creature). Of course, the bread was baked at high temp, right, so the infestation took place inside the bread. God must have created the critters, right, after the bread sat on the shelf for a week or more, right. I'll bet Heather knows.

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