27 Sep 2004
Christians Use Gay Marriage to Seek Voters (AP)

If these guys don't scare you yet, consider this quote from Bill Thompson, national field coordinator for the Christian Coalition:

"Never allow the enemy to block you," Thomson urged them. "Get around them, run over the top of them, destroy them — whatever you need to do so that God's word is the word that is being practiced in Congress, town halls and state legislatures."

This election is rapidly devolving into a referendum on the emerging theocracy in America: we can stop it now, or fight it in the streets later. It's our choice.

AP - Christian conservatives are casting a wider net this year in their search for likely voters — especially conservative ones — by asking people on the phone how they feel about same-sex marriage as well as their views on abortion, a standard question in previous election cycles.

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Memory

Laudator Temporis Acti has a great post up on memorization. He mentions several Greek poets and playwrights whose works had to be committed to memory, but think about it: nearly all ancient literature had to be committed to memory. In cultures that had not yet developed writing, such as Anglo-Saxon England, there was no other choice but memory: Beowulf, all 3180 lines, was memorized many times, by many people. How many of us could do such a thing today?

Ancient Greeks memorized Euripides and Homer. Modern Americans memorize the lyrics to Gilligan's Island.

(link) [Laudator Temporis Acti]

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