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Topic: Deep in the heart of Texas
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Michelle
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Babbler # 560
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posted 24 February 2003 09:20 PM
That looks like SUCH a good book. Theology, history, and economics combined. Yum!Great review, too. This alone made me want to read the book: quote: This is a book in which all the deserving asses get a proper kicking. Jews who ought to know better (Irving Kristol, Gertrude Himmelfarb, and William Kristol); Christian primitives who are easier to forgive because they had no intellectual tradition to abandon (John Hagee, Lester Roloff, and Jerry Falwell); and one of the more bizarre hybrids of the two great faiths (UT professor Marvin Olasky, who is to Judaism as Michael Jackson is to Negritude). ... But who takes chances on big thinking books these days? Give me a writer who thinks. And who is ecumenically vicious with dangerous right-wing extremists, Gentile and Jew, who exploit the sacred to achieve the profane. I can’t help myself, I just love this stuff.
Amen, brother.
From: I've got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell. | Registered: May 2001
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