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Originally Posted by SeattleUte
Cool. I can bash evangelicals. Their core belief is that the Bible is literally true down to the last period. All the bad stuff flows from that fountainhead philosphy. Thank God they exist in the conext of our greater liberal society. To the extent we have domestic terrorists they are deviant fomrms of evangelicals.
I think you understate the significance of Jewish and Catholic culture. They pretty much generated and/or transmitted Western civilization up to the Eighteenth century, basically.
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Not wanting to turn this thread into the origins of western culture, I went light in that arena.