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Sunday, November 23, 2008

Losing Their Religion

As you could probably guess, I'm with IOZ on this profile which, while well-written and comprehensive enough, still comes up short. Certainly there are substantial differences, at least operationally, between the Mahdi Scouts and your garden-variety Jesus Camp freaks, the latter whom despite their best efforts do after all live in a modern society. The Mahdi Scouts are not piling into the ol' grocery schooner to schlep out to the megachurch to mouth hymns with the skeevy headset preacher.

On the other hand, there ain't a whole lot of separation between the Scouts and these little inbred creeps. Indoctrination is indoctrination, and fundamentalist whackjobbery is just that. You don't have to go all the way to Lebanon to find some preening assholes waiting for an excuse to do something stupid for no good reason. Except, of course, we haven't had to invade Idaho since Ruby Ridge.

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