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Thursday, July 14, 2005

Christian Terrorist?
    They have been so nice I would hate to break it to them that I really prefer Nietzsche to the Bible.
- Eric Rudolph, bomber of the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, two abortion clinics and a gay nightclub, speaking of born-again Christians in a letter to his mother, quoted in THE CHRISTIANIST CONSPIRACY

Author Maggie Gallagher goes on to suggest that the "grand liberalist metanarrative portraying religion as an irrational, backward force for evil" is behind our view of Islam:
    Even Islamists, as many have pointed out, have far more in common with Marxist and other avant-garde ideologies than with traditional Islam. Random bombs that kill women and children on London buses do not represent a return to the Muslim past, but avant-gardism in a new context.