Reagan's Secretary of the Interior, James Watt, was famously unconvinced of the need to preserve the environment for future generations, because he didn't "know how many future generations we can count on until the Lord returns".
Hmm. Maybe ideas really are more dangerous than guns.
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Great. Now I want to put my fist through something. And not in the nice way.
(Link is wonky, BTW, baby.)
Link rectified, and quivering in anticipation of your warm, moist click.
For me one of the most frustrating aspects of 'the human condition' for want of a better term is the assumption of any given individual that they are living at the very apogee of history.
It's not exclusively a religious phenomena - although religion does very much tap into it... rather the inherent arrogance that people have that allows them to consider themselves the very centre of the universe.
With a startling lack of empathy they don't consider that Mayan priests, Spanish conquistadors and Third Reich Colonels all felt exactly the same way...
...and that (hopefully) in another couple of centuries their descendants will feel exactly the same.
All these ker-razy people who are convincing themselves that the rapture is just around the corner display a sense of self-importance at odds with any kind of Christian humility.
And it's a great excuse to abdicate responsibility for looking after the joint.
I couldn't agree more Chris, but then we've had this very same conversation ourselves before haven't we?
The other thing of note here is that a large number of Regan's posse of God-bothering, gun toting, fear-mongering, hate-breeding, uber-fascists is now in Dubya's posse.
They scare the living crap out of me they do. Somehow they're scarier than people like Hitler. At least he was up front - these guys are like smiling assassins (for gullible morons).
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