What is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme, but they are intolerant. The evil is not in what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.
I just returned from an interesting lecture, provocatively entitled "Was FDR the Antichrist? The Birth of Fundamentalist Anti-liberalism in a Global Age." Dr. Matt Sutton presented a fascinating portrait of American Christian conservatism and its growing anti-state sentiments.
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