[extropy-chat] Bill Moyers' Comments - Global Environment Citizen Award

[Samantha Atkins]

Thanks for posting this.  It is indeed one of the most chilling things 
I have read and I am no stranger to such of late.  While I disagree 
with Bill Moyers on some particular points, he draws attention to very 
real dangers from the religious ideologues now ascendent in the US.    
While I hold a low opinion indeed of what is truly running this bloated 
government (and it goes FAR deeper than this administration),  I have 
possibly misjudged the size and impact of the Ready for Rapture crowd.  
   I sincerely hope his views of its extent are overblown.   If not then 
I am very much afraid we are in for hell on earth.   Not from the 
second coming but from these loons ready to pass out the kool-aid.

I hope that the parts where Moyers' views disagree with mine or that of 
others here do not blind us to the dangers we face that he warns about. 
   It is a common human characteristic to disbelieve bad news if chinks 
in a few points or in the bearer's character can be found.   I think we 
give in to that tendency at our peril.

- samantha