tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8929683.post-69175490747298908372008-05-19T11:01:00.000-05:002008-05-19T11:01:00.000-05:00True. Fundamentalists do tend to exclude themselves. I guess, I think it'd be better to ignore them as irrelevant. Conversation, I've learned from experience, rarely yields anything positive. <BR/><BR/>As a reporter in Scottsboro, Ala., a few years back the KKK came to town and held a rally as they had done the year before. The first year, the paper covered the event (negatively, of course) and tons of folks showed up and a riot was narrowly avoided. Just what they wanted.<BR/><BR/>The next year, we ignored them. We showed up but unofficially just in case something happened. We didn't even mention them. Nothing happened. Came and went and the town went about its business. <BR/><BR/>Fundamentalists, like the KKK, are in their death throes and the only thing that keeps them relevant is negative controversy. Of course, this might just be the fact that having lived in California in the Bay Area for five years, I'm in a bubble and don't see the uberconservative influence as much. :)<BR/><BR/>And thank you for having James Cone on your books from your library. :)Dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12337652985240550352noreply@blogger.com