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Tuesday, August 21, 2007 - 5:51am

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I think Christane Amanpour is a fairly objective and intelligent reporter and with her mid-east background she has excellent insights into this culture of course. From an objectivist's point of view, this series will probably show how some members of the human race have become programmed by fundamentalist dogma. She is going to cover the three major religions on each night. Series may make for good discussion since it will show how the human mind in 3 separate religious traditions can convince themselves that they live in 3 separate realities and when they die they will exist? in different realities.

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Tuesday, August 21, 2007 - 4:22pm

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Network? Day? Time?

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Tuesday, August 21, 2007 - 4:58pm

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Hi

CNN 9 PM EST

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Tuesday, August 21, 2007 - 6:08pm

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Great! Watching it now.

Thanks, Victor.

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Wednesday, August 22, 2007 - 10:06pm

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Watched it from start to finish. God, these people are creepy. The Muslim religion is like a mass mental illness. And it's the fastest growing religion in the world.

- Bill

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Thursday, August 23, 2007 - 3:19am

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Its like people are starved for someone to tell them what to do, so they'll accept anything as a "rule."

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Thursday, August 23, 2007 - 6:31am

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Did you watch the Jewish one as well? I'm interested to see God's Christian Warriors tonight.

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Thursday, August 23, 2007 - 4:35am

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She threw her son's head back at him and said, "What I've given to God I don't want back."....Very wild stuff.

How about a new line of Hallmark greeting cards ?..."Congratulations on your impending martyrdom."

The culture has a real dichotomy, they walk around in their Nike sneakers and Aeropostale sweat shirts crying, "Death to America". They probably buy those metal back beating chains at the local Wal Mart.

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Thursday, August 23, 2007 - 8:26am

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At some point, you'd think that common sense would supervene, but this is what happens when you accept a mystical world view on faith. Once you abandon reason, you're susceptible to the most bizarre, anti-life morality imaginable. Thankfully, Christianity has been tempered by the seductive influence of capitalism and materialism, or we'd be stuck in the Middle Ages like the Middle East.

- Bill

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Thursday, August 23, 2007 - 9:23am

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Christiane Amanpour did a good job showing the history of anti-western sentiment going back to the 1950's. I think part of her thesis is that beneath all of the fervor and madness, there is alot of rationality in the Moslem World, especially amongst the women.

All of these Moslem and Christian Fundamentalists and Jewish Orthodox have a real hangup about human sexuality and women. They are always in search of "the answer". The day they get "the answer" may remind us of that old Jackie Gleason Honeymooners episode: "The 99,000 Answer" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_%2499%2C000_Answer

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Friday, August 24, 2007 - 9:10am

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Last night's final installment on "Christian Warriors" was fascinating but not as well done as the previous two installments. Consider the fact that CNN produces these documentaries for international viewing, watching this from Europe feeds the stereotype that America is a land of religious right wing zealots who took over the gov't and started a massive war in the mideast. Actually I did get good insight from this.

The final 30 minutes or so on the Rev Luce and his San Francisco crusade was classic left vs right stereotyoing. They were somewhat objective in saying that he wanted to help the kids from tough family and social situations stay away from drugs but the left wing was stereotyped as gay, godless, immoral and evil which is the classical nonsense which the right wing zealots perceive.

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Friday, August 24, 2007 - 11:58am

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For a completely different take on this woman, see this -------

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2007/08/christiane-imam.html

seems she's not quite the 'objective' reporter claimed....

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Friday, August 24, 2007 - 12:28pm

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I have to agree that she did "make the pieces fit" (or tried to) between the three segments of how the pro-Israel and Conservative Chrisitians could have made the present administration intervene into the mideast. It is Bush's thesis as well that the mideast culture drives the young people into despair and violent behavior and it was a goal of his policy to establish democratic and free societies. Amanpour did a fairly god job showing the Moslem extremist view of martyrdom thorugh the eyes of parents. Her part on Rev Hagee may have been a bit over the top, but the reverand is fairly open about his support for the Israeli cause.

Christiane Amanpour: God's Warriors Series