fellowship

during don's first term i struggled with a vague sense that his political style reminded me of someone who i was having difficulty placing until, towards the end of his term i concluded that it was solobodan milosevic and his use of the minority kosovar serbs as a rallying point for his campaign which don translated into letting some repressed political viewpoints crawl back into the open ( and which he is acting on as i type in a concerted campaign against cultuiral diversity )...that settled i was still puzzled ( until just recently ) about what it was that conservative fundamentalist christians could possibly see as supportable in don's character...i have been reading, anong other things, bartolome de las casas indictment of the conquistadors' ( and, by dint of that christians' ) treatment of indigenous peoples as sub-humans fit for slavery and the propensity of the conquistadors and their clerical supporters to destroy the religious temples pf those peoples, say mass, and then erect churches on their sites( a habit which goes back to the establishment of the vatican in the confines of nero's circus )...watching don engage in vengeful behaviors from the very start of his second term it struck me that both don and conservative christians share a sanctimonious vindictiveness when dealing with poeple and ideas they don't like...acolytes emulating an angry and vengful god.