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Watched the documentary on the far Evangelical Christian right on SBS last night. Interesting.

Not entirely surprising, mind you. Scary in a lot of ways, particularly the training conservatives to (hopefully, from their perspective) fill positions of legal power. Shades of The Handmaid's Tale.

The whole Rapture thing still amazes me. Interesting perspectives on it here, rebuttal of the first article here, Rapture Index here.

So this is it, we're all going to die!

Well der.

Edited to add: OK, I'm reading the FAQ of the Rapture site. And in among the 'Bible' questions is:

Does the Bible allow spanking?

Seriously. Well, it cracked me up anyway.

songs

Reading Bush's new economic policy and all of a sudden Midnight Oil is running through my brain.

( All together now! Bang your heads! )

Ah Oils.

Then you've got a new attorney general, which just ( triggers more songs really... )

( and another one.. )

Yeah OK, I can be a bogan too.