Ronald Reagan

Yes, the end of an era. I offer begrudging respect ad the man who understood the media so well. He was a communicator, and underestimated.

But I don't think he was responsible for undoing communism - in no way save is public disrespect for it; nor was he responsible for any kind of economic recovery.

His ideology, strangely, gave us both Hussein and Bin Laden.

May he rest in peace.

Comments

[L.Davis]

President Reagan's ideology gave us a world without the Soviet Union and the threat of spreading communism. Your world gives us socialism and a church that has become a new age political activitist organization rather than a religion.

If you had your way Hussein will still be murdering people and we would have Bin Laden at a national church convention as a guest speaker.

[John]

I believe that Communism would have destroyed itself. It was intrinsically corrupt. I don't know what you mean about "your" world because I don't own it. I'm not sure what you mean by socialism - which kind? British? Swedish? Burmese? Canadian? And, it's not liberals but the religious conservatives who are involved in political activism.

If I had my way, Reagan would have never supported Hussein in the first place, or funded Islamic Fundamentalists in Afghanistan.

[Bill Carroll]

RE: L. Davis

(1) There is absolutely no proof that Ronald Reagan defeated Communism. No matter what you heard on Fox.

(2) No, we are a Christian, socialist, activist organization, or at least should be. That's what the Christian religion is, or at least should be. (See www.anglocatholicsocialism.org). Some form of socialism is the best way to be faithful to the Gospels and the prophets. The Christian tradition, furthermore, is extremely wary of all forms of interest income.

(3) The Age of Aquarius has nothing to do with it. ("Hair" is a damned fine musical though.) The only relevant New Age is the one inaugurated by Christ's resurrection from the dead.

(4) Bin Laden, like many American politicians that I could name, is a mass murderer and therefore an unsuitable guest speaker at any Church convention.