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   From: Flying-a-C750@mach094.com   
      
   This is enough to make me puke!   
      
   Howard Dean Gets Religion   
      
   Presidential candidate Howard B. Dean has described himself in a recent   
   interview with the Bosten Globe as a committed believer in Jesus Christ,   
   noting that he will include more references to Jesus and God in his upcoming   
   stump speeches.   
      
   According to the Globe report, Dean is a Congregationalist whose wife and   
   children are Jewish.   
      
   "Christ was someone who sought out people who were disenfranchised, people   
   who were left behind," Dean told the Globe. "He fought against   
   self-righteousness of people who had everything. ... He was a person who set   
   an extraordinary example that has lasted 2,000 years, which is pretty   
   inspiring when you think about it."   
      
   Perhaps indicative of Dean's new emphasis, said the Globe report, was an   
   appearance at an Black church in Columbia, S.C.   
      
   "In this house of the Lord, we know that the power rests in God's hands and   
   in Jesus' hands for helping us. But the power also is on this, God's earth –   
   Remember Jesus said, 'Render unto God those things that are God's but unto   
   Caesar those things that are Caesar's.'"   
      
   Dean continued: "In this political season there is also other power. Not as   
   important or as strong as the power of Jesus but its important power in the   
   world of politics and the world of Caesar."   
      
   Dean told the Globe that religion was a private matter for him while growing   
   up:   
      
   "My father used to tell us how much strength he got from religion, but we   
   didn't have Bible readings. There are traditions where people do that. We   
   didn't," he said. "People in the Northeast don't talk about their religion.   
   It's a very personal private matter, and that's the tradition I was brought   
   up in."   
      
   Dean added: "I don't get offended when George Bush or Joe Lieberman talk   
   about their religion. ... I have a feeling it has something to do with them   
   as a human being, and they are entitled to talk about what makes them   
   human."   
      
   Carl Limbacher   
      
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   They are mean, vicious, hateful, greedy, cold-hearted, closed-minded,   
   selfish, intolerant, bigoted and racist.   
      
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