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In reply to the discussion: My daughter has just finished her abstinence-only sex ed at school [View all]Javaman
(62,926 posts)prior to seeing it, I had a feeling that there were people like this but to the extent at which it was happening, that really set me back on my heels.
There is a great podcast I listen to, it's called "hardcore history" with Dan Carlin. His most recent episode dealt with the reformation and Martin Luther. But what was the highlight of the episode was this group of zealots that splintered off of Lutheran movement were the Anabaptists. Much of the kind of fire and brimstone insanity that is being preached today, can be directly compared and related to what the Anabaptists were screaming about.
If allowed, I fully believe that todays American Taliban would quickly slide into the very same mentality that the Anabaptists displayed.
Scary stuff.