Actually, they hate Christians too. And, as events in India demonstrate, they also hate Hindus. Yes, they're willing to kill ALL non-Muslims to prove it.

U_D is a complete fool: all Americans don't pay 15.3% of their income on anything. The notional unemployed rate is between 8 & 9 percent and the real unemployment rate (those no longer looking for work) is about twice that. They pay nothing, as they earn nothing.

Rather than rant against the Tea Party, making completely unfounded accusations, U_D might consider that at least some proof is needed to verify that TP people believe that following God's law necessitates Jim Crow laws. U_D gives no proof beyond his bare assertions and thus can not be taken seriously.

Hitler's lies have nothing to do with the current discussion. As to the reasons why Germany lost WW I, while anyone who knows anything about the matter knows that the war was a complicated multi-front war (& U_D writes as if he's just learned this in some basic college course and thinks it uncommon information). U_D seems to think that this has some bearing on the current discussion, but doesn't seem to think himself under any obligation to inform readers why this is so.

Uder_D is either an uninformed fool or a liar; what is being said is that nearly half of Americans pay no income tax. So far as 'payroll taxes' go, this is true & U_D offers no statistics to refute it. As to taxes in general, including social security (any funds received excess to current SS payments is used by the federal government to cover general expenses), they are ubiquitous and no one, however poor, can avoid them all.

I did not want to call her evil in the context of CT's column; for the record, however, I do believe she is an evil woman. I have no more qualms about saying this than I would in saying it about Pol Pot (who also might have been very pleasant over lunch, for all I know).

What does this have to do with the article? Try staying on topic; it makes for intelligent conversation, something with which you don't seem to be familiar.

The problem with this column is that CT does not make necessary distinctions. In While it is true that one should not wish another person dead, at the same time the death of some is of benefit to the world in general: I do not mean this as a comment one way or the other in respect to Rachel Maddow. Further, many who do much public evil are, from all accounts, wonderful husbands/wives, fathers/mothers, etc. and are privately very polite and engaging. That this does not in any way excuse the public evil seems to escape CT. It also doesn't seem to occur to him that his making friends with such gives the appearance of his not taking the public evil seriously; much as would his making friends with Pol Pot, Josef Stalin or Adolf Hitler.

Jimmy Carter was and is NOT an Evangelical Christian, though he ran under the pretense of being one. Rather he's a Liberal who theologically is about the same place he is on the political spectrum. He is evangelical (small 'e'), just not for Biblical Christianity. That's why some years ago he left the Southern Baptists, when the majority successfully stopped the leftward drift in their Convention and in their seminaries.

Vanderbilt administrators = narrow minded lefty bigots