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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2019 12:35:11 GMT
SourceRepublican politicians are great, aren't they?
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Post by kls on Aug 17, 2019 13:54:41 GMT
SourceRepublican politicians are great, aren't they? I'm not a Republican, but you do realize that isn't party platform-right?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2019 14:36:14 GMT
You missed the word “yet”.
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Post by politicidal on Aug 18, 2019 18:16:35 GMT
SourceRepublican politicians are great, aren't they? Lunatics.
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Post by goz on Aug 18, 2019 21:03:22 GMT
It is just another worrying example of fundamentalist Christian prosthelytizing, despite the fact that the USA Constitution allegedly separates church and state.
Rabid hypocrisy at its finest.
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Post by puvo on Aug 19, 2019 3:32:00 GMT
SourceRepublican politicians are great, aren't they? I love how some people still ask the question to atheists who post in places like this 'why do you guys even care? Why do you argue against a god you don't even believe in. Seems so silly to me" etc etc The answer - people like this exist, and actually have some power over the rest of us.
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Post by phludowin on Aug 19, 2019 5:31:03 GMT
You missed the word “yet”. So did I. It's not mentioned in the articles.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2019 11:41:33 GMT
You missed the word “yet”. So did I. It's not mentioned in the articles. I wasn't quoting the articles.
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Post by faustus5 on Aug 19, 2019 12:15:05 GMT
This is a perfect example of how Christians can be just as bad as Muslims if not constrained by secular law.
I highly recommend the Netflix documentary "The Family", which documents insidious attempts by a Christian group to covertly influence policy over decades of time in the USA and beyond. It also explains why such Christians have absolutely no problem supporting complete authoritarian scumbags who don't even believe in their religion, since if such men support many of their goals, they must have been "chosen" by God for positions of power.
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Post by goz on Aug 19, 2019 21:08:09 GMT
This is a perfect example of how Christians can be just as bad as Muslims if not constrained by secular law. I highly recommend the Netflix documentary "The Family", which documents insidious attempts by a Christian group to covertly influence policy over decades of time in the USA and beyond. It also explains why such Christians have absolutely no problem supporting complete authoritarian scumbags who don't even believe in their religion, since if such men support many of their goals, they must have been "chosen" by God for positions of power. For an outsider to American politics, this has been one of the most perplexing aspects. That thy support a person, who on ALL other occasions would be the anti-Christ to them in his behaviour. The delusion of evangelical Christians indeed goes to another level. 'Its God's will' is the most dangerous phrase I know.
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Post by goz on Aug 20, 2019 5:59:54 GMT
For an outsider to American politics, this has been one of the most perplexing aspects. That thy support a person, who on ALL other occasions would be the anti-Christ to them in his behaviour. The delusion of evangelical Christians indeed goes to another level. 'Its God's will' is the most dangerous phrase I know. The thing to understand is America has vast marketplace of differing and merging theologies thanks to Separation of Church and State. The modern white right wing evangelicals are descendants of mostly poor, ill-educated people in the South and Midwest. Their churches were Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Lutheran, Dutch Reformed, etc., most from off-shoots of the European reformed churches. Other denominations broke away from these main stream congregations with the Fundamentalist slant provided by a group of Presbyterian theologians at Princeton Theological Seminary in the late 19th century. These teachings became part of their theology. The Depression hit everyone in these regions (that had always been poor) bad, but in particular it devastated the working class evangelicals. Another group of 19th Protestants, descended from the Midwestern Millerites, focused on End Times using the writings from the Bible with commentary and compared them to current events in order to predict when the end will happen. The Scofield Study Bible was the most popular one. The Ryrie Bible is a popular today. Most of the mainstream churches rejected much of these new concepts, but many within MS churches accepted it and broke away to form new, more fundamentalist congregations. The End Time people used to be a small minority, often located in Holy Ghost churches, but recently many of these disparate churches experienced a mutual cultural drift thanks to tent revivals, radio, then TV where fundamentalist theology and End Times or Premillennialism and Amillennialism eschatology commingled. Millennialism was not a thing in the Southern Baptist Church until recently. Nor is the neo-Calvinism some now preach. Then in the late 70s, Falwell formed a political wing called the Moral Majority, followed by James Dobson’s Focus on the Family, and the Christian Right. They began the politicization of these churches. Today there are a lot of megachurches were these concepts fly high in a non-denominational setting. That is, the pastors are not associated with any church conference and they can pick and choose what the preach. (Not all megachurches are political.) This is the messy behemoth that forms the religious core of Trumpism. This is an ad hoc outline. To find out more, read up on The Great Awakening, the Burnt Over District (Mormonism sprang from that) and the Third and Fouth Awakenings. Most of modern American-style, fundamentalist/End Times Christianity form from this events. Thanks for that ad hoc outline. There had to be some extreme and complex sociological reason for such divergence from even church based 'reason'! Also one of my theories about American culture is the influence of anti-intellectualism from within poor and evangelical communities. It obviously doesn't suit the 'Powers that Be' to have an educated, critical thinking group of followers, just as it doesn't suit Trump. He uses al the tactics of propaganda, conspiracy theories and scare mongering to gain and keep a superficial allegiance. No wonder people call him 'Hitleresque' as these are the techniques of Nazism that worked 80 years ago.
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Post by politicidal on Aug 20, 2019 15:04:14 GMT
Mr. Conservative would be a RINO today.
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Post by thefleetsin on Aug 20, 2019 15:13:42 GMT
there's nothing quite as soul-satisfying as a christ ordained blood bath...
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Post by faustus5 on Aug 20, 2019 16:39:11 GMT
Mr. Conservative would be a RINO today.
So would Reagan, probably, but you could say he's the one who was most responsible for the party's decline into madness.
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Post by thefleetsin on Aug 20, 2019 17:21:57 GMT
when the pansies paraded into the hosanna holy war
here in the land of the geek and the home of the cave there were certain spiritually oriented slaves who though it cool to rumble outside their own raves while decimating homosexuals as if this was a sign of them being brave.
of course no one does stupid better than a troglodyte menacing a rainbow parade so we decided to let them poop their panties while we cast more than enough shade to send them all packing back to where that stone first sealed up that cave.
sjw 08/20/19 inspired at this very moment in time by no one said it would be a cake walk.
from the 'beguiled series' of poems
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