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In my experience, when someone (1) says I took something out of context, but (2) doesn't tell me what the true context was...that means they have no rebuttal to my point, but they can't bring themselves to admit it. "are upset with people’s response To Trumps actions and Words ...that actually have happened" You keep acting as if everyone on the right defends everything Trump says. It could not be less accurate. He gets all kinds of fair criticism from Republicans who despise him. Sure, he has apologists like Sean Hannity, but there are many conservatives who criticize him when he deserves it. Hell, conservatives are upset he's willing to compromise with democrats on the "dreamers". Very few conservatives refuse to admit he's a jerk. |
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Not a let's get out the tanks and mobile ICMB's to parade down Constitution Avenue. Quite a difference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhARosaTfSw |
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Where in the Constitution does it say anything about Christianity? Or anything that would prohibit the practice of any religion? Conservatives want to look at history with a narrow view and pick the time they liked and try to get back there. The war on drugs has failed The war on abortion failed, it only lasted 100 years and did not eliminate abortion. I'll admit that being a Republican at a liberal arts college can be dangerous and I have a little experience with that. But i do believe that if you are young being liberal is not bad, but what happened at a local college with a conservative speaker was disappointing. |
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Tell that to Christian bakers who get sued for having the nerve to want to practice their religion. "Conservatives want to look at history with a narrow view and pick the time they liked and try to get back there." It's called reacting to empirical evidence, and advocating for what works over what doesn't work. Hooray, 75% of black babies are now born to fatherless households! And if I say we need to re-establish the importance of the black nuclear family, that makes me a regressive who wants to go back in time? Or does it make me a rational person who knows how to identify and address the root cause of a problem? |
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It's not just black babies, it's low income households. But just eliminating the current system won't cure the problem, the system needs to help and not just be the net that keeps you from dying but has no escape for people without the tools to do so. Whoopi goldberg had a late nite TV show years ago, I watched her interview one of the Wayans Brothers. They both grew up in the same Projects. They had a great discussion about going back and seeing the same people and why and how they got out of there. They both said it was because their parents worked. Sounds simple doesn't it. Just take the net away, we didn't used to have one. |
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I can't either, that's a very good point IMO. "or that a Christian would think they are sinning by making a cake" I don't agree with that either. But the First Amendment gives them the right to do it. When Obama was POTUS, a tr#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&g company in Michigan fired some Muslim drivers who wouldn't haul alcohol on religious grounds. The Obama administration sued the tr#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&g company on behalf of the drivers, saying that one cannot be forced to abandon their religious beliefs at work. Why do Muslim truck drivers get that protection and not Christian bakers? That's my question. "But just eliminating the current system won't cure the problem" I Agree with that. too. I guess I thought you were saying it's wrong to look back at what worked, and to advocate for returning to what worked. Not all change is productive change, not all change is "progress". 10 years ago, no one would have believed me if I predicted that soon, it would be considered "old fashioned" for me to say that if a man has to go to the bathroom, he should use the men's room. Is that progress? Not to me. But you made good points. |
Jim they needed better lawyers and unfortunately that is the way this country currently works. The only country in the world where it is illegal for a business to connect two extension cords, thank a lawyer!
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Who contributes more to the federal coffers has no special relevant meaning. Is it something to boast about? Is it some sort of bragging rights? It seems what is more important is what amount states force their inhabitants to "contribute." I'd rather brag on living in a state that took less of my money than living in one that took more. But if you're proud of paying more state and federal taxes, then by all means, make that your meaningful topic. |
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How is Islam any different from any other religion, or Catholicism for that matter which has it's own state and sole leader on earth. When I was a kid some people were concerned about electing a Papist as president. That was JFK. There are sects in many religions that I have no use for and that most of the practitioners of the more mainstream parts would disavow. People twist the Koran, Bible, Torah to fit their views. Who fought the Crusades, brought Christianity to the rest of the World, willingly and unwillingly and lots of other things in the name of their God. I think it is a case of let him who is without sin cast the first stone. |
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So the foundation and precepts of each religion is different. Christ founded a religion based on voluntary faith, Mohammad founded a theocracy founded on force. That is the fundamental difference and foundation of each. That is why Christianity is not incompatible with our Constitution, and Islam is. The crusades were not about an establishment of actual Christianity, but of returning the lands which were originally Christian but conquered by Muslims back into the hands of Christians. In that force rather than preaching was used, it was a corruption and not really Christian. But Christianity went through a great period of reformation to restore it back to true Christian roots. And that is, in essence (though corrupted by some) the Christianity of today. And why it is a religion, not a theocracy. We have, for whatever reasons, been fed the line that Islam is just another religion. It is so very, very, and as you mentioned in an earlier post, easy to verify that it is not. That it is a very strict and harsh theocracy. Very few serious and honest Muslim clerics/scholars would admit to some Islamic compatibility with western democracy, much less to the American Constitution. |
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Well. let's see. For starters, there aren't large numbers of Catholics who want to slaughter everyone who isn't Catholic, so there's that. How many Muslim hospitals, homeless shelters, soup kitchens, and adoption agencies are you aware of? Catholicism also doesn't brutalize women, doesn't force them to dress like ninjas and mutilate their genitalia. |
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