kudzu (03-20-2018)
ThatOwlWoman (03-20-2018)
It is the responsibility of every American citizen to own a modern military rifle.
kudzu (03-20-2018)
Maybe religious people are just psychologically more gullible. I mean, think about it. You gotta be pretty gullible to believe most of the Crapo in the bible, right? Maybe these people are just easier to scam. Naive, Gullible, ignorant. Maybe a combination of all three. Read their manifestos. Listen to what they believed about liberals They didn't reach those conclusions on their own. It was indoctrinated into them. Look how many suckers Jim Baker, Robert Tilton, Jimmy Swaggert roped in. There's one born every minute so there's a lot of suckers out there.
Judge Juan M. Merchan wrote that Trump “appears to take the position that his situation and this case are unique and that the pre-trial publicity will never subside. However, this view does not align with reality.”
kudzu (03-21-2018)
For most, the only hope of any form spirituality or spiritual health is through organized religion though not the only path, just the most available and easy to find path.
The moral lessons of the preachers and writings alone are worth the existence of organized religion despite it's faults.
To me this is inarguable though I am sure some would try.
These sick killers in this thread are no Christians and they didn't learn this thinking from other Christians,
just as the Saudis who behead their victims do not represent all Islam
It is the responsibility of every American citizen to own a modern military rifle.
Agreed. But the disturbing thing to me is the mass-murderers quotes/maifestos. They really believed they were killing for the good of the country.
How perverted is that? And what caused them to believe that?
BTW, here's another one.
Before he was accused of ramming his car into a crowd in Charlottesville, James Alex Fields Jr., 20, had been known to his high school teacher and classmates as being "very big into Nazism" and having a "fondness for Adolf Hitler."
Fields, of Maumee, Ohio, is suspected of driving his Dodge Challenger into the crowd of counterprotesters gathered to oppose the "Unite the Right" rally of white nationalist and other right-wing groups on Saturday. Heather Heyer, 32, a paralegal from Charlottesville, was killed and 19 others were injured.
Heather Heyer died 'fighting for what she believed in'
Heather Heyer died 'fighting for what she believed in'
Fields is charged with second-degree murder, three counts of malicious wounding and failure to stop in an accident that resulted in death.
Those who knew Fields at his high school said he held extreme views and a fascination with Nazism. Fields would draw swastikas in class
Judge Juan M. Merchan wrote that Trump “appears to take the position that his situation and this case are unique and that the pre-trial publicity will never subside. However, this view does not align with reality.”
Yes. THey always have resembled them in the way that both believe in being a political religion.
They are so extreme though, that on the margins we must simply forge ahead and not consider their beliefs.
Any group that has nonnegotiable beliefs and are a tiny minority of opinion on said beliefs should simply be disregarded
for the greater good, a good only maximized by moderation and negotiated solutions wherein nobody is fully happy.
It is in the nature of groups that extreme ideologies must be shoved aside if they can't get along with us.
That goes for guns, choice, welfare state, taxes.
Good article in Atlantic on how Trump suckered these ignorant immoral people.
"How evangelicals lost their way"
Reading this book during the Lenten season, and completing it during Holy Week, may be contributing to my primary take on the book: Evangelicals very badly lost their way. And they did so because their gospel stopped being about the love of God in Jesus Christ, demonstrated most profoundly at the cross, and instead became a reactionary jeremiad about saving America by electing Republican politicians and fighting culture wars.
The author is not an evangelical insider and does not make that claim. But she offers all the evidence necessary for me to make it, aided by nearly 40 years as a participant in American evangelical Christianity.
https://www.religionnews.com/2017/04...ost-their-way/
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