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To: VinL

It’s not a religion, Ted.


4 posted on 09/20/2015 1:52:22 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Talisker

ANY belief system, be it a religion or an ideology, is not specifically prohibited from running for the office of the Presidency of that territory once known as “the United States of America”.

As it so happens, Islam is much more of an ideology than it is a religion. In fact, it is probably less of a religion than Scientology, which professes no deity (the Eighth Dynamic notwithstanding), and more like the ideology known as National Socialism, as practiced by the Third Reich, from sometime after the First World War until about the end of the Second World War.


52 posted on 09/20/2015 2:07:04 PM PDT by alloysteel (If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? - Will Rogers.)
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To: Talisker

It’s funny, as a debater, he would appreciate that discussion, and losing that debate.

After all, any religion in which the penalty for apostasy is physical death isn’t a religion.

It would be very difficult to argue against that.

I hope some idiot like MeGYN Kelly wades into that and someone points that troubling fact out.

If you can’t leave something after finding your life’s experiences clash with the tenets of any faith freely, without the threat of death, then its a gang.

Even cults don’t seek to kill people who flee. They just look to kidnapping them back in most cases.


148 posted on 09/20/2015 2:37:22 PM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: Talisker

Well, Cruz was a top pick until just now.

This is the same as saying it wouldn’t be fair if Kim Jong Un couldn’t be president of South Korea.

Cruz finally shows his true colors.


193 posted on 09/20/2015 2:53:23 PM PDT by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: Talisker

I love Ted but he’s now bending a knee to somebody. Islam is a theocracy not a religion which Ted should be arguing. We all know Trump is not on board with this crap and that’s why he’s ahead in the polls.


281 posted on 09/20/2015 3:46:46 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Talisker

bingo


350 posted on 09/20/2015 5:28:41 PM PDT by magna carta
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