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Orthodox Christians Must Now Learn To Live as Exiles in Our Own Country
Time Magazine ^ | June 26, 2015 | Rod Dreher, editor, The American Conservative

Posted on 06/27/2015 5:18:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: cripplecreek

“Nothing I would love more than to cut the cities off for about a year or until they cry uncle.”

I would love that, too. I want pain. I want suffering. I want them to be HUNGRY and hurting and I want their heads on pikes!

But with a Midwestern Politeness to it, LOL!


81 posted on 06/27/2015 7:20:32 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
But with a Midwestern Politeness to it, LOL!

"We're sorry, due to the current unpleasantness no food will be delivered today. Eat aunt Edna bitches. Have a nice day."
82 posted on 06/27/2015 7:24:17 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Sad fact, most people just want a candidate to tell them what they want to hear)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Went for a job interview in the UK in the 90’s and on the CV mentioned that I was a member of a church ensemble. I was asked...”Oh, my. Are you one of ‘those’?”

Another interviewer for a different job asked me if I let “my husband rule me”. AND if I “planned to have kids”.


83 posted on 06/27/2015 7:25:29 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I agree with many here. It is time for parts of the country where conservatism is strong to secede from the USA. I’m all for it.


84 posted on 06/27/2015 7:28:22 PM PDT by ducttape45 (My USA is now dead.)
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To: cripplecreek

Tee-Hee! ;)

I think I need to buy me a semi tractor and just let it sit in my yard, LOL!

Think of all the kids we’ll save from Mooche’s Mandatory Lunches! We’ll be Heroes!

HEROES, I say! :)


85 posted on 06/27/2015 7:28:49 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: liberalism is suicide

You’re right!


86 posted on 06/27/2015 7:29:11 PM PDT by onyx (PLEASE SUPPORT FR. Donate Monthly or Join Club 300! God bless)
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To: panzerkamphwageneinz
"What would blacks do if all the white people left?"

They'd let the country fall to ruination. Eventually they'd be begging some foreign nation to save them before they all starved.

87 posted on 06/27/2015 7:38:35 PM PDT by StormEye
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To: onyx

That’s weird, my FRiend.

One of the few times that I have to say it’s a coincidence because I seldom believe in them.

In the future I’ll remember the date as part of the destruction of our great nation.


88 posted on 06/27/2015 7:41:01 PM PDT by jazusamo (0bama to go 'full-Mussolini' after elections: Mark Levin....and the turkey has.)
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To: Bluewater2015

Hmmmm, that really brings up all sorts of ideas about what to add into that batter!


89 posted on 06/27/2015 8:13:15 PM PDT by LibsRJerks
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

+1


90 posted on 06/27/2015 8:32:27 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West." - Aragorn)
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To: RnMomof7
I am a conscientious dissenter from this Scotus ruling.


91 posted on 06/27/2015 11:50:00 PM PDT by caww
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To: cripplecreek

If you live in a mid atlantic state it probably does have large rural liberal areas but most of the country isn’t that way.


Exactly my point. In the Northeast and midatlantic, Pacific coast and even some rust belt states, yes, even the rural interiors are mostly liberal. But in the rest of the USA only small enclaves(e.g Austin, TX, Athens, GA) are liberal, and they can be safely ignored. Those folks can outmigrate to liberal-land if they want.


92 posted on 06/28/2015 5:41:05 AM PDT by Bluewater2015 (There are no coincidences)
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To: RKBA Democrat

“As for secession, I think the socialists are praying to their demigods that it happens. The reason why can be seen in looking at an electoral vote distribution. Losing a state like Texas just ensures that radical socialism wins at the presidential level...forever.”


Then I hope their demigods are generous. If TX goes, it won’t go alone. It’ll take the rest of the South (FL is a bit of a wildcard) and most of the Midwest and mountain West along with. In other words, we get the dog and the liberals get the tail. Win-Win.


93 posted on 06/28/2015 5:43:39 AM PDT by Bluewater2015 (There are no coincidences)
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To: Steve_Seattle

First of all, Christian churches should cease to partner with civil society on marriage - they should no longer require a civil marriage license to perform a religious wedding. If the couple wishes to avail themselves of any civil benefits of marriage, they will be told they must comply with relevant civil law, but that is not the church’s business.

Ministers must distance themselves from cooperating with a satanic, secular regime.

And here is the supreme irony: for decades, liberal Christians have chastised regular Christians for their too-cozy relationship with “the American Way.” But now, it is LIBERAL Christians who want a cozy relationship with the NEW American Way.

The only way to convert them is to shove that right back in their smug faces. THEY are now the Americans who identify their Christianity with the values of secular America. I guarantee you, THAT will sting, because they are so used to imagining themselves as prophetic outsiders. .


One wonders if more affirmative action (pardon my use of that odious phrase :)) is warranted. Disrupt same-sex “weddings.” Stink bombs and butyric acid (doesn’t hurt but smells really bad) works wonders. If you are a Christian and work in a state Department of Vital Statistics, or even if you are just someone who’s really good at hacking, just make records of same-sex marriages “disappear” somehow. Guerilla war can work wonders.


94 posted on 06/28/2015 5:49:17 AM PDT by Bluewater2015 (There are no coincidences)
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To: Bluewater2015

I didn’t connect those dots, but you’re correct. The other states left behind would have a very stark choice: leave or accept the socialist yoke.


95 posted on 06/28/2015 6:45:55 AM PDT by RKBA Democrat ( The ballot is a suggestion box for slaves and fools.)
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To: cowboyusa

A complete redo of our government would be ideal. CWII will probably lead to that. Otherwise prepare for rhe Shemitah because it is coming.


96 posted on 06/28/2015 7:42:57 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

Our country needs to humble itself and admit it is a concrete society, existing in space and time, finite like all societies are, and not “Liberty.” As a real society, not open-ended “Liberty,” it can do things like illegalizing communist parties to protect itself. It is no slave to anyone’s abstractions unto infinity.


97 posted on 06/28/2015 10:46:12 AM PDT by Mmmike
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To: Steve_Seattle

So, Catholics then?


98 posted on 06/29/2015 1:54:36 PM PDT by Holdek
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; A.A. Cunningham; AlexW; andyk; BatGuano; bayliving; Belteshazzar; bert; Bigg Red; ..

I meant to post it for you, but 2ndDivisionVet beat me to it. Dreher says exactly what I was thinking, and of course it applies to all serious Christians.

If you want to be on this right wing, monarchy, paleolibertarianism and nationalism ping list, but are not, please let me know. If you are on it and want to be off, also let me know. This ping list is not used for Catholic-Protestant debates.


99 posted on 07/02/2015 8:41:17 PM PDT by annalex (fear them not)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Exiles or guerrillas?


100 posted on 07/02/2015 8:43:39 PM PDT by MortMan (All those in favor of gun control raise both hands!)
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