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To: njweave
I do believe in God, but doesn’t God and religion in general preach of the well-being of all humans?

I am afraid that like many that have a casual approach to the Jewish and Christian faiths you have allowed someone to substitute general French Enlightenment sentimentality for true Christian Virtue.

It works like this: Any hair-brained rationalistic scheme to take the wisdom of the ages or just general convention and morality and chuck it out the window begins with trumping up a flaw or problem.

That problem is magnified into a crisis and then the crisis is made more powerful by saying that it violates some readily generic Enlightenment sentiment. Equality, freedom and children are the most often used.

Generally that sentiment is proposed as a tenant of true religion, or at a minimum, presented as a worthy moral precept.

We must remember that progressives responding to the solutions that stalemated socialism came up with Fascism and that when originally applied by Mussolini and Woodrow Wilson it was an exciting idea. So exciting that full governmental answers were celebrated. Mussolini's group had a new term for this total answer and it was celebrated as a wonderful solution: Totalitarianism.

If you are going to let central government decide what marriage is rather than the entire course of civilization, then you are a foolish youngster.

You aren't a fool, are you?

193 posted on 04/08/2008 2:03:20 PM PDT by KC Burke (Men of intemperate minds can never be free...their passions forge their fetters.)
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To: KC Burke
You aren't a fool, are you?

Probably an obama supporter. He's young. From his post he couldn't vote in '04 but he's registered now and apologized for not answering a question earlier, he was in class. Young people flock to obamassiah, they're idiots.

194 posted on 04/08/2008 2:08:14 PM PDT by processing please hold ( "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.")
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To: KC Burke
Forgot to add this....

i cant find answers from my liberal proffesors

195 posted on 04/08/2008 2:12:31 PM PDT by processing please hold ( "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.")
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