Posted on 08/20/2024 7:28:10 AM PDT by Towed_Jumper
I’m just tired of those who claim devotion but do not truly practice the virtues as they were meant to be practiced. If you believe in a doctrine then practice it faithfully without compromise or exception.
“A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.” — Robert Frost
I suspect that the good poet might have had you in mind.
It’s the same as the “proposition nation” manure, which was invented so that its proponents could pretend that America doesn’t have a culture to defend.
Actually it just means that they don’t share in that culture in the first place, and they don’t intend for it to have any importance or any right to defend itself from cultures alien to the United States.
The United States is older than the Constitution, by more than a decade. And to paraphrase Robert Jackson, the Constitution is not a suicide pact. You and the Monkey God may have an uphill fight convincing many outside of the DNC convention.
You are completely missing my point because of your bias mental block. The point I am making is that this symbol is not harming anyone. Their faith is not harming anyone. Same with crosses up everywhere, they are not harming anyone either and should be defended and I DO defend them. Both have the same right to be erected as the different faiths choose. In fact I believe that crosses even on PUBLIC LANDS should be allowed because they harm no one. We are all equal with equal rights to believe as we like as long as it does not harm others. If it doesn’t harm anyone then why not? Because it offends your hypocrisy and ONLY crosses should be allowed? Only the Christian religion is allowed? This is the exact same thing followers of Islam believe. Thank God the Constitution is designed to protect us from that right?
The bigotry and hypocrisy I am observing here is no different than the left wanting all crosses to come down because it offends their feelings. Why? They are harming nothing, and if Christian believers want crosses up to symbolize their faith why not? Yet Christians do not have the same respect for symbols of other faiths in return. Just like the left and Islam they don’t want them to be erected. Only their own symbol is allowed to be erected. And you can bet that if this symbol had been erected on public property, just like the left there would be an outrage from Christians to have it come down immediately.
It is the very same double standard the left practices against faith. And if Christians practice the very same double standards they have no right to claim superiority of morals because it is just not true at that point. They are being hypocritical and dishonest and not even following their own virtues as dictated by God. It is a poor example of morality when you are not truly being moral even by your own standards. God teaches against hate, hypocrisy, and dishonesty. It is like demanding freedom of speech while suppressing the speech of others because you do not like what they say. This is no different than what the left does right now. Hard to complain about a double standard when you are guilty of practicing the very same double standard yourself. Yet this is all I am seeing as a neutral observer with no loyalty of any faith at all. It is “selective observance” of the law and equality just like the left practices.
Again I believe every individual should have the constitutional right to believe as they like as long as “it does not harm others”. And rightfully a faith like Islam that DOES harm others should indeed be scrutinized very well. But the stereotyping and treating of ALL religions the very same as Islam is dishonest. They are not all the same. And it is a good thing we do have the Constitution “to protect us from becoming Islam”. And compromising the Constitution will indeed backfire once that door of practicing double standards is opened. The insisting on only one formal approved religion will be Christianities own self destruction. Once the concept is embraced, it will be a huge green light to be universally replaced by something else like Islam from the masses.
In summary, Practice what you preach. If you want to fight to protect your faith and claim superiority of your faith, then practice your own virtues and morals of your own faith as an example of that faith as truly being superior and virtuous over others. Until then you cannot truly claim righteous superiority to judge others.
“There were no Muslims on the Mayflower.
There were no Hindus on the Mayflower.
There were no Jews on the Mayflower.
There were no Buddhists on the Mayflower.”
There were no pilgrims on the Spanish ships that brought the founders of what would become Texas.
Texas was New Spain from the 1490s until 1821 when Mexico won its independence from Spain. In 1836 Texians the proper term for them with the help of greater numbers of Tejanos furious with the tyranny of Santa Anna declared independence and won. It wouldn’t be until 1845 when the USA annexed the independent Republic of Texas would what is present day Texas become a American State a predominantly Catholic state at that when it was annexed again due to the Catholic Spaniards and the colonists over 350+ years.
My family other than the Indigenous American’s got here in 1731 as founders of what would become San Antonio we still hold active cattle land from the original 1741 grant for Philip V. So Texas is unique it has absolutely zero to do with the former British colony and it’s pilgrims.
This is a cartoon...
“For I the LORD thy God am a jealous God...”
of interest.
Are there many Hindus in Texas?
Where I live in Frisco, they are everywhere.
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