Posted on 10/10/2004 6:23:58 PM PDT by xzins
I submit that post 911 faith has become a central core to many in the United States... because if you did not pray on that day you are inhumane.
Reich wrote:
"The underlying battle will be between modern civilization and anti-modernist fanatics; between those who believe in the primacy of the individual and those who believe that human beings owe blind allegiance to a higher authority;"
The left surely doesn't believe in 'the primacy of the individual' as they worship at the altar of the almighty state.
They hate President Bush because he represents moral standards and character that they refuse to acknowledge as correct.
Excellent point.
The worship at the altar of world socialism.
While the premise of this article has merit - namely that the viurlent oppostition to Bush may be a reaction against his faith - the conclusion that homosexuality is the ultimate basis of the argument is pure drivel.
The Islamists hate us not merely because of homosexuality, but because we are NOT devotees of Allah.
Here is a fascinating dissection into the liberal heart of the matter:
Hedonistic secularists realize that the legitimization of homosexuality—particularly legalization of gay marriage—is a dagger into the heart of the Christian faith and the institutions that shelter its values.
Yes, they do. Socialism is legislated slavery. I know several retired colonels from the USA. They are excellent people. Thanks for your service to our Country.
Best regards.
And those attempting to thrust the daggar seem so over-represented in the lawyerly and judicial classes, don't they?
Makes for fascinating reflection and worrisome times.
Great read!
I think post #9 has a better take on the premise of the article.
You might enjoy this.
Well wtitten, thank you. This election will hinge on our efforts but mainly on the amount of time on our knees before God. I watched Henry V (1989) last night, great movie, and was reminded of Gods' great power over insermountable odds.
What we are seeing today is the Book of Revelation played out before our eyes...If you are a blood bought child of God, the message from Jesus to you is "LET NOT YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED" and "LOOK UP, YOUR REDEMTION IS NEAR" When President Bush said he was the right man for these times, he knew what he was talking about...and we need him for four more years!
I am a person of Faith. President Bush Leads he BEST of the BEST that are My brothers and Sisters. They can feel any way they want too. He can even bring me back into srevice and I will go and be proud to serve. God Bless America.
This is wildly inaccurate. I have never heard Bush advance the notion of America as a Christian nation. I have never heard him promote the teaching of creationism. I have never heard him claim that he wants to ban abortion. Reich is grasping at a straw man. Bush is in fact quite moderate on most things than the hysterical left seems to understand. It could have been much worse for them, in terms of their ideas being shut out.
Robert Reich thinks that people like me are as dangerous as terrorists. Though perverse, that doesn't bother me personally, because I think that secular humanism is more dangerous than terrorism.
I tend to agree with you. I'd say that the President has played his deeper religious sentiments pretty close to the vest. I think he actually tends in the direction of conservative anglicanism, even though he is methodist.
That tradition doesn't scream aloud its convictions, although it very strongly holds them.
Actually they believe in both, bizarrely enough. Robert Bork has chronicled this in his book Slouching Towards Gomorrah. The left is simultaneously radically egalitarian and radically individualistic. It's been awhile since I've read it so I may be mischaracterizing it a bit.
They believe in the primacy of the state in the life of the individual; but they also insist that the individual should be completely free to engage in any kind of perversion or culturally suicidal behavior. They demand that the state encourage this and quash dissenting views, which is why secularism is rigidly enforced in the schools.
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