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Blame the Republicans? No, This Time It's the Christians
Patriot Paradox ^

Posted on 11/05/2004 11:19:00 AM PST by sonsofliberty2000

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To: sonsofliberty2000

BTTT


21 posted on 11/05/2004 11:31:23 AM PST by Fiddlstix (This Tagline for sale. (Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: biblewonk
Anti-Christian ping.
22 posted on 11/05/2004 11:32:29 AM PST by newgeezer (Democrats will cheat, steal, lie, do ANYTHING to win, because their noble goals justify every means.)
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To: sonsofliberty2000

They left blame the EC because it's an easy fall back target for them to attack

What the left don't want to admit is ....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1271266/posts?page=18#18

* GWBush increased his support across nearly all minority voters compared to 2000:
> 42% of Hispanics voted for GWBush (up from 35% in 2000).
> 11% of African-Americans voted for GWBush (up from 9% in 2000).
> 24% of Jewish voters voted for GWBush (up from 19% in 2000).
> 47% of women voted for GWBush (up from 43% in 2000).
> 52% of Catholics voted for GWBush (up from 48% in 2000).
> 23% of gays voted for GWBush (unchanged from 2000)


23 posted on 11/05/2004 11:33:35 AM PST by Mo1 (one country, one Constitution, and one future that binds us)
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To: sonsofliberty2000

But, but, but, we are supposed to honor diversity of thought and not practice any type or religious intolerance. < /sarc > Oh my the libs must be getting for a mental breakdown.


24 posted on 11/05/2004 11:35:37 AM PST by LayoutGuru2 (Triskaidekaphobia ? Never heard of it !)
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To: sonsofliberty2000

Ah yes....the inherent hypocrisy of liberalism.

Liberals lovedemocracy until the majority of people support ideas contrary to their own.
Liberals love tolerance unless it involves their tolerating dissent.
Liberals love religion so long as it isn't a convicted faith that actually governs one's life.

I've had many people claim that their opposition to Bush lies in his scary admission that his faith plays a role in his everyday decisions. But do these same people hold themselves to the same standard and realize that many christians are frightened by politicians who base their decisions on humanistic, atheistic, agnostic philosophy?

We all have personal belief systems that govern, to some extent, our decisions and actions. So long as those decisions do not violate the liberties of others or violate existing law, there should be no prejudice against such a person.

How funny that more than half of the country is comfortable with Bush's faith, yet these liberals cannot stand the democratic outcome that illustrates this.

A brief reading of those excerpts shows that those who decry religious people as ignorant, blind sheep are actually the dangerous folks themselves. It is they who are intolerant....it is they who are incapable of logic and reason......it is they who would seek to infringe over others they see as inferior to themselves.




25 posted on 11/05/2004 11:36:10 AM PST by goldseth
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To: Search4Truth; syriacus

When empowerment is founded upon hate and lies (as current liberalism driving the democrat party surely is), ANY defeat of that empowerment scheme results in bitterness, inwardly. These people are clearly embittered but unable to achieve consciousness of their root problem. As with children throwing a fit on the floor of your home, they cannot be indulged while in their 'tantrum' stage.


26 posted on 11/05/2004 11:38:00 AM PST by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote life support for others.)
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27 posted on 11/05/2004 11:39:57 AM PST by Liz (The man who establishes the reputation of rising at dawn, can sleep til noon.)
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To: sonsofliberty2000

Here's a bio on the author of the Slate piece, Jane Smiley (circa 2000).

"Jane Smiley turned fifty just in time for the new millennium. She lives in California with her three children, three dogs, and her sixteen (and counting) horses.

Born in Los Angeles, California, Jane moved to the suburbs of St. Louis, Missouri, as an infant, and lived there through grammar school and high school (The John Burroughs School). After getting her BA at Vassar College in 1971, she traveled in Europe for a year, working on an archeological dig and sight-seeing, then returned to Iowa for graduate school at the University of Iowa.
MFA and Ph.D. in hand, she went to work in 1981 at Iowa State University, in Ames, where she taught until 1996.

She has been married three times -- to John Whiston (1970-1975), William Silag (1978-1986), and Stephen M. Mortensen (1987-1997). She has two daughters, Phoebe Silag (1978), Lucy Silag (1982) and one son, AJ Mortensen (1992).

Jane is the author of ten works of fiction, including The Age of Grief, The Greenlanders, Ordinary Love and Good Will, A Thousand Acres, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992 and Moo, as well as many essays for such magazines as Vogue, The New Yorker, Practical Horseman, Harper's, the New York Times Magazine and the New York Times travel section, Victoria, Mirabella, Allure, The Nation and others. She has written on politics, farming, horse training, child-rearing, literature, impulse buying, getting dressed, Barbie, marriage, and many other topics. She is also the author, from Crown, of a book on craftspeople living in the Catskills. Her new novel Horse Heaven is being published in April 2000.

She is now at work on a novel about sex set in Hollywood."

A real role model if ever I saw one. Remind me to ponder whether Jesus or Jane should be the one for my kids to emulate (NOT!).

Pathetic. The good thing is that we've got things to do over the next four years. They've got only endless handwringing, name-calling, and angst.


28 posted on 11/05/2004 11:41:05 AM PST by ColoCdn (Truth never dies)
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To: sonsofliberty2000
In the article Boing, Boing claims conservative Christians might "bring back slavery if they want." And the liberals say we're ignorant!

Republicans have historically advanced black rights. We are the party of Lincoln. Republican Senator Lyman Trumbull (R-IL) authored his Party’s 13th Amendment banning slavery, and the Civil Rights Act of 1866 granting full citizenship to African Americans. On February 3, 1870, the Republicans' 15th Amendment was ratified after passing in the House with 98% Republican support and 97% Democrat opposition. This granted the vote to all Americans regardless of race. During the following years, southern democrats continued to suppress the black vote any way they could.

I'm upset that so many people swallow the lie that the Republicans are Neanderthals racists who turned hoses on blacks to suppress their civil rights. Those folks were the Southern Democrats, under which the KKK flourished. During the era of Jim Crow, Democrats dominated the southern state legislatures, and they proudly called themselves the "Segregationist Party."
29 posted on 11/05/2004 11:42:42 AM PST by keats5
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To: LouD

I might suggest the author have a "light read" of Chemnitz's Loci Theologici - yea Christans can't think critically. If only the pinheads today could think half as clear!


30 posted on 11/05/2004 11:46:24 AM PST by unixadm (Ignorance can be fixed, but stupid votes DemocRat forever.)
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To: sonsofliberty2000

"In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world." - John 16:33

Take joy in our persecution.


31 posted on 11/05/2004 11:47:47 AM PST by Syco
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To: HarleyD
I hope the evangelicals finally recognize the clout they have.

I wish it were so HarleyD. An evangelical is one who lives his/her life according to scripture. I don't see too many of those in church now-a-days. Mostly I see CINOs (christian in name only) - live like hell on Saturday but go to church on Sunday. If evangelicals were in great number the difference would be so dramatic that the Federal government would probably send in tanks like they did at WACO.

I think this vote represented the silent secular moral majority who voted out of fear of what might happen if Kerry was elected.

Yes this is answered prayer! After we thank our Lord for this victory we must follow Romans 13:1-7.

33 posted on 11/05/2004 11:52:20 AM PST by Luke
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Ping for later


34 posted on 11/05/2004 11:54:56 AM PST by Alex Murphy (Psalm 73)
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To: Liz

Nice map..bump to save.


35 posted on 11/05/2004 11:55:26 AM PST by 4Godsoloved..Hegave
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To: Luke

Unfortunately I think there's much truth in what you say.


36 posted on 11/05/2004 11:55:37 AM PST by HarleyD
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To: sonsofliberty2000

then THIS JEW is a Christian,no we are Americans!!


37 posted on 11/05/2004 11:57:24 AM PST by rang1995
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To: sonsofliberty2000
...they build the kind of theocracy they've dreamt of, with Jesus at the helm.

Yup, that time is indeed coming, although it won't be done by election and there's utterly nothing that writer or any other human can do to stop it.

I need to pray harder to feel pity for these people instead of loathing. That's an area I admittedly have a problem with, and it's wrong. Yes, they're venomous and hateful, but the Bible told us this was coming, told us they wouldn't listen, told us they would laugh and mock and spite. It's really not that much for us to have to tolerate, given the big picture. I've read the end of the story. We win, and that's an abject guarantee.

MM

38 posted on 11/05/2004 11:58:04 AM PST by MississippiMan (Americans should not be sacrificed on the altar of political correctness.)
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To: sonsofliberty2000
[Yes, fellow Christians, it is our fault that the Liberals cannot regain their place among the rest of the world]


Well, I have to agree with that up to a point.

I have been praying and fasting for two weeks up until the election for Bush, not just to win, but to win in a mighty way so that the world may know that Bush's God is greater than bin Laden's God and that the USA is a Christian country! Looks like my prayer was answered. Thank You, Jesus.
39 posted on 11/05/2004 12:04:31 PM PST by Taggart_D
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To: Liz
For those playing at home, here's the URL - http://newsimages.synacor.com/ap_photos/NYET26311051453.jpeg

Great resource - a map of religion, and down to the county level even! Strange, and troubling, that there's so much overlap between this map and the electoral one.

40 posted on 11/05/2004 12:06:13 PM PST by Alex Murphy (Psalm 73)
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