Posted on 11/12/2004 9:33:30 AM PST by neverdem
Some say that the 60's is dead, but I am not sure about that. It is waning though.
Of course, the Muslims like to stone pregnant women, behead artists, and blow themselves up while standing next to women and children. In America, Chrisitians help at food banks, travel to foreign countries with food and medical assistance, and provide shelter and counseling to people in trouble. The Christian approach vs the Muslim approach seems almost identical to writers on the Left.
This is an excellent article - encourage everyone to read all the way through.
This is another example of where the left sets the agenda-the election was over alot more than Christianity. There are not 60 million Evangelical Christians in America. Also, I voted Republican before I became a Catholic.
Secondly, there is an interesting contradiction in this liberal position, in that they're equating voters motivated by morality as being synonomous with 'Christian'. Are they saying you can't be 'moral' without being a Christian? Really?
I agree...excellent.
People need to take the muslim threat seriously.
There is going to be a "great war" and many infidels will suffer at thier hands before this is over.
I sometimes wonder if the tribulation will be at the hands of these animals...
I hate seeing this map. Wisconsin is included amongst the communist and Bush lost by only 11,000 votes. I worked hard on his campaign, watched the polls, and know the heart of Wisconsin is with Bush. Please, someone, make Wisconsin part of Jesus Land.
If so, I say in my best Nelson Muntz voice: "HAAA-Hah!!"
I was once a DemocRAT for the first three years after I turned 18. Then came the Islamic Revolution...
Most likely. Her "site" is nothing but an endless parade of sniggered d!ck jokes, after all. :)
There once were many moral nonbelievers in the West.
Men who believed in a strict moral code derived from natural reason, the kind of morality described by Aristotle in the Nicomachean Ethics or Epictetus in his Enchiridion.
But nowadays there are very few Peripatetics or Stoics. Hedonism is the general rule for most nonbelievers and even many believers.
As a Christian, I'm uneasy with some of the characterizations I'm seeing post-election.
I am not at war with secular Americans. Nor do I think Christians are the only Americans who try to live by "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you". I flinch when I see the map of Canada and assorted Blue States divided and then the rest of the U.S. called "Jesusland".
I am grateful beyond words that President Bush was re-elected, and have been celebrating in various ways since last Tuesday. I hope those of us who worked for and voted for his re-election don't become as pompous and self-righteous as did so many who opposed us.
"I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it."
Holland will have to change, one way or the other. They will either try to accommodate these thugs, in which case their culture will become even more corrupted, or they will take the necessary steps to eliminate this threat.
"Thou Shalt Not Kill." Erased, obliterated, unacceptable. Much like Theo van Gogh."
I am waiting for that sandblasting to be done here at places like the Supreme court building and others...not just to that commandment but to all of them.
With appropriate apologies to the offended.
Twill be a sad day indeed.
This is revealing on several levels. First, that injunction is supposed to be one of the foundations of orthodox Islam. Why would the head of a mosque object to it unless he either no longer believed it or found it inconvenient to some revisionist form of Islam that finds killing necessary (think Wahhabism)? OK, that's probably a rhetorical question...
Second, it is clear that this form of "enlightenment" subordinates freedom of speech (and artistic expression) to bullying by the chronically offended. That level of political correctness is generally laughed at these days in the U.S. even though it still pops up now and then. But whatever it is, it certainly isn't "tolerance."
Bumping for a later read.
On November 2, the very day of the election that was to so sadden Garry Wills, an assassin in Amsterdam murdered the filmmaker Theo Van Gogh — shot him, stabbed him, and then butchered him like a sacrificial sheep. Van Gogh, you see, had transgressed the code of the fanaticism that has now made its home in Holland. And for that he had to die.The Enlightenment wasn't the product of the wonderful tolerant Moslem influences. It is partly a here-and-now anachronistic seeing-what-one-wants-to, partly the result of the old feudal hierarchy (meaning, locally-controlled, non-centralized gov't), partly the climate change (the Little Ice Age), and partly the medieval rediscovery of surviving classic culture.
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