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Famed author takes on Kansas: Rushdie bemoans role of religion in public life
Lawrence Journal-World ^
| 10/7/5
| Sophia Maines
Posted on 10/08/2005 5:29:47 AM PDT by Crackingham
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To: Crackingham
This guy is the ACLU's poster boy
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posted on
10/08/2005 6:10:17 AM PDT
by
SAMS
(Nobody loves a soldier until the enemy is at the gate; Army Wife & Marine Mom)
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To: ElipticalAmigo
I see religious people killing those who don't believe what they do far more likely then secularists killing people because they are religous. Then you must have slept through the 20th Century. Various brands of Communists and Socialistsall avowed secularistsmurdered on the order of 100 million people. In some parts of the world they continue to do so.
You may argue, as some have, that Comunnism and National Socialism are themselves religions. They certainly deal with religious questions: Does God exist? (Their answer is no.) Is there life after death? (Again, they say no.) What is the purpose of life? (To serve the State.) But that only goes to show that Rushdie and his ilk are wrong when they say that mankind can eliminate religion. If men do not know God, they will fashion their own gods to worship.
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To: ElipticalAmigo
Hiter was a catholic, Stalin was training to be a priest but was ejected from the church because of his political leanings. Yeah sure. Madeline Murray O'Hare was Catholic, Pol Pot was Buddhist and Mao ZeDong was a Confucian.
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posted on
10/08/2005 6:14:43 AM PDT
by
A. Pole
(For today's Democrats abortion and "gay marriage" are more important that the whole New Deal legacy.)
To: ElipticalAmigo
Your original statement in post 6 was about "religious people"' not pseudo-religious people.
Nice try.
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posted on
10/08/2005 6:16:25 AM PDT
by
labette
(Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.)
To: ElipticalAmigo
I think you summed that up nicely.
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posted on
10/08/2005 6:16:31 AM PDT
by
mlc9852
To: Rudder
I don't believe in a one-world government.
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posted on
10/08/2005 6:18:39 AM PDT
by
mlc9852
To: mlc9852
Which religion do you nominate to run the U.S.A.?
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posted on
10/08/2005 6:25:08 AM PDT
by
Rudder
To: A. Pole
Funny, in all my reading of history, I missed the part where Hitler had all those people killed for not becoming Catholic.
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posted on
10/08/2005 6:25:24 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(When bad things happen, conservatives get over it!)
To: ElipticalAmigo
The purges were done because of the political affiliation of the victims. The so called purges of the 1930s, yes. But they affected relatively "small" number of people, mostly from the progressive intelligentsia connected with revolution (revolutions eat their own children). But believing Christians died in millions and MAJORITY of their clergy died.
You don't see me saying Christians are responsible for the holocaust because Hitler was one do you?
In the moment when Hitler embraced the pantheistic racialist ideology of Volkism and worship of nature, he stopped to be Christian.
To be a Christian you need to believe in one God the Father, the maker of Heaven and Earth and in His Son the Jesus Christ who is the Saviour for all who accept Him. Read the creed.
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posted on
10/08/2005 6:26:28 AM PDT
by
A. Pole
(For today's Democrats abortion and "gay marriage" are more important that the whole New Deal legacy.)
To: mlc9852
And to think at one time I felt sorry for him,he really is a P.O.S., a arrogant, ulgy little snot.
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To: dubyawhoiluv
he really is a P.O.S., a arrogant, ulgy little snot. Ugly he is!
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posted on
10/08/2005 6:30:30 AM PDT
by
A. Pole
(For today's Democrats abortion and "gay marriage" are more important that the whole New Deal legacy.)
To: ElipticalAmigo
"Your link is broken."
In the moment when Hitler embraced the pantheistic racialist ideology of Volkism and worship of nature, he stopped to be Christian. Sorry, here it is:
Ideology of Volkism
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posted on
10/08/2005 6:33:39 AM PDT
by
A. Pole
(For today's Democrats abortion and "gay marriage" are more important that the whole New Deal legacy.)
To: Crackingham
Rushdie,
We are doing just fine in Kansas. Stay in England.
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posted on
10/08/2005 6:34:36 AM PDT
by
GarySpFc
(Sneakypete, De Oppresso Liber)
To: starfish923
yes I read SATANIC VERSES. I read the WHOLE thing. Made my brain hurt. There are some factual things about ISLAM in there but it is there to kinda give someone background on ISLAM if they dont know about it. the rest of it is sillyness.
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posted on
10/08/2005 6:35:56 AM PDT
by
Kewlhand`tek
(those that can't, teach. Those that can't teach, report)
Comment #38 Removed by Moderator
To: ElipticalAmigo
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Hitler's Germany amalgamated state with church"Not exactly. He eliminated the church, {the worship of God} and substituted in it's place the worship of the state.
Deutchland uber Alles, ya?
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posted on
10/08/2005 6:37:45 AM PDT
by
labette
(Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.)
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