Posted on 04/12/2007 8:54:11 PM PDT by Philistone
Before thinking about zotting me, please check my history.
#1. The United States never has been and never will be a "Christian Nation". At its best, the United States has allowed different Christian denominations to live in harmony with each other.
#2. Believing that you can hasten the return of Christ is not only prideful but heretical.
#3. While abortion is despicable, it pales in comparison to Sharia.
#4. The man who led America out of the darkness and who defeated the Soviet Union, Ronald Reagan, was divorced.
#5. It is not up to the Federal Government to protect your family from corrupt influences. It is up to you.
#6. Your goal should not be a nation in which everyone is forced to believe as you do, but a nation in which you are allowed to present your beliefs whenever and wherever you want.
#7. Instead of choosing your leaders on the basis of whether they read the Bible every day, why not choose them on the basis of whether they will defend YOUR right to read the Bible every day.
Just a few thoughts as we enter into the next Primary Season...
Thanks for posting this.
I’m still not voting for Rudy.
You bet. BTW - I won’t vote for McCain and probably not for Rudy.
Prenatal sharia.
False?
Sharia is better?
In what way?
"Cuz" ("Cousin" Fred Thompson) will run...
"Cuz" will be nominated....
"Cuz" will be POTUS....
IMHO....
Abortion is the ending of life. It is pre-natal. Sharia is the ending of life. It is post-natal.
That the US was, has been, and is infused with Judeo-Christian values, no one in their right mind would object.
That the US is a “theocratic” nation, like Saudia Arabia is a “Muslim” nation is now and has forever been false.
This has something to do with that GOP pro baby-killing presidential candidate, don’t it?
#1. False.
#2. Who believes that?
#3. False. Abortion has killed about 50 million Americans. Sharia has scored a few thousand.
#4. So?
#5. The federal government belongs to us.
#6. Even the way you phrased it shows you just don’t understand Christianity.
#7. Again, a mythological basis for your statement leads you draw paranoid conclusions.
No, not at all. It’s too early for me to even begin thinking about 2008.
I’m just amazed at the number of people who would allow someone like Nancy Pelosi to gain power just because the alternatives weren’t “pure” enough.
What I find interesting about your post:
1. There are 40 million abortions every year in the world. Most of them are against female children. Sex selection abortion is legal in the United States and legal throughout all 9 months.
2. Sharia is bad but we should not force our beliefs on others. That is a rather fascinating juxtaposition. I am rather fed up with the Christian Taliban inference. Christians have been pretty nice to their counterparts in America. They are rewarded with relentless threat construction. You are not being forced to accept Christianity. There is little meaninful indication of this. In fact, the public expression of Christianity is legally problematic in this country precisely for the phobic concerns you list.
3. I get to protect my family from corrupting influences but the State will protect everyone from my Christian corrupting influences. This is the fair division of church and state— what a great deal for Christians!
4. The obsessive phobia about proving that America is not a Christian nation is pathological. Multiple surveys suggest 80-85% of Americans identify as Christian today. Alexis De Tocqueville said of 19th century America “they combine notions of Christianity and Liberty so intimately that it is impossible to have them think of one without the other.” Christianity has historically exerted a huge influence on the nation including movements such as the civil rights struggle. The artificial and contrived effort to turn the full text of the first amendment inside out so that there is not meaningful freedom of religion or freedom of speech for Christian speech that bothers anyone is a failed project which is rightly doomed to collapse. The most effective critiques of America as not Christian point to the reality of Christ versus the reality of America— hardly a rhetorical design which encourages America to be less Christian.
Those are my initial problems with your post.
Anyway, good luck and think about getting a pet.
Personally, my goal for this Country is to make it a place where people actually are able to drive a car with reasonable proficiency.
Certainly I would want to live in such a place where people could actually drive before they tried to dial a phone number while changing lanes on an Interstate Highway.
The truth is, ninety nine percent of the people that I have ever met in this world, are incapable of accomplishing such a feat. Ninety nine percent of the people that I know, should have their drivers licenses revoked in the first place.
Much closer to 100 percent of the people that I have ever met, have absolutely no idea about what the Bible says, and why it says it. You fit into that category for sure, and likely the other categories as well.
In short, you are a dope.
You’ll get no flames from me. Spot on, Philistone!
Oh for heaven’s sakes! Life is life is life is life is life. Your comment has to be one of the most ridiculous comments I’ve ever read!
I am trying to figure out if there is a point to your post. For starters, just who are “the Evengelicals” to whom you write your letter?
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