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Fear religion: CNN’s message to the nation (worshipping God creates scary people)
MercatorNet ^ | September 26, 2007 | Sheila Gribben Liaugminas

Posted on 09/27/2007 7:32:57 AM PDT by NYer

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Sheila Gribben Liaugminas is an Emmy Award winning journalist who reported for Time magazine for more than 20 years. Until recently, she hosted the popular national radio shows The Right Questions and Issues and Answers on Relevant Radio. She blogs at InforumBlog.com.
1 posted on 09/27/2007 7:33:01 AM PDT by NYer
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2 posted on 09/27/2007 7:33:38 AM PDT by NYer ("Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church" - Ignatius of Antioch)
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Didn’t people hear this same line from Joe Stalin, Mao, and Hitler, the most prolific mass murderers in human history? Gee, since Roman times the people have been fed the pablum of worship the almighty government; we are the enemy of life.


3 posted on 09/27/2007 7:38:53 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot
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4 posted on 09/27/2007 7:40:50 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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worshipping God creates scary people

Where as worshipping the State, and the people who run it, creats ...


5 posted on 09/27/2007 7:40:57 AM PDT by yankeedame ("Oh, I can take it but I'd much rather dish it out.")
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Worshipping liberalism creates scary people: Hillary, Ted the Swimmer, Boxer, Biden, Barney Frank, etc etc etc


6 posted on 09/27/2007 7:44:15 AM PDT by NRA1995 (Mr. President and Congress: This is OUR country and don't you forget it!)
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Why is it that the media (newspapers,TV, radio, journalists of all persuasions) are taken at their word when they are only agent provocatuers? They have no allegiance save their next paycheck. They have no beliefs, no fear and no common sense. They have no professional or personal authority. Television is the reason they have so much power - we are all brainwashed by watching the default mass media programming on free tv.


7 posted on 09/27/2007 7:45:48 AM PDT by x_plus_one (A nation ashamed of its past will fear its future.)
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So the network that featured Eson Jordan claiming that he had proof that 12 journalists were targeted by US Soldiers for death is now to be trusted in framing any debate on values?

Who still watches CNN aynway Iwannajihad and guys with patches on the arms of their Tweed Jackets?


8 posted on 09/27/2007 7:48:30 AM PDT by padre35 (Conservative in Exile.)
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She needs to stop and ask herself, if she got lost in an inner city neighborhood at night and saw a group of young men walking in her direction, would she breathe easier seeing them carrying Bibles, or bats and knives?


9 posted on 09/27/2007 7:50:26 AM PDT by shekkian
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Thanks for the post! Amanpour is an elitist lefty of the first degree.

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10 posted on 09/27/2007 7:50:38 AM PDT by TChris (Governments don't RAISE money; they TAKE it.)
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That's not a woman, that's a man baby!


11 posted on 09/27/2007 7:54:08 AM PDT by rawcatslyentist (Should beating an unconscious and bleeding person reaaaallly be a crime? Beat it Jessie!)
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If you instill fear in people of a "theocracy" being imposed on them by leaders who are faithful to their religious values, you can control the way they think and vote.

There's some on this forum who really honestly believe that the right wing religious types want to impose a theocracy on the US, halt all *scientific progress* and research and take us back to the Dark Ages. Yet they don't have any qualms about imposing their worldview on us. It sounds just like this.

12 posted on 09/27/2007 8:20:36 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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13 posted on 09/27/2007 8:24:43 AM PDT by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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Fear religion: CNN’s message to the nation (worshipping God creates scary people)

Maybe a few.
But worshipping Allah or materialism (atheism) does a better job
of making more and scarier folks.

About 13 centuries confirm that for Islam, and the Twentieth
Century confirms it for atheism.
14 posted on 09/27/2007 8:30:23 AM PDT by VOA
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If you instill fear in people of a "theocracy" being imposed on them by leaders who are faithful to their religious values, you can control the way they think and vote.

This is why some, seemingly intelligent, people fear George W. Bush. They were just SURE he was going to create a Theocracy! These kinds of folks are suspicious of anyone who mentions religion in public. Stephen Carter from Harvard wrote a book about that; folks just get nervous when other start talking about religion outside of Church. They distrust folks they consider overly religious, cause they think they're being proselytized.

A friend of our #1 son said once that he was worried about President Bush pushing his own religion on the country, thus forming a Theocracy. I asked him where he was getting this idea; what kinds of publications did he read? He mentioned "The Guardian", and I told him he needed to broaden his mind and read other publications that might present a different point of view. Heck even I read the New York Times and the Washington Post from time to time!

15 posted on 09/27/2007 9:01:12 AM PDT by SuziQ
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Heh, my b-i-l comments that if your Christian neighbors go to a revival and get filled with Jesus, you don't have to worry about them coming back home wanting to kill their non-Christian neighbors.

You can't say the same about your Muslim neighbors who go off to Allah camp.

16 posted on 09/27/2007 9:04:07 AM PDT by SuziQ
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There's some on this forum who really honestly believe that the right wing religious types want to impose a theocracy on the US, halt all *scientific progress* and research and take us back to the Dark Ages. Yet they don't have any qualms about imposing their worldview on us. It sounds just like this. And, don't forget sameful trashing those same ones heaped, ad nauseum, on Romney and the Mormon Church on this forum just a couple of weeks ago.

17 posted on 09/27/2007 9:08:03 AM PDT by Turret Gunner A20 (.... when you really start to pay attention, you automatically become a conservative.)
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I advise everyone to know where the mosque/Islamic center nearest to their home is, and to keep an eye on it. (Just look — do not trespass or harass the people there.) If the government won’t acknowledge the danger, it’s up to us to do so.


18 posted on 09/27/2007 9:18:21 AM PDT by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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It’s a shame that CNN is a willing mouthpiece for Amanpour’s hate of religion and those who follow it. She ignores the atheist dictators of recent years and throughout history who murder in much greater numbers in the name of good of the state. Not to mention the gullible who will reject faith based on her biases.


19 posted on 09/27/2007 9:35:06 AM PDT by fortunecookie (Finally catching up with posting...)
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I told him he needed to broaden his mind and read other publications that might present a different point of view. Heck even I read the New York Times and the Washington Post from time to time!

Or ... you can cancel all subscriptions and get your news right here ;-)

20 posted on 09/27/2007 10:13:20 AM PDT by NYer ("Where the bishop is present, there is the Catholic Church" - Ignatius of Antioch)
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