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Pete Buttigieg: Christianity Has Extremist Factions, Just like Islam
Breitbart ^ | 17 May 2019 | CHARLIE SPIERING

Posted on 05/17/2019 7:59:46 PM PDT by KC_Lion

Mayor Pete Buttigieg claimed Friday that Christianity had its own extremist factions of faith similar to that of radical Islam in the Middle East.

Asked about the differences between Shia extremism followed in Iran versus Sunni extremism, the 2020 presidential candidate immediately compared radical Islam to Christianity.

“Well, you know, not unlike Christianity when it is motivating someone to do something extreme. It can have a thousand different flavors,” he said. “The real question is what’s going on with the regime, the government, that’s given the power and the apparatus of the state and intelligence service and a military, and what do they do with their ideology?

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The South Bend mayor also compared the radical Iran regime to President Donald Trump’s administration, insofar as whether they were representative of the entire population.

“You know, Iran, the Iranian regime does not speak for all of the Iranian people as a unit any more than, you know, you could say that there are no moderate politicians in the U.S., and we’re all secretly enthusiastic Trump supporters,” he said. “It just doesn’t work that way.”

Buttigieg lamented that the moderate Iran factions that wanted to work with the West and the United States were burned by Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal.

“Imagine if you’re an Iranian politician who put all your eggs in the basket of saying let’s make a deal with the Americans. … now you’re going to have a lot of egg on your face,” he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Philosophy; Politics/Elections; US: Indiana
KEYWORDS: 2020; buttgag; butthead; buttigieg; christianity; fakechristian; heretic; homosexualagenda; indiana; iran; islam; mayorpete; mikepence; petebuttigieg; religion; southbend; stinkypete
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To: o-n-money

Works for me.


61 posted on 05/17/2019 8:58:21 PM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: KC_Lion

NAME ONE!


62 posted on 05/17/2019 9:06:09 PM PDT by Don W (When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: KC_Lion

An unfair false equivalence.

It is a way to minimize the evil atrocities under Islam by cruelly equating it with far rarer Christians who commit offenses ...

It is a vicious smear, equating Christians who don’t want to pay for your abortion with ISIS sex slaves and the Taliban poisoning school girls.

Both lies allow liberal bullies to target Christians as wanna-be Taliban and try to shut them down as threats to public safety while giving Muslim fundamentalists a pass.


63 posted on 05/17/2019 9:15:27 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Hitler wanted to destroy The Ten Commandments.


64 posted on 05/17/2019 9:20:49 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: onedoug

All socialists do.


65 posted on 05/17/2019 9:23:03 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: KC_Lion

I get so dagumed tired of these people, no biblical knowledge taking pot shots at a huge relationship between God and man where their hostility is so palpable you just know if you sat down with the guy he’d attack, attack, attack. Jesus never prayed for the world, just His friends. Maybe this guy will be humbled enough to ask Jesus love, grace and mercy to anoint him with His Holy Spirit.


66 posted on 05/17/2019 9:27:04 PM PDT by Karliner (Jeremiah 29:11, Romans 8:28 Isa 17 "This is the end of the beginning" W Churchill)
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To: yldstrk

No, Aryan Nordic pagans led by their atheistic Fuhrer killed six million Jews.


67 posted on 05/17/2019 9:29:37 PM PDT by elcid1970 (No matter how bad things get, it can only be worse in New Jersey!)
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To: KC_Lion

Hey dumb idiot faggot

What is the last time some Christian stapled bombs on to themselves and walkex into A market Place and blew them selves up?

This is the same damn question I asked every stupid liberal that said that Christianity is violent too When I bring up all the atrocities that Islamists commit every single freaking day!

I think this is going to be the election when we really stick it to these dumb mothertricjers


68 posted on 05/17/2019 9:34:13 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Christianity's extreme factions are ... well ... the Amish and the Mennonites. And they are some pretty decent folk in stark contrast to all things Islam. Please, please, please be the nominee, Buttigieg!


69 posted on 05/17/2019 9:38:14 PM PDT by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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To: KC_Lion

He reminds me of Conlin Powell. Powell comes out as a Republican, and then spends EVERY MOMENT of airtime he gets attacking Republicans. For example, Conlin would say that the Republican Party is a ‘a bit rough around the edges’ and shit like that. Annoys the crap out of me.

In this case, Butterfingers comes out as a ‘Christian’ and then bashes everything about Christianity. Sorry a-hole, no dice.


70 posted on 05/17/2019 9:52:05 PM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: KC_Lion

Nothing extremist about hoping all the dumpster pumpers disappear and die...


71 posted on 05/17/2019 10:10:29 PM PDT by northislander
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To: KC_Lion

This guy has no chance of getting elected.


72 posted on 05/17/2019 11:14:02 PM PDT by gunsequalfreedom
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To: gunsequalfreedom

But he’s planting seeds that will bear their rotten fruit down the road.


73 posted on 05/17/2019 11:18:42 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: KC_Lion

Now we know why the folks at Notre Dame love this guy.


74 posted on 05/17/2019 11:21:00 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: KC_Lion

There is one thing, however, that they both agree on, concerning abominations.


75 posted on 05/17/2019 11:38:57 PM PDT by matthew fuller (Introducing the 2020 dimmacrat Presidential Candidate, Gropey Joe and his little friend Mr. Wiggles!)
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To: KC_Lion
Yeah when was the last time my bible study strapped on some high explosives and loved our enemies. (That's sarcasm Dems.) 😬 #rolls eyes# what an idiot.
76 posted on 05/18/2019 12:43:46 AM PDT by melsec (There's a track, winding back, to an old forgotten shack along the road to Gundagai..)
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To: KC_Lion

What about the KKK of the South during post-Reconstruction? Weren’t they Christians?


77 posted on 05/18/2019 1:11:35 AM PDT by SMGFan ("God love ya! What am I talking about")
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To: SMGFan

should have not used ‘post’

But I found this

“The Ku Klux Klan extended into almost every southern state by 1870 and became a vehicle for white southern resistance to the Republican Party’s Reconstruction-era policies aimed at establishing political and economic equality for blacks. Its members waged an underground campaign of intimidation and violence directed at white and black Republican leaders.”

They kept their identity secret Under their white hoods, didn’t they attend church?


78 posted on 05/18/2019 1:15:30 AM PDT by SMGFan ("God love ya! What am I talking about")
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To: KC_Lion

Coming from a Marxist and pervert, who is at war with all moral boundaries, and all who espouse them, and who would eliminate with prejudice any Christian who would take a stand for their beliefs and freedom.


79 posted on 05/18/2019 1:24:15 AM PDT by patriotfury ((May the fleas of a thousand camels occupy mo' ham mads tents!))
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To: Lurkinanloomin

I missed the beheading commandment in the Bible...../s


You likely also missed Jesus shouting “kill, kill, kill” as he led his disciples into battle ...

“kill, kill, kill” was Mohammad’s motto.


80 posted on 05/18/2019 1:57:13 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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