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To: Alex Murphy

More folks making Christians look like nutcases.


2 posted on 12/19/2006 9:51:32 AM PST by JennysCool (This is the United, not Diverse, States of America.)
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To: JennysCool

>>More folks making Christians look like nutcases.<<

Intentionally so. There are people on FR who post articles for the exact same reason.


7 posted on 12/19/2006 10:05:15 AM PST by SerpentDove (It's not rocket surgery.)
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To: JennysCool

That's the point.


12 posted on 12/19/2006 10:21:54 AM PST by kenth (I wish compassionate conservatives were more compassionate to conservatism.)
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To: JennysCool

You shouldn't avoid bottled water because of that.

You should avoid it because it is a waste of money. It's usually nothing more than tap water costing 1000% more than if you turn on your faucet.

But if someone wants to blow their money on nasty, stale, plastic-tasting water to promote an image, that's THEIR business.


24 posted on 12/19/2006 10:44:55 AM PST by TheTruthAintPretty (G-d Bless our brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, fathers and mothers in harm's way!)
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To: JennysCool

"This is the United, not Diverse, States of America."

There's no contradiction between being united and being diverse. There's always _some_ kind of diversity in any group, but lots of groups manage to be united nonetheless.

The word "United" as it appears in the phrase "United States of America" is used in contrast to "Separate" or "Independent" as antonyms and in contrast to "Associated" or "Aligned" as weaker adjectives.

To get a contrast with "diverse" this would have to be the "Uniform States of America" or the "Homogenous States of America or something along those lines. And to contrast with ethnic, racial or religious diversity this would have to be the "WASP States of America" or the "Christian States of America" or something like that. But of course, that isn't who we are and it isn't something we'll ever so much as pretend we want to be.

Sigs are often emotive, not descriptive. But if you're going to use your sig to state a claim you might reconsider and pick a true claim in place of the one you're using now.

Peace.


38 posted on 12/19/2006 11:43:30 AM PST by ConsistentLibertarian
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To: JennysCool
water is a God-given resource

So are amoeba and bacteria. Filtering those out costs money.

62 posted on 12/19/2006 4:28:42 PM PST by Paul Heinzman
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