Posted on 09/30/2018 6:04:32 AM PDT by The Ignorant Fisherman
‘They also hate Israel and will not recognize Jerusalem’
Same convention when they booed God three times.
The moment a junior member of congress is schooled by leadership, you are right — but then they are told, “This is a war. The other side does far worse than us.”
The truly vile members of their party blind their followers with slander heaped overtop slander. It can be difficult to see clearly, especially when it has so many hooks in everyone around you.
It’s ‘Group Think’ — very insidious.
We all fall prey to ‘Group Think’. Impossible to be a human if you never do.
I remember that, that said it all to me!
I’m trying to figure out whether you have congratulated me or insulted me. :-)I’ve heard of cognito ergo sum (even if my spell checker hasn’t). But I’m not smart enough to connect that to my argument
Cynicism is an antonym for faith.Just dense, I guess . . .
My definition of cynicism is “the conceit that negativity is objectivity.”Journalists know that “if it bleeds, it leads,” make them negative - yet they claim to be objective. That is, journalism as we know it is cynical.
But it would be incoherent to be cynical about everything. And journalism is not. It is cynical about society and it actually is naive about government.
And that combination of cynicism and naiveté is a defining characteristic of socialism.
The Kavanaugh hearing and the true danger of Godless Communists
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3692372/posts
In 1954, Congress added the phrase “under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance, something it did as a direct rebuke to Godless communism. I never really focused on the “Godless” part of the phrase “Godless communism.” To me, communism was the scourge, and the Godless part was almost akin to a verbal twitch or perhaps a clear identifier. They’re not just communists! They’re Godless communists!
Thinking about it, though, the phrase “Godless Communist” has a deeper meaning than I first realized. To the extent that America was founded as a nation beholden to God (even though the First Amendment thankfully) ensured that the federal government could not impose religious values, rituals, or doctrines on people, communism was not only an economic threat, it was also cultural threat.
Communism’s war on God undermined everything America stood for: A nation that took directly from the Creator Himself the self-evident truths underlying its ideals. Without a Creator, those self-evident truths become mere wishful thinking. “Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” as meaningless and ephemeral as any garden-variety slogan.
“Now, more than ever!” “Just Do It!” “Does she or doesn’t she? Only her hairdresser knows for sure.” “Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness — on sale now until supplies run out if you vote for your local Democrat politician.”
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