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In the absence of God, blame has become our prevailing religion
London Times ^
| December 31, 2004
| Simon Jenkins
Posted on 12/31/2004 3:05:23 AM PST by ejdrapes
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posted on
12/31/2004 3:05:23 AM PST
by
ejdrapes
To: ejdrapes
If this passes for conservatism in Britain, no wonder the Poms are quickly becoming Krauts-clones.
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posted on
12/31/2004 3:20:12 AM PST
by
NZerFromHK
("US libs...hypocritical, naive, pompous...if US falls it will be because of these" - Tao Kit (HK))
To: ejdrapes
There is an awful lot of truth in this article. Just last night I told my wife how disgusted I was with all the news channels. It seems that all they do is criticize the governments of the world for failing to anticipate and immediately respond to one of the worst cataclysmic events in modern history. How vain and banal. It seems that blame, or the need to find cause to explain effect is simply human nature. For thousands of years man blamed the Gods for unimaginable suffering. Now it is the United States and global warming. It seems we just can't accept that sh_t happens.
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posted on
12/31/2004 3:24:35 AM PST
by
Cornpone
((Aging Warrior))
To: NZerFromHK
I mean his Iraq comments. He's a paleo in your country.
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posted on
12/31/2004 3:25:40 AM PST
by
NZerFromHK
("US libs...hypocritical, naive, pompous...if US falls it will be because of these" - Tao Kit (HK))
To: ejdrapes
"Unlike the tsunami, in the case of Iraq we at least know whom to blame. The war is being waged by two democracies, Britain and America. For its outcome they have only themselves to blame."
Interesting this shallow mind elevates Bush and Blair to the level of "God", and doesn't even have a clue.
I do not recall any contrasting and comparing Saddam to "God", when Saddam was slaughtering and butchering his own people.
To: ejdrapes; cpforlife.org; Mr. Silverback
The upper estimate of deaths in Iraq, 100,000, is eerily similar to that for the tsunami. The author has 'eerily' left out one other statistic - the number of deaths by abortion. Unlike an Act of God, these are all preventible.
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posted on
12/31/2004 3:38:17 AM PST
by
NYer
("Blessed be He who by His love has given life to all." - final prayer of St. Charbel)
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posted on
12/31/2004 3:39:31 AM PST
by
NYer
("Blessed be He who by His love has given life to all." - final prayer of St. Charbel)
To: ejdrapes
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posted on
12/31/2004 3:54:41 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
(Big government is still a big problem.)
To: ejdrapes
Maybe its just me, But when you watch this horror unfold, I cant help wondering , that people cant see that this could happen if these moron terrorist ever get there hands on WMD. and worse.
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posted on
12/31/2004 3:55:16 AM PST
by
lillybet
(Your all right)
To: ejdrapes
In 20 years this fool will be in the same closet the anti nuke idiots from the 80s are today.
Red6
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posted on
12/31/2004 3:58:48 AM PST
by
Red6
To: ejdrapes
Compared to the human beings murdered by abortion, this tsunami and the war in Iraq are nothing.
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posted on
12/31/2004 7:38:50 AM PST
by
Siobhan
(Chastisements, trumpets blowing, bowls pouring....)
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To: Lutonian
This superficial lump of piffle ought to have been aborted by an editor.
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posted on
12/31/2004 9:29:16 AM PST
by
headsonpikes
(Spirit of '76 bttt!)
To: ejdrapes
In the absence of God, blame has become our prevailing religion
In reality...
BLAMING G-D and HIS followers seems to be the prevailing religion as
far as I can tell...
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posted on
12/31/2004 9:35:06 AM PST
by
VOA
To: ejdrapes
When God seems far away.....WHO MOVED.?.
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posted on
12/31/2004 9:42:21 AM PST
by
hosepipe
(This propaganda has been ok'ed me to included some fully orbed hyperbole....)
To: NZerFromHK; ejdrapes
<< If this passes for conservatism in Britain, no wonder the Poms are quickly becoming Krauts-clones. >>
There are no conservatives among the population that so squalidly squats the Euro-peon Neo-Soviet's off-shore satellite state once know as once-great britain.
Only socialistic serpents of the fasciSSocialist ilk competing to grab and to divide the booty of state-sanctioned standover, shakedown, looting amd theft.
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posted on
12/31/2004 9:56:49 AM PST
by
Brian Allen
(For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord -- Luke 2:11)
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posted on
12/31/2004 11:44:19 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(the US population in the year 2100 will exceed a billion, perhaps even three billion.)
To: ejdrapes
blame has become our prevailing religion This occurred in Russia, with atheist communism. Somebodies head rolled with every problem. Under liberalism, blaming others replaces personal repentance.
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posted on
12/31/2004 12:17:17 PM PST
by
aimhigh
To: Lutonian
He is no left-winger - but rather, a paleoconservative in the Yanks' political spectrum. Gordon King of NZPundit has chronicled him as a radical isolationist "left-the-brownies-stew-in-their-own-folly" conservative. He is in fact an Old Right.
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posted on
12/31/2004 1:33:21 PM PST
by
NZerFromHK
("US libs...hypocritical, naive, pompous...if US falls it will be because of these" - Tao Kit (HK))
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