Posted on 07/18/2005 3:13:52 PM PDT by navysealdad
What issues really concern the American people today? I would argue that they care and worry about much more than married gays, terrorists inside this country and heterosexuals who get pregnant and have abortions.
One issue that is growing in the minds of the American majority clearly is this: Just how far does the so-called conservative, religious right want to take this country? Different groups have different goals, of course, but zealous, self-anointed, "Christian" leaders really frighten me.
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Jack Moseley is an ultra wacko left-wingnut extremist who is a purveyor of platitudes and bromides. It's highly unimpressive.
Who said that?
"They're worried about being swept completely from power."
They view Christians as being their direct competition, which should tell anyone paying attention a great deal.
The thing is that he not only has idea that he's wrong, he's unable to grasp that he could possibly be wrong since the only people he's listened to since callow and impressionable yoof have been those with an eye to owning not only their fellow man's possessions, but their souls as well.
How do you possibly get the idea to him that he is not only wrong, but ridiculously wrong except to maroon him for a couple of years in, say, Cuba, or Venezuela, or Cambodia, or North Korea so he can experience it for himself.
Lemme see. He says the public is worried about other things besides those issues he mentions but he doesn't say what those other issues are. Instead he says folks are worried about the people who espouse those issues.
Methinks he's doing some navel gazing here. The person most worried about those Christians is the guy he sees every morning in the mirror when he shaves.
This is the same twaddle we were hearing during the debates ;>
One issue that is growing in the minds of the American majority clearly is this: Just how far does the so-called conservative, religious right want to take this country?
Let me re Phrase this for him.
One issue that is growing in the minds of the American majority clearly is this: Just how far do WE want to take this country?
I don't think he understands quite how vast this Vast Right Wing Conspiracy (tm) really is.
(insert obligatory muhahahaha here)
You could have fooled me. Judging by declining circulation figures, I thought left wing newspapers were on the way out.
Well, based on the evidence of a national election just 8 months ago the country isn't all that worried about conservative Christians. After all when was the last time a priest or minister was out urging children to turn themselves into bombs?
Logic like this can only strengthen the conservative cause.
And when they're not trying to scare people with religion, they're trying to co-opt it and twist it to fit their agenda, or they're insulting people who are religious by trying to fool them into thinking they share the same values.
What this nitwit is really saying is that he is tired of having anything but hackneyed, anti-religious leftist speech prevalent in the U.S. He is probably upset that after forty years of leftist indoctrination, many Americans do no believe what is fed to them through Big Media and its leftist lackeys in entertainment and academia.
"Do you notice how they sneer when they say "Christian" in person? Replace "Christian" with "Jew" to get the full effect."
It's just a matter of time before we won't have to replace the one with the other for full effect. "Pro-Palestinian" is morphing very rapidly into absolutely textbook anti-Semitism, and has been since well before Shrillary gave ol' Yasser's beard a great big hug.
Exactly. These lefty wahoos like to act as if David Duke was a significant voice in the GOP. Meanwhile they have Sheets Byrd as a Senator.
Well, the difference is that Christians aren't demanding a theocracy at the point of a gun, and are not advocating the killing of innocents to get their way.
I have yet to hear any Christian advocate any law that will in any way infringe upon my rights as a non-Christian.
It's helpful to remember that a Christian sensibility is what led the founders to the single most important political insight in history. To wit:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
And as far as how successful any candidate that talked like that would be, I have two words, Alan Keyes.
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