Posted on 03/29/2006 1:04:29 PM PST by Crackingham
"From the review:..."
Your expecting Publishers Weekly to buy into Limbaugh's argument???
I'll bet the WP, NYT and the other MSM organs gave him a glowing reviews.
Sorry, but the definition of a Christian is as found in the Bible. It is not a question of whether the person's politics are liberal. It is whether or not the hold to the historic Christian faith. When some of us say "liberal" Christian, we mean a person who rejects one or more of the cardinal tenets of the faith: the divinity of Christ, the Virgin Birth, etc.
While I don't like it, I don't see how that is religious persecution.
*** DING DING DING *** No more calls; we have a winner!
"What really scares me is the complete lack of Christian churches in the U.S. and the fact that any time people try to attend a Christian worship service, they're beaten or thrown in jail. And the other day when my son said a silent prayer before an exam at school they expelled him for the rest of the year. It was awful."
Your words cut so deeply, like a paper cut that heals over night...I suppose you agree with the notion that if your son's prayer were verbal, it would likely cause irreparable psychological harm to a poor atheist child nearby?
And the fact that a born-again, evangelical Christian could never be elected to be President.
I thought you were trying to say that liberals can't be Christians, and that only conservatives could be 'real' Christians.
"You don't like the Goths?"
"No! Not with the persecution we have to put up with!"
"Persecution?" Padway raised his eyebrows.
"Religious persecution. We won't stand for it forever."
"I thought the Goths let everybody worship as they pleased."
"That's just it! We Orthodox are forced to stand around and watch Arians and Monophysites and Nestorians and Jews going about their business unmolested, as if they owned the country. If that isn't persecution, I'd like to know what is!"
I consider firing someone for their religious beliefs, persecution. In this country, we usually don't kill someone for anything other than murder. However, we are starting to deny people jobs, if they take a stand on certain moral issues. At this time, those issues are usually abortion or homosexuality.
Your best bet is to get a copy of David Limbaugh's book - maybe from your library or an online library. I'll try to look up the stories but I'm a little pressed for time and it would take quite a while to find them. How does that sound?
Kindly do not read fallacies of logic into my remarks. My point was not that little things lead to atrocities, but that even atrocities have to begin with small stuff. Suppression of Christianity has to begin with seemingly inconsequential actions, but they should not deceive you into thinking that there is no larger purpose and great consequences ahead.
Is that any clearer for you, pilgrim?
If a job requires actions prohibited by someone's religion, then what else would you suggest, besides not filling that job with someone of that sect?
I'm pro-life but not a Christian. Gay issues I don't really care about, they don't bother me.
Why would you want to work in an environment like that anyway? Why would I go to work for a gay newspaper and then complain that they won't hire me because I won't do my job because I don't like gays?
That argument leads to mutually exclusive conclusions("Allowing teachers to lead Christian prayers is the first step toward theocracy!" "Prohibiting teachers from leading Christian prayers is the first step toward pogroms!"), and thus cannot be accepted without further qualifications.
okay.
No.
Conservative Christians base good on the word of God.
Liberal 'Christians' base good on cultural elite political correctness. On 'tolerance' and 'diversity'.
Is the 'environment' to be virtually any job in a blue state ?
I think it is very dangerous to divide us. Christians, Americans, whatever. We are all in this together.
Funny, I live in one of the bluest states. I Go to the DMV or the post office or bank and people say 'have a blessed' day to me all the time. People wear crosses around their necks and have little posters and prayer cards on their cubicles.
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