Have you read any of my posts? Here you go again, trying to fallaciously pin a straw-man position on me which I never took. My only purpose on this thread was to show what a fool you were for what you wrote in your post #12. Everything you have posted since then has only furthered that observation!
I'll let other Freepers scroll back to it to see your impassioned response.
My reply to your utterly foolish and completely baseless assertions in post #12 can be found in my post #97.
It was quite impressive if you're an 8th grader.
You having a lesser grade schooler's perspective would do much to explain this comment and the rest of your juvenile posts on this thread.
You have admitted that there is good reason a good reason to ditch the Constitution and return to a religious monarchy.
There you go again, trying to fallaciously pin yet another false straw-man position on me which I never took. These desperate attempts to fraudulently cheat in this debate only add to the conclusion that you have already conceded all of my actual points (to which you still have yet to respond).
Thankfully, more intelligent Freepers on this thread have actually mapped out their reasoning for this,
Are you still making baseless assessments of people's intelligence on this thread? Your simplistic and unsubstantiated insults are so juvenile that I am starting to believe that you really just might be a grade school student!
and have have said that it would include religious repression of those who don't support the church.
Although this is clearly outside my point, I will add that almost all of the religious repression of the last century occurred in countries with democratic constitutions.
Everyone now knows where you stand on religious freedom. Congratulations.
That would truly be amazing since I haven't yet commented on the subject. You appear to be deluded on a number of different levels.
Oh, and if your little fantasy comes true,
So in addition to remotely assessing other people's intelligence you are now also divining their innermost desires? Your psychic powers must be incredible!!!
and the clerical authorities come to my home to arrest me for speaking out against the church and the monarchy,
You certainly have a grade schooler's imagination...
I hope they send you.
Awe, that's sweet of you!
Although I doubt you’d have the stones.
Probably not, I'm really not interested in stoning the people I disagree with. I find it much more enjoyable to publicly expose them as the fools they are, just like what I am doing with the opportunity you are providing me here!
Yes, in fact the only post that actually staked out any ideological point said that "A democracy of self-centered "idiots" will be far worse than any benevolent monarchy". That's it.
That's the only point you've made, and it makes the assumption that said monarchy would be benevolent, a relative term at best since some monarchists on this thread see a theocratic monarch who stifles freedom of relgion as "benevolent".
So in effect, you really haven't made any point at all.
Your comment was aimed at one sentence I wrote; that people who rejected the Enlightenment and the political and economic freedom that followed and replacing it with an unelected monarchy were being idiotic.
You said that calling this position idiotic was itself, idiotic. So any thinking individual would surmise that you see some sort of merit to the position of ditching a modern republic!
But no, you don't support monarchy. Or maybe you do.
You don't support ditching the ideas of the Enlightenment. Or maybe you do. Who knows?!
You haven't really said anything; you've just used the thread as an opportunity to swim in my wake again.
Probably not, I'm really not interested in stoning the people I disagree with
Ha! Wrong kind of stones, genius. Try again.
I find it much more enjoyable to publicly expose them as the fools they are, just like what I am doing with the opportunity you are providing me here!
The opportunity to show yourself as nothing but an ideologically challenged potshot artist is your own making.
You would think that attacking someone who supports the ideas of Kant, Burke, Franklin, Paine, Jefferson, and Locke over the divine right of kings would merit some sort of passionate defense. But you've given nothing, no indication as why you think the latter is superior.
This is all we get:
A democracy of self-centered "idiots" will be far worse than any benevolent monarchy. As our founders knew all too well, democracy can only succeed when voters put their own limited self-interests behind those of future generations. Those who do not understand the need for sacrifice in self-governemnt vote in the welfare-state or socialistic fascism that inevitably destroys it.
Wow, brilliant rebuttal to the Enlightenment. I'm sure everyone's mouths are watering for your next defense/non-defense of monarchy, whichever it is.
On second thought, no one cares.