BURNIN' DOWN THE TENT!

Freeperdom | January 08, 2010 | MestaMachine, Blueyon, Others

[P-Marlowe]

P-M, I’m putting you on notice. If you’re undergoing some sort of gender reassignment chopectomy crap then you can’t be my FRiend any longer.

LOL!

My point is that the First Amendment guarantees our inalienable right to be wrong. It is not religious specific and there are no exclusions for religions that appear to us to be "un-American". You know more than any that the same things that are being said about ALL Muslims were said in the last century about ALL Catholics, i.e., that their loyalty was to the Pope and that the Pope was in league with the devil and all that nonsense. But in the deep South and frankly in the suburbs of Boston, that sentiment was expressed to try to make Catholics out to be in league to destroy this country and turn it into some arm of the Vatican.

"Between 1830 and 1930—a century of massive immigration into the United States—anti-Catholicism was an active element in many debates around immigration, and it pervaded popular literature and political humor in the United States, occasionally fueling violence against Catholics. Frequently references to Rome's despotic influence over immigrant Catholics served as a backdrop to outbreaks of anti-Catholic activity. Among well-known events was the 1834 looting and burning of a Charlestown, Massachusetts, Ursuline Convent at the hands of anti-Catholic vandals. More representative, however, were nonviolent deployments of anti-Catholicism such as the proliferation in the 1830s and 1840s of popular "exposés" about the repressive influences and deviant sexual activities of Catholic clergy and nuns, and the 1884 presidential election, wherein Republicans decried the Democratic Party's association with "rum, Romanism, and rebellion" (references to the party's stance on Prohibition, its heavily immigrant-Catholic base, and its strength in the secessionist South)."

US History Encyclopedia: Anti-Catholicism

[DJ MacWoW]

Tell me that applies to muslims. Try.You really want to try to appease them? Yeah. Let's be inclusive.

Malaysian Christians stand firm on their right to use 'Allah' despite church attacks

[wagglebee]

You know more than any that the same things that are being said about ALL Muslims were said in the last century about ALL Catholics, i.e., that their loyalty was to the Pope and that the Pope was in league with the devil and all that nonsense.

The last century?!

I can give you links where it was said on Free Republic in the last five minutes!

[DJ MacWoW]

For the past several days you and others have been trying to smear P-Marlowe, myself and others as some sort of Islamic sympathizers

Not true. And if you'd check, we walked away from this thread. Your friend started it again.

[Danae]

RIGHT ON! Great work Mesta!!!!!

[P-Marlowe]

there are more than a few Pentecostal FReepers who are probably upset that they can't play with their rattlesnakes any longer.

Oh no!!! When did they pass that law?

[wagglebee]

And your point is? I have made NO false statements anywhere on this thread. It is against my religion. This person just compared everyone on this thread to HITLER. And you can defend this?

No, he didn't. He asked you a question, he asked you if certain statements reflected your beliefs. You could have just as easily answered no.

One thing that Free Republic does better than ANY website is that it allows complete religious freedom. There are people who have said horrible and untrue things about my religious beliefs and, in fairness, I have done the same to them.

The Constitution PROTECTS religious beliefs, it DOES NOT protect all religious practices. Sharia can be tempered by American laws the same was Mormon polygamy was. And for the last time, quit crying about how the Muslims are taking over parts of Europe. This is the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA there is NO COMPARISON between us and some socialist pansies in Europe.

[WVKayaker]

Tell me that applies to muslims. Try.

Tell me it excludes ANY Americans. Try... You can only do that if you don't accept those words. They are the founding documents of our "house/tent".

I'm a WASP. I am a Christian. I think the Muzzies are off their rockers, and many are indeed violent. Roman Catholics and I disagree all the time, but I don't recommend sending them all to Rome. Mormons think they can be gods. Do we blast them off back to Kolob? Where would you send the Jehovah's Witnesses?

I an give you lots of examples of people doing things in the name of their religions. Jim Jones is the first in mind. But, I believe more in the eternal struggle, against "powers and principalities", than against men in bomb-laden vests. We win both wars one man (woman) at a time.

I live in this "house", and have no interest in "burning it down". That you wish to spread your opinions as Gospel are facetious at best! That you wish to force them on others is just plain fascist.

[DJ MacWoW]

This is the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA there is NO COMPARISON between us and some socialist pansies in Europe.

There are 30 muslim towns in the US. Ask JustPiper. Two of them are Islamburg NY and Dearborn Mich.

Don't be so blind. It IS happening here. Terror trials in NYC?! Attempted bombing on NW Airlines and he gets miranda rights and is tried like anyone else?! Wakeup wagglebee!!!

[DJ MacWoW]

Muslims are coming for us. What are you going to do to stop them? Make sure they get all their rights?

[MestaMachine]

This did not start out to be a religious thread. Your buddies turned it into one. I thought they would stop and get tired of beating a dead horse. But they didn’t. We tried to retake the thread with political posts and get away from the religious stuff, but your friend would have none of it. The FIRST post from him this morning was this piece of garbage that is morally repugnant.
And now you are RATIONALIZING what this one just did as somehow okay. Well, wagglebee, it is NOT okay. It is not okay to take a screed from Mein Kampf and ask us if this is how we feel when NO ONE on this thread ever suggested even one iota of what that text bespeaks. You are wrong here. Please do not dig yourself in deeper.
The very worst that was said that even came minimally close to violence against muslims on this thread was something about a size twelve combat boot.
You guys have seen fit to cause all this friction and stop any forward progress for the whole project based on a one sentence IDEA out of many.
It won’t work. the project goes on.

[PistolPaknMama]

bookmark and thanks!

[MestaMachine]

The TENT is the political Big Republican TENT. Didn’t you read anything before you went spaz on this? Do you even know what this project is about? It’s about Conservatives retaking the GOP party leadership and running Conservative candidates. ALL OF THIS is over the IDEAS that were expressed in the OFF FREE REPUBLIC part of what individuals could do. It was an opinion, not a command. And you are trying to destroy what we have worked hard on for what? So you could play in your friend’s sandbox? Without knowing or caring why this started or what started it?

[WVKayaker]

Don't be so blind. It IS happening here. Terror trials in NYC?

Wow. We didn't know that. Most FReepers never know anything about the news. They all sit in front of the TV watch CNN and beg to return to Dan Rather's version of the daily crapola. /sarcasm

This blindered attempt to purify by blame is pitiful. Fling all the crap you wish, but your rants aren't converting anyone to your message. It's likely driving more away.

We all agree that terrorists are evil. The biggest threat right now is in Washington, DC. But, I can't be the one who decides. We need to change the present administration in the White House before we even talk about removing these already identified terror threats. They are surely being watched. Getting rid of Zero is Mission One!

[DJ MacWoW]

The FIRST post from him

P-Marlowe is not a "him" unless she lied to me and a few others years ago.

[MissMagnolia]

bookmark for later

[MestaMachine]

GOOD on YOU!! And thank you. Boy did we need this!

[DJ MacWoW]

You didn't answer the question, just insulted. Again, what are you going to do to stop them? They use their mosques to plan and radicalize. What are you going to do to stop them?