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Originally posted by gwb72tii View PostI'm not religious but you must mean in a historic sense no?
I don't see Christian's murdering women and children today.
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Originally posted by herbivor View PostGood quote. You can insert "Christinanity" in place of "Islam" everywhere in that statement and it would still ring true.
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Originally posted by funcrew View PostSeems to me the difference is that Christian culture, on average, has modernized in a huge way, whereas Islamic culture has largely not. Even at the far backwards end of the spectrum, anti-science fundamentalist Christians are not calling for stoning gay people to death, beheading petty thieves, destroying ancient artifacts, etc. The fundamentalist Muslims still adhere to the same cultural values they did in the dark ages. The reasonable way that Islam is practiced in the USA has little resemblance to they way they do it in the Middle East.
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Originally posted by funcrew View PostSeems to me the difference is that Christian culture, on average, has modernized in a huge way, whereas Islamic culture has largely not. Even at the far backwards end of the spectrum, anti-science fundamentalist Christians are not calling for stoning gay people to death, beheading petty thieves, destroying ancient artifacts, etc. The fundamentalist Muslims still adhere to the same cultural values they did in the dark ages. The reasonable way that Islam is practiced in the USA has little resemblance to they way they do it in the Middle East.sigpic
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Frankly, I don't know what it is about California, but we seem to have a strange urge to elect really obnoxious women to high office. I'm not bragging, you understand, but no other state, including Maine, even comes close. When it comes to sending left-wing dingbats to Washington, we're Number One. There's no getting around the fact that the last time anyone saw the likes of Barbara Boxer, Dianne Feinstein, Maxine Waters, and Nancy Pelosi, they were stirring a cauldron when the curtain went up on 'Macbeth'. The four of them are like jackasses who happen to possess the gift of blab. You don't know if you should condemn them for their stupidity or simply marvel at their ability to form words.
-- Columnist Burt Prelutsky, Los Angeles Times
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"My last vestige of 'hands off religion' respect disappeared in the smoke and choking dust of September 11th 2001, followed by the 'National Day of Prayer', when prelates and pastors did their tremulous Martin Luther King impersonations and urged people of mutually incompatible faiths to hold hands, united in homage to the very force that caused the problem in the first place."
Richard Dawkins
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Originally posted by funcrew View PostSeems to me the difference is that Christian culture, on average, has modernized in a huge way, whereas Islamic culture has largely not. Even at the far backwards end of the spectrum, anti-science fundamentalist Christians are not calling for stoning gay people to death, beheading petty thieves, destroying ancient artifacts, etc. The fundamentalist Muslims still adhere to the same cultural values they did in the dark ages. The reasonable way that Islam is practiced in the USA has little resemblance to they way they do it in the Middle East.
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Haha. Nice twain quote.
"Having courts, lawyers and opinions does nothing to make robbery any less of a crime."
The 'state' is not a natural phenomenon. It is man-made and exists only in the mind.
The law is nothing more than an opinion or belief by one man, or a body of men, backed by violence and a gun.
He isn't an anarchist even though he references Lysander Spooner. I think that showing our system for what it is is what gets these people such ill reputations.
But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case it is unfit to exist.
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Observer covers the most current political news and political opinion articles, including local, national, and international politics.
These are quotes from the comments to this article. The irony is overwhelming.
"We're going to suspend your rights to protest, bear arms, privacy, and trial by jury."
"Why?"
"To protect you from terrorists."
"Why do we need to be protected from terrorists?"
"They hate you for your freedom.""We know there are people who want to take away our freedoms." - Bloomberg, for example.Last edited by Dozyproductions; 04-23-2013, 03:12 PM.
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