arktrucker
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I was talking to a friend of mine last week and we both wondered if when they hung Sadam if w called his daddy and said... 'I got 'em daddy.. I got that sombitch that treatened you' Just a thought.
When has Gorege Bush ever pumped his fists in the air and posed for a photograph while exclaiming "I'M THE MOST POWERFUL MAN IN AMERICA!!!"?
So, when someone suggests respecting Islam, it's "pandering". What do you call the myriad of occasions when Christianity is rammed down my throat? Is printing "In God We Trust" on our money pandering to Christians?
No, but when a politician tries to legislate that we respect a religion or its texts in a nation where religious liberty is a Constitutional right and where hate crimes are prosecuted, such legislation is a waste of time, the taxpayer's money, and it is most definitely pandering. As for the printing of "In God We Trust" on money, why do you single out Christians? Are Christians the only ones who trust in God? What about the Jews or the Muslims?
Well, the next time i see "In Yaweh we trust" or "In Allah we trust", i'll consider equating the phrase to a pandering to Jews or Muslims.
The first amendment prohibits the singling out of any one religion from being promoted or prohibited by Congress. It does not prohibit Congress from passing a law that says ALL religious texts must be handled with equal respect.
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What Franklin could not have envisioned was a future where the insane rants and pronouncements of such religious loudmouths (such as the Muslims) would go unchallenged in the marketplace of ideas or even be endorsed by an increasingly frail and effeminate intellectual class.
Something to contemplate:
The democrats did not defeat the republicans, the republicans defeated themselves with their own hubris. If the democrats want to be successful, they will need to avoid their own past mistakes in the same regard.
It would also be useful for them to remember that the majority of Americans prefer to eschew the far right and far left of the respective parties. It's time to free ourselves of ideology of extremes.
Personally I hold somewhat libertarian views: resist enlargement of government, both on the fiscal side as well as the social side. As Gerald Ford once remarked, a government big enough to give you everything is a government big enough to take it all away. This country is great because we favor individual liberty. With that comes individual responsibility, which in my book means don't rely on or expect government to take care of you...
Well that seems obvious. They are too busy right now explaining to us why and how Nancy Pelosi is such "an ass". O, I'm sorry. Your question was rhetorical! :biggrin1: Stupid me. More coffee please!The title of this thread is telling.
I don't care for her all that much but I'm wondering where are the self-appointed moralizers from the right chiding us that nothing will ever be gained by name-calling.
:hijacked:I was talking to a friend of mine last week and we both wondered if when they hung Sadam if w called his daddy and said... 'I got 'em daddy.. I got that sombitch that treatened you' Just a thought.
:hijacked:So, when someone suggests respecting Islam, it's "pandering". What do you call the myriad of occasions when Christianity is rammed down my throat? Is printing "In God We Trust" on our money pandering to Christians?
:hijacked:No, but when a politician tries to legislate that we respect a religion or its texts in a nation where religious liberty is a Constitutional right and where hate crimes are prosecuted, such legislation is a waste of time, the taxpayer's money, and it is most definitely pandering. As for the printing of "In God We Trust" on money, why do you single out Christians? Are Christians the only ones who trust in God? What about the Jews or the Muslims?