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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
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I respect Mr. Mahers quite a lot, but I think he undermines his arguments by presenting such a one-sides viewpoint.
For example, he argues that religion is responsible for pretty much all the violence in the history of the world. Look at history: the greatest incidences of mass destruction of human life in the 20th century was caused by racism and/or a desire for power. Even in centuries past, religion was often (not always, but often) used as an excuse to mask the desire for money or power when a country or group wanted to engage in conflict.
Religion certainly has led to violence, no doubt about it. But the fact that an idea or belief is sometimes misused does not render that idea or belief in valid. Look at the idea of democracy: many of our current problems in the US stem from the belief that democracy is such a superior system that we must spread it everywhere. Because some people mistakenly have acted on the idea that we must democratize the world, does that make democracy a bad idea?
Maher is the reason why people like Bush become presidents.I am not joking.This guy constantly mokes and makes fun of believers specially Christians.And in response to people with like attitude believers will get back to them whenever they can.This guy has the same intolerance towards the believers that he accuses them of.
I always hear him say how religion does not make sense,the response is: that is why we believe in it.If we were able to comprehend it there would not be need for faith.One believes in things that he/she can not understand or see meanwhile faith has being part of human experience forever.
So back off and think outside of the box Maher.
We don't live in a democracy. To repeat a famous quote: "democracy is two wolves and sheep deciding what to have for dinner". We live in a Republic. Or at least we were supposed to. Mob rule is what it's come to, it seems. Maybe reciting the pledge of allegiance will jog your memory.
It's not your fault you don't know this. The President doesn't get this either. Nor any other contemporary American politician, nor the MSM. Is it any wonder this country is going down the drain?
Let's be honest, if the moderates were the ones on the rise, this movie would have never been made. Instead our religious dialogue in this country is controlled by the "Katrina happened because there was going to be a pride parade" crowd. That isn't to say that the moderates have more to base their claims on then the literalists but do you think that Bill would still be riding this issue if they represented the majority of beleivers in this country?
Let's stop pretending he is being unfair. This needs to be said. Yesterday someone at my local paper's website posted a comment blaming the economic crisis on God punishing America for abortion. This. Needs. To. Stop. We need to stop letting these people make bullshit claims about God that can't be backed up to promote whatever issue THEY think is important. If God collapsed the economy for any reason, it would most likely be the war in Iraq. I can't prove it of course but in the recent political/religous climate in this country that doesn't really matter anymore.
Jaysus, is that a recommendation?? Mike is okay, for awhile, but in the long run he usually ends up shooting himself in the foot. Borat?? Unwatchable. Excruciatingly bad. Embarrassing. I had a chat with a European friend about it. His response, "Only an American would find that shite funny . . . "
I'll wait till this one comes out on DVD.
But then, that same theologian would have very little in common with the Ignorants that Maher mocks for the very simple reason that the Ignorants subscribe to the same collection of beliefs in name only. The "Christianity" practiced by Hagee hardly reflects current scholarship of the corresponding flavor of religion being compared.
"Religious distress is at the same time the expression of real distress and the protest against real distress. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is required for their real happiness. The demand to give up the illusion about its condition is the demand to give up a condition which needs illusions."
It is in the torah and the talmud that it's a good thing, dare I say a mitzvah, for a man to marry his sibling's daughter.
I know whereof I speak.
I don't know how that worked out for most of the oh, 10's of thousands? of people who did this, but for the family w/whom I'm familiar, it was lethal idiocy.
I've spoken to some rabbis and all confirm this practice.
The couple who did this in this family lived in NYC and had to go to RI to get married, cause of course in RI, that bastion of religious freedom where the first synagogue opened on this side of the pond, it was legal for jewish men to marry their nieces. These days, equity will out, any man can marry his niece in Rhode Island.
...then are liberals finally going to admit that trees and rocks don't actually have souls?
I'm pretty certain that on average, athiest are more "christian" or christ-like than most christians. to be an athiest (especially in the US of f-in A) is to be someone who is necesarily thoughtful. And i bet, more righteous & compassionate than most.
and if you are christian, but don't believe the fairy tale stuff, then why join that religion? Oh, because hardly ANYONE chooses their own religion.
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Thank you! The myth that we've never had a non-Christian president gets rather tiresome.
As you correctly asserted, Thomas Jefferson was not a practicing Christian, and termed himself a Deist. The two Jameses, Madison and Monroe, were by affiliation Episcopalians (also the religion into which Jefferson was born), but their conception of spirituality seems to have been heavily influenced by Deism. They had serious doubts about the supernatural aspects of Christianity, but were not as vocal about them as Jefferson. Then also there was the Unitarian John Adams, whose church specifically rejected the divinity of Jesus of Nazareth. I'm pretty sure if you reject the divinity of Christ, you're not exactly a Christian.
So there's definitely one —and maybe four— of them. And they're kind of a big four, in terms of historical influence. Not a Frank Pierce in the bunch.
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