Letters to the Editor
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hm.
Stanley Hauerwas, a disciple of John Howard Yoder, purports that Christians should abstain from all forms of violence, including voting, because to vote (in this country) is to inherently endorse the commonly-accepted American notion that violence is an acceptable form of foreign policy.
There are a lot of things our pastors should be talking about from the pulpits. Who to vote for is not one of them. American Christians should render unto Caesar what it Caesar's... not try to become the next corrupt emperor. Jesus spent his time with prostitutes and destitutes and prisoners and outcasts and the physically handicapped. He didn't rub elbows with governors and politicians... he was executed by them.
A few Christians in this strange country of ours understand that the state is Rome and not the Church, and therefore try their best to ignore it. Quite a few Christians suffer the state to place before them two evils, and hope to choose the lesser of those by voting for or supporting candidates and policies that might resemble true Christian love and charity. But unfortunately, all too many "Christians" are just so many more mindless Roman sheep, listening not to the covenant of the God of Mercy but to the insidious voices of earthly power that only use faith as a justification for their own greed and arrogance. Mike Huckabee might believe he is serving God by trying to become Caesar, and a lot of ignorant Christians might believe they serve God by voting for him, but that doesn't make it so. These people are simply getting ready to kill Christ all over again, every day.
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Fred Thompson
Geeze, I was paraphrasing, yes, I've read the actual quote, and no, I don't fear Fred Thompson. The only one I fear is Mitt Romney, because that guy is seriously nuts. I actually respect Fred Thompson, and if we had to have a republican, I wouldn't mind him, but he just didn't catch fire. Maybe he just got in too late, or he just didn't want it bad enough to really fight as hard as he needed, either way, I look forward to seeing him another TV show next fall.
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This guy
is such a fraud and a hateful person, he won't allow his sermons to be made public, why, because they would show the world what a bigoted, racist, ignorant hick he really is, the problem with born again Christians is they usually come back as themselves.
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In other news...
In other news, A&E showed the Oscar-nominated documentary "Jesus Camp" tonight. This is the documentary that shows middle-American Christians brainwashing children and making them huddle together crying about Jesus. (I urge you to see this documentary -- it's the scariest thing since watching Muslim extremists shout "Jihad!" over and over.)
Huckabee's followers are the same people who have deluded themselves and other with maximum bad faith in "Jesus Camp." My problem with these sorts of Christians is not that I disagree with their belief system; it's that these people are actively abusive of the rights and beliefs of others, with a stated political goal to take away those rights and alas, the organizational abilities to actually make it incrementally happen.
Huckabee and Romeny are the most religiously scary of the GOP candidates, but you can be sure that the rest of them are cynical and manipulative enough to exploit Jesus freakery for their own advantages. As far as I am concerned, they can all go to hell.
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Huckabee supporters are typical Americans--morons.
He fears God," said Scott Bailey, from just outside Otley, Iowa, where he's president of a network of conservative Christian home-schoolers. "Apart from that, nothing else matters to me in a candidate.<
This asinine comment is proof that Americans, or at least the 50.01% who vote Republican, are morons. I say that as an American myself--one who is totally disgusted with the stupid country and wishes he lived in Canada.
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separated at birth?
http://images.salon.com/news/feature/2007/12/31/huckabee/story.jpg
http://members.aol.com/PaulEC2/tenpin.jpg
http://www.sweaterthieves.com/uploaded_images/huck.jpg
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Huckabee is basically a pro-life Democrat
He combines the worst and most sentimental parts of contemporary Liberalism and new-age Christianity.
- He's pro-open borders; in fact, said something about how immigration helps the USA "atone" for slavery and racism. That's enough to make me puke.
- He favors high taxation and high levels of government spending.
- He's very Mike-Dukakis on violent criminals.
Democrats ought to hope he gets the nomination. If this happens, many conservatives will sit out the election. Even if he wins, he'll be more liberal than even some of your own front-runers.
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He has GOD phobia
he's afraid of god, but as there is no god, he has an irational fear of something that doesn't exsist, a phobia, it can be fixed, its called deprogramming
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Anonymous @ 8:40
Oh, isn't it cute! The conservo-bot buys into an actors political spin using this conservotard link: http://www.redstate.com/stories/elections/2008/getting_the_story_straight
It's not a story with a pre-selected bias in favor of shibboleths. It's better, it shows unashamedly biased reporting on Thompson by of course Thompson!
Do you feel dumb enough? If not maybe you want to get all of your "unbiased" reporting on Hillary from Hillarys campaign staff.
So the fact that Thompson isn't interested in being elected, but should be the next president, just because he thinks so, demonstrates what? That Bush while being a complete lazyass and dumbass in everything except getting elected, Thompson is a lazyass and dumbass without exception? Yeah Yeah I know the context, Thompson is so noble he is above the politics. Bullshit.
Anyone who thinks liberals are fearful of thompson, spend way too much time counting the number of flying monkeys coming out of their ass.
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episcomom
I was raised an Episcopalian but my babysitter was Southern Baptist and I went to the Baptist church more then the Episcopal one.
Baptists at least do indeed fear God in the sense of being terrified of going to Hell.
I seriously doubt other fundamentalists are all that different.
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churchspeak
"This is churchspeak. "Fear" in this context means "respect and honor." It doesn't mean "be scared of" and it's not incompatible with love.""
It is interesting that love is described as not necessarily incompatible with respect and honour, none the less it is still seperated out from the notion of respect and honour.
If love is combined with respect and honor, then it becomes clearer that the fear of God does not mean love, respect and honor God in any context.
Fear of God implies living under an authoritarian structure, where you do good and you get doggie treats, you do bad and you get the whip. You cannot love, respect and honour God (or anything or anyone else) if all you're doing is trying to get a doggie treat for the effort.