The Politics Of Morality; Time For A Change!

[Mr. Shaman]

It's probably time to CONFINE all clerics/religious-fundamentalists....until they're able to secure job-security, elsewhere....and, let Scientists take-over.​

"Many supporters of the conservative Tea Party movement that has shaken up politics share the same views as the Christian right on social issues like abortion and the role of religion in public life, according to a poll released on Tuesday.

While the loosely organized Tea Party movement has focused largely on shrinking the size of government and other fiscal issues, its backers are more likely to support government restrictions on gay marriage and other social issueshttp://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6943IQ20101005, the Public Religion Research Institute found in its American Values Survey.

The survey found significant overlap between the Tea Party, made up mostly of Republicans, and the religious right, which has played a significant political role for decades.

"Members of the Tea Party are certainly potential supporters of a Christian conservative agenda," said Robert Jones, an author of the study.

But Tea Party supporters report a stronger opposition to government than Republicans or Christian conservatives as a whole, Jones said.

Nearly half of those who identify with the Tea Party believe that the Bible is the literal word of God, and a similar proportion thinks that public officials do not pay enough attention to religion, the survey found. They are more likely than the population as a whole to view America as a Christian nation."

 

[PoliticalChic]

It's probably time to CONFINE all clerics/religious-fundamentalists....until they're able to secure job-security, elsewhere....and, let Scientists take-over.​

"Many supporters of the conservative Tea Party movement that has shaken up politics share the same views as the Christian right on social issues like abortion and the role of religion in public life, according to a poll released on Tuesday.

While the loosely organized Tea Party movement has focused largely on shrinking the size of government and other fiscal issues, its backers are more likely to support government restrictions on gay marriage and other social issueshttp://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6943IQ20101005, the Public Religion Research Institute found in its American Values Survey.

The survey found significant overlap between the Tea Party, made up mostly of Republicans, and the religious right, which has played a significant political role for decades.

"Members of the Tea Party are certainly potential supporters of a Christian conservative agenda," said Robert Jones, an author of the study.

But Tea Party supporters report a stronger opposition to government than Republicans or Christian conservatives as a whole, Jones said.

Nearly half of those who identify with the Tea Party believe that the Bible is the literal word of God, and a similar proportion thinks that public officials do not pay enough attention to religion, the survey found. They are more likely than the population as a whole to view America as a Christian nation."

"In fact, it was a secular Jew, the great German Jewish poet Heinrich Heine, who understood that despite its anti-Semitism and other moral failings, Christianity in Europe prevented the wholesale slaughter of human beings that became routine with Christianity's demise. In 1834, 99 years before Hitler and the Nazis rose to power, Heine warned:


"A drama will be enacted in Germany compared to which the French Revolution will seem harmless and carefree. Christianity restrained the martial ardor for a time but it did not destroy it; once the restraining talisman [the cross] is shattered, savagery will rise again. . . . "


What is needed today is a rationally and morally persuasive case for embracing the values that come from the Bible. This case must be more compelling than the one made for anti-biblical values that is presented throughout the Western world's secular educational institutions and media (news media, film and television). "


DENNIS PRAGER

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

Good grief Sheman.. this is fucking retarded even by your low standards.

 

[Big Black Dog]

So, America doesn't have freedom of religion anymore?

 

[DiamondDave]

The Daily Show?? Seriously??

What a fucking hyper-partisan tool, trying to use that as a basis of your stance... but we have come to expect such ludicrous things from you

 

[Mr. Shaman]

It's probably time to CONFINE all clerics/religious-fundamentalists....until they're able to secure job-security, elsewhere....and, let Scientists take-over.​

"Many supporters of the conservative Tea Party movement that has shaken up politics share the same views as the Christian right on social issues like abortion and the role of religion in public life, according to a poll released on Tuesday.

While the loosely organized Tea Party movement has focused largely on shrinking the size of government and other fiscal issues, its backers are more likely to support government restrictions on gay marriage and other social issueshttp://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6943IQ20101005, the Public Religion Research Institute found in its American Values Survey.

The survey found significant overlap between the Tea Party, made up mostly of Republicans, and the religious right, which has played a significant political role for decades.

"Members of the Tea Party are certainly potential supporters of a Christian conservative agenda," said Robert Jones, an author of the study.

But Tea Party supporters report a stronger opposition to government than Republicans or Christian conservatives as a whole, Jones said.

Nearly half of those who identify with the Tea Party believe that the Bible is the literal word of God, and a similar proportion thinks that public officials do not pay enough attention to religion, the survey found. They are more likely than the population as a whole to view America as a Christian nation."

"In fact, it was a secular Jew, the great German Jewish poet Heinrich Heine, who understood that despite its anti-Semitism and other moral failings, Christianity in Europe prevented the wholesale slaughter of human beings that became routine with Christianity's demise. In 1834, 99 years before Hitler and the Nazis rose to power, Heine warned:


"A drama will be enacted in Germany compared to which the French Revolution will seem harmless and carefree. Christianity restrained the martial ardor for a time but it did not destroy it; once the restraining talisman [the cross] is shattered, savagery will rise again. . . . "


What is needed today is a rationally and morally persuasive case for embracing the values that come from the Bible. This case must be more compelling than the one made for anti-biblical values that is presented throughout the Western world's secular educational institutions and media (news media, film and television). "

DENNIS PRAGER

Yeah......let's HEAR IT!! for slavery...... ​

"Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.

Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession.

And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour." - Leviticus 25:44-46

...Unless you're more into murder.....especially if it's one o' them, there False Prophets....like Pat Robertson.​

"And it shall come to pass, that when any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, Thou shalt not live; for thou speakest lies in the name of the LORD: and his father and his mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesieth." - Zechariah 13:3

 

[dilloduck]

It's probably time to CONFINE all clerics/religious-fundamentalists....until they're able to secure job-security, elsewhere....and, let Scientists take-over.​

"In fact, it was a secular Jew, the great German Jewish poet Heinrich Heine, who understood that despite its anti-Semitism and other moral failings, Christianity in Europe prevented the wholesale slaughter of human beings that became routine with Christianity's demise. In 1834, 99 years before Hitler and the Nazis rose to power, Heine warned:


"A drama will be enacted in Germany compared to which the French Revolution will seem harmless and carefree. Christianity restrained the martial ardor for a time but it did not destroy it; once the restraining talisman [the cross] is shattered, savagery will rise again. . . . "


What is needed today is a rationally and morally persuasive case for embracing the values that come from the Bible. This case must be more compelling than the one made for anti-biblical values that is presented throughout the Western world's secular educational institutions and media (news media, film and television). "

DENNIS PRAGER

Yeah......let's HEAR IT!! for slavery...... ​

"Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.

Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession.

And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour." - Leviticus 25:44-46

Not the Old Testament shit, silly. Christians are way past that crap. It's one of the reasons idiots find "contradictions" in the Bible.

 

[Mr. Shaman]

Good grief Sheman.. this is fucking retarded even by your low standards.

Agreed!!!!!!!

Maybe you oughta mention that, to your favorite-'Baggers....that theocracies, in the Middle East, are close-enough for us!!!

(Watch-out for 'Baggers carrying stones, though. )​

 

[Mr. Shaman]

So, America doesn't have freedom of religion anymore?

They can have all the religion they can tolerate.....as-long-as they keep it at home (or, their local self-flagellation emporium).

Ya' start mixin'-'em-together....pretty-soon they're comparing notes....and, before too long, they're fightin' & killin' over who possesses the REAL Truth....and, the rest-of-us have another mess to clean-up.

​

 

[Mr. Shaman]

The Daily Show?? Seriously??

Yeah....you'd be surprised where them. there book-writin'-peoples show-up!!!!

Sorry about your....

 

[Mr. Shaman]

"In fact, it was a secular Jew, the great German Jewish poet Heinrich Heine, who understood that despite its anti-Semitism and other moral failings, Christianity in Europe prevented the wholesale slaughter of human beings that became routine with Christianity's demise. In 1834, 99 years before Hitler and the Nazis rose to power, Heine warned:


"A drama will be enacted in Germany compared to which the French Revolution will seem harmless and carefree. Christianity restrained the martial ardor for a time but it did not destroy it; once the restraining talisman [the cross] is shattered, savagery will rise again. . . . "


What is needed today is a rationally and morally persuasive case for embracing the values that come from the Bible. This case must be more compelling than the one made for anti-biblical values that is presented throughout the Western world's secular educational institutions and media (news media, film and television). "

DENNIS PRAGER

Yeah......let's HEAR IT!! for slavery...... ​

"Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids.

Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession.

And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour." - Leviticus 25:44-46

Not the Old Testament shit, silly. Christians are way past that crap. It's one of the reasons idiots find "contradictions" in the Bible.

I guess that'd be the down-side o' havin' a bi-polar God.....but, Hey!!....if it makes sense to you!

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[shintao]

"What is needed today is a rationally and morally persuasive case for embracing the values that come from the Bible. This case must be more compelling than the one made for anti-biblical values that is presented throughout the Western world's secular educational institutions and media (news media, film and television). "

Hmm, Torture, Murder & Rape came and went without as much as a moral eyebrow from the Christian right, so are you talking maybe complete destruction of the planet, for it to rise to a more compelling level than anti-bibical values??