Re: The Devil On JOA!?

On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 13:20:23 -0400, kstahl <ktsahl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>EGK wrote:

>> The only time I have a problem is when people try to tell me how I
should
>> think.  That's the same whether they're right-wing religious fanatics
or
>> left wing imbeciles.
>
>Whether you like it or not, Republicanism and Conservatism are 
>inextricably intertwined with xtianity. You can deny that it you want, 
>but it doesn't make it less true. Without xtianity as a basis, 
>Republicanism and Conservatism could not survive because the very 
>foundations of both are the principles of xtianity. As long as both 
>groups use xtianity to brow-beat me and attempt to force me to live by 
>the standards of xtianity I will fight back. Self-proclaimed agnostics 
>even make it worse because they seem to believe that they can slough off 
>the blame of participating in the conservative/republican madness by 
>saying the religious aspects do not matter to them, but silently they 
>sup****t the intrusion of religion into politics. Ultimately their 
>agnosticism is meaningless since they actually sup****t the goals of 
>conservativism/republicanism which are based on xtian foundations.

Yeah, yeah, yah.   You just dig yourself deeper and deeper.  Saying what
you
just did is like saying that all Democrats are attached to the values of
socialism or communism.  

You make me wonder how old you are.   You've apparently never entertained
the idea that people can have different thoughts on different subjects.
Such as being fiscally conservative while being more socially liberal.  I
know that possibility must blow your mind.


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