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oh, if i didnt make it clear, i wont be listening to anything ron paul has to say from here on out. you cant be "for the people" while simultaneously parading under such an elitist, exclusionary banner as christianity.
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he has a lot of great ideas. its really a bummer he is against the reproductive rights of women and writes nauseating drivel like this....
The War on Religion
by Rep. Ron Paul, MD
As we celebrate another Yuletide season, it’s hard not to notice that Christmas in America simply doesn’t feel the same anymore. Although an overwhelming majority of Americans celebrate Christmas, and those who don’t celebrate it overwhelmingly accept and respect our nation’s Christmas traditions, a certain shared public sentiment slowly has disappeared. The Christmas spirit, marked by a wonderful feeling of goodwill among men, is in danger of being lost in the ongoing war against religion.
Through perverse court decisions and years of cultural indoctrination, the elitist, secular Left has managed to convince many in our nation that religion must be driven from public view. The justification is always that someone, somewhere, might possibly be offended or feel uncomfortable living in the midst of a largely Christian society, so all must yield to the fragile sensibilities of the few. The ultimate goal of the anti-religious elites is to transform America into a completely secular nation, a nation that is legally and culturally biased against Christianity.
This growing bias explains why many of our wonderful Christmas traditions have been lost. Christmas pageants and plays, including Handel’s Messiah, have been banned from schools and community halls. Nativity scenes have been ordered removed from town squares, and even criticized as offensive when placed on private church lawns. Office Christmas parties have become taboo, replaced by colorless seasonal parties to ensure no employees feel threatened by a “hostile environment.” Even wholly non-religious decorations featuring Santa Claus, snowmen, and the like have been called into question as Christmas symbols that might cause discomfort. Earlier this month, firemen near Chicago reluctantly removed Christmas decorations from their firehouse after a complaint by some embittered busybody. Most noticeably, however, the once commonplace refrain of “Merry Christmas” has been replaced by the vague, ubiquitous “Happy Holidays.” But what holiday? Is Christmas some kind of secret, a word that cannot be uttered in public? Why have we allowed the secularists to intimidate us into downplaying our most cherished and meaningful Christian celebration?
The notion of a rigid separation between church and state has no basis in either the text of the Constitution or the writings of our Founding Fathers. On the contrary, our Founders’ political views were strongly informed by their religious beliefs. Certainly the drafters of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, both replete with references to God, would be aghast at the federal government’s hostility to religion. The establishment clause of the First Amendment was simply intended to forbid the creation of an official state church like the Church of England, not to drive religion out of public life.
The Founding Fathers envisioned a robustly Christian yet religiously tolerant America, with churches serving as vital institutions that would eclipse the state in importance. Throughout our nation’s history, churches have done what no government can ever do, namely teach morality and civility. Moral and civil individuals are largely governed by their own sense of right and wrong, and hence have little need for external government. This is the real reason the collectivist Left hates religion: Churches as institutions compete with the state for the people’s allegiance, and many devout people put their faith in God before their faith in the state. Knowing this, the secularists wage an ongoing war against religion, chipping away bit by bit at our nation’s Christian heritage. Christmas itself may soon be a casualty of that war.
December 30, 2003
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that letter is great because it points out just how harmful religion is to the well being of the world (as well as our horrible political decisions). if bin laden wasnt a muslim (or in general, a believer of religious doctrin) i could probably be a bit more sympathetic with his cause.
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id take a big breath and knock out a run-on sentence like "most of you are really fucking stupid so, if you could, do me a favor and stop being so short sighted, greedy, pious, and generally hateful, then youll actually have a reason to raise your kids to be good human beings because, otherwise, why bother, they are just going to turn into you and all of your work will be negated."
then id hit them all off with a fruit basket just to prove im not some shitty hippie.
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what about the constant portrayal of russians and arabs as terrorists/threats to our way of life? im not trying to have a conversation about this because its pretty low on the list of priorities. just wanted to make a valid point because, well, this thread is lacking that.
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i like the gino bar party. especially the really fat girl at the far end.
i bet a retarded baby was made that night.
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this is a pretty good visual of what all religious people look like through the eyes of an athiest.
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that sounds like one of those thing you would buy, play with for 30 minutes and then never touch again.....except is almost $100k.
stupid.
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awesome, more updates on the bridge collapse today. apparently a man who nearly died and became paralyzed was on the bring and NEARLY DIED AGAIN! ZOMG!
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^that made me smirk a little bit. good stuff.
i also ran across this the other day which i thought was funny.
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i thought the hot dogs and the techno were what made the video. good job casek.
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I had pizza and a Heineken.
AWESOME.
damn....youre the king of the mountain now.
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seriously, from all of the news coverage this is getting you would think this bridge collapse actually pertained to people outside of the handful of victims families and commuters in minneapolis.
this would be a good day to blow up a school full of children in iraq.
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fail^
i dont get how could you ever survive off that for lunch...
i wasnt terribly hungry today.
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thats right. fuck your lunch...this is how it went down
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im with you dude. officefunoner.
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Re: Snowsports Superthread.
i think im going to start snowboarding this year. im moving closer to the mountains and since i surfed and skated for a solid 8 years (not to mention wakeboarding for 3) im pretty sure i will own all the other noobz on the beginner slope and be off to the park in no time.
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maybe not for you. for the rest of us its really funny thought.
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chromeo is so not serious that i cant even imagine looking at it from the standpoint of influences, originality or anything people do when they listen to real music. chromeo is pretty much the soundtrack to girls dancing and me drinking liquor all night.
ps - those guys are also part of my favorite canadian rap group, obscure disorder, so again, i cant hate.
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ps - you know what is not my version of hell? the new neurosis record. this thing is fucking crushing...hard.
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im not 100% sure but it would probably have something to do with scene girls and their muffin tops (see glik0's photo), the catholic church, smooth jazz, applebees, stiff jeans and strep throat.
yeah, that sounds about right.
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Re: dont't come to San Francisco
funny ass thread.
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rock opera? like queen? i have to say ive never seen the musical or heard the soundtrack. people tell me from time to time that i should but im always like "nah dude, i already saw miss siagon...i dont want to overdo it."
i really should go see another musical though....they are good from time to time.
we just beat $100+ in parking tickets
in Channel Zero
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when i worked downtown i used to get in verbal altercations with parking cops almost weekly. ill always be the "they are just doing their job" guy because its a fact of life that not everyone is doing what they want to do to put food on the table but for some reason i feel like parking cops are honestly doing their jobs because they like being cocksuckers.
the good thing is that many of them dont show up for court.