Originally Posted By Dabob2 Not by those who know better. By that logic, "the perception" is that Republicans are better at balancing the budget than Democrats. Except of course that they're not. If it's bs it's bs, and I don't care what the "conventional wisdom" (aka "the perception") is. We just have to keep calling out the bs and change that perception. <
Originally Posted By mele "Now I will have to say that, if we don't have the same daddy, we're not brothers and sisters," he said. Whoooo's your daddy?
Originally Posted By CuriouserConstance Daddy? I'm sorry <a href="http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2011/01/19/sot.alabama.governor.apology.wbrc" target="_blank">http://www.cnn.com/video/?/vid...ogy.wbrc</a>
Originally Posted By mawnck I'm sorry *if*. Ugh. And in his "apology" he didn't ever say non-Christians *weren't* disenfranchised. Nor did he refudiate the part where they weren't his brothers and sisters. What a tool.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>I'm sorry *if*. Ugh.<< LOL, don't you hate that? The non-apology apology.
Originally Posted By Mr X Yes, I really really hate non-apology crap too. I'd rather they just have the guts to say what they REALLY feel, which is "No, I'm not sorry at all, so drop it". Or at least say nothing at all. This is just CYA BS.
Originally Posted By Schmitty Good Vibes WOW, this is a good one! 224 posts to go, but I gotta go to work.
Originally Posted By alexbook >>I often wonder where the liberal Christian activists are that disagree with conservative politics. They certainly aren't very vocal.<< It's hard to get more vocal or more liberal than Rev. Barry Lynn, Rev. Jesse Jackson, or Rev. Al Sharpton. >>It's not like mainstream churches get shown on the television all that much. It's hard to shout down the likes of Bill O'Reilly when the television audience finds him interesting and you boring. Just consider that, statistically speaking, a majority of the sensible people you see on TV are also Christians, and just aren't identified as such.<< Trying to remember the last time I saw a sensible person on TV...
Originally Posted By alexbook ...and of course if you speak out too loudly for liberal causes, there's the danger of getting labeled an extremist, as witness Jeremiah Wright.
Originally Posted By alexbook And of course, when Obama does try to cite the Bible he gets this sort of nonsense: >>Obama Botches Bible Verse at Prayer Breakfast President Obama misquoted a familiar Bible verse during a faith-based address at the National Prayer Breakfast. "Those who wait on the Lord will soar on wings like eagles, and they will run and not be weary, and they will walk and not faint," the president said during a speech to several thousand people at the breakfast. But the actual passage, from Isaiah 40:31, states: "But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint." The president also took time to explain how he came to know Jesus Christ through his work as a community organizer. "It was through that experience working with pastors and laypeople trying to heal the wounds of hurting neighborhoods that I came to know Jesus Christ for myself and embrace Him as my 'lord and savior' (sic)" The president earned praise from the American Humanist Association for talking about his "secular" upbringing. "President Obama's remarks acknowledge that children can be raised with a strong moral and ethical foundation, free from the presence of dogmatic religion," said Roy Speckhardt, executive director of the AHA. Specifically, the president said his father was a "non-believer" and his mother "grew up with a certain skepticism about organized religion." "Yet my mother was also one of the most spiritual people that I ever knew," he said. "She was somebody who was instinctively guided by the Golden Rule and who nagged me constantly about the homespun values of her Kansas upbringing, values like honest and hard work and kindness and fair play."<< <a href="http://nation.foxnews.com/barack-obama/2011/02/03/obama-botches-bible-verse-prayer-breakfast" target="_blank">http://nation.foxnews.com/bara...reakfast</a>
Originally Posted By Labuda "President Obama misquoted a familiar Bible verse during a faith-based address at the National Prayer Breakfast. "Those who wait on the Lord will soar on wings like eagles, and they will run and not be weary, and they will walk and not faint," the president said during a speech to several thousand people at the breakfast. But the actual passage, from Isaiah 40:31, states: "But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint."" Yeah, because the Bible was written in English, and any other language it's in is a translation from the original English. What, me? Sarcasm? NEVER. Oh, no... the President misquoted a piece of fiction. The HORROR!
Originally Posted By Labuda ...and to a lot of people, The Book of Mormon is not fiction. What's your point?
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