Quote# 100089

I believe the spirit of perversion will rush in like floodwaters through a broken dam. In fact, the Holy Spirit gave me a prophetic word earlier this week before I even saw this Cosmo spot, and I’ll be sharing more about that after I’ve prayed it through. It’s important to remember that we’re not wrestling flesh and blood. Principalities, powers and other demonic forces are at play in this perversion.

We need to separate the personalities from the principalities. In other words, we need to pray that these so-called trannys and those enthralled by this perversion will come to Jesus. But we also need to stand and withstand, sound the alarm, and protect the next generation from the seeds that magazines like Cosmo are planting in young minds. God have mercy.

American Family Association, Charismanews 38 Comments [3/21/2014 2:45:23 AM]
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Submitted By: Dominic McPherson

Quote# 100088

The left is just using the gay thing to destroy western families and culture, and bring the whole thing down. Once that is done, they will have no problem with Islam killing all the gays. That is why the left loves Islam so much; it hates the west as much as they do.

Defiant, Free Republic 40 Comments [3/21/2014 2:41:27 AM]
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Quote# 100080

Note that the left has successfully re-branded Nazi Germany as right-wing, when in fact it was very leftist. Its official name was the National Socialist Worker’s Party, and many sectors of the economy were government controlled.

Also, genocide is itself a leftist concept, since humans are seen as being on the ‘cost’ side of the ledger, and if resources are assumed to be fixed (a leftist assumption), reducing the number of people increases the per-capita.

People of a free-market, capitalistic bent believe in higher birth rates, immigration of skilled immigrants, and productivity gains through technology. This is (or should be rescued as the definition of) ‘right-wing’.

TFH, The Spearhead 44 Comments [3/21/2014 2:34:58 AM]
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Quote# 100079

The coward in the liberal and atheistic state of Oregon was clearly afraid to step out of the bedroom.[23] And he could have showed the cat who is boss without injuring the cat simply by means of a commanding voice or smacking him around with some pillows if need be. But the 911 recording clearly shows, like many liberal men, he lacked a commanding voice! The cat definitely knew who was boss in that household and who was the biggest pussy. The cat was the boss in that household and the liberal "man" was the biggest pussy in that household!

Furthermore, he told the lady 911 operator that he was the woman's boyfriend. It came as no surprise that he was merely the woman's boyfriend and not her husband. And what real man calls a woman for help to protect himself, a woman, a child and the household dog against a common house cat!

And of course the cat was fat because liberals and/or atheists are often too indulgent and permissive their pets and often in regards to themselves. See: Atheism and obesity and Lesbianism and obesity. And in too many cases, when liberals and atheists do "love" their pets, it is an altogether inappropriate form of faux love and merely lust. See: Liberalism and bestiality and Atheism and bestiality.

Conservative, Conservapedia 42 Comments [3/21/2014 2:34:49 AM]
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Quote# 100077

At a public hearing today on a bill that would allow school districts to opt out of Common Core standards, a local Tea Party leader told Alabama state senators that Common Core promotes “acceptance of homosexuality, alternate lifestyles, radical feminism, abortion, illegal immigration and the redistribution of wealth” and that voting in favor of the curricula could potentially affect their fate in the Last Days.

In a video posted by YouTube user Mia Raven, Barbour County Tea Party leader Terry Batton takes to the floor at the state senate education committee hearing to rail against Common Core, which he called a “Trojan horse at the gate of our educational system.”

“We don’t want our children to be taught to be anti-Christian, anti-Catholic and anti-American,” he said. “We don’t want our children to lose their innocence, beginning in preschool or kindergarten, told that homosexuality is okay and should be experienced at an early age and that same-sex marriages are okay.”

He spent a good part of the speech attacking social justice doctrine. “Social justice teaches children that America is an unjust and oppressive society that should be changed,” he said. “Social justice materials typically include far-left proposals such as acceptance of homosexuality, alternate lifestyles, radical feminism, abortion, illegal immigration and the redistribution of wealth.”

“The curriculum and the producers thereof of Common Core are against the principles of faith, family and freedom, when you take in the social justice values aspect,” he went on. “Common Core, if allowed to go forward, will dilute and erode the power and influence of biblical principles in the hearts and minds of our precious children.”

Finally, he reminded the lawmakers that their vote on the bill might affect their chances at eternal salvation: “Do you want this on your record when you come to the End of Days, knowing the Master Teacher said, ‘As much as you’ve done to the little ones, you’ve done it unto me’?”

According to the Associated Press, Becky Gerritson of the Wetumpka Tea Party also spoke against Common Core at the hearing, in particular its inclusion of Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye.


Dr. Terry Batton, Right Wing Watch 24 Comments [3/21/2014 2:33:54 AM]
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Quote# 100075

[The quote is a description of Hezbollah in the middle east]
[If I told you there was a significant group that violently defended their weapons, insisted on making religion the basis for law and morality, blocked laws aiming to abolish discrimination based on gender, race, religion or sexual orientation, rejected the authority of the central government and its right to collect taxes, threatened to secede or take over the country by force if necessary, and called everyone who opposed them in the least traitors to the nation and subhuman scum... what would you call them in the US?]


Leftists.

ScottLC, LibertyDwells 52 Comments [3/20/2014 3:56:41 AM]
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Submitted By: Elie

Quote# 100073

Any scientific theory that leads inescapably to a consequence that is untrue, is itself untrue. If evolution were true, there could be no objective morality. But there is objective morality. Thus, evolution is false

Jason Lisle, Jason Lisle's blog 48 Comments [3/20/2014 3:53:16 AM]
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Quote# 100072



this thread is absolutely wrong, the entire premise is based on falacy. there has never been an Atheistic government that hasn't been bloody and filling mass graves. the French revolution was the most humane (actually least inhumane) where you measure death in the tens of thousands rather than millions. I learned all about it as lad, descended from Polish grandparents, watching my distant cousins demonstrating outside the Polish embassy. Ronald Reagan, the Pope, Lech Walensa and the Solidarity demonstrators were the Christians fighting for freedom against the tyrannical Atheistic governments of the Soviet Bloc.

America was founded on Biblical principles. Our Declaration of Independence derives from the philosophies of John Locke, very nearly word-for-word. And the sole source of authority for Locke's arguments? Scripture aka the Bible. If the Bible is not true, then every premise of American Liberty is not true either. That is what conservatism is fighting- the notion that man, that Big Brother, has the right to dictate to any other man, as opposed to there being a higher law, which makes us all free.

Who says Christians are anti-science? The Byzantine Empire of the Medieval period was fanatically Christian, and they, during the Dark Ages knew the world was round and deployed flame-throwers to defend their capital at Constantinople in 667-675 AD and 717-718 when besieged by a numerically superior Arab enemy. The Dutch reform Calvinists, who the Puritans considered co-religionists, were also the most advanced people in the 17th century.

So-called "Christian extremists" were the people who fought for what was right in a sick world, and they were the founders of America also. Puritans and Dutch Reform Calvinists were the builders of the Modern Republic. thank God for those "religious Right" abolitionists in England and America. More secular minded people used to roll their eyes at Christians who fought first the slave trade then slavery itself.

It is quite disconcerting to see Conservatives fall into the traps laid by intellectually dishonest Liberal historical revisionists.


Matt Dedinas, Rebuild the Party 29 Comments [3/20/2014 3:52:59 AM]
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Quote# 100070



well Gaol, if you mean the difference between what Liberal myth-makers consider "pure science" and actual science, yes I see a big difference. The whole "Christians are anti-science" myth was created by pro-abortion types to justify their views, not by any intelligent argument, but rather by smearing their opponent. there's no more truth to what they say than there is to rasenkunde taught by the scientists at the University of Berlin in the 1930s.

As for pure science vs technology, you arent going to advance in one without advancing in the other. And I notice you dont respond to any other era I note besides Byzantine.

We would not have walked on the Moon if it werent for the advances made by the Dutch back when they were co-religionists with the Puritans.


Matt Dedinas, Rebuild the Party 22 Comments [3/20/2014 3:52:39 AM]
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Quote# 100069



The notion that we all come from a single amoeba that one minute wasn't there and the next minute was is far less scientific than Intelligent Design. Looking at it in a purely empirical way, Intelligent Design is possible, even probable. For an amoeba to suddenly appear out of nowhere is statistically impossible. Furthermore, this theory is the brainchild of one Alexander Oparin, a Soviet scientist of early in the era of Stalin . It was put forward to prop up that rotten regime.

to impose upon people as fact a shoddy Stalinist theory is not science, it is Fascism. What are you so afraid of, allowing people to explore the theory of Intelligent Design? Afraid it might be true?

Yes, some Pope five hundred years ago did act unscientifically. He also acted Unscripturally. Nowhere in the bible does it say that the Sun revolves around the Earth. Nor does it say that any Bishop has the authority to put the screws to a man who believes otherwise. He violated the tenets of Christianity as flagrantly as he violated the tenets of science.

I was a history major, but I had to take a couple science classes. I remember the this one teacher saying that science, boiled down its essence, is human curiousity. The ACLU denying the free speech of believers in Intelligent Design are just as bad as whatever Pope arrested Galileo. They deny the aspirations of this human curiosity.

Something else the teacher said, I remember well. He said that you can't do better than what we have for the human body. He wasnt making a religious statement either. He just said that if you tried to design the body any better than it is, you wont succeed.


Matt Dedinas, Rebuild the Party 33 Comments [3/20/2014 3:52:09 AM]
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Quote# 100068

Cutting science funding to the bone is a wonderful thing: most of the stuff that makes it into journals is crap, data massaging is ubiquitous, peer review is a joke, and the science profession has become just another bunch of corrupt self-interested government contractors. Climate science is a crime syndicate, and evolutionary biology is an atheist priesthood.

You [explicative redacted] have far too high an opinion of yourselves. Most of you would struggle to make it in the drive-in window at McDonalds. You have few marketable skills.

Michael Egnor, Sandwalk 49 Comments [3/20/2014 3:49:51 AM]
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Quote# 100066

["There is no religion of evolution. In the classroom, my colleagues and I teach the evidence."]

I know there is no chance that you will admit it or even understand it but any “evolution” above the level of minor changes within kinds only takes place in the fertile imagination of those who faithfully believe it does. Even the little boy could see- The king hath no clothes! You need to sue the “tailors” who sold you that dumb religious evolution suit you so proudly wear in public. Aren’t you embarrassed to believe you came from a rock? BTW-congrats on having an asteroid named after you. Is that an ancestor too?

What “evidence” do you teach in your class that would show scientifically that humans are related to bananas as you said on the DVD? If it can be shown there are some sections of the complex DNA code of humans and bananas that seem to be similar that would not prove a common ancestor. A freshman law student could see through that! It is just as much evidence for a common DESIGNER! Do you mention THAT to your students? The lug nuts from a Vet will fit on other Chevy products. Does that prove they both evolved from a skate board?

Kent Hovind, Pharyngula 33 Comments [3/20/2014 3:32:04 AM]
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Submitted By: Night Jaguar

Quote# 100065

[In discussion between Kent Hovind and PZ Myers over possible public debate]

First- I was totally unaware that quote marks ” ” would scare you or anyone! I’ve never heard them called “scare quotes” in my 61 years! Is this new? I always use them for emphasis or irony. It is NOT “Rational” to believe in evolution.

[...]

BTW- I notice you used “scare quotes” here. Twice! It worked! I’m scared! :)

[...]

As stated in my 3-11 post—I’ll pay my expenses to come to your turf, pay to video it, pay you as stated and give you a master copy to sell copies from for the rest of your life. I will not sell them for you. If this “counter offer” was the loophole you added so you could worm out of doing the debate at all and save face then go ahead and back out. “Rational” (hope I didn’t scare you with the quotes-didn’t mean to. I just do it for emphasis as most people do) folks will understand the real reason why you refused.

Kent Hovind, Pharyngula 25 Comments [3/20/2014 3:31:56 AM]
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Submitted By: Night Jaguar

Quote# 100064

I think “fraud” may apply to a person who claims to teach “biology” yet routinely mixes his religious beliefs in class about all life forms having a common ancestor or humans being related to bananas and humans being a fish (as you stated in the “Evolution vs. God” DVD). Maybe “charlatan” is a better word for these false teachers. Maybe the courts will explain to the folks at “Rational” Wiki that words have meanings and it is not good to falsely accuse someone of the crime of fraud (unless you have proof).

The government was wrong in my case as is shown in many of the filings posted on 2peter3.com. The reason we even have appellate courts and a Supreme Court is precisely because the lower courts can get it wrong. Being convicted by one person does not prove guilt. 6 million Jews were convicted and executed in Germany in WW II. Does that prove they were guilty of some crime? Watch the news. Often cases are overturned on new evidence. Sometimes many years after the conviction. Simple history 101 will show many examples. I know you are rejoicing that the lower court ruled against me just as Jesus’s enemies rejoiced when he was convicted and sentenced. Well, it’s NOT over. If I DO get the case overturned and it is admitted by a higher court that the lower court erred and I did NOT commit a crime will you also admit it or will you then think the higher court erred?

Kent Hovind, Pharyngula 28 Comments [3/20/2014 3:31:43 AM]
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Submitted By: Night Jaguar

Quote# 100062

Please show us how your secular humanist ideas are better for society than Judeo-Christian doctrine?

Here, let me help:

*56 million unborn babies murdered in the womb in a 41 year period.
*Children as young as 13 years old contracting AIDS from their homosexual edlers.
*No-fault divorce resulting in fatherless homes, causing children to turn to drugs and crime.
Etc etc etc.


aCultureWarrior, TheologyOnline 23 Comments [3/20/2014 3:31:09 AM]
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Submitted By: Persephone 66

Quote# 100054

The issue is way more fundamental than Constitutional jibber jabber. Everyone generally agrees that there are no universal rights....with very few exceptions...to do anything you want to....even the homosexuals understand this obvious point.
So if you have been following the debate on the internet....homosexuals assert two incompatible claims:rights are universal...therefore homosexuals have a moral and legal right to get married...then they assert
that polygammy and other types of unions must be legally prohibited...
So what is going on here? This: homosexuals have set themelves up as the exclusive judges-oracles of morality in America....and heterosexuals must obey them...or homo power+ MEGACORPORATE POWER WILL GET YOU FIRED FROM YOUR JOB OR DESTROY YOUR BUISINESS...of course heterosexuals are under no obligation to accept this gay norming of American Society.
The homosexual FILTH is threatening CONSERVATIVE ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN RUSSIA WITH THERMONUCLEAR ANNIHILATION if the Russian People don't accept the gay norming of Russian Society

wattylersrevolt, Info Wars 34 Comments [3/19/2014 3:38:48 AM]
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Quote# 100050

Child Labor: Is it wrong?

Some people are strictly against child labor and they want all working children to leave working and start studying under Free Education for All programs. However, they fail to raise fingers against celebrity children appearing on movies and television.

Would you like to have a cup of tea by a twelve year old boy during your lunch time at office?

I will definitely love it. In most of the offices, children do serve teas and snacks. There are many children having their own betel shops. Serving tea, snacks or betel is certainly better job for children than working in coal mines and crackers or match sticks factory.

People are often fooled by politicians by raising emotional issues such malnutrition. Many people die because of malnutrition and politicians want us to pay huge taxes to support them. Why a person dies of hunger if he is not a lazy person?

Isn't the reality that they are dying of hunger not proving that they are useless or lazy and unwilling to work hard and earn a living?

Repudiate the societal propaganda of altruism that suggests that if you are rich, you are no better than a poor person and if you are poor, it is your fate, or some people are born poor. It is all false.

A common public service advertisement being aired on television by the Indian government talks about the thousands of villages that haven't achieved proper sanitation and hygienic facilities which cause various diseases. The advertisement than suggests that it is necessary to provide hygienic sanitation for all to build a strong prosperous nation.
You may start feeling that we do need to invest in providing hygienic facilities for Indians so that they may develop fully. However, a moral question will strike you; should we invest money on welfare and development by immorally snatching it from those who really earn it? Why should not we allow these hard working people (Tax-Payers) to spend their money for the development of their own kids and family members?
While we say that we MUST not give up Indian values, our kids copy all sorts of values from America, like dating, flirting kissing, yet our kids and we too fail to capture the most important value from America, that is, every man is for himself. Do we teach the importance ofself-resilianceself-importance, self defense, self respectand selfishness? Do we teach them that they should not look for looting or begging from others for their own benefits? And if we teach them these values, why do we want them to have free education which is certainly a robbery against hard working tax-payers?

Some people may support education for all and they will stress that the minimal skills of reading and writing enables people to fight against fraudulent people and other ills of society. It may be true. Yet, in order to provide basic reading/writing skills for them, should we rob these honest people who work hard to make their and their kids have a better life?

Admin, Rational Libertarian Corner 56 Comments [3/19/2014 3:33:20 AM]
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Quote# 100046

I've warned the American people for fifteen years this day would arrive and it is here. No more warnings. America has been overthrown by a Nazi dictatorship. It is in power now.

Tens of thousands of German Nazis were important to America after World War II. They taught America's elite how to set up a Nazi dictatorship. We are now in the new Nazi nightmare. So don't blame it on that buffoon in the White House, Barack Obama. He is merely their little stooge, just like George Bush and Dick Cheney and Bill Clinton were their stooges too.

Bush and Cheney gave us the Patriot Act and Homeland Security and the TSA. Barack Obama is using all of them, put in place by Bush and Cheney to enslave us in this Nazi regime.

...

Viktor Yanukovych, the elected Ukrainian president ousted by the revolution, said today that Ukrainian cities are being patrolled by masked gunman and that the new revolutionary government is purging the Ukrainian military of patriotic officers. Wow. That sounds like what Barack Obama is doing to the US military.

Wake up, American people. This country has been overthrown by Nazis. They are trying to take over the world.

In World War III, America and the West will be the Axis Powers. Russia and China will be the Allied Forces. Everything is upside down. God have mercy on us.
- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/rick-wiles-america-has-been-overthrown-nazi-dictatorship#sthash.iT9EkLNH.dpuf

Rick Wiles, Right Wing Watch 42 Comments [3/19/2014 3:30:47 AM]
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Quote# 100043

Here’s a word to the wise..The natural order of things is that men are supposed to be in a dominant state over women. If you upset this order, it causes misery…for both men and women.

Here’s what feminism doesn’t tell you. Female hypergamy doesn’t disappear simply because society has decided male and female are “equal”. And what is hypergamy? For those of you who are unfamiliar with this term, ignore it at yout own peril! It is the primal female desire for a male mate who is taller, stronger, and generally superior to her in many respects, including earning ability. So let us pause and think about this for a moment….females have this preordained biological preference for gender immutable inequality. Yet society blindly heads toward gender equality. You don’t think there is a problem with?

Believe me, it cause lots of problems. Our own IR disparity issue is in large measure white male reaction to white women’s feminism.

Any man who supports feminism is a damned fool.



Kobukson, bigWOWO 35 Comments [3/19/2014 3:23:36 AM]
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Quote# 100042

Materialism is the poisoned wine poured in the golden goblet that the Chinese are drinking. If Westerners are smart, they will be flooding the Chinese market with superficial luxury brands, which they are now doing effectively to entice the Chinese middle class into frivolous consumption. Expect Chinese rack up on debt and encourage more female hypergamy.

Chr, bigWOWO 13 Comments [3/19/2014 3:23:03 AM]
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Quote# 100041

The toxic stew of the modern university is gender studies, it’s “Sex Week,” they all have “Sex Week” and teaching people how to be sex-positive and overcome the patriarchy. My daughters go to a little private religious school and we pay an arm and a leg for it precisely to keep them away from all of this kind of nonsense. I do hope that they go to a Christian college or university and to keep them so far away from the hard left, human-hating people that run modern universities, who should all be taken out and shot.

Austin Ruse, Right Wing Watch 32 Comments [3/19/2014 3:22:50 AM]
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Submitted By: Aspergus

Quote# 100040

To push they're agenda unto Christians, liberal media have given Gay's a voice for they're anti Christian believe, and made Christian the evil people, now Gay's our mushing for the right to marriage, this is 4% of the population forcing a change unto the 96 % who our either Christian or anti gay, gay liberal judges over riding voters who voted against same sex marriage calling it discriminating against Gays. This is taking away the voice of Christians and is nothing more then pure Marxist Socialism.

red55bird, WND 44 Comments [3/18/2014 3:14:16 PM]
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Quote# 100039

Unlike say Infowars, this site does use free speech to stop the Antichrist from breaking through. Infowars claims to be fighting the NWO but Alex's guests for the most part are non-Christians who have no impact. Infowars is basically hitting the tiger with the feathery end of a willow branch and then claiming to be controlling it. What is that in reality? That is actually ushering that beast in. Infowars is basically just revealing how and where the NWO is taking over without actually doing anything real to stop it. Infowars may even be controlled opposition to the NWO.

The NWO is not defeated by the elements of this world. Elemental witchcraft under-girds the NWO. Inforwars actually supports the legalization of drugs. Drugs and witchcraft go hand in hand. Infowars is very pro anarchist but "rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft". That is why Infowars focuses much more heavily on reasons to disobey the government rather than to obey it. There are cases for civil disobedience but we shouldn't jump to conclusions.

The NWO and elemental witchcraft can only be defeated by the gospel of Jesus. We Christians are holding back the Antichrist. Think about it. What would Satan have to do to get total control? He would have to deceive Christians. One way to do that is with half truths. For example, someone who is pro-life but yet slips elemental witchcraft training into his daily diatribes.

KJVreader, WND 30 Comments [3/18/2014 3:39:24 AM]
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Quote# 100032

The Real Deal of Atheism

If Hitchens had presented an honest and candid articulation of his world outlook as an atheist, it would have gone something like this:

MY FELLOW GROUND WORMS:

It is important for you to know that religion poisons everything! Imagine how beautiful life would be if only we would stop trying to treat our fellow man like he was created in the image of God, stop treating him as if the Creator endowed him with unalienable rights, stop pretending that all men stand equal before their Creator, and start treating him like a purposeless carbon based bag of water revolving around a boring dwarf star, like bits of stellar matter gone wrong, like a sick fly, like the ground worm that he is, like a tuna fish that sprouted legs…

Remember, it is religion that poisons everything! The only thing religious people do is to go around killing each other in the name of God. I ask you honestly, does any rational, logical, skeptical, atheistic, scientific minded person really think it's necessary to believe in God if you want to go around killing people? Of course not! Don't let those fanatics brainwash you. Stalin** and Pol-Pot murdered millions and I am proud to remind you that they were fellow atheists. Anything those religious people do, we can do much, much better.

Let's be totally honest. As an atheist I assert that Adolf Hitler's racist notion that the Aryan race is superior to all other races is a "stupid" construct "made out of literally nothing." By the same token, Thomas Paine's idea that all men are created equal is also a "stupid" construct "made out of literally nothing." There is, however, an important difference between the two…Thomas Paine did not have that silly moustache.

On second thought, since as a result of Darwinian evolution species evolve to higher and higher levels of sophistication and intelligence, it actually is quite possible that one particular race, say for example the Aryan race, through the process of natural selection actually did evolve to a superior level and some of the other races actually are inferior. In other words, just like some types of monkeys and primates are smarter than others…..oops, better not go there, that line of reasoning could really get me in trouble…

In the final analysis I really don't know what difference it makes anyway, since I have no conclusive reason to care one way or the other. However, please keep in mind that all of us atheists, including myself, Dr. Sigmund Freud, Dr. Steven Weinberg, Dr. Will Provine, etc., assert that there is no objective purpose or value to human life, and the universe is meaningless and pointless. This of course means there is no real point in me speaking to you, or for you to listen to me for that matter…which makes me wonder…why exactly do I keep speaking anyhow?...But even more important, why do you keep listening? The main thing to remember is this: Although I haven't the faintest idea why, all these things are necessary for morality!

Rabbi Moshe Averick, Nonsense of a High Order: The Confused and Illusory World of the Atheist 51 Comments [3/18/2014 3:36:38 AM]
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Quote# 100031

I'm never going to win a popularity contest. It's not my goal to be liked. I'll probably never be a "Fox News contributor" or even broadly recognized as a dutifully compliant cog within the greater, GOP-heavy "conservative" political wheel. That's because I say things like this: There is no political fix to America's death spiral. We are drowning in a turgid river of postmodern relativism. This is a spiritual problem, not a political problem. This is a worldview matter, not a partisan matter.

Hitherto it has been "progressives" alone dumping buckets of moral relativist poison into the Potomac. But, in the last decade or so, self-styled "conservatives" have likewise begun drinking the subjectivist Kool-Aid.

Libertine libertarianism has infected the conservative movement like a cancer. Situational ethics, driven by emotional, anecdotal sob stories, are used to justify every moral wrong as an absolute right. "Get off the social issues!" they demand. "Gay marriage? No problem."

These gun-toting, free-market "conservatives" (of which I'm both) grace us with beauties like this: "I'm a 'pro-choice,' 'pro-gay' conservative," or, "Yeah, I'm shacking up with my girlfriend, big deal."

Relativism blurs the fixed lines of demarcation between right and wrong, which leads to the abolition of absolute truth, which leads to pockets of moral anarchy, which leads to Barack Obama and Eric Holder deciding which laws to ignore and which laws to enforce, which leads to lawlessness, which leads to chaos.

Welcome to chaos.

Yes. The "social issues" matter.

The battle is not Republican vs. Democrat. Neither is it conservative vs. liberal. The battle precedes time itself. The battle is right vs. wrong. The battle is moral vs. immoral. The battle is truth vs. the lie.

The battle is between good and evil.

We've been playing political Ping-Pong for decades. We've been, as they say, rearranging the chairs on the Titanic while Democrats take the helm for a spell, and Republicans take the helm for a spell.

The reality is that both political parties have driven us into the iceberg, and then pranced off together, hand-in-hand, to play best-of-three racquetball at the congressional bathhouse.

While here at CPAC I met an interesting fellow by the name of Frank Mitchell. Frank founded the Memphis-based, classically conservative group: "A Shining City on a Hill." During our discussion, Frank said this: "There is no liberty without justice. Liberty without justice is only license."

Libertine libertarianism.

America cannot survive under a worldview that embraces unrestricted moral license. Such license destroys the individual. And such license destroys the nation.
"Liberty without justice is only license."

There is only one Arbiter of true justice. And justice is defined by Him, not by us. He sets the parameters. As both individuals, and as a nation, we are ill-advised to breach those parameters and well-served to maintain them.

America does not need a political fix. America needs a spiritual fix.

Matt Barber, Christian Post 26 Comments [3/18/2014 3:36:25 AM]
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