speaking of borrowing

[glovesetc]

I guess the fed never read the bible - oops it is forbidden ! The rate we borrow is going to catch up with us big time in the future . I hope the upcoming generations are prepared to pay the bills cause we sure can not because we are too old to go back to our businesses and careers . This is a sad sack of potatoes we got ourselves into . It looks like we will dodge the bullet this time but next might come the big bomb !!!! I am not convinced that the worlds banks have escaped this mess but time will tell folks !!!!!!

[aslan]

Originally Posted by glovesetc

I guess the fed never read the bible - oops it is forbidden ! The rate we borrow is going to catch up with us big time in the future . I hope the upcoming generations are prepared to pay the bills cause we sure can not because we are too old to go back to our businesses and careers . This is a sad sack of potatoes we got ourselves into . It looks like we will dodge the bullet this time but next might come the big bomb !!!! I am not convinced that the worlds banks have escaped this mess but time will tell folks !!!!!!

It's okay to read the Bible in this thread. Where did you think you were, in the ~~ZEN ZONE~~?

[glovesetc]

you can't pray in public schools/buildings and etc like courts and congress is nothing but a bunch of heathen mother humping thieves .

[GeorgeD]

Originally Posted by glovesetc

you can't pray in public schools/buildings and etc like courts and congress is nothing but a bunch of heathen mother humping thieves .

The idea that people can't pray in schools or other public buildings is a myth. Anyone or any group can pray pretty much in any public space they want as long as they don't interfere with the business being done or the traffic or such. It's just that the school or government can't organize or sponsor any particular religious event which is as it should be.

As an individual in a school or government office, for example, you are free to wear religious symbols, but you are NOT free to display such a symbol as if it were part of or sanctioned the school or office ... say on the wall of your classroom. Also as it should be .... if you are a Christian how would you feel being interviewed in an IRS office with symbols of Islam behind the agent's desk?

That said many offices and schools pass their own rule saying you can't do these things because they misunderstand the rulings and think it means they have to prevent active display of prayer or religious symbols.

About congress critters being mother humping thieves I pretty much agree.

[aslan]

Originally Posted by glovesetc

you can't pray in public schools/buildings and etc like courts and congress is nothing but a bunch of heathen mother humping thieves .

They have to stop the praying in public places because it gives them a guilty conscience I guess. lol I can't figure out why we can't have a Christian country if we want to. After all, I thought it was our country, but apparently we're saving it for someone else. I know if the Muslims get to be the majority some day, there is no doubt that they will make this a Muslim country. Not that I have anything against Muslims--it's just that if we're going to be one way or the other, I prefer Christian or Judao-Christian--and the sooner the better. And Judao-Christian values are a lot better fit for a democratic society. Muslims prefer theocracy--so live and let live. Not for me though.

[N&B]

Heaven forbid... the recital of the unabridged Pledge of Allegience...

[GeorgeD]

QUOTE=aslan;100591]They have to stop the praying in public places because it gives them a guilty conscience I guess. lol I can't figure out why we can't have a Christian country if we want to. After all, I thought it was our country, but apparently we're saving it for someone else. I know if the Muslims get to be the majority some day, there is no doubt that they will make this a Muslim country. Not that I have anything against Muslims--it's just that if we're going to be one way or the other, I prefer Christian or Judao-Christian--and the sooner the better. And Judao-Christian values are a lot better fit for a democratic society. Muslims prefer theocracy--so live and let live. Not for me though.[/QUOTE]

So if the Muslims take over it would be a Theocracy, but if this becomes a Christian Country it is NOT a Theocracy. Fascinating.

Theocracy: A system where the only appropriate political leaders are persons who see themselves as devoted to carrying out the will of God as interpreted by a common religion.

How often do you hear this kind of thing from right wing Public officials. Didn't Sarah just say we're on a mission ordained by God in Iraq? Or was that the Blues Brothers?

[zengrifter]

Originally Posted by GeorgeD

So if the Muslims take over it would be a Theocracy, but if this becomes a Christian Country it is NOT a Theocracy. Fascinating.

Theocracy: A system where the only appropriate political leaders are persons who see themselves as devoted to carrying out the will of God as interpreted by a common religion.

How often do you hear this kind of thing from right wing Public officials. Didn't Sarah just say we're on a mission ordained by God in Iraq? Or was that the Blues Brothers?

See -

Christian Fascist Threat to American Democracy
The Unholy Alliance -Christianity & The NWO
THE Most Dangerous Cult

[aslan]

Originally Posted by GeorgeD

So if the Muslims take over it would be a Theocracy, but if this becomes a Christian Country it is NOT a Theocracy. Fascinating.

Theocracy: A system where the only appropriate political leaders are persons who see themselves as devoted to carrying out the will of God as interpreted by a common religion.

How often do you hear this kind of thing from right wing Public officials. Didn't Sarah just say we're on a mission ordained by God in Iraq? Or was that the Blues Brothers?

There is nothing morally wrong with a theocracy, but what I an talking about is a democracy that is based on Judao-Christian principles *as ours basically is). We will continue to prohibit the honor killing of daughters and wives, for example. Killing would only be justifiable in self defense. It has elements of theocracy, but it is clearly not a theocracy. It embraces a broad spectrum of religious sects--Christian, Jewish, and religions compatible with them. Anyone willing to live within the context of broad Judao-Christian principles would be welcome, just as they are now. Frankly I don't give a damn if offends the sensibilities of some, for example, the atheists or the Muslims.

[N&B]

Oh boy, extremeism in the name of religious beliefs, can still be defined as a form of terrorism. Being an American, we did conquer a continent that way. Lotsa dirty tricks, cruelties, and slaughter... Even against "our own" from 1861-65. Gettysburg (and even in Quigley Down Under, one gets a sense of a moralistic rationale of conquring the "Aboriginal" population) is noted by the reference to "the Last Day" as written by the participants referring to the Chapters within "The Revelation" as seen in the Civil War: it could be the last day of the United States, or the Confederacy, or the beginning of the end of both.

Religion and war are seldom outside of a stone's throw from one another, throughout human history.