In These Times

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• • 14 Mar 07
  • 10:55 am

  "In his book Irresistible Revolution, 30-year-old author Shane Claiborne, who is currently living in Iraq to “stand in the way of war,” asks evangelicals why their literal reading of the Bible doesn’t lead them to do what Jesus so clearly told wealthy and middle-class people to do in his day: give up everything to help others." Jesus also commands him to kill all those who will not accept him as their king(Luke 19:26-27). Why isn't he doing that? Because like all Christians he cherry picks. If you want to be Christian, you are required to believe all of it without question. …

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• • 14 Mar 07
  • 3:26 pm

  [quote]We should let go of stereotypical thinking and accept that not all Christians are of the Robertson/Falwell ilk. Some actually embrace the doctrine of Love your neighbor as you love yourself, the Beatitudes, and the Sermon on the Mount. We would all do well to accept that all humans are flawed and not as perfect as we think ourselves to be. [/quote] That doesn't change the fact that they enable the Robertsons of the world by encouraging their fairy tales as reality, and making questioning their faith a social faux pas. Just because they do not practice those aspects of their …

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• • 14 Mar 07
  • 4:20 pm

  "That includes the religion of communism and its first cousins, liberalism & socialism" Communism installs the party as your new god, and that you should suffer for, and serve your god. It's no different from theistic religions in most respects. The only reason it's "atheistic", is that like all religions it hates competition. If you look at Soviet era laws andstructure, you'll find that Communism, like all dictatorships is a conservative movement, based on totalitarianism, suppression, and control by force. It uses socialism as a camoflauge, nothing more. Liberalism and socialism are nowhere close, as has been well demonstrated by our …

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• • 14 Mar 07
  • 9:05 pm

  [/quote]The Prospects For Liberty by Murray N. Rothbard, downloable at the lewrockwell.com website. Don’t bother recycling that old Comrade Nymp Chimsky bullcrap about socialism never being tried, it has been in all the Communist countries and has failed there as well as in the welfare police states of western Europe where you go to prison for questioning the holocaust conventional version. Religion is an evil but not all evils are religious though communism-socialism, both based on identical Marxian premises is a religion too. [/quote] Considering that all the communist countries are ruled by an elite class, who lives a life of …

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• • 15 Mar 07
  • 4:56 pm

  [quote]Mister Pooh Pooh Pants, I agree with Szasz, another libertarian, on psychiatry, so I’ll decline your kind suggestion above. I have already identified Rothbard on several different threads here so I think people are free to ignore your ASSertions and read him directly. I never voted for Bush and have no desire to conserve the present statist-collectivist disorder, so as usual your remarks are way off base. [/quote] You're conservative, an anarchist and insane. Of course you don't want to get mental help, very few mentally ill people do. I have read Rothbard, extensively. You are a sociopath, just like he …

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