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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
I think that depends on the denomination or specific church. The one I went to was never like that although from what I hear many Catholic and Evangelical ones follow that train of thought.
edit: In their minds. Jesus actually had a lot of really great ideas. He was a socialist after all. The problem comes when people don't care so much what the Bible says. They just use it to support their agenda.
edited 12th May '13 9:12:14 AM by Kostya
Yeesh, what's with Republicans and the "Benghazi cover-up" claims?
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I thought fundamentalism was based on conservative/reactionary fanaticism, and that fear is simply a convenient tool for their purposes.
edited 12th May '13 9:18:15 AM by MarqFJA
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.Yeah that's kinda why some of us are big on secular decision making in our countries
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But if his goal is to make then return to his side then how does he accomplish that by making planes crash into buildings? He's supposed to be loved. At best that would just make people fear him. If he really wants people to worship him then he needs to give them a reason to and I don't think threatening them is a good reason.
Elizabeth Warren: Students Should Get the Same Rate as the Bankers
...Lady has a point. Though, as the article says, "The rate is so low in part because there’s very little risk the loans won’t be repaid." Loans to banks and loans to students are NOT the same thing and should not be treated the same, but "student debt has outpaced credit-card debt, as borrowers struggle to pay back a collective $1 trillion in debt." Talk about no clear "correct" answer.
(Looks up her Other Wiki page.)
Warren voted as a Republican for many years saying, "I was a Republican because I thought that those were the people who best supported markets." She states that in 1995 she began to vote Democratic because she no longer believed that to be true, but she says that she has voted for both parties because she believed that neither party should dominate.
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At Warren's first Banking Committee hearing on February 14, 2013, she pressed several banking regulators to answer when they had last taken a Wall Street bank to trial and stated, "I'm really concerned that 'too big to fail' has become 'too big for trial.'" Videos of Warren's questioning became popular on the internet, amassing more than 1 million views in a matter of days
Where did this woman come from?! And why are there not more like her?!
Yu hav nat sein bod speeling unntil know. (cacke four undersandig tis)the cake is a lie!Elizabeth Warren is a wonderful human being.
Share it so that people can get into this conversation, 'cause we're not the only ones who think like this.Unfortunately, the first time most people heard about her was from her multiple arrests for civil disobedience during the last election. Not a good first impression.
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.White House rebuffs Boehner on Benghazi-related emails
Don't we have a religion thread?
If you want to "fix" student loans properly, I think you would have to delve a LOT deeper. Just saying "do this" might be treating the symptom, not the problem. It might be that the way to "fix" student loans involves helping schools pay for their pricey new tech with the stipulation that their fees go down.
Though a part of the problem is that a fair amount of the cash/investments that schools have are contractually/legally obligated to be used for ONLY certain things. New money towards paying for a specific professor position when it is already 100% funded by earlier contributions? Just sits their accruing interest. Harvard would have more money than it could figure out what to do with if all the money was freely available—and it is the donor's "fault" more than the school's because why would any school turn down any donation? I know of one university that was given a ton of money that could only be used for "grounds maintenance". Considering how it is in the middle of a large city, it has GREAT grounds, but that is money that can never be used for something else.
And that is just one possible issue that could be "fixed" to drive down student loan fees. Who knows how many other things there are?
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Is that thread cool for inquiries about the history of religion in politics? I'm actually curious about trends in fatwas and judgments issued by Islamic authorities in the period between the Islamic golden age and the 20th century. SOMETHING happened in between and I'd like to know what.
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Yes.
Partially. It's a tradeoff between appearing sincere and appearing palatable. And an overload of palatable, offend-nobody, perfectly groomed candidates can turn people off (think of how Mitt Romney was supposed to be sold). I mean, how many Presidents and presidential candidates have we seen in the last 50 years that are all white family men with the same category of perfectly groomed haircut (no beard) and a suit? Presenting the same image to the public? And how many of them have been actual bigger-than-disturbing-the-peace-charges real criminals? (Reagan and Nixon at least)
edited 12th May '13 11:05:23 AM by RadicalTaoist
Share it so that people can get into this conversation, 'cause we're not the only ones who think like this.Lessee, the youngest of the people making their careers off of it are in their late 30s, so we can expect their children to die in, say...2102?
Share it so that people can get into this conversation, 'cause we're not the only ones who think like this.Ah, yes, I sometimes confuse those two.
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Senator Rand Paul: Obama Aiding ‘Anti-American Globalists’ In Take Down Of Our Constitution
edited 12th May '13 12:19:17 PM by DeviantBraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016
What basically has come to mean is that it's someone who cares about the U.N. more than the U.N. Also undermining our nation's sovereignty and stuff like that.
Justice Ginsburg: Roe v. Wade provided 'target' for abortion-rights opponents
edited 12th May '13 12:44:06 PM by DeviantBraeburn
Everything is Possible. But some things are more Probable than others. JEBAGEDDON 2016
Except America is internationally infamous for giving rather few shits about the UN - it has not ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child, for instance. Even North Korea has ratified the UNCRC. The only other countries in this situation are South Sudan (which didn't exist at the time) and Somalia (which didn't have a government). Still, this pales in comparison to Woodrow Wilson setting up the League of Nations and then not joining it.
The reason the USA hasn't bothered - you're going to love this - to ratify UNCRC is because it allows children the right to have their voice heard (not followed, just heard) in decisions involving them. And That's Terrible.
All of this can be blamed on the Republicans and the Christian Right.
edited 12th May '13 12:50:46 PM by Achaemenid
Schild und Schwert der Partei

Bcause fundamentalism (of any variety) is based on fear. Their God, regardless of what name they call him by is an abusive bully and a Tautological Templar.
edited 12th May '13 9:10:24 AM by tricksterson
Trump delenda est