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"Preach the gospel at all times. If necessary, use words." - ? | | | | | | |
"If there is anything I have learned from liberals and conservatives, it's that you can have great answers and still be mean... and that just as important as being right is being nice. " - shane claiborne | | | | | | |
"If Liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." --George Orwell ||||||
"On Facebook, no one can hear you scream." - I dont know ||||||
"The reformer has enemies in all those who profit by the old order, and only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order, this lukewarmness arising partly from fear of their adversaries, who have the laws in their favor; and partly from the incredulity of mankind, who do not truly believe in anything new until they have had actual experience of it." - Machiavelli ||||||
Chest of Drawers
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This chest of drawers is to replace the cheap stand (with no storage) that
was previously holding up our parrot's travel cage. She only lives with us
a few...
An important message from Consumer Reports
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This is our last post on Consumerist.com. We’re deeply proud of all the
work we’ve done on behalf of consumers, from exposing shady practices by
secretive ...
My Milk Toof Travel Update
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*Dear International readers from Southeast France!*
ickle, Lardee & myself will be traveling around the southeast of France
area from 06/02-06/20. If anyo...
The Years Of Writing Dangerously
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Thirteen years ago, as I was starting to experiment with this blogging
thing, I wrote the following: [T]he speed with which an idea in your head
reaches th...
Saint Francis of Assisi
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… everyone who follows Christ receives true peace, the peace that Christ
alone can give, a peace which the world cannot give. Many people, when they
think ...
X-Factor Auditions, Part Two: The registration...
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Kind of creepy to be walking around White Plains at 4:30 in the morning. No
lights on, no cars, no people. I felt like I was in a zombie movie. And,
really...
"President-elect Obama's office gave the media a new way to present him as Franklin Roosevelt 2.0 by announcing Friday that it will be posting weekly addresses - fireside chats for the web generation - on YouTube.
The first address will appear on Change.gov this Saturday, after it airs in audio. An Obama spokesperson says that this innovation is just the beginning of the digital, transparent presidency." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/14/obamas-transparent-presid_n_143805.html
well, it would be an improvement over the near total absence of Bush over the airwaves for the last 8 years, I remember when I was a kid Reagan was interrupting my tv shows at least once a week!
"Old people sing hip hop in choir robes. They seem to identify with Nelly more than Eminem, so don't miss “its getting hot in here, im gonna take my robe off!” at the end."
and listen to the old ladies sing "try and catch me dirty" lol:
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the “Redneck Mansion” is actually a set for the outdoor Theater het Amsterdam Bos. It seems so obvious in retrospect. It was designed by Catherina Scholten for the 2005 production of Anton Chekhov’s Ivanov, his early play about a disillusioned young intellectual... it strikes us as an imaginative, witty and good fun bit of adaptive reuse, not at all vulgar - and probably fairly expensive to build. http://adaptivereuse.net/2008/03/03/well-ill-be-a-seagull/
Be careful what you wish for. If the American government were to become "bible based" lets hope it's based on the beatitudes and not Leviticus, eh?
"Focused on Sharia or Islamic law, key to the initiative will be to carry the message that gay sex is illegal, immoral and legitimately punishable by death.
Iran is reported to have executed at least six juvenile offenders so far in 2008. More than 130 other juvenile offenders are currently sentenced to death. These are all boys averaging 15-16 years of age.
Iranian human rights campaigners estimate that 4,000 gay men have been executed since the Islamic revolution in 1979. -from PAYOR"
Then there is the state of Israel, they are also a biblically based nation. You must be Jewish to gain citizenship there, either a convert to Judaism or the child of a Jewish mother. They do not use the new testament as the basis for their laws, culture or attitudes politically. And yet they are one of the few (if any?) nations in the middle east where Homosexuality is not illegal, despite Leviticus and friends. they do not force menstruating women to stay at home. They do not stone adulterers. Even though the Jewish scriptures demand such actions. Why hasn't Isreal, the darling of a certain wing of American evangelical Christianity, enforced these scriptures as secular law? Because, among other reasons, the modern Israeli state, like the United States of America, is the product of the European "age of enlightenment" and all that came thereafter until at least the 1930's. A vast majority of the Jewish population of Israel is of European background and relatively recent immigrants and they have brought these European values with them.
The state also has to deal with a multiplicity of religious views, from Reform Judaism to Ultra Conservative Judaism and as such, in order to maintain a cohesive modern society, have needed to incorporate a respect for these varied religious views in to the law of the state. In order to preserve crucial unity in the face of great external threats they have adopted religious and social freedoms that do not exist elsewhere in the middle eastern world.
It is not America's heritage, nor in America's interests to become divided politically over matters that are fundamentally an issue of faith. America will not become stronger if her government is given over to the hands of one particular religious group, even if said group considers itself the "chosen ones" of God.
I write all of this because, the only reasonable argument left against employment rights for gays (one can be legally fired in many states based upon their sexual preference), marriage rights, etc in America is a faith based argument that is founded upon the particular interpretations of a particular set of very limited Scriptures by Christians of a particular outlook. Should we follow the example of Iran and attempt to impose faith based arguments onto the entire population via governmental decree? Or should we follow the example of Israel and, though acknowledging the common cultural reality that religious history has given us, choose, for the sake of unity and perhaps one day, the survival of our culture, freedom and mutual respect even if various groups disagree over a handful of faith based issued?
