Fundamentalism

BidenPresident said:
God said it, you believe it, that settles it. Fundamentalism.
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You asked about the souce of suffering and evil from the religious perspective.

I told you is is a consequence of the abuse of free will, from the theological perspective. Do you always get angry when people answer your questions?

As far as what lesson we are supposed to learn from this pandemic, my sense is that we need to reflect on our management and mistreatment of domestic animals and captive wildlife. A lot of these viral pandemics seem to be originating from the unsanitary and inhumane conditions we are subjecting animals to.
 
Cypress said:
You asked about the souce of suffering and evil from the religious perspective.

I told you is is a consequence of the abuse of free will, from the theological perspective. Do you always get angry when people answer your questions?

As far as what lesson we are supposed to learn from this pandemic, my sense is that we need to reflect on our management and mistreatment of domestic animals and captive wildlife. A lot of these viral pandemics seem to be originating from the unsanitary and unhumane conditions we are subjecting animals to.
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NAILED it.

FYI, as to the Bidenforpresident dude, I've spent much of my adult life reacting like him to all religious thought, because I was raised by evangelicals who took a black-and-white text from the bronze age and insisted we live our life by it (and believe it to be inspired by god). It made me incredulous to all religious thought whatsoever, which is a shame. There's a great deal of "deist" or even atheist-leaning religious thought (spirituality/meditation, whatever) that can be gleaned from many religious texts. The politicization of christianity in america has robbed that faith of any good worth it has.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
Venezuela is a poor example compared to the ones I gave. For example, Albania had a seriously and totally socialist economy based on the worst of Mao and Red China for decades. That left it one of the poorest nations in Europe. It also--like any heavily socialist nation--had one of the most developed and insidious black markets in Europe. Today it's known as the car theft capital of Europe as well as for various criminal scams, etc. That disfunction came out of it's economic ruin under Communism.

N. Korea is an example of Leftist everything carried to an extreme. The economy is in tatters and there are black markets everywhere there. Threats of brutal punishment for operating a black market have not dissuaded a desperate population in the least.

Communism is the more virulent form of Socialism, that's all. Socialism is equally insidious when it comes to economies. Britain was wrecked by Socialist economics and has only recovered since those policies were reversed or dropped. Their aircraft industry was ruined to a point it will never recover. The automobile industry suffered massively from such operations as British Leyland. As in America, and elsewhere, public housing turned into a poverty trap that attracted crime.

If the Left gets their way in the US, it too will go down the road to economic ruin. For example, the Left has driven manufacturing out of California. California at one time was the world leader in aerospace and aircraft manufacturing. Today it's all but totally gone driven out by regulation and environmentalism run amok. It's the state with by far the largest population of homeless and welfare recipients. The Middle Class there is in steep decline. It isn't Capitalism or a relatively free market economy that's killing California. It's Leftist economic policy coupled with general Leftist ideas.
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Do you EVER get tired of these hacky, insanely intellectually dishonest comparisons? It's like every dipshit uncle's email forward come to life.

I mean, you ACTUALLY think N. Korea is a "leftist" government on the order of AOC or some shit? It's like you're asking to be clowned on. NK is a totalitarian dictatorship the likes of which would've been Trump's endgame if he had his druthers.

As for Britain, their conservative party advocates for socialist policies all the time, and their Thatcher-approved NHS would make Ted Cruz's and Mitch McConnell's head explode.

FYI, California has a budget surplus, and capitalism has made it impossible for people to afford homes in most places there. It also has the 5th largest economy in the world. Sure, manufacturing is "fleeing."

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Darth Omar said:
Mr. Potato Head lol? Aunt Jemima etc etc.

Nothing is safe from these fundamentalists. Worse yet, they’ve infested every institution like termites.
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What did 'the liberals' have to do with Mr. Potato Head?

What did Aunt Jemima have to do with going back toward old ways?
 
PoliTalker said:
I have to laugh every time I think of that monstrosity of imagination in Kentucky, the 'Ark.'

It's like a bizarrely bad dream with the most flagrant of sham TV evangelist hucksters meets Disneyworld.

Hollywood + fundamentalism.

Totally laughable and troubling sad that anyone believes it is representative of anything but strange imagination.

Gimme a freaking break.

Dinosaurs two by two?
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It's interesting you mention hollywood and fundamentalism. It's so nakedly obvious how jealous conservatives are of Hollywood itself, hence they try to carve out these little niches in "conservative" hollywood circles. The Left Behind series (universally panned) and The Passion were two examples of them trying to make inroads. Then when most of these christian movies and shows were excoriated by reviewers, evangelicals started demonizing hollywood.

Remember that Dana Loesh spokeslady for the NRA? Failed hollywood actress, and now she tries to shit on hollywood. Classic sour grapes.

Ted Cruz had theater aspirations; if only some right-wing hollywood director had given him a career, maybe we wouldn't have to deal with one more insurrectionist in the senate.
 
Jarod said:
What did 'the liberals' have to do with Mr. Potato Head?

What did Aunt Jemima have to do with going back toward old ways?
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We had as much to do with it as Dr. Seuss. The Theodore Geisel estate said LAST YEAR "let's get rid of these 6 problematic books that show racist imagery" and suddenly, according to republicans, AOC and the Squad took away every bible story.

So stupid.
 
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