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DeSwiss

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15. Tastes great, less filling!

Reply to TygrBright (Original post)

Mon Jan 12, 2015, 07:11 PM

Jan 2015

- It's both, but I get your point.

I once used the claw on the claw hammer as a screwdriver. It worked.

K&R

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We Have Engineered the Rage of the Deluded [View all] TygrBright Jan 2015 OP

I think religion can be used in both ways. witness mlk. ND-Dem Jan 2015 #1

Yes, religion has sometimes been the tool of the oppressed-- Jackpine Radical Jan 2015 #3

Thank you for that; critical thinking is needed and welcome. Scuba Jan 2015 #8

+1 Blue_Tires Jan 2015 #36

This. ^^^^ I think religion can be used in both ways, going both directions. calimary Jan 2015 #14

I think we spend way too much time with upaloopa Jan 2015 #2

it's all part of a secret master plan hfojvt Jan 2015 #4

No, they don't. They have a well-paid class of helots to do that thinking for them. n/t TygrBright Jan 2015 #6

"The very privileged don't give us much thought at all." Phlem Jan 2015 #13

They don't think about you when they run the country. upaloopa Jan 2015 #17

That's why I quit the Catholic Church WHEN CRABS ROAR Jan 2015 #20

I never said I was afraid of my opinion. Phlem Jan 2015 #21

You don't get that what you post here is your upaloopa Jan 2015 #29

You don't get that what you post here is your opinion" Phlem Jan 2015 #30

I must be too dense to get your message upaloopa Jan 2015 #31

"The very privileged don't give us much thought at all." - Truer words KingCharlemagne Jan 2015 #24

Bashar Assad, of all people, made a good point in his interview with Paris Match. CJCRANE Jan 2015 #5

They are zombies. Full of rage and without hope. Avalux Jan 2015 #7

While I agree with most of your post, I would caution against viewing religions Maedhros Jan 2015 #9

You nailed it, Maedhros RobertEarl Jan 2015 #19

TWO WORDS SoLeftIAmRight Jan 2015 #10

Religious fundamentalism is a tool of the mic Dont call me Shirley Jan 2015 #11

I agree. Religion is always a tool of the privileged. If it didn't brainwash people effectively, valerief Jan 2015 #12

Tastes great, less filling! DeSwiss Jan 2015 #15

Chris swung and missed Android3.14 Jan 2015 #16

So I take it you disagree with Hedges' thesis statement (in his first paragraph): KingCharlemagne Jan 2015 #27

I disagree with who he is holding responsible Android3.14 Jan 2015 #32

Please indicate the specific passages where you think Hedges is KingCharlemagne Jan 2015 #33

The title seems to be a good start Android3.14 Jan 2015 #34

Small point (but one suggestive of something more): the title of the KingCharlemagne Jan 2015 #35

Small point taken Android3.14 Jan 2015 #37

Religion is the ineffective and illusory "tool of the dispossessed" Tom Ripley Jan 2015 #18

Yawn. Union Scribe Jan 2015 #22

Thank you for posting your thoughts in GD. NT Trillo Jan 2015 #23

I'm not sure that Hedges believes religion is a 'tool' of the dispossessed. In this piece to KingCharlemagne Jan 2015 #25

k & fucking r! n/t wildbilln864 Jan 2015 #26

Or ... NanceGreggs Jan 2015 #28