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Fred Sanders

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37. I think I can give a best answer by rephrasing. "The rule of law is the enemy of the rule of God".

Fri Sep 25, 2015, 10:24 AM

Sep 2015

Meaning a secular society will always be vulnerable to attack by any religion that seek to impose the rules of that religion on all of the society.

Sharia law and 'Maria' law - and any other religious code of political and moral rule - are obviously attempts by those that believe in God's law to replace man's law....and both and all are equally wrong.

It is not like this is the first time in the history of the world that a religion has tied itself to monied interests and the media in order to storm their way into a position of political and social power.

Wasn't the lesson of Hebdo, after the massacre, in their own editorial, that secular law must never surrender to religious law, but is always under attack and has to be actively defended?

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Right Wing Media Lash Out At Pope Francis During U.S. Visit | Media Matters [View all] Fred Sanders Sep 2015 OP

Notice rightwing hack Bill Donohue and his one-man Catholic "League" are noticeably silent Adenoid_Hynkel Sep 2015 #1

I may be wrong left-of-center2012 Sep 2015 #2

No you are not wrong FreakinDJ Sep 2015 #3

Wrong. JDPriestly Sep 2015 #33

Plenty of far-right-wing Catholics (a la Mel Gibson and his father) out there. nomorenomore08 Sep 2015 #35

Mel Gibson and his father are not Roman Catholics. pnwmom Sep 2015 #42

Still a WASP vs Catholic Nation bucolic_frolic Sep 2015 #4

I Knew It! NonMetro Sep 2015 #5

Reality check: the Dalai Lama not only gave a long speech to Congress, pnwmom Sep 2015 #15

Perhaps That Shouldn't Have Been Done, Either? NonMetro Sep 2015 #25

If you had listened to what he has said on this visit, you would know that Catholic progressives pnwmom Sep 2015 #29

great rebuttal! nt uhnope Sep 2015 #26

What "trouble" has "this led to"? Although the trouble this will bring the GOP and their fascist Fred Sanders Sep 2015 #18

And You Know This Will Bring Trouble To the GOP? NonMetro Sep 2015 #27

He doesn't support the GOP. If that's why they invited him they got a lot more than they bargained for. pnwmom Sep 2015 #28

I Listened To His Entire Speech NonMetro Sep 2015 #45

Agree 100%. n/t ChazII Sep 2015 #47

The entire RW media and the GOP have vocalized their hatred of the Pope as a hoax? Fred Sanders Sep 2015 #31

"How do you know that?" TommyCelt Sep 2015 #41

Yeah, and I really need George Will to tell me . . FairWinds Sep 2015 #6

You mean the "false prophet ...trailing clouds of sanctity?" Hortensis Sep 2015 #9

Preemptive, emptive or post-emptive, the Pope just blew a gaping hole through their entire plan to Fred Sanders Sep 2015 #10

This is a wound that thousands of spiritual leaders across the nation, Hortensis Sep 2015 #11

Not only that bucolic_frolic Sep 2015 #16

If the pre-response is any indicator, the post response will be even more vicious and eye-opening Fred Sanders Sep 2015 #17

..."millennia of distilled human wisdom to morally guide decisions..." Hortensis Sep 2015 #44

And we the American people can never trust a religious right individual. They survive in lies. rladdi Sep 2015 #7

Well said. And also pointed out by the Pope that Christians do not behave like the GOP does. Fred Sanders Sep 2015 #8

Huckabee is almost literally a snake oil salesman. He may well Hortensis Sep 2015 #12

And centrist Democrats overlook his insults to LGBT families in a way that demonstrates their own Bluenorthwest Sep 2015 #13

That's What I Say, Too! NonMetro Sep 2015 #46

Did we expect anything different from the animal farm ? Cockroaches and Swine can never be any geretogo Sep 2015 #14

This, I believe, is creating a huge dilemma for the right rpannier Sep 2015 #19

I have to confess I have little understanding of the Protestant and Catholic schism, or how it Fred Sanders Sep 2015 #22

Here's the bottom line: pnwmom Sep 2015 #30

"the rule of God is the enemy of the rule of law" JDPriestly Sep 2015 #34

I think I can give a best answer by rephrasing. "The rule of law is the enemy of the rule of God". Fred Sanders Sep 2015 #37

Thanks. Good explanation. JDPriestly Sep 2015 #39

I Tuned in KBRITE... WiffenPoof Sep 2015 #20

You know all of those kids who used to get poor marks in Skidmore Sep 2015 #21

A good analogy are the Religion controlled public school systems of Saudi Arabia, and we know how Fred Sanders Sep 2015 #23

When the mighty right chapdrum Sep 2015 #24

Just proves that all rightwingers go to Hell nikto Sep 2015 #32

Conservative media attacking the Pope? It's like a dream come true! nomorenomore08 Sep 2015 #36

Media Matters Cited 7 People, Most Not Widely Known? NonMetro Sep 2015 #38

They are widely known among teabaggers. Not surprisingly, they don't have high profiles here. n/t pnwmom Sep 2015 #40

THe Pope took a huge steaming DUMP on Ferd Berfel Sep 2015 #43