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banana republican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-09-04 12:56 PM
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If Freepers were really Christian
Wouldn't the US be spending 10% of the GDP on helping people through out the world???

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pagerbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-09-04 01:00 PM
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1. God helps those who help themselves!
Edited on Mon Aug-09-04 01:04 PM by pagerbear
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thisismyboomstick3 Donating Member (42 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-09-04 01:01 PM
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2. Hmm, Interesting.
Does anyone know what % of teh GDP goes to World Aid programs,and I guess you could throw in domestic programs as well.

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edbermac Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-09-04 01:05 PM
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3. Freepers are Christian the same way Nazis were Christian...
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tom_paine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-09-04 03:14 PM
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7. Bing! Bing! Bing! we have a winner!




There are MANY more picture of BOTH dictators posing as Christians utilizing similar propaganda strategies.

However, quite oddly, the most famous of the Bush with Cross and Bush with Halo AP Photos are missing...scrubbed, one might guess.

WWHD?

What Would Hitler Do?
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edbermac Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-09-04 05:18 PM
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9. Thank you Tom!
So what do I win?

:party:
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comradebillyboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-09-04 02:50 PM
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4. freepers represent americian christianity quite well
in my opinion
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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-09-04 02:53 PM
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5. Correction: they represent fundamentalists and retro Catholics quite well
Not the silent majority of mainstream Christians.
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stanwyck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-09-04 03:04 PM
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6. They'd be anti-war and environmentalists
if they actually read ALL of the Bible and not just their Chinese menu version of "I'll have something from column A and something from column B and ignore whatever makes me uncomfortable." Like the difficult philosphy of Luke asking me to love my enemies and the numerous references to protecting the earth and animals.
Actually, only a higher power can decide if a person is even Christian. Christianity is a path. A way. You can't say you've reached being a Christian. That judgment is left to a higher power.
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in_cog_ni_to Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-09-04 03:26 PM
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8. For the greater good, killing
Edited on Mon Aug-09-04 03:26 PM by in_cog_ni_to
innocent people, discriminating, hating homosexuals and underfunding government programs is ENCOURAGED! It's all for the greater good of our country.
Please read about what Par Robertson and his ilk are doing.



<snip>
First: Strauss believed that a leader had to perpetually deceive the citizens he ruled.



Secondly: Those who lead must understand there is no morality, there is only the right of the superior to rule the inferior.



Thirdly: According to Drury, Religion “is the glue that holds society together.”<40> It is a handle by which the ruler can manipulate the masses. Any religion will do. Strauss is indifferent to them all.



Fourthly: “Secular society…is the worst possible thing,” because it leads to individualism, liberalism, and relativism, all of which encourage dissent and rebellion. As Drury sums it up: “You want a crowd that you can manipulate like putty.”<41>



Fifthly: “Strauss thinks that a political order can be stable only if it is united by an external threat; and following Machiavelli, he maintains that if no external threat exists, then one has to be manufactured.”<42>



Sixthly: “In Strauss’s view, the trouble with liberal society is that it dispenses with noble lies and pious frauds. It tries to found society on secular rational foundations.”


http://www.yuricareport.com/Dominionism/TheDespoilingOfAmerica.htm

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