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Bicoastal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 10:41 PM Original message |
Get MY "Judeo" out of YOUR "Judeo-Christian Values!" |
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11cents (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 10:47 PM Response to Original message |
1. The Tribe doesn't call that book "the Old Testament" -- |
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Bicoastal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 10:49 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Hell, I know... |
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11cents (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 10:55 PM Response to Reply #2 |
7. Sure, but it doesn't hurt to help people see things from a different angle. |
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Undercurrent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 10:52 PM Response to Original message |
3. Don't know what you mean |
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Bicoastal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 10:56 PM Response to Reply #3 |
8. Gotcha and corrected. They may not have come up with it... |
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villager (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 10:52 PM Response to Original message |
4. And actually, a lot of the philosophies that fundies think are original with ol' J.C. |
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Bad Thoughts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 11:00 PM Response to Reply #4 |
10. Yeah, fundies are big on the prophets |
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villager (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 11:39 PM Response to Reply #10 |
14. well, fundies aren't so big on compassion for the poor, certainly |
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snake in the grass (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 12:29 AM Response to Reply #10 |
16. You mean big on the "profits", right? |
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Bad Thoughts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 10:53 PM Response to Original message |
5. There's nothing "Judeo-Christian" that isn't just "Christian"eom. |
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mucifer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 10:55 PM Response to Original message |
6. I feel like they view us as their little mascots. They send money to Israel and |
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Rageneau (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 10:58 PM Response to Original message |
9. The people with the best Judeo-Christian values are Buddhists |
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11cents (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 11:22 PM Response to Reply #9 |
13. Like the Zen priests who avidly supported Japan's brutal imperial expansion? |
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Bicoastal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 11:49 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. There is NO major religion that has not advocated horrific violence for "a greater good..." |
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sampsonblk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 12:51 AM Response to Reply #15 |
17. Whoa. Religions don't advocate that stuff, PEOPLE do... |
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Bluenorthwest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 06:26 AM Response to Reply #17 |
20. Yes it is the same thing |
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sampsonblk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-08-09 01:33 AM Response to Reply #20 |
23. No, it isn't the same thing |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-08-09 11:08 AM Response to Reply #13 |
26. And like the Tibetan Buddhists who had a brutally oppressive theocracy |
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dflprincess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 11:00 PM Response to Original message |
11. I always thought they used the phrase to make themselves |
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customerserviceguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-06-09 11:12 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. It's just a way to paper over differences |
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SanchoPanza (410 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 01:39 AM Response to Original message |
18. Not Jewish voters |
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LiberalFighter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 05:58 AM Response to Original message |
19. Christianity was piggy backed on the Jewish religion to gain credibility. |
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MellowDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 07:37 AM Response to Original message |
21. Well, among religious Jews I know |
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Kalyke (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-07-09 07:39 AM Response to Original message |
22. Actually, CONservatives adapted that phrase to co-opt Israel. |
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riqster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-08-09 10:59 AM Response to Original message |
24. Fundagelicals actually take from the Old and New |
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Occam Bandage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-08-09 11:06 AM Response to Original message |
25. Well, if they didn't include "Judeo-," it would be a lot harder to lean on Leviticus. |
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