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9-10ths_Penguin · Nov 10, 2019

shmogie said:
Nope,, once again you are dead wrong. 3 for 3 today.

Your wrongness average would make you a baseball star of all time, if it was your batting average.

It's cute that you're acting as if I would value your opinion.

shmogie · Nov 10, 2019

9-10ths_Penguin said:
It's cute that you're acting as if I would value your opinion.

When it comes to American law, you really ought to. Your uninformed proclamations are truly sad.

Revoltingest · Nov 10, 2019

shmogie said:
I disagree. There are way too many examples of people exercising choice to conclude that those raised in a particular religion are unable to leave.

I'm seeing "unable" as a limitation of the individual,
rather than one posed by society / government.

I was raised in a Southern Baptist family. Faith was in the very fabric of the family, aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents, parents.

Yet, in college I renounced the faith, and became an atheist. The fact that later in life I corrected that error is irrelevant to the point that I left the Faith for years.

My experience has been repeated thousands, perhaps millions of times, and many suffered dearly for their choice,

Many grow up with a faith, & it never even dawns on them to choose another.
And many might change, but have emotional & intellectual traits such that
they are limited in their choice, eg, switching from Baptist to Methodist, but
with atheism an impossibility.

Skreeper · Nov 11, 2019

shmogie said:
I don´t have to think about it, since I was in law classes most likely before you were born.

OK boomer

sooda · Nov 11, 2019

PureX said:
Yes, like how Trump demonizes immigrants. And the Christian right demonizes gays. And the police demonize black males. And our government demonizes Muslim "terrorists" (while ignoring our home-grown mass-murdering terrorists). And how political conservatives demonize "liberals". And how ...

Welcome to America, the land of demons.

Pretty ugly, IMO/

Valjean · Nov 11, 2019

Nowhere Man said:
It will happen again here in the USA? When did it happen the first time?

Race riots?

sooda · Nov 11, 2019

Valjean said:
Race riots?

I can't imagine there being a problem if your neighbor was Methodist or Catholic or Jew or Muslim or Moromon.

9-10ths_Penguin · Nov 11, 2019

shmogie said:
When it comes to American law, you really ought to. Your uninformed proclamations are truly sad.

What I find sad is someone who claims to be a cop arguing that the people he supposedly arrested over his career weren't criminals. You're so desperate to defend your corrupt president that you're happy to make yourself out to be a fool.

What is it you find so appealing about Trump that you'd be willing to do this to yourself?

Revoltingest · Nov 11, 2019

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Mr Spinkles · Nov 23, 2019

Jayhawker Soule said:
Kristallnacht ... was a pogrom against Jews carried out by SA Paramilitary forces and civilians throughout Nazi Germany on 9-10 November 1938, The German authorities looked on without intervening. - Wikipedia

We seem to have become adept at looking on without intervening.

Is this a reaction to the impeachment proceedings and half the country looking on without intervening?

A few people were debating if this is a Christian nation. Years ago, I used to participate in debates on this forum and I always disputed that characterization.

Ironically, today, I would welcome it if the US became a Christian nation. Almost anything would be preferable to a Trump Nation.

At least Christians have some admirable values and principles they adhere to. Trump has none.

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