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  SusanParrish1 year, 7 months ago

  Good thing that is just a few wackos and not representative of the entire faith.

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    populist1 year, 7 months ago

    exactly!! i sure hope that most people realize that these are really just people on the fringe. but - it sure does make for some interesting discussion.

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      Star_Poet1 year, 6 months ago

      Did you debunk the article, or are you agreeing with the leader?

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      truthaddict1 year, 6 months ago

      On the fringe? Think again. These wackos voted in your President. They have his ear. Bush is one of these wackos.

      http://www.theocracywatch.org

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        mark-stevens1 year, 6 months ago

        Thet didn't have Bush, Bush had them. Where are we with any changes in morality in ths country. Bush said what was needed to get elected.

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        m-simon1 year, 6 months ago

        These faith revivals have been happening every 50 years or so in America since the 1700s.

        Nothing new.

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      Natureboy1 year, 6 months ago

      They ain't just the fringe. They are getting legislations passed. They are stacking the courts. They are replacing planned parenthood clinics with "Crisis Pregnancy Centers" that have no clinically trained personnel, just Jesus freaks who preach abstinence until marriage and having the baby no matter what.

      They are millions strong in this country. They are the new Brownshirts.

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        yodee3 months, 2 weeks ago

        The fact is that a majority of Christians would wave their flag if George Bush decided to invade Canada.

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    mark-stevens1 year, 7 months ago

    GREAT, We can say that about what's going on over in Iraq. I'm sure it will make our troops feel safer!

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      hanami4 months ago

      great

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    HomerJS491 year, 7 months ago

    Few wackos? I think not...!

    http://www.yuricareport.com/BushSecondTerm/WhatMrB

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      doppich1 year, 6 months ago

      Agree. 30,000,000 is a pretty large "fringe."

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        blackolives1 year, 6 months ago

        Are you people crazy? Christians are not the ones beheading people and teaching their eight year old kids to strap on bombs and blow themselves up killing women and children. Western society is the only thing that is going to save you from living under Islamic law. That means all of you liberals whose religion is feminism, and militant gay rights, better find a nice hole to hide in because you are the first ones they will kill.

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          Bacalao1 year, 6 months ago

          you forgot to put the word "yet" at the end of the second sentence.

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            kebo3 months, 2 weeks ago

            Call America what you will

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          doppich1 year, 6 months ago

          I'm not sure how that relates to the thread, but don't you think it possible that there are evil and misled people among both Christians and Muslims? That at any given moment one of these displays the greater depravity is not reason to ignore the sins of the other.

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            m-simon1 year, 6 months ago

            If you were in a room unarmed with an armed Christian "fascist" or a Muslim fasicist what would be your chances?

            I'd take my chances with the Christian.

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              Candida1 year, 6 months ago

              After seeing all the hate they spew on this site, I'm not sure. I think my chances would be about even with the two groups: about zero.

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          truthaddict1 year, 6 months ago

          ^ Christian wacko alert!

          "The sky is falling! The end is nigh! Only Jesus can save you!"

          So glad you kooks were marginalized in the last election.

          So glad.

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          Daylight1 year, 6 months ago

          blackolives

          Do you know 90% of the world was ruled by the Islamic law, for thousand years and India was a shining example the Hindus were not been killed or forced them to convert, we could have done it but Islam forbids forcing anyone to Islam, your propaganda is not working any more, nobody complain except some of you who manipulated, distorted and twisted everything the Muslims have done, in order to justify your corrupt way of life.

          Christians don't behead but they drop 2000 pound bombs from the sky to wipe out the entire living things including the grass, and the Christian Born Again supported Israel to invade Lebanon and to use cluster bombs on the innocent people. But you have beheaded and hacked people to death during your crusade, try to read the encyclopedia Britannica, I forgot the year, anyway you can check it out the barbaric activities of the Christian world, why? Wasn't Hitler Christian?

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            storeyteller811 year, 6 months ago

            "But you have beheaded and hacked people to death during your crusade"

            Here you go justifying bad behaviour with the bad actions of others that happened centuries ago. I've said it before and I'll say it again, muslims are behind modern civilization by about one millenium.

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          mark-stevens1 year, 6 months ago

          BLACKOLIVE...I support women and gays... I will tell you that if I'm going to get killed, I will take as many of them with me as possible.

          How much have you bit**ed about the militant Muslims in Dearborn, Michigan that openly support Hezbolloha, and have parades that number into the tens of thousands to prove their support. Oh yeah Michigan, has a Muslim senator!!!

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          jasmine50001 year, 6 months ago

          they wont have to blow themselfs up. but they do kill women and children. do you remember what happened to the kathars, jews, feminists heretics and pagans in nations controlled by the power of the church. they were burnt at the stak, tortured, killed. these people are a threat to American liberty and way of life. they are a threat to women and jews.

          these radical christians are as dangerous as the muslims and if they gain control then america will be under the same type of shariah type religious law. it will be a living nightmare for free minded americans.

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          areeya3 months, 1 week ago

          They differ generally in minor matters that do not affect one's eternal destiny.

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      abbaw3 months, 2 weeks ago

      your perspective on this is definitely interesting

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    HomerJS491 year, 7 months ago

    Here's another

    http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/7235393

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      MonkeyBiz1 year, 6 months ago

      Yikes Homer! Those are some scary articles. I had heard a little about some of the "code" words, but really didn't give it much thought. The articles gave me some context.

      Everyone that is not one of "God's Warriors" ought to be prepared to defend our rights under the US Constitution. These people are dangerously subversive.

      "few wackos?" I don't think so either.

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        Star_Poet1 year, 6 months ago

        Layers and Layers of spackle are hurled! It's so great to see when monkeys do it.

        Locked out.

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      Sloany1 year, 6 months ago

      "Fear, the foundation of religion" Bertrand Russell

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      david_nwpa1 year, 6 months ago

      That was downright awful and borderline criminal. I could hardly believe a man like Roy Moore could ascend to the bench and want to execute people based on their sexual identities. How does that set America or Alabama apart from Nazi Germany? Hitler killed gays too. Pure evil. The only way to express the hideousness in that sub article was pure evil. Thanks for sharing, Homer.

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    mark-stevens1 year, 6 months ago

    There are only a few wacko Muslims, we have three thousand dead from 9/11 and another 3,000 soilders killed. How many wackos do you need, before you're concerned???

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    JohnBryansFontaine1 year, 6 months ago

    Since the reader is being generous enough to read this rant, I should first put my cards face up regarding my beliefs about God. I would call myself a Theist Humanist. I think that there is a God, and He ( or She ) sure ain't me. I also believe in the Resurrection, as well as Intelligent Design, but am agnostic as to the existence of the devil.

    American Fascism: The Christian Right And The War On America by Chris Hedges is indeed an extraordinary book as it is the first major retort against the years-long Orwellian DoubleThink Big Lie by the Religious Right and other Conservatives that Hitler and the Nazis were Atheists, Liberals, Socialists, and/or Leftists of any sort.

    The real and overlooked Truth is that Hilter expoused 'positive Christianity'. The Nazi dictator saw Christ as a 'warrior against the Jews'. All of which is outlined in one of Hitler's earlier speeches:

    http://www.humanitas-international.org/showcase/ch

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      JohnBryansFontaine1 year, 6 months ago

      please use this link if the other doesn't work:

      http://www.humanitas-international.org/showcase/ch

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  ssp10101 year, 7 months ago

  I hope everyone that reads this tripe understands that it is coming from a decidedly biased point of view. There are LOTS of inaccuracies throughout the article, but, first and foremost, the article never really specifies that most Christians wouldn't come under this description anyway.

  If the Jesus Camp is, indeed, a movement that the author is accurately describing, then most Christians would, I would hope, would equate this with the fanatical Islamic groups and nix it as a Christian group. Keep in mind that just because someone says they're a Christian doesn't make it so. You have to look at the fruit in their lives.

  Hey, populist, it's an interesting article, but extremely sad. One question for you, though... why would dispensationalists want to "take over the world", if they're planning to be raptured out of it? The pastors cited in the articles are all dispensationalists, I believe.

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    populist1 year, 7 months ago

    "why would dispensationalists want to "take over the world", if they're planning to be raptured out of it? The pastors cited in the articles are all dispensationalists, I believe."

    why? I have absolutely no clue. do you? Why would people who claim to be christians want to wage an aggressive war in iraq and afghanistan? There's a lot of twisted things happening to christianity. i personally think people like these are doing it on purpose to give good people a bad name.

    nothing to base that on. just a gut feeling.

    tyrants throughout history have USED religion against the common people...must to their detriment.

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      SusanParrish1 year, 7 months ago

      "Why would people claim to be christians and want to wage an aggressive war in iraq and afghanistan?"

      Lame argument, we retaliated against terrorists in Afghanistan, and we removed a terrible murderous dictator who was committing genocide in Iraq. Not the same, thank you, try again.

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        populist1 year, 7 months ago

        actually, it's an excellent argument. and that's my opinion. If you think it's "lame" then good for you - go on thinking that. i don't really care what you think.

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          SusanParrish1 year, 7 months ago

          Well I do. And you are overlooking a very good argument for why they would want to control the world:

          Because the overwhelming desire that drives them is to convert people, to "save" them, and if they control the world, they can make "religious states" globally, and feel like they are doing the Lord's work and bringing the sheep into the fold. That is what boosts their egos, that is the self-satisfaction they seek.

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            populist1 year, 7 months ago

            i'm not really overlooking anything. that's pretty assumptive of you.

            What i'm going to do, though, is start overlooking YOUR comments again, as I have done almost every time i've seen them.

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              SusanParrish1 year, 7 months ago

              How open minded and worldly of you. You set a great example.

              You said yourself "why? I have absolutely no clue. do you?", so my assumption that you had overlooked the reason I laid out is a fair one to make. If you didn't notice, what I said bolsters your view, it is something we could actually discuss, but you would rather get huffy, so whatever.

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              inaroundabout1 year, 7 months ago

              You know populist, I don't know much about SusanParrish but in this case I have to agree with her. I'd say that's exactly what these people are thinking. They believe that it is their sacred duty to bring as many as they can "into the light". They are either on a huge power trip or they see it as you and I would see thousands of starving children laying in our street while we have a house full of food, of course you or I would walk out and feed as many as we could. That's how these people see the rest of the world, as spiritually starving, and they believe that have the cure for what ails us.

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                DeadHead131 year, 6 months ago

                It's called stupid. They believe that they have a cure but their entire belief system is based on a very old religious book supported by zero evidence. And the point of this article, is that this is very dangerous, especially when their holy book tells them that the end of the world is coming.

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                  DoseASpinoza1 year, 6 months ago

                  It's not even the whole book. Christianity has been fragmented since it began. The Bible as it exists today is whatever the leaders who met at the Council of Nicea decided should get in, copied over my monks in the Middle Ages. Most women and a number of prophets were written out by the then-mostly catholic male power structure. Yet Christians follow it as if God himself had penned every word, without human interpretation.

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                    bscarb1 year, 6 months ago

                    The Council of Nicea had nothing to do with what books were included in the Bible. It settled the controversy over the nature of Christ's divinity. It also was not about who held "power" in the church. Many of the most influential people in the church have been women. The saints, as the Catholics call them, have done much more to shape the church than most bishops, popes or other 'official' authorities. Pope John Paul II was one of the most influential popes ever, yet Mother Teresa is just as powerful a figure. I say that and I am a Protestant.

                    Perhaps it is better to do a real historical analysis of Christianity rather than get our information from novels.

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                  JohnBryansFontaine1 year, 6 months ago

                  And according to Fundamentalist beliefs, when Armageddon takes place, two thirds of all Jews will die and go to hell, and the remaining will be converted to Fundamentalist Christianity.

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                    bscarb1 year, 6 months ago

                    What? "Two thirds of all Jews will go to hell". Where did you get that! Fundamentalists are the most pro-Jewish, pro-Israel Christians ever and you manage to make them sound as if they were anti-Semitic.

                    Fundamentalists, or really, dispensationalists, do believe that many or most Jews will turn to Jesus, their long-awaited Messiah, just before His return. Don't make it sound so sinister!

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                  DeadHead131 year, 6 months ago

                  Can you say "retard"?

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                slate1 year, 6 months ago

                Exactly how they feel, in fact they feel compelled to spread the 'good news' and they also feel they are getting ready for the last days,,, when each world religion wants to be the sole 'owner' of what GOD wants instead of Sharing GOD is why we have such groups. Every religion in the World has their GOUPS there is not one cohesive religion on the planet. The reason is 6 billion individuals see their surroundings differently, they read the same religious text and come up with enough interpretations that just the Christians have The Roman Catholics, Church of England, Pentecostals, Baptists, The World Church, Methodists, Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons,,,,,,, the list just keeps going to include the even smaller splinter groups. (continued)

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                  slate1 year, 6 months ago

                  They are all 'Christians' by name and definition all different because they read the same thing and feel strongly enough about their interpretation to go their own way. With in fighting and the like believing that their fellow Christians are Hell bound because they don't see GOD the correct way.

                  This is but one of the many religions around the planet trying to figure GOD out,,,,, sure enough in their convictions to rain death and destruction on non believers if need be. I wish we could just 'share' GOD and let others take the roads they chose to take in peace, I really think there's enough GOD to go around.

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                    bscarb1 year, 6 months ago

                    They are all Christians who have the same core beliefs about God, Jesus, etc. They differ generally in minor matters that do not affect one's eternal destiny. You are greatly exaggerating the differences. They worship the same Jesus (or if they worship a different Jesus that is a problem). The differences in interpretation are minor compared to the areas of agreement.

                    Most Christians would not say that those in other churches are all bound for hell.

                    And what Christians are raining death and destruction on those with whom we disagree. We are, like others, trying to convince others that we have the truth. What is not peaceful about that? We are trying to 'share God'. We are sharing our own experience with Him.

                    But think about this. If I knew that you needed some information to keep you out of hell, would it be a loving thing to just 'live and let live'. No. The loving thing to do would be to try to convince you that faith in Jesus Christ is the only sure way to heaven.

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                populist1 year, 6 months ago

                my reasons to not discuss anything with S.P. has nothing to do with this article.

                moving forward...

                your perspective on this is definitely interesting, and I'm sure there are many religious which have people in that same boat. "repent or die" is basically the motto.

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                bowvy3 months, 1 week ago

                This is but one of the many religions around the planet trying to figure GOD

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            splitrch1 year, 6 months ago

            Does that mean we have to become like our enemies in order to defeat them? In a way that would give them something of a victory. What they hate is Western Democracy and the liberal state. Call America what you will, we and our Western Allies are liberal in the most basic and fundamental ways - and that is where our strength comes from. Rational people from both parties would never give up their rights willingly.

            Christians don't scare me. Crazy people with a dark vision of reality who call themselves Christians do.

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        DeadHead131 year, 6 months ago

        The reasons for going into Iraq have been changing ever since we actually went in. You could say that we went in because Iraq was somehow linked to 9/11 (it wasn't). Or you could argue that Saddam had "WMDs" (he didn't). Or you could, in the face of the initial reasons being proven false, assert that this whole war was meant to "liberate the Iraqis" (it wasn't). The actual reason we invaded seems economically linked, but the actual reason doesn't matter.

        The fact is that a majority of Christians would wave their flag if George Bush decided to invade Canada. This is an unintelligent, uneducated group of people who live in a simplified world of arbitrary idealism. And the answer to populist's question is that most Christians are hypocrites who have never read the book they call holy, and therefore most of their platform will be inconsistent with Christian values.

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          slate1 year, 6 months ago

          Why do you say Christians are uneducated? Do you not know that the person caring for you in the hospital may well be a Christian?

          Look you may not believe in GOD that's your right, I do however, I'm just not convinced any one religion has GOD figured out. But you know those people have the right to believe in what they want, just as other religions,,,, you not is certainly your right as well but it in no means denote that you have a superior intellect, it shows you have little imagination for things you can't see or touch at best.

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            david_nwpa1 year, 6 months ago

            Slate,

            It is cool that you believe in God. More power to you. However, the people who promote ideas like the Jesus Camp generally negate or trivialize science on several levels. Taking the Bible literally means outright rejection of science and progress.

            DeadHead is right with his argument that many of the so-called Christians who run around condemning other people for their sins are the same ones who have not given a shred of independent thought to the Bible and what is really said. Nor for that matter have they done any research to realize that the Bible as we know it has been mistranslated and bandied about for centuries. Frankly, I find it hard to believe in a book written in the 300s by a group of men who sat around in robes all day smoking whatever they could put in their pipes.

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              slate1 year, 6 months ago

              David I never have had a problem with GOD and science coexisting.

              I believe in GOD and I believe the Big Bang was by his hand.

              I believe a timeless being can sit back and let Evolution take place if that is what he wanted.

              Science nor I can prove nor disprove GOD, sometimes faith in something greater than ourselves is all we need.

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                slate1 year, 6 months ago

                As for me, I listen to all religions as well as science, each has their merits but none have all the answers IMO,,, I let those believe as they see fit, they could be completely correct after all we just don't know. But I can tell you, by simply looking at a night sky I truly believe there is something to it all and since I also believe there is but ONE GOD , all roads lead to the same source, no matter what the religion is called what name we call him,,,, whether you pray to an invisible Deity or a rock it's all connected to him/her/it.

                Have faith, believe in something or have the faith to believe in nothing at all,, they are simply different sides of the same coin in the end.

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                  DeadHead131 year, 6 months ago

                  Wrong wrong wrong wrong, wrong wrong wrong wrong, wrong wrong wrong wrong, wrong wrong wrong wrong. You're wrong, you're wrong, you're wrong.

                  That was a nice rant wasn't it. Curious though, I can't see a single argument presented. Here's the deal with all of you supporting the religious side: note your posts, they are primarily comprised of empty preaching, supported by no facts, no logic, and no arguments at all so to speak. You don't argue that God exists, you just assert that he does. You don't explain why you are under the impression that believing in nothing requires faith, you just declare it to be so.

                  On what grounds do you assume a deity? Tell me, I am dying to know!

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              DeadHead131 year, 6 months ago

              Very, very, very, very few scientists (people who have graduated an accredited college with a degree in a science) believe the Earth to be six thousand years old, and deny evolution.

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            DeadHead131 year, 6 months ago

            They have a right to believe. Okay, so what? That doesn't make that belief true or respectable. I pride myself on my intelligence and yes, I do assume I am of a superior intellect than the religious (when it comes to matters of religious belief). Imagination has nothing to do with it; I can easily imagine a god, I can also imagine a purple elephant. However I don't believe that these imaginations actually exist exactly because there is no evidence for them (you allude to this when you say "see or touch" which I assume is meant to represent any kind of scientific evidence).

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          DeadHead131 year, 6 months ago

          Good! Now instead of taking useless shots, tell me where I am misinformed. Can you? No, shut up. I am sick to death of you; all of your posts say nothing and go nowhere except in that they make it very clear that you are a religious conservative dumbass.

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        Daylight1 year, 6 months ago

        SusanParrish

        You really need a lot of education, your ignorance gives you away, those who attack you are not the terrorists but you are the terrorists, they retaliated against your occupation support for Israel,and 20 years of support fo Sha the despot of Iran, what kind of order have you brought in those countries you have gone into? You are just hold up there, you are on a slow death, you went there for your economic benefits not for anything else, people of those countries have rejected you and killing you, if you stay there for 10 more years you may have to declare bankruptcy.

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          Star_Poet1 year, 6 months ago

          The Unmarked van pulles up, strange men jump out and grab "Daylight!" They throw the Daylight psycho into the unmarked van and speed off.

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            Daylight1 year, 6 months ago

            StarPoet

            Knucklehead like you can say anything you want, it doesn't matter to me, I consider you as a shooting star, which just falls on the ground and vanish.

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              Star_Poet1 year, 6 months ago

              And daylight turns to darkness.

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        DoseASpinoza1 year, 6 months ago

        So we replaced a "terrible murderous dictator" who at least provided jobs and fed his people with a terrible, murderous army led by people who looted the country of its wealth, destroyed its jobs and have killed at least as many people as he did since March 2003.

        This is better how?

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          slate1 year, 6 months ago

          You are so wrong headed,,,,, if we were there to loot we could have finished the LOOTING in 6 months,,,, you guys want to put Bush on the same level as Saddam,,,,, I also love the yeah he had Rape Rooms,, Acid Rooms,, he killed dissenters Children in front of them in horrible ways,,, mass graves but hey people had jobs,,,, happy happy joy joy

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            DoseASpinoza1 year, 6 months ago

            I'm not saying Saddam was a good guy. I'm saying this administration had no plan for reconstruction and sent people appointed for their religious and political loyalty into postions in which they had no background or experience, and those people turned a fragile potential ally into a vehement opponent.

            Your concept of looting is way too small-scale for this government. Why snatch a couple of computers when you can boost an entire oil industry?

            Doug Feith, Paul Bremer III and others are great examples. I just love Bremer's defense that he didn't know how volatile the situation was when he put hundreds of thousands of people out of jobs under the name "deBaathification," disbanded the Iraqi military and now says he had no choice but to dole out duffel bags of cash to incompetents to try to fix the situation.

            The Christian facist agenda put us in this situation. It turned a few radical, albeit powerful, Muslims into an entire region of anti-American instability.

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            mark-stevens1 year, 6 months ago

            Looting??...hey, we gave them 120,000 $10,000 packets of 100 bills...Here's some money, go out and have some fun!!!

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              DoseASpinoza1 year, 6 months ago

              Wrong. Bremer gave Iraqi money, converted into U.S. greenbacks, to American contractors who were supposed to spend it on Iraqi reconstruction and security. Halliburton, Dyncorp, Bechtel, all the way down to Custer Battles. You can check me on this.

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          david_nwpa1 year, 6 months ago

          Hmmm, before we invaded Iraq, the people had schools, paved roads, electricity, running water, proper sanitation, money, jobs, and some level of prosperity. We have removed the "evil" tyrant who was running the place and replaced him with an army that shoots women and children (despite our best efforts not to do so), we have not restored order or rule of law, and we have not rebuilt the infrastructure.

          What part of this new democracy should the Iraqis be cheering?

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        mark-stevens1 year, 6 months ago

        Are you kidding, the Catholics killed a lot of people, that is what this war is all about,payback for the crusades.

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        Sloany1 year, 6 months ago

        Afganinstan was a legit war to try and remove osma. We did not go to Iraq to remove a violent dictator, we went there to try and get a presence in the middle east so as to have possible acess to oil. I we were on a mission to remove dictators and alliviate violence we would have gone somewere like Sudan.

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          Sloany1 year, 6 months ago

          Than tell me what is the reason we are in Iraq

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          slate1 year, 6 months ago

          I want my 18 cents a gallon again then if we stole all that 'free' oil

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      Star_Poet1 year, 6 months ago

      "why would dispensationalists want to "take over the world", if they're planning to be raptured out of it? The pastors cited in the articles are all dispensationalists, I believe."

      Why?

      Because "The Rapture" is a lie.

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        pazuita1 year, 6 months ago

        The biggest reason is that their leaders really don't believe what they are preaching.

        When their minions are urged to give up their worldly possessions and prepare for the second coming, just who do you think they are urged to give those possessions to?

        You can fool some of the sheeple some of the time.

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          Star_Poet1 year, 6 months ago

          sheeple? lol

          I'll have to remember that one.

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      Bacalao1 year, 6 months ago

      my question is. Why do so many people who think they are going to heaven, or wherever, want to take or send the rest of us there first?

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      jaijar3 months, 2 weeks ago

      Most Christians would not say that those in other churches are all bound for hell.

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    DoseASpinoza1 year, 6 months ago

    What I don't understand is, why does God need humans to help convert each other? Isn't the whole mission of conversion the ultimate opposite of faith -- believing that God is so weak and fallible that he needs you to do his job?

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      DeadHead131 year, 6 months ago

      You didn't answer the question.

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      DoseASpinoza1 year, 6 months ago

      Thanks, DH.

      I'm not implying, Froggy, I'm asking. If in fact God is all-powerful, why do humans have to convert each other? Isn't the whole point of judgment day that God will sort us out? And if so, then why should we make any effort to convert each other? Doesn't that suggest that God can't do it on his own (or more to the point, that people who feel compelled to convert others believe God can't do it, and thereby don't believe their own dogma)?

      And if the answer to everything is Free Will, then doesn't God want only those who convert by free will, as opposed to being blackmailed with food-for-Christianity or at the point of a gun?

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    vickett3 months, 1 week ago

    This is but one of the many religions around the planet trying to figure GOD

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  populist1 year, 7 months ago

  how orwellian of you!! well-done. i'm sure your handlers are very proud of your work.

  if being anti-u.n., pro gun-rights, anti-welfare, pro-bill of rights is "commie" then you're either an idiot, a liar, or are just a brainwashed fool.

  but, anyway, thanks for your brilliant input.

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    populist1 year, 7 months ago

    then you must be right! how foolish of me to disagree with you. i'm so sorry. everyone? i'm sorry, i'll never ever ever disagree with the brilliance of "manorak" again. promise.

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    jordan111 year, 6 months ago

    leftist socialist commie philosophy>>>>>>

    yaaaawn....same old immature nonsense. Limbaugh needs to buy a Thesaurus.

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        jordan111 year, 6 months ago

        You're probably right.

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      slate1 year, 6 months ago

      Are you saying you are a Nazi?

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  pazuita1 year, 6 months ago

  here we go again.

  Commies everywhere, pinkos behind every rock.

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  HomerJS491 year, 7 months ago

  Bigotry? Right to Assembly? Those are B.S. arguments. These people believe in the death penalty for "Sins".

  http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/wp-print.php?

  That argument about being tolerant about peoples POV is all well and good. But, these are to most intolerant people around. If you don't see things their way then,"You're not a christian and you're gonna burn." Does the KKK have their right to assembly? Tolerance is one thing. Being tolerant of the intolerant...sorry,no way.

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  slate1 year, 6 months ago

  I agree David,,,,, people have the right to believe and gather in that belief

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