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marginallymanic
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| Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 12:51 pm Post subject: Tis the season |
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For keeping Christ in Christmas. I know we will be starting on this soon.
Anyway, The American Family Association is doing its part. I would suggest you may not want to order one of these if you live in a mixed race area, or Hedy Fry's constituency
Don't they have their religious holidays mixed up?
https://store.afa.net/pc-10000310-11-christmas-cross.aspx
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What really went missing through the subprime mortgage years were the three Rs: responsibility, restraint and remorse. They are the ballast that stabilizes two better-known Rs from the world of free markets: risk and reward.
Responsibility and restraint are moral sentiments. Remorse is a product of conscience. None of these grow on trees. Each must be learned, taught, passed down. And so we come back to the disappearance of "Merry Christmas."
It has been my view that the steady secularizing and insistent effort at dereligioning America has been dangerous. That danger flashed red in the fall into subprime personal behavior by borrowers and bankers, who after all are just people. Northerners and atheists who vilify Southern evangelicals are throwing out nurturers of useful virtue with the bathwater of obnoxious political opinions.
The point for a healthy society of commerce and politics is not that religion saves, but that it keeps most of the players inside the chalk lines. We are erasing the chalk lines. |
I have to think that the man is delusional. Atheists don't have a problem with "Merry Christmas".........it is those who don't want to give offense to other religious groups who do. We atheists think they are all equally strange.
And.........I believe it was a bunch of theists of all political stripes who invented sub prime mortgages and did away with regulations. It must of been, because it is impossible to get elected in the US unless you wear your christianity on your sleeve.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122714101083742715.html
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I was just thinking that blaming a minority for the economic and political collapse of a country sounds like what exactly?
Oh yea...........Germany in the 1930's
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