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I love Rush and always will but Neil is a walking contradiction over his entire life and what he has written and has said influenced him to his core. Then again he said a few years back that one of his dream dinners would be to have dinner with Barack Obama. But that was a few years ago...since then I have noticed Neil's more Libertarian side starting to come back and his hard left turn he took back in 2002 through 2008 has kinda waned. Still....I bet Abe Lincoln would take issue with his Republican/Jesus remarks.

Side note...the new Rush album is their best in over 20 years...easily.

1 posted on 08/13/2012 5:07:20 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
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Hey Neil, Show Don’t Tell.


2 posted on 08/13/2012 5:10:08 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement (Obama "acted stupidly.")
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I recently discovered this "Rush" and was quite impressed by their energy and cohesion at their advanced age.

As always I tried to track down what makes them tick and all I can say is that, during the one interview I watched, Neil seemed like he was off his meds.

Now then, I have also recently RE-discovered Brain Salad Surgery, and it's clear what Mr. Peart was listening to as a boy.

I recently rediscovered that Carl Palmer was far and away the most impressive drummer of the century and probably beyond.

3 posted on 08/13/2012 5:13:14 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (At what point does an escalated effort to remove this traitor commence, and what form does it take?)
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Because I know at the end of it, if I’m going to meet Jesus or Allah or Buddha, I’m going to be all right.

This twit is on the wide road to destruction.
shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach
4 posted on 08/13/2012 5:14:13 PM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your teaching is my delight.)
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Hey Neil, it’s gonna be a long, hot, eternity.


5 posted on 08/13/2012 5:14:53 PM PDT by 762X51
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So for the last 40 years this guy has been beating on some drums? I guess that explains why he’s one of those idiots who thinks Jesus was a registered DemocRAT.


6 posted on 08/13/2012 5:15:41 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The NRA did not create James "The Joker" Holmes. Harvey Weinstein's Hollywood did.)
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Just which teachings is he refering to?
My guess is the man has never looked at a Bible and has no idea what it says. What he ‘knows’ is what liberals have told him it says. Liberals always get it wrong.
For example, the reason he never sees people helping others is because Jesus told us to do our giving in secret. We aren’t supposed to be showing off, and, what we do in secret God alone can judge! God has not appointed liberals to be his deputies in punishing the successful. He has reserved that right for Himself, because only His judgement will be accurate.


8 posted on 08/13/2012 5:17:28 PM PDT by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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Just play the drums, Neil.


9 posted on 08/13/2012 5:18:33 PM PDT by servo1969
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I don’t agree with his politics either, but despite what you guys say, he’s easily one of the best drummers in the world.


11 posted on 08/13/2012 5:19:01 PM PDT by wastedyears ("God? I didn't know he was signed onto the system.")
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anyway, that said, I have to admit that I am quick to point out to people that I'm "conservative", not necessarily "Republican," and vote that way only because a republicans tend to be more conservative than democrats. And it's easy to see how Mr. Peart would be able to make such a remark if he never really investigated conservatism, but only listened to what people said about republicans and, sadly, what a lot of republicans themselves say.

Good article. Thx.

12 posted on 08/13/2012 5:19:01 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (At what point does an escalated effort to remove this traitor commence, and what form does it take?)
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Oh, Neil. You just totally ruined Red Barchetta.


14 posted on 08/13/2012 5:20:18 PM PDT by andyk (Go Juan Pablo!)
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Rush's Neil Peart: "It is impossible to follow the teachings of Jesus Christ and be a Republican"

Exactly backwards if you ask me!

I don't know how anyone who calls themselves a Christian can be anything other than a conservative republican.

19 posted on 08/13/2012 5:29:10 PM PDT by Bigun ("The most fearsome words in the English language are I'm from the government and I'm here to help!")
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Shut up and play !


20 posted on 08/13/2012 5:31:09 PM PDT by BuddaBudd (F U B O)
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Jesus is not a partisan. Death does not distinguish between political parties. Jesus is the Lamb of God Who takes away the sin of the world. If Neil knows this much, he knows enough.

As for the Marxists who agitate against all that pertains to the life of the world to come, they will find out soon enough what is Truth.


21 posted on 08/13/2012 5:32:33 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (Kyrie Eleison)
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Yes because killing unborn babies, destroying whole generations of the urban family and enslavement are all Christian articles of faith.


23 posted on 08/13/2012 5:36:23 PM PDT by jwalsh07 (.)
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Neil also recently stated his Ayn Rand influence was something from 40 years ago. He started wearing his agnositicism/atheism on his sleeve since Snakes and Arrows, then the whole Rush Limbaugh thing this year. I didn’t buy the new record, as it or S&A just didn’t speak to me. I could be wrong, but I sense they want that Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction.


24 posted on 08/13/2012 5:37:07 PM PDT by stratman1969
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25 posted on 08/13/2012 5:39:39 PM PDT by narses
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Sounds like he’s taken a passage to Bangkok.


27 posted on 08/13/2012 5:41:43 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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Because I know at the end of it, if I’m going to meet Jesus or Allah or Buddha, I’m going to be all right.

Wrong, Neil. Jesus is mutually exclusive of the other two, and is a jealous God.

I love his drumming, and most of Rush's songs, but the guy spouts nonsense most of the time. But Geddy does it, too.

28 posted on 08/13/2012 5:42:09 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (I will vote against ANY presidential candidate who had non-citizen parents.)
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This scumbot is paid to hit empty objects with sticks. I dont need his views on religion or politics


29 posted on 08/13/2012 5:42:24 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Legalize Freedom!!)
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This Neil guy has no Logic. He thinks God and Allah are the same AND BUDDHA!!! Geeezzzz. How can you even start with such “thinking”.

He thinks believing in Jesus and being a Republican is harder than being a DEMOCRAT and CHRISTIAN-—is he JOKING????? Does he know that Sodomy is a Vice and so is KILLING babies-—and it has been EVEN IN THE USA until rather recently. Republicans don’t embrace Vice in a government based on Rule of Law—which by its very Nature—has to promote Virtue-—Justice.

Jesus loves Virtue and Justice-—God is Justice, Truth and Good, etc. Everything out of zero’s mouth are LIES. Sodomy in the military-—glorification of Satan!!!

...and since when is it JUST to sodomize and degrade other human beings and give them diseases-—just because you have a selfish “urge” to do some perverse, insane act???? You classify it as “GOOD????”

When can a Just society have Laws like THAT???? Cicero-—whose concept WE USE-—stated that you have UNJUST laws—ARBITRARY LAW—when you don’t use Right Reason According to Nature (Natural Moral Law).

It is sickening—the way liberals minds “work”—they are so brainwashed and conditioned in believing Good is Evil and Heather has two mommies—their perverse reality is truly that of “Alice in Wonderland” but Alice would be getting laid-—and they would think it is so Progressive and cool—but it would be by a Lesbian, of course, like their perverse, ugly literature they glorify—V. Monologues.

Cher Bono would approve too—but in a sane world she would be in prison for allowing some Lesbian to rape and destroy the life and happiness of her daughter, Chastity.


32 posted on 08/13/2012 5:48:32 PM PDT by savagesusie (Right Reason According to Nature = Just Law)
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