What? Where did you get that? From the gospel according to Teplukin?
Posted on 04/04/2005 3:15:28 PM PDT by qam1
Well said. Thank you!
It has been my experience - personally and in discussion with other X'ers - that our role models; adult figures who inspired us as we grew up and came of age - were not from the '60's generation' but rather were the parents of the boomers.
Our grandparents and others their age - Ronald Reagan; Pope John Paul II; Margaret Thacher, etc.,et.al. - were those who offered Gen X'ers a moral compass, an optimistic vision of the future, who spoke of duty and purpose and spoke of Western Civilization as something worth defending.
Good article.
Yes, I just thank God I grew up under "Silent Generation" parents! Whheeeewwww, no Hippies for me! Dodged that bullet!
I believe you are right, but the Mrs. is very concerned. My own view is that there seems to be something of a resurgence of faith in the US. I am guardedly optimistic.
What? Where did you get that? From the gospel according to Teplukin?
First off, the word is TENET--not tenant.
Second off, calling a religion a lot of Freepers happen to believe in "nonsense" is flamebaiting. You do that a lot, and usually on this very subject.
Third, who are you to go telling people who 'true freepers' are, newbie?
What I believe is nonsense is the notion that Catholicism is first among the faiths, by virtue of the words Christ spoke to Peter. I did not condemn Cathoics. Indeed a sister in law of mine is a Catholic.
Third, who are you to go telling people who 'true freepers' are, newbie?
To point out the obvious, distinctions & judgment must be made in defense of truth faith and our true political orientation. I buy not iota of the pernicious doctrine that all faiths are equal, all political beliefs are equal. That is a form of moral relativism. There is right & wrong, correct and incorrect. All Freepers know this intuitively.
I think you make it pretty clear just what you believe is nonsense when you say "Catholicism is simply Christian sect founded upon a false tenant [sic]." You might just as well admit you believe the whole faith and any adherents are being silly. You don't have issues with Catholicism being 'first among the faiths,' you have issues with Catholicism.
I did not condemn Cathoics. Indeed a sister in law of mine is a Catholic.
I bet some of your best friends are Negroes, too.
To point out the obvious, distinctions & judgment must be made in defense of truth faith and our true political orientation.
So you don't have any problems with Catholicism per se, just that it proclaims itself first among the faiths, but you're defending the 'true faith,' which evidently isn't Catholicism.
I buy not iota of the pernicious doctrine that all faiths are equal, all political beliefs are equal. That is a form of moral relativism. There is right & wrong, correct and incorrect. All Freepers know this intuitively.
You bigots really like this tack, tossing out the straw man, and damning moral relativism, which nobody here is advocating. You say that anyone who doesn't like their faith being insulted is denying truth and righteousness. But you've made no religious argument--you've said nothing other than the whole of the Catholic faith is founded upon nonsense. You retreat to this 'right and wrong' crap as if you had merely said something that was empirically true. No, you said that a whole churchful of believers believe "nonsense," when you evidently believe a whole other sectful of "nonsense." What you believe insofar as religion is concerned may be your opinion, but it's as inappropriate to call others' nonsensical here without any reason and in an improper forum as randomly saying at the bus stop that you think Jews are stupid or spouting off in the supermarket that you think Mexicans are dumb. You want to debate theology, start your own thread, and the folks who want to debate the number of angels who dance on the head of a pin and how God hates religion X will join you.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure Jesus said something about the 2nd Amendment in Luke. /sarc
"The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness is like a villain with a smiling cheek, a goodly apple rotten at the heart. O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!" - William Shakespeare
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