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America's Taliban strikes again
Arkansas News Bureau ^ | 28 August 2006 | John Brummett

Posted on 08/28/2006 6:31:13 AM PDT by PatrickHenry

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1 posted on 08/28/2006 6:31:13 AM PDT by PatrickHenry
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2 posted on 08/28/2006 6:32:11 AM PDT by PatrickHenry (The universe is made for life, therefore ID. Life can't arise naturally, therefore ID.)
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Wow.
"To put it simply, no Darwin, no Hitler," said Dr. D. James Kennedy, president of Coral Ridge Ministries.

No wonder these guys are Creationists. With cognitive skills like that, one would fall for anything.

And you can't ever blame one man for another's actions. That once was a proud conservative precept.

These men aren't conservatives.

3 posted on 08/28/2006 6:35:03 AM PDT by highball (Proud to announce the birth of little Highball, Junior - Feb. 7, 2006!)
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To: PatrickHenry
So why are these gutter cultists getting airtime? It's like consulting David Duke on political matters. Cut off their media air supply and they'll go away.
4 posted on 08/28/2006 6:36:03 AM PDT by Physicist
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To: PatrickHenry

Interesting article. And if you ignore the hyperbole and ad hominems, the 20 remaiining words make for a really quick read, too.


5 posted on 08/28/2006 6:36:05 AM PDT by L,TOWM (Liberals, The Other White Meat [This is some nasty...])
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To: PatrickHenry
Thus it's America's Taliban, America's Shiite theocracy.

Have they advocated killing those who don't agree with them?

6 posted on 08/28/2006 6:37:16 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (Remember and pray for SSgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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To: PatrickHenry
By Coral Ridge's premise, Mohammed is to blame for Osama bin Laden.

Not sure about the rest of the article, but they nailed this part correctly.

}:-)4

7 posted on 08/28/2006 6:37:50 AM PDT by Moose4 (Dirka dirka Mohammed jihad.)
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To: PatrickHenry

"It argues there should be no separation of church and state.

Thus it's America's Taliban, America's Shiite theocracy."

Ridiculous. We DON'T have seperation of church and state, so the author is saying we are already the "Taliban", in his eyes.

And why he chooses to pick on some "never-heard-of" little group in Florida, I have no idea, especially when Imams are preaching hate in destruction right here in our own cities.

This idiot writer can get bent.


8 posted on 08/28/2006 6:38:00 AM PDT by L98Fiero (Evil is an exact science)
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To: Physicist

They pay money for their air-time like everyone else. Perhaps you think they should not be allowed to speak? I haven't heard one word of refutation of what Kennedy says, only insults.


9 posted on 08/28/2006 6:39:44 AM PDT by Dr. Thorne
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To: PatrickHenry

Oh, and by the way, any valid points that the author had about the Darwin-Hitler link (which, I agree, is way too much of a stretch) went right out the window when he used the "Taliban" reference to refer to Coral Ridge. Coral Ridge Ministries doesn't go around chopping off hands or executing those that disagree with them.

Basically, using the "Taliban" reference when referring to conservative Christians should be a corollary to Godwin's Law--invoke it, you automatically lose the argument. He did, and he lost.

}:-)4


10 posted on 08/28/2006 6:39:53 AM PDT by Moose4 (Dirka dirka Mohammed jihad.)
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To: PatrickHenry

What a cr@ppy article.

That said, Darwin would have been appalled at the application of evolution theory to human society. "Social Darwinism" is no Darwinism at all. HE opposed the idea the use of his idea for eugenics.


12 posted on 08/28/2006 6:40:37 AM PDT by Killborn (Pres. Bush isn't Pres. Reagan. Then again, Pres. Regan isn't Pres. Washington. God bless them all.)
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To: PatrickHenry

What a cr@ppy article.

That said, Darwin would have been appalled at the application of evolution theory to human society. "Social Darwinism" is no Darwinism at all. HE opposed the idea the use of his idea for eugenics.


13 posted on 08/28/2006 6:40:39 AM PDT by Killborn (Pres. Bush isn't Pres. Reagan. Then again, Pres. Regan isn't Pres. Washington. God bless them all.)
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And if you ignore the hyperbole and ad hominems, the 20 remaiining words make for a really quick read, too.

The venom is unreal. Makes you think the Left is really afraid of the folks they demonize this way.

14 posted on 08/28/2006 6:41:16 AM PDT by madprof98
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To: Moose4

Bingo. That should end this pathetically ignorant thread right there.


15 posted on 08/28/2006 6:41:18 AM PDT by Skooz (Chastity prays for me, piety sings...Modesty hides my thighs in her wings...)
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To: PatrickHenry
The problem with this silly screed being, of course, that "Social Darwinism" was called that for a specific reason, and one of its chief aims was a eugenic approach to improving the human race. Whether or not Charles Darwin intended it to occur, people did (and do) attempt to apply his theory to human development.

The Nazis were not alone in this -- Margaret Sanger was another notable devotee -- but the Nazis did have their "racial theories," and they attempted to put them into practice.

I've been reminded many times that the theory of evolution has no moral implications. But of course -- like any scientific theory -- it does. And as the nastier aspects of "Social Darwinism" have made clear, the moral implications of evolution can be rather uncomfortable.

16 posted on 08/28/2006 6:41:53 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: Physicist

Liberals eat news like this up.....it's their manna.


17 posted on 08/28/2006 6:42:53 AM PDT by Loud Mime (An undefeated enemy is still an enemy.......war has a purpose.)
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To: Graybeard58

Actually, some do. But they don't get too far.


18 posted on 08/28/2006 6:42:56 AM PDT by Larry Lucido ("There's no problem so big that government intervention can't make it worse.")
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To: PatrickHenry

If it wasn't for Einstein, we wouldn't have to worry about North Korea and Iran right now.

DAMN YOU EINSTEIN!


19 posted on 08/28/2006 6:43:08 AM PDT by oldleft
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Names?


20 posted on 08/28/2006 6:43:20 AM PDT by Skooz (Chastity prays for me, piety sings...Modesty hides my thighs in her wings...)
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