Posted on 12/02/2006 8:18:10 AM PST by Hank Kerchief
From the elitist, leftist point of view, if we were educated and bright enough to understand and accept moral relativity as the law of the land, they wouldn't need to legislate extra protection for minorities. The left believes that if we would just accept the minorities as they are, flaws included, that all the problems of the world would be solved.
This is where Christianity an Judaism get in the way. These religions both include a set of moral guidelines which spell out right and wrong in black and white. The left lives in a gray world.
And you know they are telling you the truth?
Hey, I take their religious views at face value. After all, it's what they believe in.
Matthew 26:53 "Or do you think that I cannot appeal to My Father, and He will at once put at My disposal more than twelve legions of angels?
I don't have that kind of power...but, lots of people underestimated Jesus too, didn't they? LOL Petronski, you still don't get it.
Most ironic post, ever. Sad thing is you didn't even know it. Lol.
Not sure what you posit here. If the decibel-level exceeds the ordinance, then both are illegal. (Don't shoot me, I'm just telling it like it is).
When the terrorists start bombing within the continental USA, that just might happen. Muslim leaders, especially these so called imams within these mosques, do not condemn terrorism. In fact, they support and advocate it. So when the backlash comes, they will have only themselves to blame.
The story didn't mention it, but the neighborhood is going to be driven nuts by the "call to prayer" wailing out of loudspeakers five time a day.
Yes, it's true, it was on FR yesterday (link to The Washington Post).
Yup.
And yes, the decibel level has to be the defining metric.
But it was really sad, when the church bells were outlawed. Some part of our world died, that day.
If you and I are speaking of the same story, are you suggesting that electronic bells that exceed a certain decibel-level will be not allowed, yet calls-to-prayer that do will be allowed? Flesh out your point.
This reminds me of a local situation, where the Indians have decided to build a casino in an agricultural area on a piece of land that was left to the tribe by an Indian who never lived on the reservation.
The town is predominantly second and third generation Dutch Reformed and still has some blue laws in place, so you can imagine the fuss that the casino is causing. Well, the local farmers have decided to return to the practice of burning the farm sewage, taking turns every week. The town people won't like it much, but I'm sure that they'll put up with it, if it discourages the casino. (The farms have been there for 100 years, and there's a law protecting the farms from complaints)
Irony? If one practices a religion that is false, yes, we must tolerate it. No problem with that. When the religion calls for the murder of those who don't agree with them, then that religion should NOT be allowed to exist where they call for the murder of others. The followers of that religion must be invited to leave the country and their places of worship (mosques) must be leveled and the land made available for other use. Where is the irony? Did I call for the murder of the muslims here?
I tell you what I do get: you are condemning them for violence and your solution is your own little Kristallnacht. I get it just fine.
This is becoming an either/or situation. Either we invite them to leave, or they'll invite those of us who are not Muslim to leave. I choose: A - Muslims leave.
I remember a bunch of commie-libs trying to silence the (real) bells of St. Thomas Church (located in the heart of the grad-student ghetto) in Ann Arbor during the 1980's. They failed. "Moving to the nuisance," (term of art) and all that. I wonder if they ultimately got city council to go their way.
[I'm imagining Justice Scalia looking down on you from the bench, amused but growing impatient]
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