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Oprah on Mass Shootings: We’ll Be Lost Until America Finds the ‘Moral Center’
Breitbart ^ | 08/07/2019 | Jerome Hudson

Posted on 08/07/2019 1:41:07 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Entertainment mogul and part-time political activist Oprah Winfrey says the spat of mass shootings occurring in America are a result of the country’s disconnect with faith and church, which once provided people with “values about a way of living and being in the world.”

Speaking with Extra host Renee Bargh about the deadly mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio that left more than 30 people dead and dozens more injured, Oprah said “I think what people are missing is a core moral center.”

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KEYWORDS: angels; church; demons; falsegods; guns; massshootings; oprah; oprahmoralcenter; saints; shootings; williamson
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To: ChicagoConservative27

She should know! She has been in the entertainment industry her whole life, and she knows damn well that Her and Her compadres have been pushing the boundaries of Decency, Morality, Virtue and Right and Wrong on to the unsuspecting masses. Now we are at a tipping point where evrything I described is now Reality, there are NO Absolutes about Anything, Including and Especially Human Anatomy and Human Biology.

SO take a Bow OPRAH, you are the epitome of what screwed this Country up. You and all your Hollywood Leftist buddies should be Proud.


21 posted on 08/07/2019 2:06:46 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: ChicagoConservative27
What people like Oprah don’t realize is that humans can’t just invent a moral code and corresponding sense of morality. Left to our own devices, we will always end up endlessly defining “morality” downwards, in order to make acceptable whatever our latest carnal desire is. That’s precisely the same race to the bottom that currently afflicts our culture.

True morality can only be dictated by God. Determination of what is moral or immoral, right or wrong, must come from a source outside ourselves. This is precisely why John Adams famously said, “Our Constitution is made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

Adams knew that men could not govern themselves unless their passions were restrained via a moral code given by God. Absent that, our Constitutional freedoms become nothing more than license to engage in ever greater debauchery and evil.

22 posted on 08/07/2019 2:07:26 PM PDT by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.`)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

says the idiot that gave the World Obama


23 posted on 08/07/2019 2:07:59 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What moral center would that be Oprah? Your twisted definition? No thanks.


24 posted on 08/07/2019 2:09:39 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
The area solving the nihilism/"choice in murdering human life" begins with outlawing abortion on demand/convenience.

Society that craves killing the unborn for convenience will only breed psychopaths that see through the hypocrisy "of it all".
25 posted on 08/07/2019 2:09:43 PM PDT by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians)
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To: ealgeone; Buckeye McFrog; DoughtyOne

If we want to run with idle speculation, we can just as easily say that the heightened rhetoric from the left and the media are more likely to be contributing factors than any speech or tweet from the POTUS.

The left and the media have spent the last several years agitating - calls to run people out of restaurants and shops, harass them, doxxing them online, ruining their job prospects. How could this not feed a climate of hatred and toxicity? And if someone is already a little bit mentally unstable, this surely does not help.

Some facts:

-The shooter who attacked Republicans including Steve Scalise was a Bernie supporter.
-The guy who shot at the ICE patrol was an Antifa leftist.
-The murderer in Dayton was a leftist.
-The murderer in El Paso was Liz Warren supporter of universal basic income. There was a report, unconfirmed, that this murderer was actually inspired to murder because of his negative reaction to all the Democrats supporting free healthcare for illegal immigrants.

There is little, if anything at all, to link these shooters to Trump’s rhetoric and yet this is all we hear from the media. And his rhetoric is not as extreme as it has been portrayed by the left and the media. No examination of drug use, prescription or otherwise. No examination of possible motives. No evidence at all. Just idle speculation and knee-jerk blame for political advantage. And when Trump called for unity and disavowed racism - the left was outraged that the NYT would dare to actually say it in a headline!

I would idly speculate that the left and the media are intentionally ratcheting up divisive rhetoric and inflaming passions and that these kinds of actions are exactly what they are hoping to be the result.

Oprah is on the right track... but the people who need to find their moral center are the ones who are unhinged in their speech and analysis of current events.


26 posted on 08/07/2019 2:10:09 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Oprah endorsed every sort of new age, “spiritual”, hippy, self empowerment nonsense.

She’s in no position to talk about why people have abandoned faith and the church.


27 posted on 08/07/2019 2:14:26 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: ChicagoConservative27

As said: your people (libs) took it out of schools and now you’re on a blame game?


28 posted on 08/07/2019 2:16:04 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

She is a high priestess Satanic witch. It’s true.


29 posted on 08/07/2019 2:16:18 PM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: funfan

did she say moral center, or oral center?

it might make some difference.


30 posted on 08/07/2019 2:17:10 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (/S liberally (oops) applied to all posts.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

When a leftist puke comes out against murdering unborn babies they can lecture me about morals. Until then, STFU you fat POS.


31 posted on 08/07/2019 2:17:12 PM PDT by Pravious
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To: The Toll

Bingo! :^D


32 posted on 08/07/2019 2:18:33 PM PDT by cradle of freedom (Why are they called globalists? Because they want the whole world!)
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To: nopardons
“I think what people are missing is a core moral center.”

Well, yeah, Oprah. And it was your buddy ObaMao's eight years of misrule that did so much to drive those morals into the gutter.

33 posted on 08/07/2019 2:22:28 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The poster child for Hypocrisy

Do as I say, not as I do

The Pied Piper to Hell


34 posted on 08/07/2019 2:23:40 PM PDT by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

So she’s still teaching that pantheon Voodoo to promiscuous, bipartisan hags.


35 posted on 08/07/2019 2:24:10 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: Vigilanteman

EXACTLY!


36 posted on 08/07/2019 2:24:43 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: ChicagoConservative27
...."Oprah said “I think what people are missing is a core moral center.”......

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37 posted on 08/07/2019 2:28:55 PM PDT by caww
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Oprah is the master of appearing to say something when she actually says nothing.


38 posted on 08/07/2019 2:29:16 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

She can start by reciting The Apostle’s Creed publicly, often, to help model and start the revival she holds up for us. Lead by example, Oprah.

Oh...wait...


39 posted on 08/07/2019 2:30:57 PM PDT by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Sure oprah. But really, will your cut of the reparations extortion really amount to much?


40 posted on 08/07/2019 2:38:53 PM PDT by LouAvul
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