Posted on 12/27/2001 1:35:48 AM PST by Ada Coddington
Crimes are punished by government authorities. Sin is punished by God. What is he finding so unclear in this? Surely he isn't wanting our government to take on more of the form of the Taliban.
"In the U.S. I feel alone," he once said. "Here I feel comfortable and at home."
Maybe he felt closer to God in Islam than in liberal Catholicism. And maybe he was right. The Taliban is pretty far from God, but perhaps not as far as lukewarm Christianity.
In his odd way, Lindh was looking for stable truths that were not to be found in Marin County, and he didn't care if his search led him to conclusions that seemed insane to the apostles of pluralism.
More along the lines that, as many children raised in families that are broken or next to it, there is deep anger and even hate. From what I have read of him, he blamed his parents but also America. Just as some turn to gangs and feel "they belong", he turned to yet another oganized hate group, one that claimed their actions were "for Allah". If he had any religious or spiritual feelings, I would guess the idea of acting on hate in the name of religion would seem appealing.
Sobran is also dissembling here by trying to insinuate that citizenship is as free from legal definition as religion is in the US. Any of us may change religious affiliation at will and the government has no power to require that we notify them. The same is not true of citizenship.
None of this really matters, since we have a President with very elastic scruples. Walker will skate because Bush hasn't the backbone to face the outcry that liberals would raise should he let the traitor be hanged as he so richly deserves.
Bingo. There is more outrage shown at the fact that he decided to live somewhere else. He's not an Amerian. And thus he can't be called guilty of treason. Nor can it be proven that he made war against us.
Politicians seem to like undeclared wars because they can profit from their treason under that technicality, but they usually refrain from actually firig on our troops. There's not any money in that end of the war anyway. ;-)
"Liberal Catholicism" to Joe Sobran is anything that has manifested itself since 1962.
In Joe's mind, vernacular Masses, married deacons, women reading scripture at Mass, and priests in shirt sleeves are worse than an ideology which leads to flying planes into buildings full of innocent people.
Sobran, like Charley Reese, has completely lost any relevance since 9/11.
Nope, she is wrong. As I recall, there were executions for treason against the US during the "Cold War", for which there was no declaration of war, either. The section on treason in the Constitution says not one word about any necessity for a declaration of war.
Maybe for the same reasons that teachers do. Or maybe for the reasons that parents do (and then deny it.) Or maybe for the reasons that executives do...or sales managers...or movie directors....
But you never told me. On what do you base your opinions?
Ammnd he NEEDS it , from a screeming harppyu with limitred grasp of the enhlish langiuge !
Perhaps he also needs better research help , as well. There HAVE been articles, and talking heads , who have been just as hard on Johnny Jihad, and his parents, about his converting to Islam.
None that I've seen.
Only those with VERY little knowledge, can read this drivel and applaud it.
You imperiously demeaning others' mental abilities is like a midget squeeking out threats to beat normal people up. It's amusing.
In John 8:44 Christ was telling the Jews that the devil was their father.
So who are God's children? Or should I ask how does one become a child of God?
Nope ! Many of those, who went to fight, in Spain, WERE punished, once they came home ! That is precisely the example I was using ... the Lincoln Brigade. LOL
Thanks for allowing me to correct you and prove you incorrect at the same time. : - )
And you have quotes of Sobran to back this up? Or is it just one more convenient bit of neocon slander?
Name one. I've not read of any of the Lincoln Brigade ever having been punished.
He's a Tridentine advocate.
In the 1950s most veterans, whether Communist or not, were harassed or forced out of their jobs by the FBI. Communist Lincolns in particular were hit hard by the repressive Subversive Activities Control Board, the Smith Act, and state sedition laws, although over time all but a few convictions were overturned. In the 1950s and 1960s the majority of Lincoln veterans quit the CP but continued to be active on the Left. Notwithstanding its exclusion from American textbooks, the Abraham Lincoln Brigade commands attention as a unique example of prescient, radical, and selfless action in the cause of international freedom.
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/abe-brigade.html
Looks like the Reds aren't privy to your information. The only prosecutions they mention of Lincoln Brigade veterans is for their subversive activities back in the States after their return. Maybe your boast of knowing that the Lincoln Brigade was prosecuted was ... premature.
In Joe's mind, vernacular Masses, married deacons, women reading scripture at Mass, and priests in shirt sleeves are worse than an ideology which leads to flying planes into buildings full of innocent people.
But then, as you say, you are reading Joe's mind to gain this information. I would have thought it was "hyperbole unsupported by evidence", but then I have yet to learn the art of mindreading. I mostly rely on quoting someone when attributing incendiary positions to them. This mindreading stuff opens an entirely new field to the art of debate.
For the same reason that He decided to reveal Himself to the Jews first and referred to them as the apple of His eye. He is sovereign. He answers to no one but Himself.
Why did He choose Abel over Cain?
"But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name."
---John 1:12
I don't see why not. Again, the section of the Constitution that defines treason doesn't say anything about "dual citizenship" being an excuse. I suspect that if a "dual citizen" committed an act of war against the US, they would be convicted of treason based soley on their AMERICAN citizenship. Maybe they would only be shot half as dead :)
I see Pelham has disabused you about the Lincoln Brigade members.
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