Posted on 01/11/2014 12:45:56 PM PST by ReformationFan
We learned that Americans take television entirely too seriously.
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True although I think I learned that a long, long time ago.
We learned that we live in a politically correct world. We learned that major institutions move into high gear if you offend their sensibilities.
We also learned that it’s possible to push back against these strong liberal politically correct theologies.
I learned that buying a lot of Duck Dynasty stuff just to piss off the boycotting fags can really get expensive. LOL!
Well, at least you've come to the point of recognizing and confessing your fault; now, repent you miserable sinner!
Phil Robertson is not intolerant of people who repent their sins. Phil is, as we all are, a sinner and seeks forgiveness everyday.
He is intolerant of those who try to make their sinfulness, their sinful actions, into a normal and acceptable way of life. He is all about “love the sinner and hate the sin”. Many near-Libertarians are cast from this mold too.
The intolerance is and has always been on the politically correct left.
The writer steps over the obvious: The Bible and it’s lessons ARE the target of the left. The Left’s intolerance is all about the judgements contained in the Bible.
For the Left, Homosexuality is completely normal and outside of the Bible’s judegment if you would only read the words the way they read them.
Remember A does not equal A, and 2+2 = 5, if the left says it’s so.
Wow, that’s a lot of dissection and historical analysis. Seems like he’s arguing how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. I find it easier to simply say it is disgusting, filthy, spreads disease, against natural law and God’s law, and runs afoul of plain common sense.
We have learned that there is more outrage over WORDS spoken than over actions.
I disagree with #4.
True that A&E and Cracker Barrel bowed before the dollar but the dollar was not the ‘god’ that moved the consumer. In other words the dollar is not the supreme ‘god’ of most of America. The ‘god’ is in the majority ***sensibilities of Americans*** who speak with their dollars to homosexual supporters.
Americans ARE intolerant. In the main they are not tolerating homosexuality. It does not fit with social norms any more that a man walking into a busy women’s restroom or vice versa.
Society as a whole has had it up to their ears with homosexual nonsense and the foolishness of normalizing it.
This was nothing more than another attempt to intimidate by the gaystapo. Others will think twice before speaking out and that’s their goal.
Well, sort of. You can push back if you're independently wealthy and are in a position to deny those greedy "liberals" a product that's making them money hand over fist. Not so much for the rest of us.
In fact, the Left is against the whole notion of SIN: offenses against a higher authority. They demand that we stop accusing other of such offenses. To do so is to be disloyal to the society in which we live, because only this society has the right to hold people to account. They, of course, claim the right to speak for society.
Bernard,
You are correct ; big corporations’ hr departments will come down like a ton of bricks on anyone that speaks out in opposition to homosexuality....
diversity training, etc is forced on managers...
It seems to me that people react big to stuff like this as Chick-Fil-A because there are so few opportunities to "talk back" anymore. There is, it seems, no political recourse. Anything we determine in the voting booth is rescinded by our Black-Robed Reptilian Masters. Even private expressions of their repugnance or moral reprobation against this foul vice can get you kicked out of a graduate program, denied a license, passed over for a promotion, or fired.
So naturally, when you get the opportunity to push back by buying a Spicy Chicken Sandwich or a T-shirt with your favorite Hairy Duck-Hunter on it, you do with with... I could say, with a vengeance.
Phil reminds me of John the Baptist. That's how I described J the B to my RCIA (adult convert) students --- and they got it!
Well said, Mrs D. In fact, I read it out loud to my husband!
That is right, we should not remove it from the list because Paul pointed it out as not just sin but also against nature itself.
Ping.
Why wouldn't you at least watch 1 show before going off on a long opinion of the Duck Dynasty phenomenon?
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