> Seeing as how you were claiming that the flame was lit in 1896 I don't see what you are crowing about.
Hey, I was wrong. But I wasn't comparing the Olympics to the Nazis.
> You sure are pissed off about something.
I'd suggest finding a convenient mirror, and repeating that phrase there.
> your groundless ideals
Wow, do you actually believe that? How sad.
I was bemoaning the pagan associations and rituals of the olympics. I just mentioned in passing Hitler's use of the olympic flame relay from Olympia to Berlin. > your groundless ideals
Wow, do you actually believe that? How sad.
I consider every non-Theistic moralist to be an irrational hypocrite. In the absence of an Objectively True G-d all that exists are personal subjective moral hang-ups. What gives any human being the right to define the morality of others by his own subjective hang-ups? No matter how many people share such a hang-up (eg, against murder) in the absence of a Creator it remains a mere subjective hang-up. Strange how people who object to legislating G-d's standards have no objections to legislating those of human beings who have no right or authority to define anything as right or wrong, just or unjust, desirable or undesirable.
Free Republic is a conservative forum. I am opposed to Communism and leftism primarily not because they are totalitarian, economically socialist, or because they have murdered millions of people, but primarily simply because it they are non-Theistic moral systems and therefore inherently groundless. And I classify all non-Theistically based moral systems together, regardless of how "benign" they may be. Thomas Jefferson, Karl Marx--what's the difference?
I'll be you enjoyed the opening ceremonies celebrating the "evolution of man as a rational being." Though what the big whoop is about evolving into anything in a meaningless universe is beyond me.
You deny the Creator yet presume to be competent to create a moral code of some sort (which you probably believe others "should" adopt for themselves)? How ridiculous.