I failed to see where he said that religion is the biggest threat to America. Religion in itself isn't, but fundamentalism sure is.
-----Original Message----- From: Sam [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 4:39 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: intersting opinion piece on Beck and the teabagging party On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 4:29 PM, G Money <[email protected]> wrote: >> Tonight, we're going to spend an hour talking about faith, because this > has been so grossly distorted by progressives > > How has faith been distorted by progressives? I disagree with this point. You just claimed religion was the biggest threat to America. >> Most people will tell you now: *Oh, we're not a Christian nation. We're a > Judeo-Christian. What? These people were deists, they were atheists*. > > Most were deists. I think some were atheists. And if most people would say > that, then most people would be right. However, i'm not convinced that MOST > people would say that. I bet most people think we were a nation founded by > Christians, and established as a Christian nation. Just a guess. > Well you should read on. A couple, not most, were deists and then he goes on to explain: A deist back then was someone who believed in God, believed in revelation, just wasn't sure about the divinity of Jesus. That's all a deist meant. >> We are on the verge of collapse. Let's rebuild it. > > And here's his biggest bullshit point. We are not on the verge of collapse, > and this is classic fear rhetoric...meant to get followers riled up. I see > this shit all the time in right wing speak. WE are always on the verge of > this, or the cusp of that, blah blah blah. Again, you just claimed religion is the biggest threat to America. We need to stop the attack on religion. > Sooooo...in just this small blurb of Beck, I'd agree with the folks who have > said that he's pretty much full of shit. Or....maybe he was just off his > game in this piece? Yeah, it's always the other guy that's off. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:326012 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
