On 2/16/06, Collin R Brendemuehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank, > > Worng? Let's see ... > > It's a basic tenet of Marx' that the religion is the opiate/opium of > the people. > It's a tool to pacify the masses. > > In the US today the Left has a new catch-phrase -- "Freedom from religion". > When put into place as policy this purpose always results in > restriction of liberty. > There's also something called "political correctness" where certain > words are not allowed > because of their historic religious connotations. A pet may not be > "lost" but only "missing". > Even in terms of government policy there was an attempt a few years > ago to put into place > a policy to keep individual expressions of faith out of the > workplace. Fortunately this > failed, but it was attempted none-the-less. > > Sorry, but the control of beliefs is implicit in the Left's work in the US. > Would you like a Canadian example or two? Government censorship of religious > radio broadcasts comes to mind. One is not allowed to say "activity > 'x' is 'sin''" without > facing punishment for such a belief system. That's control by socialists. > > Hitler was a Marxist. He was not a Communist and held a hatred for > them. Did he not > combine Nationalism and Socialism in his own hybrid solution? Canada > and the US are > Socialist to varying degrees, watered-down varieties of Marx' > beliefs. Sorry, but it sounds > like to you went to some form of public school system. > > Collin > > "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose" > -- Jim Elliott
Okay, I won't say you're wrong, this time. I will say that there's virtually nothing in the above post that I agree with. I'm not going to waste more time arguing with you - not that I mind doing so (I mean arguing, not in anger, but in the sense of an exchange of ideas), but this is hardly the forum, and really, we'd have to be face to face in order to properly explore this. I think I'd quite enjoy sitting down with you and exploring our vast differences in world view, but after many days or weeks, I'm quite certain that neither of us would change views. <g> cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
