America is the last great hope of the world, because in America a person can be free. Free, but not absolutely free. The constraints upon their freedom under which Americans live are unique in the history of the world. They are not the arbitrary dictats of a hereditary Monarch. They are not the equally arbitrary, but historically far bloodier and more destructive, dic
Go Adrian.
To: pseudosoldier Thank you. None of my comments have ever been intended as insulting to America. And your comment, coming from one who has served her at risk of his life, means more to me than you might imagine.
America is the last hope of mankind. I believe that in my bones, and always have. There is no greater nation on earth. There, can I say it more explicitly? America is the last hope of mankind . That does not mean that that there is not a multiplicity of evils which beset America. There are. There is is the poisonous and anti-human attitude to sex which bedevils you. There is the fatuous and nearly incomprehensible attitude towar
Part of that could be because, while we don't want a national religion, we do reserve the right to include religious ideals (or even lack of) in how we vote. That's a very succinct and pertinent observation, one which entirely escapes European commentators on American politics. <TABLE cellpaddi
Congrats, my love. Come home. We miss you. And thank you:)
It doesn't bother me knowing that candidate X is a Christian; it bothers me that they use it as a sales gimmick. Almost everything about religion here bothers me - in much the same way that almost everything about attitudes to sex in this country bother me. Your comment about sales gimmicks is very pert
The teacher deserves the flogging - if only as punishment for the incomparable stupidity of naming a stuffed toy 'Muhammad' in a Muslim nation. what did she do wrong she was gang raped after being in a car with a man she wasn't related to. Clearly, what she did wrong was to travel in a car with a man to whom she wasn't related. Allah being the merciful deity he is, gang rape wasn't sufficient punishment, hence the 200 lashes.
I caught a snippet on Fox News tonight. Apparently that vile insect, that despicable fraud, liar and hypocrite, Tony Blair, formerly British Prime Minister and now superannuated irrelevance posturing as a 'special envoy to the Middle East' (I don't like him - can you tell?) has announced to the world that he is a Christian. This is not news to anyone who live
My mother spent some time in Morocco, and other parts of North Africa. She tells me that, without fail, the children she encountered there were the best behaved children she had ever met. Why? Because misbehaviour, especially in public, brings shame to the family, and occasions beatings with wooden rods. By all means, continue to coddle, and soothe, and placate, and bribe your children. Personally, I'd be more than happy to take a rod to the back of almost every American child
Congratulations, emp! I wouldn't want you to shut up, or change for a minute, even when I disagree with you (which is frequent). You are who you are, without apology, and I respect that highly. <TD class="mb-
I got the letter I'd been waiting for today. The first paragraph reads: "Congratulations! Your request for the removal of the conditional basis of your permanent resident status has been approved. You are deemed to be a Lawful Permanent Resident of the United States as of the date of your original admission or adjustment of status." The rest tells me
(think of the story of the sword.) I think of little else, all the time.
To me there are two kinds of suffering. Suffering at the hand of Man, and suffering that is just part of being alive. Suffering at the hand of man is the result of decisions we make that bring illness, injury and emotional pain to ourselves and others. Most of us don't set out to hurt othes, but we've all done things that have ca
His thoughts are not our thoughts. His ways are not our ways. When the finite mind of humanity tries to understand what and why God allows something the human understanding is left to confusion of thought. The three friends of Job are an excellent example of such. <TABLE cellpadding=8 width="95%" align=
ME: (wallowing in self-pity) Why me, God?GOD: Why NOT you? In many ways, this is the most serious and challenging response to my own argument that's yet been posted. Why not you, or me? Which is where the inescapable shadow of Jesus falls across my life, once again. 1
Well if we want to be moderately intelligent (and who does, really, there's nothing so terminal as moderation) then we'd acknowledge there's a 'god' centre in the human brain, which incidentally explains why people believe in all sorts of things, from cliches to science. We've got to fill that hole somehow, and mystical gods make
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I'm not referring to the followers of Talmud, Mishnah, Chabalah, etc.. I'm sure you know what I mean? Talmud and Mishnah I'm familiar with, but Chabalah not at all. I googled the word and the results indicate it has something to do with 'injury' or 'destruction'. So I find myself a little perplexed. But
My faith has changed over the years. Changed mightily and in ways I could never have predicted in the aftermath of my first great religious experience. As some of you may know I was once a convinced Christian, a zealous Christian: as zealous, over-bearing and ignorant as the Christians that so earnestly debate the trivia of their dogmas here on JU. I think I took my first steps away from those endless and pointless debates after
I'm not trying to say that hope is worthless; it's probably the most important thing a person can have. Without hope we cease to be entirely human. But that's all that religion can really provide. So what you're actually saying is that all those who believe do so simply because religion provides them
Wow, thank you! You're welcome. And I'm away to my bed.
Love, friendship and a willingness to voluntarily take on the challenge with them often bolsters them spiritually as well as physically. That's a better answer than was given to Job by his friends. And it's a kinder answer than the one given by God to Job, and certainly a more understanding and more h
And no, this will not be an exercise solely in pointing out what I consider to be the weaknesses of the arguments of others. I have my own thoughts on this issue, thoughts that arose in the first instance as a reaction to the death of my friend. I intend posting them when I have them in my mind as a coherent whole, probably tomorrow, and I shall be happy to answer questions or criticism when I have done so. This is as much a challenge to mysel
I hope that answers your question, and satisfies the terms of your challenge. If my challenge were to say "What is it you actually do , rather than say", then I would agree that you have. Certainly the LDS is of that brand of Christianity which finds its spirituality in positive action that helps
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