albpilot
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Post by albpilot on May 12, 2006 8:13:00 GMT -5
Since there has been some discussion in the past on topics religious, I thought I'd start up a new thread to continue it. As the first item up for discussion, I submit this article www.talk2action.org/story/2006/5/11/151212/239it's an op-ed sorta piece that is pretty interesting if you read through it. What's anyone think? |
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Post by Stephen on May 13, 2006 21:32:46 GMT -5
I think it is critical to understand that authoritarianism is not a "Christian" issue, or for that matter, a religious issue at all.
There are two kinds of people in the world... those who want to control others and those who do not. The problem is not that someone wants to control others in the name of Christianity, or Mohammed, Atheism or Evolutionism or any other religion. The problem is that they want to control others. Why they want to control others and under what fascade they want to control others is irrelevent.
Its ironic that so many people develop this massive anti-Christian attitude because "they're trying to push their morals off on me," yet they mindlessly accept a government that does the same thing to them ten thousand times a day with far greater force. They have mistakenly focused on the fascade under which control is exerted, not on the control itself. Instead of opposing the fascade, they should be opposing the control.
IMHO that is the mistake this author is making... she is opposing the mask that control hides behind, not the control itself. When one person insists on establishing control over others, I don't care if he's a Christian or an Atheist... he's a threat to our freedom.
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albpilot
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Post by albpilot on Nov 19, 2007 12:02:03 GMT -5
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