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The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy...returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Martin Luther King
I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong. Frederick Douglas
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Originally posted by Zymologist View PostI haven't been impressed with the "significant evidence."The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy...returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Martin Luther King
I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong. Frederick Douglas
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Originally posted by Zymologist View PostWhy do you say that?
The message is clear: morality is secondary to tax cuts, trade agreements, and supreme court nominees.The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy...returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Martin Luther King
I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong. Frederick Douglas
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Originally posted by carpedm9587 View PostActually, there is significant evidence. You (and others) seem to confuse "evidence" with "proof."Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
Than a fool in the eyes of God
From "Fools Gold" by Petra
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Originally posted by carpedm9587 View PostBecause that is pretty much the universal position of the right. It doesn't really matter what evidence is presented, it is simply discounted as "not evidence." For the right, Trump is the quintessential Teflon politician - nothing sticks. We have a huge body of evidence that Trump is enriching himself by virtue of his office, that Trump has racist inclinations, that he is dishonest and defends it as "OK," and that he has significant personality flaws - but it is all waved away because the right likes his policies.
The message is clear: morality is secondary to tax cuts, trade agreements, and supreme court nominees.I DENOUNCE DONALD J. TRUMP AND ALL HIS IMMORAL ACTS.
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Originally posted by Zymologist View PostI didn't vote for Trump, and I'm not on "the right" so much as I'm a libertarian (small-l: not a fan of the LP).The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy...returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Martin Luther King
I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong. Frederick Douglas
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Originally posted by Mountain Man View PostLike I said, it's funny how you don't apply this same extremely lenient standard of evidence to the Resurrection.The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy...returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Martin Luther King
I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong. Frederick Douglas
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Originally posted by carpedm9587 View PostFair enough. If I applied a general observation about the right to you indiscriminately, then that was unjust of me and I apologize.I DENOUNCE DONALD J. TRUMP AND ALL HIS IMMORAL ACTS.
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Originally posted by Zymologist View PostI keep my radical libertarian positions mostly to myself, so it's probably not unwarranted."I am not angered that the Moral Majority boys campaign against abortion. I am angry when the same men who say, "Save OUR children" bellow "Build more and bigger bombers." That's right! Blast the children in other nations into eternity, or limbless misery as they lay crippled from "OUR" bombers! This does not jell." - Leonard Ravenhill
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Originally posted by carpedm9587 View PostI actually do - which is why I do not believe the resurrection has adequate evidence to substantiate it as an "historical event.""I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
"Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
"[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein
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Originally posted by Starlight View PostGiven the vast majority of people in Jerusalem at the time were not convinced the resurrection happened, it is amusing that people in the present day are supposed to believe it based on much more tenuous 2nd-hand evidence (Gospel writings written long after, not by eyewitnesses) than the people at the time had (who could actually go talk to as many 'eyewitnesses' as they wanted). I guess the Jerusalemites were just too rigorous in their skepticism and excessive demands for evidence! Whereas we should obviously be much more credulous and gullible about believing the teachings of a cult than the people of the time were, it's only reasonable!The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy...returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Martin Luther King
I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong. Frederick Douglas
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Originally posted by carpedm9587 View PostI actually do - which is why I do not believe the resurrection has adequate evidence to substantiate it as an "historical event."
And isn't that same as saying that he's not a racist? Occam's Razor and all that...Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
Than a fool in the eyes of God
From "Fools Gold" by Petra
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Originally posted by carpedm9587 View PostThis is interesting. Where is this "incredulousness" documented?"I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
"Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
"[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein
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