Go back
Your Thoughts Please

Your Thoughts Please

Spirituality


@josephw said
If you have something to say about the subject matter of the OP, then say it.
If you don't want to address the clear points I have made about the text in the OP, so be it.


@josephw said
Taxing exempt institutions based on the content of what is preached from their pulpits is called tyranny when imposed by an authoritarian government that has in its constitution the idea of the separation of church and state.

The Biden administration is corrupt, anti-law and anti-constitution as will be seen, but the ignorant will never see it when it happens.
Trump is 1000% worse; admits openly to wanting to be a dictator, but "only on day 1" [yeah right!], fawns openly and enviously over other dictators in the world, calls left-wingers "vermin" [and the only thing you do with vermin is eradicate], claims immigrants "poison the blood" of the nation, and openly plans to weaponize the justice system against his political enemies.

Trump wants to end democracy and turn us into a fascist state like North Korea, China and Russia.


@josephw said
But now today we are faced with the specter of authoritarianism, as referred to in the article in the OP.
From which party is the threat of authoritarianism coming?

1 edit
Vote Up
Vote Down

@josephw said
Therefore it is incumbent on those of us that know better to stop that kind of thing. By whatever means necessary. Even civil war.
If the 2024 election doesn't go the way you want it to go, and if you deem it necessary, it will be "incumbent on" you to support a civil war? Am I understanding you correctly?

Vote Up
Vote Down

@josephw said
No one in their right mind condones slavery as a viable life pursuit. Therefore it is incumbent on those of us that know better to stop that kind of thing.
You actually believe Christians will be taken into slavery in the U.S.? By whom? The U.S. military?

Vote Up
Vote Down

Vote Up
Vote Down

1 edit
Vote Up
Vote Down


@rajk999 said
You got any examples of Jesus or the Apostles doing what you suggest?

The suggested course of action for a Christian confronted with evil seems to be stated here

Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. A ...[text shortened]... fire on his head. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good. (Romans 12:17-21 KJV)
"You got any examples of Jesus or the Apostles doing what you suggest?"

Ever heard of "...be subject unto the higher powers."?

Everyone is involved in human government to one degree or another. And every race of peoples, every major religious sect, every philosophy, ideology and political affiliation, throughout history, for all intents and purposes has been represented by Jew, Greek, gentile, Roman, you name it, it doesn't matter.

If one is not involved, being who and what they are, they are doing themselves disfavor, and not being true to themselves.

Seems to me you are afraid of evil, since it is you that mentioned it.

Vote Up
Vote Down

@fmf said
Taxing money-generating institutions is normal. Offering tax exemptions to apolitical charitable organizations is normal.
Take it to the Supreme Court.

Vote Up
Vote Down

@josephw said
Take it to the Supreme Court.
Why? 'Taxing money-generating institutions is normal & offering tax exemptions to apolitical charitable organizations is normal' is a long-established principle.


@fmf said
It's called satire. The text in the OP is breathless paranoid QAnon-esque nonsense. I was satirizing it.
You're a satirist now? Speak your mind.

"...breathless paranoid QAnon-esque nonsense. I was satirizing it."

For your sake I hope you're right. But if it boosts your ego, go ahead and post that drivel anywhere you want to. Perhaps you'll win an award, even get elected to a post in the hierarchy you feel best meets with your intellectual prowess, then you can dictate your will, make law, put on your royal robe, and sit on your throne.

Vote Up
Vote Down

@josephw said
]For your sake I hope you're right. But if it boosts your ego, go ahead and post that drivel anywhere you want to. Perhaps you'll win an award, even get elected to a post in the hierarchy you feel best meets with your intellectual prowess, then you can dictate your will, make law, put on your royal robe, and sit on your throne.
josephw, you wear the most acute inferiority complex right there on your sleeve.


@bigdogg said
Trump is 1000% worse; admits openly to wanting to be a dictator, but "only on day 1" [yeah right!], fawns openly and enviously over other dictators in the world, calls left-wingers "vermin" [and the only thing you do with vermin is eradicate], claims immigrants "poison the blood" of the nation, and openly plans to weaponize the justice system against his political enemies.

Trump wants to end democracy and turn us into a fascist state like North Korea, China and Russia.
I don't believe it.


@fmf said
From which party is the threat of authoritarianism coming?
Yours.