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#47524
Napoleon the Clown
No, I'm sorry, theocracies always end in tradgedy. Fuck off.
6/29/2006 4:29:29 AM
#47525
Ice
Hm... what happened when church started letting homosexuals be priests?
6/29/2006 4:29:59 AM
#47528
ssdexecutor
That's called a theocracy, right?
6/29/2006 4:33:30 AM
#47531
Julian
I believe only Christians have the moral qualifications to hold public office.
Yeh, you also believe 'mankind shall live forever more because of Christmas Day' to quote a stupid carol which is even more fictitious than 'Frosty the Snowman'.
6/29/2006 4:36:14 AM
#47532
Crosis
<<< We are all aware of what happened when the Catholic church started letting homosexuals be priests. >>>
That wasn't the Catholic Church, dummy. It was the Episcopalean Church.
<<< I believe only Christians have the moral qualifications to hold public office. >>>
You know what that makes you? WRONG!
6/29/2006 4:39:13 AM
#47552
Zadic
So then the Founding Fathers would not have the moral qualifications to hold public office by your logic? Unfortunately they somehow managed to put into place \"some\" semblance of fairness which people today still have trouble living up to. In part, because of people like you who believe your way is the only way.
\"Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon, than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness, that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.\" - Thomas Paine
6/29/2006 5:26:39 AM
#47561
Redhunter
\"I believe only Christians have the moral qualifications to hold public office.\"
Well duh, I already knew you thought thatway.
A superiour-minded christian? No fucking way!
6/29/2006 6:11:35 AM
#47588
Hadanelith
My faith in humanity crumbles a little more...
6/29/2006 6:52:32 AM
#47657
Jeremy PC
Rich christians in name only could be called capacino's.
6/29/2006 9:33:43 AM
#47748
themann1086
ignoring that the vast majority of the democratic party is christian... *sigh*
6/29/2006 1:45:24 PM
#47754
Star Cluster
<<However, CINOs and Atheists should not be elected to leadership positions in the church..>>
How many athiests are going to be in church long enough to be elected to a leadership position? There could be a few, I suppose, that go just to appease their family or community of friends, but then they would be one of your so called CINO's. But other than that, this is just stupid.
And at what point does someone become a CINO? What is your criteria? From my experience, I see very few people that attend church regularly that actually live what Christianity teaches. But I'm glad they do go to church, because without their religion holding them back, who knows what they would do.
And from my experience, anyone that proclaims Christianity in an ad for political office or says in a business ad \"Christian owned and operated\" is just another way of saying \"Bend over because a screwing is coming.\"
6/29/2006 1:52:29 PM
#47793
Papabear
This is right out of the Pat Robertson playbook. Pat maintains that only Jews and Xians should be allowed to hold government offices.
Exactly what \"Christian principals\" (sic) do the Democrats not support? Bigotry? Fear of atheists? Special tax breaks for the rich? Mind you, I'm no particular fan of the Democratic party, they're just less odius than the Republicans.
6/29/2006 3:17:06 PM
#47813
Poisoned Rationality
Aaaarg! Separation of church and state! It's there for a reason!
6/29/2006 3:58:52 PM
#47817
David D.G.
At least this guy believes that the church should allow CINOs and atheists into the church to be preached to, unlike those who want to just execute them or something.
I was in a Sunday School class with my fundie significant other (it was her church, and I was attending with her as I had been doing for years), and the pastor teaching the class, normally a really great guy, actually had the temerity to say that anyone who did not agree with the position of the church on Christ's divinity \"should just leave right now.\"
I was strongly tempted to get up and walk out (my agnostic position being no great secret), but I stayed because I knew my S.O. would have made my life miserable for months if I had so embarrassed her!
~David D.G.
6/29/2006 4:07:10 PM
#47840
Berny
David D. G. you are a better man than I. My first wife was religious and I had been a longtime atheist. I went to church with her strictly as a preparation for our wedding. She wanted to get married at this church and knew the minister would not perform the ceremony if it didn't appear I was religious.
I never set foot in that church once the wedding was over.
6/29/2006 5:11:05 PM
#47844
Sandman
I'm sorry, but there is no evidence at all that the Priests involved in the child abuse scandals were homosexuals. They likely were not, since pedophilia is a crime of power and not a crime of sex, the vast majority of child abusers are technically straight. Pedophiles choose victims based on opportunity, not gender.
6/29/2006 5:20:32 PM
#48043
Seomah
We are all aware of what happened when the Catholic church started letting homosexuals be priests
Namely from the start.
Men that cannot have a wife nor any relation at all, but spent a few years in seminary, closed in with lots of other young boys, and regularly go on recluded courses to \"strengthen the faith\", again with not any woman...
Suspicious, dear Watson...
6/30/2006 8:10:28 AM
#222779
shriekback
To them, Christian principles = hating the same people God hates
5/1/2007 11:39:57 PM
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5/2/2007 12:10:09 AM
#222915
Puck
You're correct in suspecting that the Republican Party has no need for 'christian' principles...yet they find it incredibly easy to sucker your votes.
Religious extremists were likely to be tarred and feathered back in the good old days of the Revolution.
I'd say you would look good in turkey feathers.
5/2/2007 1:57:47 AM
#397044
Marlowe
How many atheists do you think are jonesing for church positions?
2/3/2008 1:59:20 AM
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