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RonD1120

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Your bias and prejudice is showing. We all have them but you are turning against truth. Not many such avenues out there these days.
Look for the shiny things of God revealed by the Holy Spirit. They only last for an instant but it is a Holy Instant. Let your soul absorb them.

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I can't take the dramatic bullshit they spew, so, none.
Nor will I.
I am trying to stop helping to promote the constant battle we seem fixated on as it will solve nothing. It will only divide us as a nation. More so than we are now.
There is NO difference between red and blue.
I fail to understand why neither side sees that.

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One side is patriotic American. The other side is communist inspired socialism.

Vote Libertarian. It's going to take some time but we have to reduce the power of the two party coalition.
Look for the shiny things of God revealed by the Holy Spirit. They only last for an instant but it is a Holy Instant. Let your soul absorb them.

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RonD1120

One side is patriotic American. The other side is communist inspired socialism.



What was sold as "communism", never was about socialism.
It was oligarchies trying to wrap themselves in the cloak of socialism to pretend they cared about the people.
Northern European countries are a better example of socialism than any of the "communist" governments ever were.
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One side is patriotic American. The other side is communist inspired socialism.

How much did Jesus charge people for their lunch when he and the disciples gave out loaves and fishes? Did Jesus kick the moneylenders out of the Temple because they weren't paying sufficient rent?

How do you reconcile "stand your ground" with Jesus telling His disciples to put away their weapons when the soldiers came to arrest Him?

There is almost no overlap between "patriotic American" and Christ's teachings. There is a lot of overlap between Christ's teachings and socialism. Doesn't that make your head explode?

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No, I have no connection to Che. However, we did have an expert rifleman, a MSGT IIRC, at Hurlburt in the early '60s that was selected for the elimination of a HV target in Cuba. It did not happen of course.
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>>However, BHO was trained by Frank Davis a registered communist.

>Jesus had to have been one of the first communists around. When you
>communists so vehemently, how can you supposedly love Jesus so much at the
>same time?

Worse yet - Ol' Barry may have been trained by the Bible! O the communist horror.

2 Corinthians 8:13-15 -"For I do not mean that others should be eased and you burdened; but by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may supply their lack, that their abundance also may supply your lack—that there may be equality. As it is written, “He who gathered much had nothing left over, and he who gathered little had no lack.”

Acts 2:44-45 - "Now all who believed were together, and had all things in common, and sold their possessions and goods, and divided them among all, as anyone had need."

James 5:1-6 - "Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you. Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure in the last days. Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. You have lived on the earth in luxury and in self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter."

Matthew 9:21 - "Jesus said to him, “If you would be perfect, go, sell what you possess and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.” "

Deuteronomy 23:24-25 - "If you go into your neighbor's vineyard, you may eat your fill of grapes, as many as you wish, but you shall not put any in your bag. If you go into your neighbor's standing grain, you may pluck the ears with your hand, but you shall not put a sickle to your neighbor's standing grain."

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Nope doesn't bother me at all.

Interesting.

1. Jesus was by any possible measure an extreme socialist. He wanted the rich to give all their wealth to the poor, he cured people of diseases and even brought them back from the dead without requiring payment, he fed people without requiring payment, and on and on.
2. You hate socialists and socialism (except of course when you are the beneficiary).
3. You claim to love Jesus.

It's interesting (at least, to me) that you, and millions like you in the US, claim to love Jesus, yet you hate so many of the things He did and advocated. It would be a great Psychology PhD thesis for someone (or more likely many someones) to study how you guys can hold such dissonant beliefs at the same time. Don't you ever think about your values and beliefs?

I'm sure it's no coincidence that you are able to easily tolerate similar cognitive dissonance in your political beliefs, so that an action that was perfectly fine when Regan did it is an unconstitutional attack on the American people if Obama does it.

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1. Jesus was by any possible measure an extreme socialist. He wanted the rich to give all their wealth to the poor, he cured people of diseases and even brought them back from the dead without requiring payment, he fed people without requiring payment, and on and on.



I find it appropriate that people treat their politics nearly as fanatically as a religion. So these comparisons apply.

However - advocating being extremely charitable as personal choice by individuals is about as far away from socialism as it gets.

big difference between choosing to serve your neighbors in need, and being forced to do it by legislative whim

big difference in results as well - VOLUNTARY charity as a cultural norm promotes a positive nature in society. Doing via force....well we all know how horrible that is turning out for those the give and those that receive - it can tear apart entire cultures


Every time a rabid socialist gives to a charity, they are a hypocrit. If they are true to form, that giving should directly to the US Treasury - who they obviously think knows better than them how to use the money.

Charity and volunteering is about as individualistic an action as it gets.

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I find it appropriate that people treat their politics nearly as fanatically as a religion. So these comparisons apply.

However - advocating being extremely charitable as personal choice by individuals is about as far away from socialism as it gets.

big difference between choosing to serve your neighbors in need, and being forced to do it by legislative whim



Meh, bit of a semantics argument. Most churches clearly dictate what they expect from their members. Giving money, helping the poor, helping the disabled, sharing for the greater good, etc are all pretty much the same across all denominations. They are all also pretty socialistic.

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