THE ERA OF TRUMP

[C-Mag]

Nah, just another Wahabbi-Christian.

Another Lefty go to cliché. I remember the days of old when they said all the misogynist old men perverts were Conservatives............... of course that was before Weinstein.

Non-sequitor.

"Hang all the gays" sounds like a fundamentalist to me. Not likely a mainstream Christian view, unless things have changed pretty radically in the last few days.

The difference is that in Christian America today hanging someone for merely being gay is a crime, and happens so seldom the last one I can think of is 25 years old. In Muslim controlled land being gay is a crime and punishable in varying degrees up to death as a standard practice.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Another Lefty go to cliché. I remember the days of old when they said all the misogynist old men perverts were Conservatives............... of course that was before Weinstein.

Non-sequitor.

"Hang all the gays" sounds like a fundamentalist to me. Not likely a mainstream Christian view, unless things have changed pretty radically in the last few days.

The difference is that in Christian America today hanging someone for merely being gay is a crime, and happens so seldom the last one I can think of is 25 years old. In Muslim controlled land being gay is a crime and punishable in varying degrees up to death as a standard practice.

Then, it's almost as if the nation in question matters more than the most-practiced-religion there...

[C-Mag]

Non-sequitor.

"Hang all the gays" sounds like a fundamentalist to me. Not likely a mainstream Christian view, unless things have changed pretty radically in the last few days.

The difference is that in Christian America today hanging someone for merely being gay is a crime, and happens so seldom the last one I can think of is 25 years old. In Muslim controlled land being gay is a crime and punishable in varying degrees up to death as a standard practice.

Then, it's almost as if the nation in question matters more than the most-practiced-religion there...

You equated Christians to Wahhabists. Wahhabism and Sharia Law is not restricted ton one country. Being gay anywhere in the Islamic world is literally risking your life. Being gay in the US or just about anywhere in Western Culture is pretty well accepted and there are laws about singling out people on sexual preferences.

[C-Mag]

Trump's $33 Billion Tax Cut You Didn't Know You Just Got
http://www.investors.com/politics/edito ... -just-got/

Senior Trump officials now estimate that the president's decision will save consumers some $33 billion. No, they won't get a big notice on their monthly bill saying: "You saved $X amount this month, thanks to repeal of the Clean Power Act." But the money will go into their pocket nonetheless, since they will avoid paying the much-higher costs that Obama had baked into the energy cake through his plan to cut CO2 emissions by 35% over the next 14 years.

[SuburbanFarmer]

The difference is that in Christian America today hanging someone for merely being gay is a crime, and happens so seldom the last one I can think of is 25 years old. In Muslim controlled land being gay is a crime and punishable in varying degrees up to death as a standard practice.

Then, it's almost as if the nation in question matters more than the most-practiced-religion there...

You equated Christians to Wahhabists. Wahhabism and Sharia Law is not restricted ton one country. Being gay anywhere in the Islamic world is literally risking your life. Being gay in the US or just about anywhere in Western Culture is pretty well accepted and there are laws about singling out people on sexual preferences.

I most certainly did not. I equated Mike Pence and his fellow 'born-again' maniacs to "Wahabbi"s - a virulent strain of fundamentalism, completely out of step with modern reality.

My overall point, though subtle, was that fundamentalism is not restricted to one religion.

[Speaker to Animals]

Fundamentalism entered Christianity from contact with Islam. Similar to iconoclasm. You just still live in a time where that heresy yet has some life left to it, and in one of it's principal nations to boot. Yet would you say the same thing about iconoclasm?

Christianity is not really compatible with fundamentalism. A pretty large portion of the corpus of books that constitute our sacred scripture were never meant to be read literally. The same is true of every major religion I know about -- except Islam.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Fundamentalism entered Christianity from contact with Islam. Similar to iconoclasm. You just still live in a time where that heresy yet has some life left to it, and in one of it's principal nations to boot. Yet would you say the same thing about iconoclasm?

Christianity is not really compatible with fundamentalism. A pretty large portion of the corpus of books that constitute our sacred scripture were never meant to be read literally. The same is true of every major religion I know about -- except Islam.

Valid thesis, I suppose, if you choose to ignore all of Hebrew history leading up to the establishment of Christianity. Those were some ruthless motherfuckers. Stoning uncovered women and shellfish-eaters on sight.

No, fundamentalism has existed as long as organized religion, from the Carthaginians burning babies to Aztec blood sacrifice. Depending on the mood of the times, it’s either death, or a slap on the wrist for infraction.

30 “Hail Marys” for this generation could be ritual rape and slaughter for the next.

[Speaker to Animals]

Fundamentalism entered Christianity from contact with Islam. Similar to iconoclasm. You just still live in a time where that heresy yet has some life left to it, and in one of it's principal nations to boot. Yet would you say the same thing about iconoclasm?

Christianity is not really compatible with fundamentalism. A pretty large portion of the corpus of books that constitute our sacred scripture were never meant to be read literally. The same is true of every major religion I know about -- except Islam.

Valid thesis, I suppose, if you choose to ignore all of Hebrew history leading up to the establishment of Christianity. Those were some ruthless motherfuckers. Stoning uncovered women and shellfish-eaters on sight.

No, fundamentalism has existed as long as organized religion, from the Carthaginians burning babies to Aztec blood sacrifice. Depending on the mood of the times, it’s either death, or a slap on the wrist for infraction.

30 “Hail Marys” for this generation could be ritual rape and slaughter for the next.

I don't think you understand what fundamentalism means.

Christian fundamentalism seems to be a necessary consequence of the Protestant heresy since it provides some basis for authority. The only way a concept like Sola Scriptura makes any practical sense is if interpreting scripture were like reading a newspaper article (little to no disagreement about what it means). So you have to reduce the books in the Bible to just literal truth even if they were NEVER interpreted as such before the 19th century.

The idea of it had to have come from knowledge of Islam which is THE fundamentalist religion. Islamic scripture is just a set of religious, social, legal, and political instructions to be taken literally. I don't know of any other religion quite like that.

The thing is, even Islam requires authority. That's what clerics do. Fundamentalist churches on the side of the highway have some guy reading the Bible and telling you what's what too. The foundation of the entire heresy doesn't really work out. That's why the number of Protestant denominations truly is equal to the number of Protestants.

[Okeefenokee]

Another Lefty go to cliché. I remember the days of old when they said all the misogynist old men perverts were Conservatives............... of course that was before Weinstein.

Non-sequitor.

"Hang all the gays" sounds like a fundamentalist to me. Not likely a mainstream Christian view, unless things have changed pretty radically in the last few days.

It's an uncorroborated joke, why are you reading so much into this? The media is trying to gin up a "Trump hates Pence" narrative to reinforce their "Chaos! Chaos! Chaos!" narrative. Stop falling for obvious bullshit, even if it was true that Trump made such a joke, who cares? It's irrelevant.
/shrugs

It's obviously because he's gay, and doesn't want to get caught off guard.

Like we're gonna tell you ahead of time...

[Okeefenokee]

Non-sequitor.

"Hang all the gays" sounds like a fundamentalist to me. Not likely a mainstream Christian view, unless things have changed pretty radically in the last few days.

It's an uncorroborated joke, why are you reading so much into this? The media is trying to gin up a "Trump hates Pence" narrative to reinforce their "Chaos! Chaos! Chaos!" narrative. Stop falling for obvious bullshit, even if it was true that Trump made such a joke, who cares? It's irrelevant.
/shrugs

I don't believe for a minute that Trump dislikes Pence. Pence brought him the batshit-born-again vote, and got him into office.

I'm just pointing out that there's literally no distinction between a fundamentalist Christian, Muslim, Jew, or Hindu. All batshit-crazy, kill you for wrongthink maniacs.

There's your ignorant bigot, folks. ^^^^^^^^^