http://www.stateofprotest.com/morality/warning-you-may-be-part-of-an-unholy-alliance/ Rational Activism at Work Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:08:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.stateofprotest.com/morality/warning-you-may-be-part-of-an-unholy-alliance/#comment-8444 vjack Sat, 07 Feb 2009 14:05:56 +0000 http://www.stateofprotest.com/?p=454#comment-8444 It is so annoying that anyone deems such prayer breakfasts necessary. Just more religious pandering. It is so annoying that anyone deems such prayer breakfasts necessary. Just more religious pandering.

]]> http://www.stateofprotest.com/morality/warning-you-may-be-part-of-an-unholy-alliance/#comment-8411 Procrustes Fri, 06 Feb 2009 12:36:56 +0000 http://www.stateofprotest.com/?p=454#comment-8411 Except that he made a clear distinction between religion and God, stating ultimately with some impossible certainty that there is *no* god who condones the taking of an innocent life. He's imposing his own idea of god onto all others, with a blind eye to logic and reality. Except that he made a clear distinction between religion and God, stating ultimately with some impossible certainty that there is *no* god who condones the taking of an innocent life. He's imposing his own idea of god onto all others, with a blind eye to logic and reality.

]]> http://www.stateofprotest.com/morality/warning-you-may-be-part-of-an-unholy-alliance/#comment-8403 Noumenon Fri, 06 Feb 2009 05:27:05 +0000 http://www.stateofprotest.com/?p=454#comment-8403 I think Obama is not speaking to any scripturally correct (particularly the old testament) interpretation of religious teachings, but the seemingly popular McChristianity that seems more prevalent today. This is the sanitized, de-genocided, de-stoning, de-OMG-that-is-bad-god-doesn't-do-that version of Christianity that I see paraded around. It is sort of an amalgam of Christian views filtered through a sanitized modern moral view. You really can't blame him, he is speaking to the masses that love a "feel-good" message. I think Obama is not speaking to any scripturally correct (particularly the old testament) interpretation of religious teachings, but the seemingly popular McChristianity that seems more prevalent today. This is the sanitized, de-genocided, de-stoning, de-OMG-that-is-bad-god-doesn't-do-that version of Christianity that I see paraded around. It is sort of an amalgam of Christian views filtered through a sanitized modern moral view. You really can't blame him, he is speaking to the masses that love a "feel-good" message.

]]> http://www.stateofprotest.com/morality/warning-you-may-be-part-of-an-unholy-alliance/#comment-8402 Noumenon Fri, 06 Feb 2009 05:26:36 +0000 http://www.stateofprotest.com/?p=454#comment-8402 I think Obama is not speaking to any scripturally correct (particularly the old testament) interpretation of religious teachings, but the seemingly popular McChristianity that seems more prevalent today. This is the sanitized, de-genocided, de-stoning, de-OMG-that-is-bad-god-doesn't-do-that version of Christianity that I see paraded around. It is sort of an amalgam of Christian views filtered through a sanitized modern moral view. You really can't blame him, he is speaking to the masse that love a "feel-good" message. I think Obama is not speaking to any scripturally correct (particularly the old testament) interpretation of religious teachings, but the seemingly popular McChristianity that seems more prevalent today. This is the sanitized, de-genocided, de-stoning, de-OMG-that-is-bad-god-doesn't-do-that version of Christianity that I see paraded around. It is sort of an amalgam of Christian views filtered through a sanitized modern moral view. You really can't blame him, he is speaking to the masse that love a "feel-good" message.

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