Sounds Like Bin Laden's Dead

TheBig3 · 05-02-2011, 12:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

You're wrong. And strawmen like this are beneath you.

What you're telling me is that people who are furious about this religious "issue" aren't drawing from larger, different issues?

The truth is, that speech alone isn't offensive except for the 19 year olds who are nose-deep in Ayn Rand novels.

**Scarlett O'Hara** · 05-02-2011, 12:15 AM

Is there any reason the death of Bin Laden has turned into a religious debate?

RVCA · 05-02-2011, 12:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Vanilla

Is there any reason the death of Bin Laden has turned into a religious debate?

Did you read the thread?

Mr November · 05-02-2011, 12:15 AM

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Originally Posted by TheBig3

Tell me I'm wrong.

If he wont I will. Westburough baptist church are an extreme example of modern western religion. They basically just take advantage of free speech so that they can spew religious beliefs that only the mentally ill will accept.

The real problem is those who don't stand out so much. The people who want to ban books, who want to change curriculum, or keep the churches tax free, who want to send bibles instead of tools, books, and food to third world nations. Those who don't want to see the world as it really is, and don't want to us to go on making the world a better place. People who support mother teresa, people who follow the pope as he outlaws contraception and plays a major role in the outbreak of AIDS and over population in Africa.

But you're right. All we're doing is overreacting to a family of insane baptists. That's it. You're a very reasonable person.

And only an idiot could pretend that language is meaningless. You don't prove anything by trivializing things, all you show is a lack of interest in addressing the real issues - and therefore a probable inability to.

**Scarlett O'Hara** · 05-02-2011, 12:16 AM

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Originally Posted by RVCA

Did you read the thread?

Slightly, I need a sum up because there is too many spewing posts of subtle attacks to get to the actual content.

CanwllCorfe · 05-02-2011, 12:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Vanilla

Slightly, I need a sum up because there is too many spewing posts of subtle attacks to get to the actual content.

TheBig3 · 05-02-2011, 12:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Vanilla

Slightly, I need a sum up because there is too many spewing posts of subtle attacks to get to the actual content.

Janz thought Obama became Pat Robertson in his speech tonight.

RVCA · 05-02-2011, 12:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Vanilla

Slightly, I need a sum up because there is too many spewing posts of subtle attacks to get to the actual content.

Janzsoon was peeved that Obama invoked religious overtones in his speech immediately succeeding Osama's death, so TheBig3 challenged him. Voila

**Janszoon** · 05-02-2011, 12:19 AM

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Originally Posted by TheBig3

What you're telling me is that people who are furious about this religious "issue" aren't drawing from larger, different issues?

Sure, and the larger issue is Obama starting to look and act more like Bush with each passing day, which has nothing to do with Westboro Baptist or Terry Jones.

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Originally Posted by TheBig3

The truth is, that speech alone isn't offensive except for the 19 year olds who are nose-deep in Ayn Rand novels.

Am I a 19 year old nose-deep in Ayn Rand novels? No. So no need to engage in such ad hominems, eh?

captaincaptain · 05-02-2011, 12:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

First of all, it was more than saying "god bless america". It was a string of several Christian comments that the leader of my allegedly secular nation made at the end of his speech. I spent eight years dealing with a warmongering, fundamentalist Christian ass in the white house and voted for Obama because I wanted an alternative to that. When I see him behaving in exactly the same way as Bush it is, most definitely, a case of shitting in my face. And, honestly, do you really think that it makes any sense to end a speech which contained declarations of "we are not at war with Islam" with a bunch of Christian-themed platitudes? Sounds like a good way to undermine one's own speech to me.

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

Well, I don't know what to tell you. I've explained to you why his comments were specifically Christian. Sorry if you think that's "immature".

I could only find one post, where you actually attempted to explain anything. You started by saying there were "a string of several Christian comments". You've never said what those comments were. I think you had a flashback of Bush, maybe from PTSD and possibly decided your vote for the 2012 election off of this one little speech.

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