I'm beginning to think that as the Christian Right wanes in power,

[MrsSmith]

20score  (1000+ posts)        Sun Feb-01-09 01:49 PM
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I'm beginning to think that as the Christian Right wanes in power, the anti-smoking nazis will take 

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their place as the most obnoxious group in the country. People really want to start a prohibition on tobacco? Because the old one on alcohol and the present one on drugs have worked so well? That is the direction the country seems to be taking. A Google News search of the words ‘smoking ban’ comes up with over 5,000 hits. This is just all beginning to be a bit much.

And for the record, I don’t smoke, think marijuana should be legal and the war on drugs is the actual crime. We don't need another 'war on.' The number of smokers have been declining already. Those that haven't quit are having a hard time stopping.
Get off their backs already.

 

As the group that has done more to guarantee individual freedoms than any other group wanes in power, DUmpMonkeys are finally starting to worry about the leftist freedom-haters they've supported for years??   

[Airwolf]

The first thing the OP got wrong was this.

"I'm begining to think......"

[BlueStateSaint]

The first thing the OP got wrong was this.

"I'm begining to think......"

They are obviously believing that those two brain cells they have are in agreement!

Stoopid DUmb****s.

[franksolich]

Is it true?

Are we waning?

If we're waning, how come the primitives are so worried about us?

[Redstatecka]

Is it true?

No.

Are we waning?

No.

If we're waning, how come the primitives are so worried about us?

They're scared, but've learned well that if you repeat something long enough, the advocacy/adversary media will pick it up and, sooner or later, it becomes perceived truth.

But they've got BIG surprise if they think the "Christian right," whatever that really is, is done for.

We're being marginalized, for sure, by the Democrats, liberals and leftists, as well as Republicans and conservatives, especially some of the once-conservative/still-pretending-to-be punditocracy (Kathleen Parker comes immediately to mind).

[MrsSmith]

Is it true?

Are we waning?

If we're waning, how come the primitives are so worried about us?

Maybe we are.  If you look at the treatment Sarah Palin received, and the fact that seemingly large numbers of people actually believe that her faith is a detriment...maybe we are waning.  It's a fact that more and more "educated" people couldn't pass a 10-question theology quiz...just as I couldn't have, all those years I thought I was a Christian.  How much power can we have when many of our own children come out of college brainwashed into stupidity?

[Lord Undies]

Regarding the Little Goon's OP concerning smoking bans, it has always fascinated my why, to the Nazi Liberals, developed lungs are the most important human organs.  They don't give a crap about the health of livers.  They don't give a crap about the wellbeing of sex organs.  Hearts damaged by drugs are of no concern.  To them, the brain is a terrible thing to waste unstoned.

Why lungs?  What is so precious about the lung?  They don't care about the ones who have never had a chance to be filled with sweet air.  It's the developed lungs of born human beings which draws their crowd.  Why?

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

After playing to a crowd of a quarter-million people the lead singer for the band Oasis said they were, "bigger than Jesus."

They haven't been heard from since.

DUmmies should take note before calling God dead.

[Redstatecka]

Maybe we are.  If you look at the treatment Sarah Palin received, and the fact that seemingly large numbers of people actually believe that her faith is a detriment...maybe we are waning.  It's a fact that more and more "educated" people couldn't pass a 10-question theology quiz...just as I couldn't have, all those years I thought I was a Christian.  How much power can we have when many of our own children come out of college brainwashed into stupidity?

Palin's prime example of: repeat lies and slander long enough and some sticks. Remember: She had the ENTIRE advocacy/adversary media assaulting her, as well as Obama and his campaign. The amount of negative, malicious press she got was astoundingly negative.

Whether "educated' people can pass the test you suggest is a reflection of lameness and bias in so-called institutions of higher learning and, yes, the rise of moral agnosticism or relativism and secular humanism.

That they can't points to how uneducated the "educated" are.

As for what happens to "our own children," Christian children, who were "brainwashed into stupidity" in college?

Well, the stats are there for that. Perhaps Christian parents should evaluate those places they send their kids. That's becuase lots and lots -- most? -- of those secular instituions are spiritual shark pools with insufficient support in and from the Christian community. And if the kid isn't well-grounded in Christianity and Christ, it really is like sending a lamb to the slaughter.

Too, face it: The faculty of the secular institutions includes agnostics, atheists, secular humanists, whatever almost exclusively. And they're liberal/leftist to flaming liberal/leftist on the politcal/philosophical scale. Combine that with secularism and  . . .

Sending a Christian child to a secular school, especially one at distance from the parents and the church to which the kid went is, IMO, asking for just that outcome: brainwashed into stupdity and, if I recall the youth pastor in our church remarking, about one in three turning away from Christianity.