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29 Sep 2010, 4:03 pm

As Franz Boas once said when he was adressing/ referring to those trying to discredit his research : " I can't stop people from being crazy." :p

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29 Sep 2010, 6:31 pm

The Supreme Court is going to revisit the Snyder case again next week.

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29 Sep 2010, 6:34 pm

If any group would truly represent a legal standard where you could start to define "fighting words" in a legal sense: those scumbags protesting solders' funerals with hate speech would be an easy starting point.

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29 Sep 2010, 7:24 pm

skafather84 wrote:

What these crazies did was extremely provocative and under the "fighting words" doctrine they deserve all the violence they invite upon themselves. Free speech is primarily for petitioning the government for redress of grievance. See the wording of the First Amendment.

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30 Sep 2010, 7:51 am

The WBC gives true Christians everywhere a bad name. People are always going to judge Christians by their worst examples because they get the most attention.

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30 Sep 2010, 11:35 am

WBC is clearly a cult. The strongest evidence proving this is the video where two of his disowned kids speak out.

I hope they don't allow women to be pastors, because they could be even more psychotic if Shirley were to take over.

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01 Oct 2010, 6:32 pm

rocklobster wrote:

The WBC gives true Christians everywhere a bad name. People are always going to judge Christians by their worst examples because they get the most attention.

You said it! The WBC is a hate group in disguise.

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01 Oct 2010, 6:33 pm

AnonymousAnonymous wrote:

rocklobster wrote:

The WBC gives true Christians everywhere a bad name. People are always going to judge Christians by their worst examples because they get the most attention.

You said it! The WBC is a hate group in disguise.

Not much of a disguise.

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04 Oct 2010, 1:58 am

WBC
A prime Example of Evil is Christianity

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04 Oct 2010, 7:00 am

rocklobster wrote:

The WBC gives true Christians everywhere a bad name. People are always going to judge Christians by their worst examples because they get the most attention.

I disagree.

People are always going to judge Christians by their worst examples because those people - and i dont mean the WBC in particular - are more consistent in their beliefs and better at getting their message out. You peaceable ones are outliers and far too muddled, variegated and erratic philosophically to present a stronger definition than the fundies.

You have neither a mechanism to eject them from your ranks, nor a way to isolate yourselves socially from their bigotry.

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04 Oct 2010, 8:30 am

In other words they need a pacifist cult(or church if you prefer) to counteract the hatred of WBC?

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05 Oct 2010, 6:05 am

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In other words they need a pacifist cult(or church if you prefer) to counteract the hatred of WBC?

It would be my preference that religion give up the holy ghost, so to speak. The energy wasted on religious pursuit will be better directed elsewhere.

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05 Oct 2010, 6:48 am

Fuzzy wrote:

rocklobster wrote:

The WBC gives true Christians everywhere a bad name. People are always going to judge Christians by their worst examples because they get the most attention.

Whoa now... we're not "outliers." We're the silent majority within Christianity.

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05 Oct 2010, 8:05 am

Fuzzy wrote:

ikorack wrote:

In other words they need a pacifist cult(or church if you prefer) to counteract the hatred of WBC?

It would be my preference that religion give up the holy ghost, so to speak. The energy wasted on religious pursuit will be better directed elsewhere.

can you prove that or is it just another belief?

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05 Oct 2010, 11:27 am

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Whoa now... we're not "outliers." We're the silent majority within Christianity.

Silence connotes consent - sometimes.

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05 Oct 2010, 11:59 am

ruveyn wrote:

Silence connotes consent

The motto of every date rapist.

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