Conservative christians are devil worshippers
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That's at least the idea of one who say to be the archdruid of america.
http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.ca/2013/12/a-christmas-speculation.html
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Any "Christians" that would advocate the use of violence, or that would use their religious doctrines as justification for conquest through the mass slaughter of indigenous people are not worshiping the Christ.
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Any "Christians" that would advocate the use of violence, or that would use their religious doctrines as justification for conquest through the mass slaughter of indigenous people are not worshiping the Christ.
Absolutely.
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Any "Christians" that would advocate the use of violence, or that would use their religious doctrines as justification for conquest through the mass slaughter of indigenous people are not worshiping the Christ.
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God, guns, and guts made America; let's keep all three.
Christian dogma requires you to believe the devil is real.
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God, guns, and guts made America; let's keep all three.
"God-fearing", European "Christians" nearly wiped out the native Americans with guns, because those natives happened to occupy the land that the Europeans wanted for themselves.
Yeah ... that took a lot of 'guts' ... No ... it took greed ... and the Devil ...
Well, since it is now pretty clear his "faith" historically practiced human sacrifice on a mass scale as well as the occasional bit of cannibalism, I'd say take what he says with a grain of salt. Or two. Viz:
Druids Committed Human Sacrifice, Cannibalism? (link)
Assuming the doggerel he believes isn't just something somebody pulled out of their rear end in the late 19th Century. Which it probably is.
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"The man who has fed the chicken every day throughout its life at last wrings its neck instead, showing that more refined views as to the uniformity of nature would have been useful to the chicken." ? Bertrand Russell
Actually a lot of what LaVey supposedly wrote in the Satanic Bible was out and out plagiarism.
Some of the harshest criticism of Rand has actually come from Conservatives. Though, admittedly the most famous example that comes to mind was done in 1957, back when American conservatism owed more to Edmund Burke than Leon Trotsky.
See here. (link)
Not necessarily the fairest criticism, mind you. But if you ever come across a true-believer Randroid this book review will just about always wind them up. And Rand certainly never referred to herself as a conservative of any stripe. Her preferred appellation was as a "radical for capitalism."
FWIW, the above book review also set off a huge feud between William F. Buckley, Jr. and Ayn Rand. Kind of an amusing historical curiosity at this point.
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"The man who has fed the chicken every day throughout its life at last wrings its neck instead, showing that more refined views as to the uniformity of nature would have been useful to the chicken." ? Bertrand Russell
My impression of Ayn Rand and Atlas Shrugged was it was a reaction to Stalinist USSR. Her predictions in Atlas Shrugged is what actually happened in the former USSR.
For instants take Soviet era washing machines. They essentially did not work. So everyone washed closes by hand, even if they were one of those lucky few who had a washing machine. I suppose a Soviet era washing machine was more a form of bling. There are a ton of things like this.
Atlas Shrugged is about the former USSR and her warning, you sure don't want to go that way.
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For instants take Soviet era washing machines. They essentially did not work. So everyone washed closes by hand, even if they were one of those lucky few who had a washing machine. I suppose a Soviet era washing machine was more a form of bling. There are a ton of things like this.
Atlas Shrugged is about the former USSR and her warning, you sure don't want to go that way.
Plenty of conservatives today use her to justify radical individualism in America, where no one owes anyone else a hand up, and the sense that we're a society where everyone is of worth is denied.
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Actually a lot of what LaVey supposedly wrote in the Satanic Bible was out and out plagiarism.
Some of the harshest criticism of Rand has actually come from Conservatives. Though, admittedly the most famous example that comes to mind was done in 1957, back when American conservatism owed more to Edmund Burke than Leon Trotsky.
See here. (link)
Not necessarily the fairest criticism, mind you. But if you ever come across a true-believer Randroid this book review will just about always wind them up. And Rand certainly never referred to herself as a conservative of any stripe. Her preferred appellation was as a "radical for capitalism."
FWIW, the above book review also set off a huge feud between William F. Buckley, Jr. and Ayn Rand. Kind of an amusing historical curiosity at this point.
Ah, Rand refers to those in need as "looters," in Fountain Head. I'm surprised the right hasn't added that term to their lexicon to describe the down and out, along with "takers," and "eaters."
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I found of list once that listed over 800 denominations that fall under the Christian heading.
That's 800 different theologic organisations, some of which were wildly "out there", yet they all fall within the "Christian" nameplate.
There's little wonder people get confused when they see someone calling themselves a Christian doing something completely at odds with what they'd expect of a Christian. But to lump us all together and critasize us wholesale is stupid.
Besides that; anything a archdruid says on a subject not of his faith should be taken with cynicism anyway.