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Originally posted by Danhalen:
Do Muslims pray to God?
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Yes.
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Do Jews pray to God?
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Yes.
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Do Hindus pray to God?
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They pray to a few of them.
The common consensus is that Jews, Muslims, and Christians share the same idea of "God" that the government has in mind. Does this fuck over Hindus and Buddhists, and God knows what other religeons? A bit. But they are in such a minority, that it's hardly an issue. We are never going to change everything, and to completely eradicate "God" from every public forum, formal or informal, is to turn our backs completely on a fundamentalism that the nation was based on.
Why can't anybody take anything in stride anymore?
I have no problem really with allowing any group to have their religeous rights, but this shouldn't include denying our religeous past.
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Originally posted by Danhalen:
I don't want socialism, i just despise theocratic oligarchy under the guise of representative democracy.
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Uh oh, looks like somebody started using big words without realizing the consequences.
The problem with any words is that they convey only shades of meaning, rarely... if ever can anything completely concrete be transmitted from one to another.
The fact of the matter is that we don't live in a "Theocratic Oligarchy," and no amount of conspiracy theories could convince me that:
1)The Government is run by a secret leader, like the pope
2)The two major parties are in cohorts
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3)That our votes don't actually count.
Do you actually know what a "Theocratic Oligarchy" is? The closest example I can think of is the Vatican. The United States is nothing like the Vatican, your vote counts, everybody gets one, no matter what their religion.
Think the President (or the Republican party for that matter) is exercising undo religious influence upon the nation? Well it's certainly not intolerable as the Republicans managed to completely demolish the Democrats this year (partly because of an ignorant faith that an Anti-Bush attitude will get you anywhere in life).
Now we move onto your other word "guise." Ohhhhhh you sound so fucking intellectual, I bet you go to Harvard! Grow up kid, the
structure of the United States Government is
completely transparent. I will not deny that there are aspects of smaller agencies that you may not have access to, and some of these may or may not be ethical, but these are not critical to the makeup of the government as a whole.
There is not anything being hidden from you of the makeup of the 3 main bodies of power (Congress, the President, The Justice System). Everything is public. Everything eventually comes down to the people on Election Day in some way or another.
We are, in fact, a true Representative Democracy, and your arguing otherwise, without any substantial, structured argument, makes me dislike you and disrespect you.
[ February 03, 2005, 10:32 PM: Message edited by: DJ FC ]