Steve

Pro democracy, centrist, amateur golfer, trader. John 3:14. Success comes from within. Insults = blocked.

[Steve @Slipperysteps1]

@infantrydort In LOTR, the shire spent so long sheltered from evil that it began to think evil did not exist.

The west is like the shire.

We must save the shire.

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@run_bull_ Hop on a bus and be here in 6 hours.

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I follow several people who were scarred by Islam and fled to the West. They are terrified that this ideology is headed here. Our forefathers fought to keep them out for over 1000 years and for good reason. Meanwhile, overly enlightened people like yourself are saying "come on in".

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@DDLMoore @gtconway3d Individually, I hsve no problem with Muslims. Collectively they worldview becomes a problem.

[Dan Burmawi @DanBurmawy]

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[Steve @Slipperysteps1]

Historians note that, as a 22 year old student, Jefferson approached the text primarily as a comparative legal code to understand Ottoman and North African governance rather than as a sacred scripture.

He personally criticized its theology and governance as incompatible with Enlightenment ideals.

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@SeabreezeLP Bulls call it "Financial Innovation". I call it a circular firing squad.

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@KobeissiLetter A overlycrowded long position is a contrarian signal.

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Atheism and Totalitarianism have been partners for centuries. The first thing needed to control a population is to remove an external "God" and appoint a man as the highest power. Nobody can be above you. In North Korea, their leader is considered half man half God. In China, nobody outranks XI. One of his first acts as leader was to tear down as many churches as he could.

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Let's use today's countries as a laboratory. Its divided into Christian (West), Muslim (ME), Hindu (India), and Atheist (China, North Korea, and Russia to some extend, as they never recovered for the USSR) sphere's. Why is everyone trying to get to the Christian sphere? The one with human dignity, rights, and liberty?

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Creator means God. They wrote that because they wanted put the rights of man above the control of mankind. Now, go to any Atheist country, lets use China as an example. You will never find a statement like that there. Men are definitely not equal and have no inherent dignity. They can kill or jail you for any reason or no reason at all. Go there and speak about the government and report back, if you get back. LOL.

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They wrote that because they saw what happens when church and state are combined. Not because they disliked Christianity. Thomas Jefferson: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their CREATOR with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. George Washington wrote that religion (Christianity) and morality were essential supports of political prosperity and called religion "a necessary spring of popular government".

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@girdley Guy is numbing the pain.

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@DDLMoore @gtconway3d There are no Middle Eastern Muslim dominated countries where non-Muslims hold the same rights as Muslims. That is alarming on its own. Islam is a nation and a religion, and sees its laws superior to secular law.

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Bullshit. This is a common claim that doesn't hold up. Christianity rose out of a brutish society that was feeding people to lions for entertainment (a society heavily influenced by the Greeks btw), and transformed it into the great societies of the West. It's starting principle is that all people are equal before the eyes of God, no matter your ethnic group or wealth. That was a revolutionary idea 2000 years ago, and still isn't the case in most non-Christian based countries today.

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@Bleeposaurus Most of Western society is built on Christian principles, moron.

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I'm not worried. The reason for a conference is you have a guaranteed slate of quality teams to play. Without that, who do you play? If they wanted to form a "super conference", none of our neighbors would be in it either, and the games with our neighbors matter most to us anyway.

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While not calling for PJ's removal, I do think he needs to keep getting better as a coach. His ultraconservative play calling hurts the team. The fans just want him to be more aggressive and bold in his game decisions. More blitzing on defense, more downfield throws. Stop worrying so much about time of possession.

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@munster_gene They said that about the housing market in 2007, too. Everybody needs to keep dancing.

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@cpurkiser @NOTimothyLottes I'll take the other side of that bet. Circular financing also means a circular implosion if projections fall short.