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The Burden of Being Republican
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>*THE BURDEN OF BEING A REPUBLICAN
>*/Things you have to believe to be a Republican today/:
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>Saddam was a good guy when Reagan armed him, a bad guy when Bush's daddy
>made war on him, a good guy when Cheney did business with him and a bad
>guy when Bush needed a 'we can't find Bin Laden' diversion.
>Trade with Cuba is wrong because the country is communist, but trade
>with China and Vietnam is vital to a spirit of international harmony.
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>The United States should get out of the United Nations, and our highest
>national priority is enforcing U.N. resolutions against Iraq.
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>A woman can't be trusted with decisions about her own body, but
>multi-national corporations can make decisions affecting all mankind
>without regulation.
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>Jesus loves you, and shares your hatred of homosexuals and Hillary
>Clinton.
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>The best way to improve military morale is to praise the troops in
>speeches while slashing veterans' benefits and combat pay.
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>If condoms are kept out of schools, adolescents won't have sex.
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>A good way to fight terrorism is to belittle our long-time allies, then
>demand their cooperation and money.
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>Providing health care to all Iraqis is sound policy. Providing health
>care to all Americans is socialism.
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>HMOs and insurance companies have the best interests of the public at
>heart.
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>A president lying about an extramarital affair is an impeachable
>offense. A president lying to enlist support for a war in which
>thousands die is solid defense policy.
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>The public has a right to know about Hillary's cattle trades, but George
>Bush's driving and military record is none of our business.
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>Being a drug addict is a moral failing and a crime, unless you're a
>conservative radio host. Then it's an illness, and you need our prayers
>for your recovery.
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>You support states' rights, which means Attorney General John Ashcroft
>can tell states what local voter initiatives they have the right to adopt.
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>What Bill Clinton did in the 1960s is of vital national interest, but
>what Bush did in the '80s is irrelevant.
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see, what many people want to believe about God is that his main characteristic is his love. prins, you prob. know this- how do the angels sitting around God's throne praise him? 'love, love, love.' right? NO 'HOLY, HOLY, HOLY!!!' his main characteristic is his holiess. meaning, that he can not be with anything that detracts from his holiness. thats why i believe you MUST be saved to get to heaven. 'what hath righteoussness to do with wickedness', if your sins arent cleansed and removed, the how can you spend an eternity with God?
'i am THE way THE truth, and THE light. NO man cometh unto the father (God), BUT BY me.
^jd, youre educated. what does the word 'THE' mean? it's exclusive. its the opposite way of 'A(N)', which is inclusive, showing that there is only 1 way. through Jesus.
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sorry about fallin' out on this whole thing. fell asleep. went to school. missed a lot.
but prins. were you saying that it God needs to be in the government to keep good people in office? by saying this you're saying that God is the only way for someone to be a good person and all non-christians are bad people? sure, christianity teaches virtues and i guess you might be able to make the assumption that christians are more likely to be a 'good' person because you know its taught to them. what about the people with parents that instill ethics into them? thinking that christians in general are better people than others is a little elitist, wouldn't you say?
and that whole comment about people being created good. maybe i'm a little bit of an idealist on this one, but i do believe that people are created good. i'm sorry that you don't have enough faith in your fellow man to believe this too.
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- Andrew Berwald
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B-wald, good points. Natural Rights Philosophy doesn’t state that you need to be a Christian to be in government. It’s simply a way for people to be held accountable. Who cares if they are accountable to us (look to Enron and the like, they were responsible to their shareholders and look what they did!). The fact is that by having God in government you have one more step of protection for the people whom the elected officials are serving.
Little order of authority, from the bottom up.
Us as citizens -> local laws -> local judicial system -> local elected officials -> county court system -> state laws -> state judiciary -> state elected officials -> national laws -> national officials -> national judiciary -> God
While the points in each section (ie. local, state, national) can be rearranged to balance the checks set up in the structure of our government it’s all set up to have God at the end. So that the law makers are accountable to the elected officials who are responsible to the judges who are responsible to keep God’s creation moving forward. We hold the least amount of authority in our gov’t, it’s simply deciding who has the most. When you remove God from our gov’t you are giving it to the hands of men who (in time) will become corrupt. Look at every great society from Egypt, Rome, France, China, Japan… They had a person as the absolute authority in their government and they failed. It’s really an interesting topic to study. This is a very short and abbreviated version of it so don’t get flustered if I didn’t mention everything
How about people being created innately good? I do believe that there is good inside everyone. Rather I am rational enough to know that little kids will always hit and hurt their siblings, that without laws there would be chaos, that everyone has urges to do evil things (hurt others, kill others, gossip/fabricate about others). If we were created as Good People then we wouldn’t know bad things until much later in life when they were introduced to us.
What of native American tribes who had no contact with western civilization yet were still at war with one another? I see no logical way you can believe people to be innately good aside from a blind faith in what you desire to be true.
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