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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-19-11 03:45 PM Original message |
Teabaggers like Bachmann and Ryan only pretend to be Christian; they have "objectivist sympathies" |
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gratuitous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-19-11 03:48 PM Response to Original message |
1. Because dressing up their selfishness as Christianity plays so much better |
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hifiguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-19-11 03:54 PM Response to Original message |
2. I am reading Richard Dawkins' brilliant |
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RKP5637 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-19-11 04:05 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. And the 7x24 cognitive dissonance/lack of rationality no doubt gives |
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hifiguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-19-11 04:09 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. Cog diss on that level makes the |
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RKP5637 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-19-11 06:45 PM Response to Reply #8 |
30. Yeah, kinda like a speaker cranked up at full volume rattling in ones head 7x24! n/t |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-19-11 04:16 PM Response to Reply #2 |
9. Ayn Rand was proud to be an atheist, too. |
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hifiguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-19-11 04:27 PM Response to Reply #9 |
13. Dawkins points out at considerable length that |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-19-11 04:34 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. Rand may not be an intellectual "giant" but her philosophy's impact |
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hifiguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-19-11 04:57 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. That says much about the intellectual "quality" of her |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-19-11 05:14 PM Response to Reply #16 |
22. All those people are voters. Her influence has been enormous, unfortunately. |
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PassingFair (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-19-11 05:07 PM Response to Reply #14 |
19. Most teabaggers wouldn't know Ayn Rand if she bit them on the ass. |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-19-11 05:13 PM Response to Reply #19 |
21. Doesn't matter. Her philosophy underpins the whole movement. |
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PassingFair (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-19-11 06:22 PM Response to Reply #21 |
27. Those buttholes didn't need Ayn Rand to teach them about selfishness. |
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white_wolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-19-11 05:19 PM Response to Reply #14 |
25. On Libertarianism Rand said the following in an interview. |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-19-11 05:26 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. It sounds like she's describing the same ones I'm talking about. |
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Sarah Ibarruri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-19-11 03:58 PM Response to Original message |
3. Churches in the U.S. are also Randian. Repukes taught me to hate churches nt |
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RKP5637 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-19-11 04:06 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. Same here!!! n/t |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-19-11 04:18 PM Response to Reply #3 |
10. Any "Church" that preaches Randian philosophy isn't preaching |
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Sarah Ibarruri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-19-11 04:19 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. These days I don't know of any Christian church that isn't preaching Randian philosophy |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-19-11 04:21 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. None of the "mainline" denominations do. For example: |
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Sarah Ibarruri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-19-11 04:44 PM Response to Reply #12 |
15. A lot of Catholics seem somewhat more compassionate. Tho many have become... |
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MedicalAdmin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-19-11 05:04 PM Response to Reply #11 |
17. Um - you live in FL, right? |
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Sarah Ibarruri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-19-11 05:06 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. You think? I mean, I know FL is a retarded fascist's paradise, but still.... |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-19-11 05:15 PM Response to Reply #18 |
23. How about the Quakers? Any of them in Florida? |
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Sarah Ibarruri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-19-11 05:17 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. Yes. Those people are wonderful. There are too few to consider tho. nt |
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Hubert Flottz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-19-11 04:00 PM Response to Original message |
4. If they go to "Heaven" the place won't be fit for a mad dog. |
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Fuzz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-19-11 04:07 PM Response to Original message |
7. American Jesus don't need no charity. |
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white_wolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-19-11 05:10 PM Response to Original message |
20. As Al Franken points in his book Lies and the Lying Liars who tell them |
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B Calm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-19-11 06:28 PM Response to Original message |
28. Vote for me or you'll go to HELL campaigns. . . So many choices |
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Warren DeMontague (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-19-11 06:30 PM Response to Original message |
29. Verily, they're not true Scotsmen. |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-19-11 08:34 PM Response to Reply #29 |
31. You very well could be, |
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Warren DeMontague (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-19-11 08:44 PM Response to Reply #31 |
32. Really? The Space Being who runs the 14 Billion LY Wide Universe isn't intimately interested |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-19-11 09:17 PM Response to Reply #32 |
33. That's what some kids might be taught in Sunday School. |
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Warren DeMontague (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-19-11 11:26 PM Response to Reply #33 |
34. Seeing as I don't believe in any of it, it's really not my problem |
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