Maybe somebody should tell him about the Voice of America?
So, it really wouldn’t serve the purpose.
Well according to Republican theological understanding, any self proclaimed Christian who commits an act of terrorism isn’t a true Christian, on the other hand any Muslim who doesn’t commit acts of terrorism isn’t a true Muslim. They also don’t put salt in their porridge.
Forgive a niggling point of Republican theology, a quibble. A true Christian, by definition, cannot commit a terrorist act. They sometimes take actions that are misunderstood by persons of weak faith. Killing a doctor is an unfortunate necessity to rescue an unborn child, for instance, but is absolved by the faith of the actor. But since Islam is a dark and unholy travesty, no action by a Muslim can be similarly absolved because the faith is false.
“No Jew in the history of the world has ever used the term ‘Judeo-Christian.’ Because it means ‘Christian.’” – Elon Green
But wouldn’t it be a ton of fun to have an official news station and an official propaganda station operating side by side? I say this has to happen!
Can someone tell me what exactly is wrong with this? I mean he’e using Judeo-Christian ethic to describe human rights, democracy, freedoms of speech, religion, and association.
I mean is this really much different than Radio Free Europe? Which is what Kasich even alludes to.
He’s defining “what it means to have a Western ethic” as meaning “to be part of a Judeo-Christian society.” You could call it a slip of the tongue if you like, but defining our country by conformance to a particular strain of religion, all others being at best tolerated, is *not *consistent with our principle of religious freedom - and that is *not *one of the things he listed as defining our societal norms anyway.
Well, I suppose you could make a case . . . Europe is sometimes called “post-Christian” because of declining belief and practice there, yet it remains and always will remain a “Christian civilization” in some sense, its customs and world-view and morals having been so profoundly shaped by Christianity. And it’s the same with the U.S.
In the same sense, Dar al-Islam will remain an Islamic civilization even in some far future where most people don’t pray daily and almost never go to mosque and are merely what you might call Ramadan Muslims.
This is not exactly a rare idea, that the US and Europe have a Judeo-Christian ethic that has resulted in human rights, democracy, and the various freedoms we’ve been granted. There is nothing that makes Kasich into a non-moderate by using the term as a stand-in term for ‘Western human rights’.
And yes in his speech to the National Press Club he did specifically say “freedom of religion”.
Judeo-Christian human rights include slavery, women-as-chattel, disdain for homosexuals, and xenophobia.
To the extent our societies have gotten human rights, it’s largely by throwing Judeo-Christian ethics in the garbage.
Because Ben Carson can’t be wrong less than twice a day, here’s a detail of a map his campaign released today.
Are there any graphic designers who read this thread and can say how this mistake was made? To me it seems that it would take much more effort to get the map this wrong than to get it right.
Ben Stein: Obama hates America because he’s black
They’ve finally stopped pretending.
I’m a graphic designer, and I’d say it looks like he grabbed the map, but didn’t select Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut and then dragged the map down, so that the aforementioned states shifted up relatively. It looks like Connecticut is overlapping the top of Vermont, but since they’re the same color they look like one unit.
That’s what I’d assume anyway.
Sorta. But it looks like he did away with Connecticut all together and then decided, what the hell? Why not put Massachusetts on top of Rhode Island? Certainly all that cutting and pasting isn’t easier (and certainly not more correct) than just grabbing another map of the U.S.?
I’m thinking either his campaign, or even Ben himself, is out to sabotage his campaign. Especially after yesterday’s interview with Dr. Carson’s foreign policy mentor.
And admits he’s an “unsophisticated thinker.”
The Carson campaign, in the person of Ben’s best buddy (who has no official job with the campaign), responded to those comments by saying that the New York Times had taken advantage of “an elderly gentleman”.
I know that when I hate someone, the first thing I do is make sure they have access to healthcare. And while it’s debatable what can be attributed to Obama, a 5% unemployment rate, soaring stock market, and $2.00 gasoline don’t strike me as particularly effective instruments of loathing.
I think this is brilliant. Everyone is talking about how the map is jacked up rather than how repellent the message is.