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To be honest- states that are majority Catholic don't seem to have a big problem separating Church and state. Talk to the Baptists and other fundamentalist Christian sects.
I think you''re mostly chasing ghosts. If the American South is what a theocracy looks like to you, I would invite you to look around the world and find some actual examples.
What's also amusing is this premise that critics aren't "imposing their morality" or belief systems on people. I have yet to encounter a law that doesn't impose morality on society and I have yet to encounter someone who rails against Christians imposing their morality on society who themselves aren't entrenched in firm, fixed beliefs that they wish to enact through statutes and court fiats.
are you suggesting these people are into percussion? I'm sorry, I think I am just failing to understand you. is this a little sly saying that I am unaware of? regardless, the original post was hysterical. it was like it was plucked right out of the brain of an 18 year old "activist."
"Bible thumper (mainly US)
Someone perceived as aggressively imposing their Christian beliefs upon others. The term derives from preachers thumping their hands down on the Bible, or thumping the Bible itself, to emphasise a point during a sermon. The term's target domain is broad and can often extend to anyone engaged in a public show of religion, fundamentalist or not. The term is most commonly used in English-speaking countries."
"Bible thumper (mainly US)
Someone perceived as aggressively imposing their Christian beliefs upon others. The term derives from preachers thumping their hands down on the Bible, or thumping the Bible itself, to emphasise a point during a sermon. The term's target domain is broad and can often extend to anyone engaged in a public show of religion, fundamentalist or not. The term is most commonly used in English-speaking countries."
You're making it worse.
The only thing missing is someone making mention of "the flying spaghetti monster." That takes it up to Dork Level 11.
"Bible thumper (mainly US)
Someone perceived as aggressively imposing their Christian beliefs upon others. The term derives from preachers thumping their hands down on the Bible, or thumping the Bible itself, to emphasise a point during a sermon. The term's target domain is broad and can often extend to anyone engaged in a public show of religion, fundamentalist or not. The term is most commonly used in English-speaking countries."
so it's a phrase used by, and used for, nerds. gotcha.
"Bible thumper (mainly US)
Someone perceived as aggressively imposing their Christian beliefs upon others. The term derives from preachers thumping their hands down on the Bible, or thumping the Bible itself, to emphasise a point during a sermon. The term's target domain is broad and can often extend to anyone engaged in a public show of religion, fundamentalist or not. The term is most commonly used in English-speaking countries."
They know what it is, they’re simply acting obtuse.
I only posted the definition for someone who appears to have never heard the term before.
Sheesh.
The problem is you not comprehending that someone is having some fun at your expense and amplifying it by posting a dictionary definition of something that the other person has already lampooned.
To cut to the chase: he understood what "Bible thumper" meant from the outset but was mocking the use of that cliched term. Perhaps his use of the term "dorky" to describe people who use it might have been a clue?
this is one of the most embarrassing threads that has been posted in the history of C-D. how humiliating for the OP.
It's not humiliating for the OP, it's humiliating for all of the pro-lifers who can't answer the OP's question.
Pro-lifer's shutting down PP's and enacting draconian abortion regulations is going to almost exclusively effect poor women and that means there are going to be a lot more women and their children on the public dole. FACT.
Pro-lifers want to force poor women to have children they can't afford and then they want to sit back on their sanctimonious rear ends and complain about having to pay taxes to support welfare mothers and children.
How are working women making minimum wage supposed to pay for housing, food, healthcare and childcare all on their own?
The OP was asking pro-lifers for suggestions on how to handle children living in poverty without using taxpayer money and no one has given any viable solutions.
Expecting people to be celibate is not a viable solution.
Expecting people to get a condom on perfectly every single time or never forget to take a pill on time is not a viable solution.
Expecting BC, even if used perfectly, to never fail is not a viable solution. Hell, even sterilization has been known to fail.
Expecting women who can't afford a child to just adopt it out is not a viable solution.
Expecting women who didn't want a child to automatically become good loving mothers is not a viable solution.
In short, people are not perfect and expecting that to change in not a viable solution.
And most of all, there is nothing pro-LIFE or caring about turning children into a consequence, a form of punishment, for women who dare to engage in recreational sex.
Last of all, what do you think should be done about children living in poverty?
The problem is you not comprehending that someone is having some fun at your expense and amplifying it by posting a dictionary definition of something that the other person has already lampooned.
To cut to the chase: he understood what "Bible thumper" meant from the outset but was mocking the use of that cliched term. Perhaps his use of the term "dorky" to describe people who use it might have been a clue?
No, I think he did not know what it meant but is now trying to pretend that he did.
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