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I'd challenge that. The turnout of blacks was significantly higher than in previous elections and some of those blacks changed parties to vote. Though blacks vote Democrat at a very high rate, I believe it increased 10% during the 2008 elections. There was obviously a racial motivation for some blacks.
The jewish vote for Obama was over 70% as well.The black vote alone didn't get him in.
Have you missed the party going out of its way to undermine Jews and promote Palestinians who democratically voted in a terrorist organization to head their country?
That'd be great if we wren't dealing with animals. Kowtowing to terrorists just emboldens them in their cause. They see the Great Satan, now led by Obama, is submitting to Muslims (bowing to the king of Saudi), which means that in their minds, they are make advances. If they stay true to their cause they will only make America submit more, or so they think.
Just like Iraq,the Saudi gov't as well as the Canadian one is different then ours.When 9/11 happened Saudi Arabia and Libya were 2 of the first countries to offer help and Saudi Arabia even offered a check which Giuliani declined.It's okay to be allies with them because like most other countries money is their great motivator.We also aren't submitting to muslims,we just have someone in power who is willing to hear them out, which is known as a negotiator not a tyrant like Georgie Boy.
I cannot speak for the Koran but the Bible (OT or NT) can be quite complicated and merely reading them will not give you the full message.
There is significantly more to the NT than "updating" and revising the OT to something palatable.
That brings a NT verse to mind "demand miraculous signs and Greeks look for wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God."
I haven't researched enough to figure out if the Bible says that God is a part of every incident on Earth but if you presume there is a divine being capable of creating the entire universe, I'd think he'd be capable of acting on every little happening on Earth.
But it's not plain English. It's very much more than plain English. I've been studying it (though not always actively) for my entire adult life and a good portion of my childhood and I'm still elarning things.
You couldn't pick up a high-level physics book and expect to understand it if you read it word for word, front to back unless you had lots of previous training on physics and even then you wouldn't get it all the first few times you read it. The Bible is similar though I'd say even more difficult.
Sure, but what does the sinner have to do with the "Law"? The standard of the Bible is perfection yet humans are imperfect. Of course they're going to drop the ball. Moreso, there are plenty of "false teachers" and "false prophets" who claim to be Christians and are anything but. And this is what disturbs me about your "plain english" reading of the Bible. Those ideas are in there and yet you seem completely ignorant of them.
So you are saying that all clergy are like that? Also, while we may be spokesmen for God, His Word is the final authority and everyone has access to it so as to confirm what the man in the pulpit is doing is consistent with what God tells him to do.
More power to you but it's obvious your "plain english" reading of the Bible needs serious work if you're going to make an educated decision on its merits.
When you read alot of the prayer books it's mostly like reading OLD ENGLISH.You usually get the idea but when read a few times you really start to understand it.As for the bible you can't compare math or science because they are mostly based on formulas whereas the bible is pretty straight forward.I understand it well as a highly intelligent individual but disagree with a ton of it as someone even smarter.There are little things that can be missed but the general meanings are BLATANTLY obvious.
Openly atheists don't have a chance in hell of getting elected. Practically every politician has some sort of religion. What scares me are the neoconservative and liberal BIG GOV politicians who don't give a rat's ass for the Constitution or civil liberty. Today people of color, homosexuals, or even some neoliberal born in Africa who snorts cocaine and inhales can become president - atheists still not accepted.
Openly atheists don't have a chance in hell of getting elected. Practically every politician has some sort of religion. What scares me are the neoconservative and liberal BIG GOV politicians who don't give a rat's ass for the Constitution or civil liberty. Today people of color, homosexuals, or even some neoliberal born in Africa who snorts cocaine and inhales can become president - atheists still not accepted.
politicians are not influenced by religion anymore than rats are influenced by rat traps.
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