tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post1247690394009792220..comments2024-03-26T06:17:49.527-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: Obama Defames Jesus ChristStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-30172720318954337142015-02-09T05:42:47.881-08:002015-02-09T05:42:47.881-08:00IAC,
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/397914...IAC,<br /><br />http://www.nationalreview.com/article/397914/roots-obamas-appeasement-victor-davis-hanson<br /><br />One of the most telling statements, "Throughout history, without the vanity of the conceder, there would never have been appeasement."Dennishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14962996070458991675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-90273153936331202712015-02-08T19:42:04.151-08:002015-02-08T19:42:04.151-08:00I thought he couldn't surprise me. I was wrong...I thought he couldn't surprise me. I was wrong.<br /><br />Subject was current (and future) threats to national & intn'l security. And how to handle them. (W/o naming their motive Theology from 642 CE.)<br /><br />He swerves to 1099 thru @ 1199 and beyond. Names Theology, which isn't a threat. Blames it for misdeeds, and conflates it with the un-named threat.<br /><br />A cow-college lawyer (no offense intended) would call that a Non-Sequiter. A Harvard lawyer ... wisdom, I suppose. - Rich Lara Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-67188578957956108442015-02-08T18:28:10.346-08:002015-02-08T18:28:10.346-08:00Obama thinks he is Jesus ChristObama thinks he is Jesus ChristAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-8106544835722884352015-02-08T14:10:39.695-08:002015-02-08T14:10:39.695-08:00Dennis @February 8, 2015 at 6:22 AM:
Obama likes ...Dennis @February 8, 2015 at 6:22 AM:<br /><br />Obama likes being a critic, but doesnt handle criticism very well. What does that tell you? Too much Howard Zinn, John Rawls, Sauk Alinsky, John Dewey, Karl Marx, etc. without the "diversity" he says is so critical to the America he dreams of. He is a student of indoctrination, passing on the torch. His Constitution is a critique, not a contribution. It's easy to be a critic. I do not find him American in his bearing at all. That doesn't mean I'm a Birther... I'm not interested in where he was born for the sake of this exchange. What I find remarkable is how his bearing, interests, disposition and attitude aren't American at all. When he said in Berlin that he was a "citizen of the world," I suspect he meant it. Kennedy said "Eich ein Berliner," but no one scarcely believed he was German. He was American. That's why I found Obama's Berlin speech so alarming in the wake of the Jeremiah Wright episode. It fit the narrative. That's why Democratic operatives had to quash it, and fast. And with their willing media accomplices, and a lousy candidate in McCain, they succeeded. Once I learned where Obama was from, where he chose to go, who he chose to listen to, the whole thing seemed unsettling. And nothing has been right since. He won two elections: first running against something, then against someone. His entire campaign was about a euphemism, an empty vessel people could pour all their dreams into -- "Hope & Change." Then we got "Forward," and we're living it full steam ahead. <br /><br /><br />n.n @February 7, 2015 at 12:05 PM:<br /><br />And that's what makes him a "bitter clinger." <br /><br />Maybe Obama will set the record straight and give the southwestern United States to Mexico (or Spain), and then give the rest of the country back to the Native Americans. Is that justice?<br /><br />And I do find it interesting that Obama called ISIS a "death cult." What have we been doing to unborn children all these years under the guise of man's law? That's not the icing on the cake... that's not even a part of the recipe. Unborn children are more collateral damage in his misguided pursuit of "justice."<br /><br />Obama wants to tell us we're all the same, drawing moral equivalence, but he doesn't mean it. He doesn't treat us all the same. He's made his choice, time after time. Look who's worthy of protection, and who's worthy of ridicule. There's your answer.Ignatius Acton Chesterton OCDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222603717128565302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-69954495220233446632015-02-08T06:22:06.539-08:002015-02-08T06:22:06.539-08:00IAC,
This should not be a surprise given the lack...IAC,<br /><br />This should not be a surprise given the lack of true political diversity in academe. https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/rabble-rouser/201501/psychologys-political-diversity-problem <br />Unfortunately academe has the same problem in almost ever area and not just in psychology. It take real bravery to challenge academe so I applaud the writer of the above in Psychology Today."<br /><br />What can one expect from someone like Obama when he gets so much of American History wrong and worse yet does not understand the context and/or meaning of "a more perfect union." George Washington did not live in the White House as Obama suggested. He selected the place for it in 1791. It was completed in 1800 president John Adams and his wife Abigail moved in.<br />It is a question how someone who professes to be a Constitutional scholar gets so many things wrong. The mistake made by Obama rise exponentially when it comes to world history. Too much of his knowledge about the United States come from the pews of Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayres which is underpinned by a real hatred of this country. When one is a radical or tends to be one then it is easy to find comradeship with "community organizers" which is an apt description of ISIS, DASH, et al.Dennishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14962996070458991675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-26270222288428862312015-02-07T18:16:10.356-08:002015-02-07T18:16:10.356-08:00The world needs for somebody to collect the commen...The world needs for somebody to collect the comments in this thread and put them in a brightly lighted place for all to see.Larry Sheldonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12653436584890594776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-88932548721871657762015-02-07T12:05:40.953-08:002015-02-07T12:05:40.953-08:00Ignatius Acton Chesterton OCD:
Obama is a bitter ...Ignatius Acton Chesterton OCD:<br /><br />Obama is a bitter clinger. He leverages past events to obfuscate present actions, and intentionally distorts known and accepted history.<br /><br />He is establishing a moral equivalence and motive between the Christian Crusades and ISIS. He is arguing that ISIS is fighting a defensive war to reclaim conquered lands and protect conquered people. In his effort to legitimize ISIS, he is delegitimizing the current native regimes. I wonder if they will notice. His slight of Christians, and Americans in particular, is merely icing on the cake.n.nhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04252447117532342957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-42065047101373466912015-02-07T12:00:07.415-08:002015-02-07T12:00:07.415-08:00Said, Obama, abortionist in chief, head of the abo...Said, Obama, abortionist in chief, head of the abortion party, supporters and promoters of an unprecedented [selective] termination of wholly innocent human lives.<br /><br />The "secular" religion or moral philosophy is objectively as depraved as Islam that directs its followers to convert or subjugate unbelievers through coercion rather than evangelization. While Muslims follow the prophet of Muhammad, seculars follow the profits of wealth, pleasure, and leisure. While Muslims violate human rights in the open, seculars violate human rights in privacy.<br /><br />I think Obama is motivated by nothing more than to marginalize or neutralize his competing interests. It's telling who he rejects and favors. Only time will tell how many will blindly follow him and what they will continue to sacrifice in order to secure their personal interests.n.nhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04252447117532342957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-16340183819610402292015-02-07T11:58:49.022-08:002015-02-07T11:58:49.022-08:00Obama seems like a college kid, parroting all the ...Obama seems like a college kid, parroting all the things he learned from Lefty professors. This bit of moral equivalence between Christian history and Islamist terror is no different. <br /><br />It is instructive that Obama is so petty and thin-skinned, as he doesn't seem to know what he believes or why he believes it. He just assumes that it's true, and his opponents are not just wrong... they're something just shy of evil. It's a dualist world based on all the traditional collegiate protest causes. He's learned nothing since college. <br /><br />He has lived in a bubble. This is the most recent example. He knows what he knows because someone told him it was the right way, and others who do not believe these things are bad or mean-spirited. And mean people suck. <br /><br />Appearances with normal people at the National Prayer Breakfast are "teachable moments" to Obama, offering him the opportunity to learn us a thing or two for our own good because we're imbeciles, or "cowards" (as his Attorney General would say). <br /><br />He knows that business people "didn't build that." He knows his core voters don't get a "fair shot." He knows Mitt Romney wants to kill his family dog. He knows "tax cuts for the rich" are bad, even though he's a Wall Street darling. He won't say "radical Islam," but is quite pugnacious about Jim Crow and race-based unfairness. <br /><br />I guess we're all just bitter clingers to guns and religion out here in flyover country, eating iceberg lettuce instead of arugula, funding our kids' school activities using the most vile of archaic gastronomic horrors: the bake sale. So while he flies around going on two-week vacations in the most posh places in America, the rest of us in Christian middle America are scolded for asking him to state the obvious about who our enemy is. Meanwhile, he gives Iran most everything it wants... because we know Iran really has a stockpile of goodwill for America, it's just that we stupid Anericans can't see it. Good grief.Ignatius Acton Chesterton OCDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222603717128565302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-53093685938591521702015-02-06T19:58:07.885-08:002015-02-06T19:58:07.885-08:00"In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow al..."In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ."<br /><br />Too bad that he did not explain that it was the Democrats of the day that he was talking about, or that it was Republicans, with actual ordained and practicing ministers in the leadership, that got us out of that world.Larry Sheldonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12653436584890594776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-48697477463865543502015-02-06T12:09:51.230-08:002015-02-06T12:09:51.230-08:00re: To be perfectly clear, the primary sanction in...re: To be perfectly clear, the primary sanction in a shame culture is ostracism. When one apologizes one withdraws, to some degree, from social commerce. In a guilt culture, however, the primary sanctions are corporeal punishments, whether imprisonment, beheadings, amputations or mutilation.<br /><br />So what I'm getting from this is:<br />(1) Shame cultures don't work well in pluralistic societies where there's no top-down assignment of common values.<br />(2) Same cultures don't work well where everyone is seen as an individual.<br /><br />Ostracism is only effective when you identify yourself within an exclusive culture (or subculture?) where your social identity is more important than your individual identity.<br /><br />But maybe subgroups are sufficient? Where do people have strong social identities?<br /><br />(1) Family, (2) Religion. Maybe adding (3) Unions and guilds? (4) Brotherhood societies (5) Military? (6) Mafia?<br /><br />One of the things that disappointed me when I tried going to the DFL (Democratic) caucuses in Minnesota is I talked to teachers and they said they were their to vote for candidates endorsed by their teacher's union. This disturbed me greatly, that educated adults were willing to reduce their participation to maximizing their collective power.<br /><br />And it suggests the opposite side, if a candidate for office tries to gain the endorsement of a union or group, they are "selling" their autonomy to a special interest, and if they "betray" that union by daring to act independently, they can be punished by being blacklisted, and the union will try to find another candidate who will toe their line.<br /><br />I remember reading people were concerned when JFK was running for president, that he would be taking orders from the Pope.<br /><br />Mitt Romney almost got a chance for the same predicament as the first Morman president.<br /><br />It would be cool if religions would take hard lines and excommunicate members with political power who try to represent the whole, rather than their personal religion. At least then you'd know Romney was his own man.<br /><br />But of course groups must consider boths sides - Ostracism means losing ALL influence, so its hard to reject winners. <br /><br />But watch out if you're a loser, then you'd better follow your "God Father" carefully, or you'll be made an example and you'll have nothing left when he's done with you.<br />Ares Olympushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09726811306826601686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-37042991307171397252015-02-06T12:02:54.500-08:002015-02-06T12:02:54.500-08:00Gibson, I think that you have reversed cause and e...Gibson, I think that you have reversed cause and effect. Modernity is an effect not a cause. Many have claimed that one of the major causes of modernity is Christianity since this is the only culture that produced it. Some other cultures have copied it but most have rejected it. Wm Searsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-2133043027228416092015-02-06T11:50:00.939-08:002015-02-06T11:50:00.939-08:00It's important that people not minimize the ag...It's important that people not minimize the aggressiveness and barbarity of the Islamists but it's also good to remember that they're not the only ones who can go crazy about their religion. <br /><br />Otherwise, it's easy to get self-righteous and holier-than-thou.<br /><br />If, Goldberg wants to minimize the barbarity of the Crusades, he can try. But I remember that Melanie Phillips pointing out that Christianity was a savage religion. <br /><br />It's only modernity that tamed these religions. And didn't that come, in part, because religious people killed so many of eachother that they realized that they had to stop?<br /><br /><br />Gibson Blocknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-33025313544940020322015-02-06T10:38:46.338-08:002015-02-06T10:38:46.338-08:00As if we needed another reason for not liking The ...As if we needed another reason for not liking The Won.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-41560989311503530872015-02-06T08:55:20.962-08:002015-02-06T08:55:20.962-08:00The most relevant Koranic verse is 4:56 "Inde...The most relevant Koranic verse is 4:56 "Indeed, those who disbelieve <br />in Our verses - We will drive them into a Fire. Every time<br />their skins are roasted through We will replace them with <br />other skins so they may taste the punishment (forever). Indeed, Allah is<br />ever Exalted in Might and Wisdom.<br /><br />Paul WestonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com