another reason to seperate church and state

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http://www.pmbcmensnightout.com/details.htm

― anthony, Saturday, 12 February 2005 22:55 (twenty years ago)

and
http://shlonkombakazay.blogspot.com/2005/02/holy-st-its-fascist-picture-story-time.html
this

― anthony, Saturday, 12 February 2005 22:56 (twenty years ago)

What exactly would a Baptist "Men's Night Out" involve, I wonder. Cards? Gin Rummy?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 12 February 2005 22:59 (twenty years ago)

Gin with Rummy, I suspect.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 12 February 2005 23:00 (twenty years ago)

so, am I the only one not surprised or phased by this? The ties between religion and war have always been very intricate and tight.

I can't imagine people willing to put themselves on the front line, willing to die, without some sort of strong theological ideal making them so faithful to the duty (or alternately, an ideal that prevents them from thinking too much about their existence, which would then prevent them from wanting to increase their chance of dying.)

That said, there are people who don't fit this model, and do sign up for the reserves in hopes that they can get the benefits hoping that they'd never, one day, have to take part in a such a truly grueling, overdrawn war. I'm wondering after the Iraq war how the attitudes will change here in the U.S. -- keeping aside issues that involve forcing people into it, via a draft.

― donut debonair (donut), Saturday, 12 February 2005 23:14 (twenty years ago)

The American flag covering the cross photo actually offends me deeply... I really can't form a coherent sentence on why that whole thing is head-slappingly idiotic.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 12 February 2005 23:20 (twenty years ago)

i can't be offended by it. I don't agree with it on principle, by any means. But the marriage of the symbols of Christ and American have been a paradigm to many I've seen all my life.

― donut debonair (donut), Saturday, 12 February 2005 23:54 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I was going to say. Personally I'm inclined to think these days that propaganda of all sorts works because people want to believe it -- thus this type of nonsense.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 12 February 2005 23:55 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080619/ap_on_re_us/religious_license_plate

― and what, Friday, 20 June 2008 15:52 (seventeen years ago)

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y78/lityou/nazi-pope2.gif

― VeronaInTheClub, Friday, 20 June 2008 16:02 (seventeen years ago)

"As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another"

― Michael White, Friday, 20 June 2008 17:00 (seventeen years ago)

six years pass...

so is there a non-right-wing version of what's going on in houston w/ the subpoenas?

― j., Wednesday, 15 October 2014 19:51 (eleven years ago)

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