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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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 Posted - 03/28/2011 : 21:24:03
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And of course, since atheists, secularists, and radical Islamists are the same difference: Hours after declaring Sunday that he expects to be running for president within a month, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said he's worried the United States could be “a secular atheist country, potentially one dominated by radical Islamists,” in the foreseeable future, according to Politico.
Gingrich was addressing Cornerstone Church, a megachurch in San Antonio, Texas, led by the Rev. John Hagee, an influential leader among American evangelicals. Hagee's endorsement of then-presidential candidate John McCain in 2008 was plagued by controversy.
McCain ultimately rejected the endorsement over remarks Hagee had made about the Holocaust, in which he appeared to say that Adolf Hitler had been fulfilling God's will by hastening the desire of Jews to return to Israel, in accordance with biblical prophecy. |
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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The Rat
SFN Regular
Canada
1370 Posts |
Posted - 03/29/2011 : 05:02:51 [Permalink]
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| “a secular atheist country, potentially one dominated by radical Islamists,” |
Yeah, because we all know how those radical islamists just loooooove atheism. 
Just when you thought that Republicans could not possibly get even more stupid, Newt pulls another one out of his arse.
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You fiend! Never have I encountered such corrupt and foul-minded perversity! Have you ever considered a career in the Church? - The Bishop of Bath and Wells, Blackadder II
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Baxter
Skeptic Friend
USA
131 Posts |
Posted - 03/29/2011 : 08:08:39 [Permalink]
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Some people are afraid that secularists will be too soft on Islamists and let them take over. Supposedly this is already happening in Europe.
Regarding John Hagee, he is a charlatan. Politicians should have nothing to do with him or his church. |
"We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can't scoff at them personally, to their faces, and this is what annoys me." ~from Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey
"We can be as honest as we are ignorant. If we are, when asked what is beyond the horizon of the known, we must say that we do not know." ~Robert G. Ingersoll
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Machi4velli
SFN Regular
USA
854 Posts |
Posted - 04/09/2011 : 10:41:27 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Baxter
Some people are afraid that secularists will be too soft on Islamists and let them take over. Supposedly this is already happening in Europe.
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I imagine this is his argument. Of course he was pandering considering the audience, but he usually does at least have an argument (albeit often bad). |
"Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people."
-Giordano Bruno
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 04/09/2011 : 12:22:14 [Permalink]
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Newt Gingrich is one of the slimiest political hacks extant. Hagee is another scumbag of the same moulding, and a festering pox upon both of their houses. Even for Republicans, they stink like rotting moose meat.
Therefore, I hope Noot gets the party’s nomination. The Republicans have gone totally teabag and if they continue on course, will eventually land in the crapper. The Manassas Mongoloid could provide the flush.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
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Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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Gingrich fears 'atheist country'
