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Orwellingly Yurz
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 Posted - 12/29/2006 : 14:02:38
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YO: The title to this post might indicate that it should be filed in the Religion drawer , however....here 'tis....
Submitted by LiberalNC on Wed, 12/20/2006 - 8:27pm. congress | district 8 | iraq war | robin hayes
Robin Hayes has the solution to the Iraq war: have our soldiers convert all Muslims to Christianity.
Having won the election by only a hair's width and almost getting himself kicked out of Congress seems to have had some profound psychological effects on poor Mr. Hayes. A speech that flip-floppin' Robin gave last week at the Concord Rotary Club seems to prove he has finally gone off the deep end.
Our local weekly newspaper the “Concord Standard and Mount Pleasant Times” reported on Mr. Hayes speech in his hometown:
First there's the usual talk of how we're “winning” over there:
“The war in Iraq has got to be won; it's being won”
(A couple of months ago Hayes said that the rise in violence in Iraq was an indication that we're winning.)
Then comes the real kicker:
“Stability in Iraq ultimately depends on spreading the message of Jesus Christ, the message of peace on earth, good will towards men. Everything depends on everyone learning about the birth of the Savior.”
So if we just turn our soldiers into missionaries everything will be okay, Mr. Hayes?
First we sent our men over there to take out the WMD's, then it was to “spread democracy”, now you want them there to “spread the message of Jesus Christ”?
It so happens that people in Iraq already have a savior but unfortunately for Mr. Hayes it's Muhammed, not Jesus.
If we can't keep Muslims from killing each other over there, I don't think that trying to make them all Christian is going to be any easier.
With this kind of talk Hayes just plays into the hands of Al-Qaeda by confirming what their leaders have always been saying: those American soldiers are just modern Crusaders. He is thereby strengthening the beliefs of terrorists that want to kill every American soldier they come across.
Orwellingly Yurz sez: I'm wondering if Robin Hayes, whoever that person might be, exists in another, reverse-polarity universe not far from the bunker wherein George War Bush and his war-machine
hunker down?
OY!
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Neurosis
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USA
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Posted - 12/29/2006 : 14:47:23 [Permalink]
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| Wouldn't Jesus tell the Bush admin to turn the other cheek when they are attacked? Jesus is far from a man of peace, especially if he is God incarnate.[spoken in present tense as all stories are] |
Facts! Pssh, you can prove anything even remotely true with facts.
- Homer Simpson
[God] is an infinite nothing from nowhere with less power over our universe than the secretary of agriculture.
- Prof. Frink
Lisa: Yes, but wouldn't you rather know the truth than to delude yourself for happiness?
Marge: Well... um.... [goes outside to jump on tampoline with Homer.] |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 12/29/2006 : 14:52:27 [Permalink]
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Mr. Hayes should go over to Iraq right now, and immediately upon landing begin door-to-door missionary work. I myself gleefully pledge $100 to his cause, so long as a video of his first thirty minutes of work are made available for viewing on the Internet, with the violence and gore not censored out. I suspect the video would be shorter than that, though.
This venture should be very cheap, requiring no hotel accomodations, no meal vouchers, and certainly no return plane ticket. But I suspect, like Dembski at Dover, Hayes will be a cowardly no-show and won't back up his big, lying mouth with action. Put up, or shut up, says I.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Neurosis
SFN Regular
USA
675 Posts |
Posted - 12/29/2006 : 18:28:28 [Permalink]
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| Let's start a missionary fund mooner kinda like a JREF prize. I'll put a thousand whose with me? |
Facts! Pssh, you can prove anything even remotely true with facts.
- Homer Simpson
[God] is an infinite nothing from nowhere with less power over our universe than the secretary of agriculture.
- Prof. Frink
Lisa: Yes, but wouldn't you rather know the truth than to delude yourself for happiness?
Marge: Well... um.... [goes outside to jump on tampoline with Homer.] |
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