O'Reilly - "Very Secret Plan to Diminish Christianity"

If I had to choose one song, I guess you could say, the one that embodies my philosophy of life, these lyrics can be applied to most any situation:

Oh- baby now let's get down tonight.
Baby, I'm hot just like your oven.
Oh- I need your lovin'
And baby, I can't hold it much longer
Now it's getting stronger and stronger
And when I get that feeling
I need a sexual healing, sexual healing
And makes me feel so fine
And helps to release the mind
Sexual healing, is good for me
Sexual healing is something that's very good for me


Ah yes. Bask in the timeless message.

I guess I see xenophobia as that kind of instinctive "I prefer my herd/what is familiar" stuff.

Racism would grow out of that, but is more organized, with a huge system of rationalizations supporting it, as I see it.

Also, one can be xenophobic when race is not a factor.....eg "Arrrrr, them folks from that thar next village be moighty queer, they be, arrrrrr."

I guess I see xenophobia as that kind of instinctive "I prefer my herd/what is familiar" stuff.

Racism would grow out of that, but is more organized, with a huge system of rationalizations supporting it, as I see it.

Also, one can be xenophobic when race is not a factor.....eg "Arrrrr, them folks from that thar next village be moighty queer, they be, arrrrrr."

dlowan wrote:

I guess I see xenophobia as that kind of instinctive "I prefer my herd/what is familiar" stuff.

Racism would grow out of that, but is more organized, with a huge system of rationalizations supporting it, as I see it.

Also, one can be xenophobic when race is not a factor.....eg "Arrrrr, them folks from that thar next village be moighty queer, they be, arrrrrr."

But that seems quite the common description of conflict between religious communities where, again, race isn't a factor.

I guess I'm just not sure that parsing in this manner gets us the proper perspective on what seems to me to be facets of the same critter.

Whether it is skin color or clothing or accent or sacred icon, etc, in each case some difference is discerned or claimed. By itself, no problem. (New York is a wonderful example of differences with little bad consequence, at least presently).

But then something else gets stacked on top - the valuation of 'bad', 'wrong', 'dangerous', 'enemy', etc.

Jer 10:1 Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:

Jer 10:2 Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.

Jer 10:3 For the customs of the people [are] vain: for [one] cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.

Jer 10:4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

Can anyone provide me with a progress report on the dimunition of christianity? I am anxious to assure myself that we are making progress . . .

dlowan wrote:

I guess I see xenophobia as that kind of instinctive "I prefer my herd/what is familiar" stuff.

Racism would grow out of that, but is more organized, with a huge system of rationalizations supporting it, as I see it.

Also, one can be xenophobic when race is not a factor.....eg "Arrrrr, them folks from that thar next village be moighty queer, they be, arrrrrr."

But that seems quite the common description of conflict between religious communities where, again, race isn't a factor.

I guess I'm just not sure that parsing in this manner gets us the proper perspective on what seems to me to be facets of the same critter.

Whether it is skin color or clothing or accent or sacred icon, etc, in each case some difference is discerned or claimed. By itself, no problem. (New York is a wonderful example of differences with little bad consequence, at least presently).

But then something else gets stacked on top - the valuation of 'bad', 'wrong', 'dangerous', 'enemy', etc.

uh oh
what to do
what to do



Jeremiah 10

Quote:

Jer 10:1 Hear ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:

Jer 10:2 Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.

Jer 10:3 For the customs of the people [are] vain: for [one] cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.

Jer 10:4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

someone's trying to trick us into putting up and decorating trees!
uh oh

<this Jeremiah reference came up at another site I frequent - Christians freaking out over pagan trees being part of "their" Christmas - it must be stopped!!!>

Setanta wrote:

Can anyone provide me with a progress report on the dimunition of christianity? I am anxious to assure myself that we are making progress . . .

how's this? [size=7]christianity[/size]

I think it is appropriate, now that Steve has broached the subject, to take on the Political Rectitude Gestapo and acknowledge the necessity for cultural discrimination. If you completely excoriate someone's thesis in these fora, so long as you have told an @sshole that he or she is an @sshole, you are within the terms of service. In all seriousness, it is possible to condemn a practice without condemning an entire ethnic group, just as it is possible to condemn an idea without condemning the person giving voice to the idea.

So, i would consider the comdemnation of all Muslims simply because they are Muslims to be a prejudice equivalent to racism. I would not consider the condemnation of infantile female genital mutilation to be reprehensible or forbidden simply because that brutal tribal practice is defended by someone asserting that it is a part of the culture of some Muslims, and therefore said condemnation constitutes religious bigotry.

I am more intrigued, frankly, that they had to nail the trees down to stop them moving.

I take it modern trees are way less frisky and inclined to wander?

Who knew?

is that one of condi's torture implements?