Why do morals matter if not for religion?
Why not just do what you want and the heck with everybody else: ie, "I got mine"?
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Why do morals matter if not for religion?
Why not just do what you want and the heck with everybody else: ie, "I got mine"?
Again, what in the Bible do you find so offensive and gets such a hostile reaction with terms like "radical Christians" and right wing nuts?
I didn't say anything about using the Bible as law. I just want to know why there's such issue from the left when Christians come up. Is it strictly the gay and abortion issue because I fail to see anything else that can be considered "bad" by the left and I certainly don't think making sure 3% of the population feels validated over their sexual preference as reason to be so hostile.
Those willing to sacrifice freedom for security deserve neither.Senator Paul, I'm sorry, but invoking the 4th Amendment (in a overly dramatic Victorian style accent, I might add) doesn't cut it when we are talking about protecting the American public from a terrorist attack. Kudos to Gov Christie for standing up to the anti-government nuts.
Those willing to sacrifice freedom for security deserve neither.
People need to get over that Ben Franklin quote. It's been butchered and used out of context as he was talking about taxation and not electronic eavesdropping, which of course he would have known nothing about. I will sacrifice a tiny bit of freedom if it stops another 9-11.Those willing to sacrifice freedom for security deserve neither.
Rand may be a wacko but he was 100% correct on this issue.
There's no amount of eavesdropping that can prevent someone willing to kill themselves from killing others. So just how much are you willing to sacrifice?People need to get over that Ben Franklin quote. It's been butchered and used out of context as he was talking about taxation and not electronic eavesdropping, which of course he would have known nothing about. I will sacrifice a tiny bit of freedom if it stops another 9-11.
you're stupid.Really...This is for you and Defense:
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/debbie-w...-difference-between-democrats-and-socialists/
People need to get over that Ben Franklin quote. It's been butchered and used out of context as he was talking about taxation and not electronic eavesdropping, which of course he would have known nothing about. I will sacrifice a tiny bit of freedom if it stops another 9-11.
Those willing to sacrifice freedom for security deserve neither.
Rand may be a wacko but he was 100% correct on this issue.
You have no fricking idea of who is sending or receiving data, phone conversations, web traffic, snail mail...until you have intercepted the communication and examined it.What many ignore, especially liberals, is that non-American citizens do not, well at least should not, have the same rights on our soil as American citizens.
Now I know that doesn't cover 100% of those who wish to do this country harm, but it does cover a very big chunk of them.
Easily the most overused and irrelevant quote from a Founder.
Yeah, but the quote is so far out of context that people are using it for basically the opposite argument for which it was intended.If he was talking about electronic eavesdropping, then Franklin really would have been a man ahead of his time!
The general point is still the same, whether you agree with it or not. And I am not one to say our Founding Fathers were right about everything (permitting slavery is a clear example of where they were wrong).
So a non-believer promotes this theory.Some animals are surprisingly sensitive to the plight of others. Chimpanzees, who cannot swim, have drowned in zoo moats trying to save others. Given the chance to get food by pulling a chain that would also deliver an electric shock to a companion, rhesus monkeys will starve themselves for several days.
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The Beginnings of Morality?
Biologists argue that these and other social behaviors are the precursors of human morality. They further believe that if morality grew out of behavioral rules shaped by evolution, it is for biologists, not philosophers or theologians, to say what these rules are.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/20/science/20moral.html?pagewanted=all
Published on Apr 10, 2012
http://www.ted.com Empathy, cooperation, fairness and reciprocity -- caring about the well-being of others seems like a very human trait. But Frans de Waal shares some surprising videos of behavioral tests, on primates and other mammals, that show how many of these moral traits all of us share.
Oh, and Trump still won.
Hey bub, you keep pointing out deeeee's hypocrisy and he will block you.I bet deeeeee thinks Donald Trump is running the most positive campaign in history.
I mean, his whole campaign is centered around making America great again! No negativity in that message!! I bet he could bring us all together with that message, IMO.
Just as people don't seem to understand which founding documents are, you know, law.Jsust as people who claim life, liberty and pursuit of happiness covers why people should get free health insurance... a concept that didn't exist at the time it was written. but people from both sides like to bend the phrases to meet their talking points.
What serious policy positions has anyone put on the table? I will stop this, I will stop that won't do and neither will "isn't it time we had a woman in the White house?" That was almost a Howard Dean moment. YEEEAAAAAAH!
Actually the liberals in the democratic party turned into a swear word because of their actionsIt's what the GOP does. They turned "liberal" into a swear word through propaganda, and are doing the same to "secular" and "progressive" now.
Also, see "Democrat party." Anyone who uses that term immediately outs themselves as a Rushite.
You're either a White Male Liberty Patriot or you're EVIL.
Pretty much everywhere else in the world, "Socialist" is just some other party. Here, "Socialist" = "Communist," which is both wrong and stupid.
I always see Obama and Clinton called Socialists, in what way do they fit this? Also, love how progressive is being lobbed as an insult now.
Yes . Typical Democratic/leftist strategy . When you can't debate the subject just resort to name calling...stupid, racist, anti-women, etc. Let's you know you are hitting close to homeSure seems to be some butt hurt over the Democrat/Socialist reference. Smoke and Fire?
Christ almighty.every text message you've sent and every phone call you've made is stored in a US Government database somewhere next to your name and picture.
That's not tinfoil hat bullshit. That's reality.
Do you mean like the things Isis & Iran (Obama's buddies) do?...Beheading children, women(raping also), killing people because they believe different...You mean those kinds of murders. I'm assuming you are saying America does this kind of stuff. Please tell me if America is so evil then why is it when there is a disaster or crisis in the world that those(even if they hate us) will call on this great country to bail them out? It is sad that evil exist in the world , but it exist because we have to choose where we stand. War is necessary sometimes in the face of this evil and innocent people die. But when things like 911...or this country is attacked...what do you want to happen?. If we hadn't dropped the bombs on Japan where do you think "your" country would be today?. That probably saved millions of lives.What is your stance on innocent human beings that are killed when we bomb countries?
It is the case, at least to some degree. And my response is a big "so what?". I'm glad the FBI is able to pour over the phone records of the the Boston bombers and the Chattanooga shooter to see who else might be a danger. This is an important part of our system of defense. If you think they really care about your personal life then you really might be donning the tin foil hat.You don't think that's the case?
You make it sound like they're wiretapping every single phone in the country. Snowden didn't reveal anything of the sort.You don't think that's the case?
If someone in power wanted to f8ck with you they wouldn't need NSA records to do it.Good lord.
All the information that's coming out about the IRS specifically targeting certain individuals and organizations based on political affiliation, and you're comfortable with the federal government collecting all this information on citizens. That's scary.
I hope you never visit a candidate's campaign stop and have the misfortune of asking the candidate a tough question. God forbid that candidate wins and is able to retaliate against you.
Faith? No. But there's a difference between reasonable skepticism and blind, hysterical paranoia.You guys have far more faith in the federal government than I do.
I doubt Snowden revealed a fraction of what actually is happening.
Jesus. It's almost like they want to lose this thing.New poll from NBC has Trump (23), Cruz (13), and Carson (11) as the top 3.
No words.
Time for Jeb to lurch far, far to the right if he's going to get back to the top of the pack.Jesus. It's almost like they want to lose this thing.