April 21, 201610 yr "There are those who would keep us slipping back into the darkness of division, into the snake pit of racial hatred, of racial antagonism, and of support for symbols of the struggle to keep African-Americans in bondage." - Carol Moseley-Braun, referring to the continued use of the Confederate flag, quoted in Newsweek, December 1991 It would seem that from the quotes you post, that you must believe that all conservatives are racists, homophobes, misogynists, etc. Is this the case?
April 21, 201610 yr Author It would seem that from the quotes you post, that you must believe that all conservatives are racists, homophobes, misogynists, etc. Is this the case? Honestly, I haven't read the whole book to make a determination. Basically, I randomly pick a topic from the table of contents and choose a quote from that topic.
April 21, 201610 yr Author This morning's topic is "Generosity". "Liberalism...is the supreme form of generosity; it is the right which the majority concedes to minorities and hence is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet." - Jose Ortega Y Gasset, 1930
April 21, 201610 yr Honestly, I haven't read the whole book to make a determination. Basically, I randomly pick a topic from the table of contents and choose a quote from that topic. I asked if that's what YOU believed about conservatives.
April 22, 201610 yr Author I asked if that's what YOU believed about conservatives. My bad - I misread. I wouldn't say "most". Although I will say this. Most of my closest friends are arch-conservatives. Almost all of them are homophobes and xenophobes. No doubt.
April 22, 201610 yr Author "The security of middle class life has disappeared. The new reality is millions of families whose grip on the good life can be shaken loose in an instant." - Elizabeth Warren, 2006
April 23, 201610 yr Author "Our pluralism has to be a profound offense to the fundamentalist, who by definition is an absolutist intolerant of all forms of belief but his own, all stories but his own." - E.L. Doctorow, May 2003
April 23, 201610 yr "Our pluralism has to be a profound offense to the fundamentalist, who by definition is an absolutist intolerant of all forms of belief but his own, all stories but his own." - E.L. Doctorow, May 2003 Now that quote sounds like the perfect definition of the far Left wing.
April 24, 201610 yr Author "The obsession of the evangelical community over "values" is never centered on the true evils of the world: poverty, overpopulation, crime and cruelty, war and persecution, the ruination of the planet through environmental poisoning, and the indiscriminate rape of the world's resources." - Earl Doherty, December 2004
April 24, 201610 yr "The obsession of the evangelical community over "values" is never centered on the true evils of the world: poverty, overpopulation, crime and cruelty, war and persecution, the ruination of the planet through environmental poisoning, and the indiscriminate rape of the world's resources." - Earl Doherty, December 2004 Amen
April 25, 201610 yr My bad - I misread. I wouldn't say "most". Although I will say this. Most of my closest friends are arch-conservatives. Almost all of them are homophobes and xenophobes. No doubt. I have experienced the same.
April 25, 201610 yr "The obsession of the evangelical community over "values" is never centered on the true evils of the world: poverty, overpopulation, crime and cruelty, war and persecution, the ruination of the planet through environmental poisoning, and the indiscriminate rape of the world's resources." - Earl Doherty, December 2004 Big-time !
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