Nimrod2005
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Sat Aug-18-07 04:42 PM
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WTF? CNN poll, would you fight for your religion? |
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So far 36% say: Y-E-S! Yes yes yes! http://www.cnn.com/
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Sat Aug-18-07 04:46 PM
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1. Which is why they shouldn't be asked to. |
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Sat Aug-18-07 04:50 PM
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3. It is amazing to me, it is thousands so far, they are Americans? |
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Or do you think the so-called islamists terrorists are freeping the poll?
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Sun Aug-19-07 02:14 AM
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23. Well, it's not like they specifically defined the circumstances. |
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It's airy-fairy abstract, really. Easy to make brave bold statements that way.
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Sat Aug-18-07 04:49 PM
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most people would fight to protect anything they believe strongly about. At the other end of the spectrum are people who would fight to protect freedom.
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Sat Aug-18-07 04:51 PM
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4. I would fight for food, my personal freedom, and to protect my house |
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Never a God damn religion, NEVER! That would be the worst thing to fight for IMHO.
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Sat Aug-18-07 04:59 PM
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People will fight for the things they are obsessed with be it god or marxism or the right to vote or anything.
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Sat Aug-18-07 05:02 PM
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9. Yes, those obsessed with the "right to vote". |
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Sat Aug-18-07 06:25 PM
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Have you never heard of someone for whom civil rights is an all-consuming passion. The ones who will actually go to the demonstration and be on the front lines and actually want to be arrested for the cause. I admire these people greatly because they fight and sometimes die for the right of people to practice their civil rights, A cause that is dear to us all. From A psychological point of view there is little difference between the zealot and the freedom fighter, both believe in their cause enough to protect it, with their lives if it comes to that.
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Sat Aug-18-07 06:55 PM
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Dancing on the head of a pin...
I give up. MKJ
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Sat Aug-18-07 04:56 PM
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5. I wouldn't fight for anyone's religion. |
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How many terrorists voted in this poll?
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Sat Aug-18-07 04:58 PM
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6. Unlike Shrub's , mine prohibits it. |
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Sat Aug-18-07 05:53 PM
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15. 1500 years of history |
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1500 violent years of Western history belie your claim that Christianity prohibits religiously motivated violence.
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Sun Aug-19-07 07:18 AM
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24. True ,but nothing in the new testament Advocates war for any reason.. |
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thats why shrub summoned Fundies with Christ, but always uses the Old testament to justify his actions.
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Sat Aug-18-07 05:01 PM
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8. My family fought for theirs. |
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Edited on Sat Aug-18-07 05:03 PM by Drunken Irishman
We're linked to the old IRA, which I guess you can say fought for Catholicism over Protestantism.
Would I though? Well I guess if someone wanted to force me to believe in what they believed. But I think we all would.
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Sat Aug-18-07 05:06 PM
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10. Thats a Political & Provincial Conflict more than Religious even though |
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the labels imply Church's
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Sat Aug-18-07 05:16 PM
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Which stems from religious conflict, but that wasn't the entire issue, however.
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Sat Aug-18-07 05:07 PM
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11. About a third sounds right. Bushbot constituency. |
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Sat Aug-18-07 06:39 PM
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18. Exactly, the Evangelical fundamentalists are the loud minority (not the "silent majority") |
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Sat Aug-18-07 05:22 PM
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13. I'd fight for mine - if we were being actively persecuted |
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I mean, I'm not gonna go blow myself up or something, but if I had to fight for the right to practice my religion, I'd do it - as a matter of fact, it's one of the few things I'd fight for. But I'm not gonna go out on a crusade anytime soon, ya know?
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Sat Aug-18-07 05:29 PM
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14. I'd fight for the right NOT to have a religion |
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Organized religion is not worth fightin for. If it went away completely that'd be good.
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Sun Aug-19-07 07:59 AM
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25. Now, that's something |
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I totally agree with. People having something to believe in is wonderful, but when they started organizing that faith into different groups, thats where it all went wrong. Each group thought they were right and the rest were wrong.
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Sat Aug-18-07 06:24 PM
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16. Leave it to CNN to keep poisoning the meme of religion in politics. nm |
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Sat Aug-18-07 06:46 PM
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36% say yes. My religion is PEACEFUL.
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Sat Aug-18-07 09:22 PM
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cnn sucks they have some weird and strange poll questions and people actually answer them.
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Sun Aug-19-07 01:10 AM
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22. Democracy's highest privilege is freedom of thought, freedom of conscience -- |
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without which there is no democracy.
Organized patriarchal religions stand for just the opposite -- most are dictaorships.
A belief system is the end, not the beginning, of all wisdom.
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Sun Aug-19-07 08:09 AM
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26. They're doing a 3-part series on "Holy Warriors" |
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Jews, Muslims & Christians
It sounds pretty edutaining to me.
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Sun Aug-19-07 10:32 AM
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27. They are pimping God's Warriors week. |
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Sun Aug-19-07 10:45 AM
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28. Can't resist: Who would Jesus kill? |
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