Hypocrites abound in the GOP

[Heathen57]

With all the screaming about the "Ground Zero Mosque" that Fox Noise and it minions, especially Glenn Beck, have done in the time leading up to the election, nobody has had the guts to call them on their hypocrisy in the national media. Specifically the charges that there is a plot to bring us all under the Islamic religion's law.

You hear all these politicians telling us that the Muslims refuse to assimilate and they want to make the rest of the US follow their laws. Yet these same politicians insist that we should honor THEIR religion and let them put their religion's laws into practice nationwide.

Abortion, sex education, Gay rights and more are on the list. "God says" or "the bible says" will be the first words out of their mouth when they defend these issues. Yet these same ones would scream like crazy if it was stated by a Muslim, "Allah says" or "The Koran says".

The teabagger candidates are the worst about it. I haven't been able to ask any of the candidates about the hypocrisy, but the local supporters just get that deer in the headlights look and then claim that it isn't the same thing at all.

I would love to see the Dem opponents of these people point this out to them.

[Drale]

1. To be fair

Glen Beck and the tea party want us under extrimist christian law, which is not far off from extrimist islamic law.

[Jackpine Radical]

2. Actually, Muslims when speaking English

would say "God," not "Allah." Just as a Pole would say "Bog" when speaking Polish but "God" when speaking English. Judaism, Christianity and Islam all postulate the same deity.

[RandomThoughts]

3. What is most telling about religions is a consistency in them.

The Jewish faith takes a set of 'ideas' given to people by inspired individuals, then does not comment on any other inspired actions. They hold some ideas from long ago as the last time inspired writings occurred.

The Christians say the inspired writings stopped with the Bible.

The Muslims say inspired writings stopped with the Koran.



I think billions of people are inspired in little pieces of better thoughts, so I think it is more then the text of any holy book, and can even quote a verse that says that. If all the things Jesus does was written down, the world could not contain the books.

So I think the wonders are in places all around, not just in text, however those writings can help people to think and feel on many topics, some of the comments are more about a social context of that time. Limiting oneself to only inspirations from some older period, I think is closing someone to only those thoughts, and limits a person from much of the wonders of God in my view.

There are some cultures that find inspiration even in many stories and thoughts, and just by watching flowers or animals of the field, all of those things are part of creation, and can have good and bad inspirations, dependent on how a person chooses to see those things.

[Fumesucker]

5. Old Testament, King James Bible..

That's where inspired writing stopped for a lot of people.

And their specific interpretation of specified passages.

[hughee99]

4. I think the Islamic religion's law takes a similar stance

on abortion, sex education and gay rights as the xtian politicians.

[gateley]

6. Your subject line will never be in LBN! nt