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Originally Posted by JMS
ignorance? the evidence in this video is clear, usgrant. these people intend to guide this country into a theocratic direction. they want to legislate faith.
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Step outside of the box for a second or two.
No one from that college wants to force you to believe anything. If you listen carefully, they want to influence government policy so that it more closely resembles the virtues of their faith.
And what's the harm in that?
Jesus espoused charity, kindness, mercy, trustworthiness, honesty, responsibility, love others more than you love yourself, to name just a few. What's the harm in that?
The break down comes when people leave the "faith" and turn to secular humanism, which essentially is - "man is the ultimate decider of value". Who wants another despot only beholding to their own subjective form of truth?
I would say that the enemy isn't the evangelicals. If you wish to profile the true theocratic enemy, they can be found in the extreme radical tents of Al Saide and Bin Laden... Now there is a provable track record.
Any group of wicked individuals who want to rule over others with oppression and evil are going to pick whatever means is at their disposal. Be it Karl Marx or Pope Benedict or even Benny Hinn. Just because a hammer is handy when someone needs it to bash in the scull of another, does that mean the hammer is inherently evil? Of course not. Just because some idiot uses God to exploit or murder, does that make God evil? No.
The lowest common denominator in all of our worlds past ills isn't God, or Marx, or Nazism. It is the evil hearts of powerful individuals. The only thing we can know for sure is that eventually they die, and hopefully they don't leave someone behind to continue their evil.
I like the cliché, "The only means by which evil thrives is when good people do nothing." Or something like that. Stop trying to put a face on evil. It has it's own face.