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Title: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: kevindavis007 on January 28, 2019, 09:55:15 pm

President Trump on Monday embraced a proposal from lawmakers in six states that would allow public schools to offer Bible literacy classes shortly after the subject was discussed on "Fox & Friends."

"Numerous states introducing Bible Literacy classes, giving students the option of studying the Bible. Starting to make a turn back? Great!" Trump wrote on Twitter.

The tweet came roughly a half hour after North Dakota state Rep. Aaron McWilliams appeared on "Fox & Friends." McWilliams is co-sponsoring a measure in North Dakota to support Bible literacy classes.

Read More: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-touts-proposed-bible-literacy-classes-in-state-schools/ (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-touts-proposed-bible-literacy-classes-in-state-schools/)

How about bringning back Civics in the school? Also, are they going to offer other religious books literacy as well?
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: roamer_1 on January 29, 2019, 12:02:03 am
How about bringning back Civics in the school? Also, are they going to offer other religious books literacy as well?

I think that ought to be left up to the local folks to decide, don't you?
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: 240B on January 29, 2019, 12:16:07 am
If the public school system can teach Islam and the Koran, there is no excuse for them to oppose teaching the Christian Bible. By promoting Islam and opposing Christianity, that would be a real Church and State issue. Because that really would be the establishment of a 'sanctioned' religion. Which is what Separation of Church and State was intended to prevent.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: kevindavis007 on January 29, 2019, 12:17:19 am
I think that ought to be left up to the local folks to decide, don't you?


Provided that all religions (yes including Islam) is repsented as well. I just don't think any states should put one religion over an other. In this case putting classes teaching one religous text while not providing other religous literacy classes IN A PUBLIC SCHOOL!
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: roamer_1 on January 29, 2019, 12:26:21 am

Provided that all religions (yes including Islam) is repsented as well. I just don't think any states should put one religion over an other. In this case putting classes teaching one religous text while not providing other religous literacy classes IN A PUBLIC SCHOOL!

NOPE. What the hell business is it of yours? Worry about your own schools in your own county. Leave mine alone.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: kevindavis007 on January 29, 2019, 12:27:59 am
NOPE. What the hell business is it of yours? Worry about your own schools in your own county. Leave mine alone.


WHAT PART OF SEPERATION OF CHURCH AND STATE DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND??
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Wingnut on January 29, 2019, 12:29:43 am

WHAT PART OF SEPERATION OF CHURCH AND STATE DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND??


The shouting doesn't advance your position further. 

Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: skeeter on January 29, 2019, 12:34:34 am

WHAT PART OF SEPERATION OF CHURCH AND STATE DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND??

Hold your water, geez. Apparently you’re the one who needs to study up on that founding principle.

No one is proposing to establish a state religion. This sounds like an optional literacy class.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: roamer_1 on January 29, 2019, 12:35:06 am

WHAT PART OF SEPERATION OF CHURCH AND STATE DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND??

Separation of church and state does not go all the way to the ground. The Constitutional mandate is federal, not state, or local. The acting authority in the school system is the county.

Howabout mind your own business? What business do you have telling folks in another state how to live?
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: RoosGirl on January 29, 2019, 12:43:36 am

WHAT PART OF SEPERATION OF CHURCH AND STATE DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND??

Yeah, at the Federal level, not at the local/state level, unless that state has the same amendment in their constitution.  Also, not sure why anyone would insist on repeating the liberal interpretation "Separation of church and state".
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Wingnut on January 29, 2019, 12:46:31 am
.  Also, not sure why anyone would insist on repeating the liberal interpretation "Separation of church and state".

He does have leftist leanings....  just saying.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Right_in_Virginia on January 29, 2019, 12:54:09 am
More a comment than a "tout". 


Quote
Donald J. Trump
Verified accountï‚™ @realDonaldTrump 

Numerous states introducing Bible Literacy classes, giving students the option of studying the Bible. Starting to make a turn back? Great!

5:21 AM - 28 Jan 2019

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1089876055224184833?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Right_in_Virginia on January 29, 2019, 12:55:31 am
The link posted above doesn't take you to the article @kevindavis
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: roamer_1 on January 29, 2019, 12:57:50 am
Yeah, at the Federal level, not at the local/state level, unless that state has the same amendment in their constitution.  Also, not sure why anyone would insist on repeating the liberal interpretation "Separation of church and state".

I used to do this sort of thing when I was a kid... Very interested in saving the alligators back then...
Not that I knew a damn thing about it... Ran into a feller from Louisiana some time later that told me you can't hardly swing a dead cat but that a gator would come chomp off your leg... More dang gators than they knew what to do with...

Taught me a thing or two about minding my own business...
Then the feds came in and made griz an endangered species...
Now you can't hardly swing a dead cat without hitting your wife in the face... Which is kinda fun... But she'd certainly prefer walking a bit further away... She's gotta stay pretty close because of all the griz.

And that taught me even more.
Then the wolf.
And the eagles.
and, and, and...

Folks should leave other folks be and let em live like they know how.

And I hereby once again solemnly apologize to all y'all in the Big Swampy for my impertinence.
A yootful indiscretion.  :shrug:
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Emjay on January 29, 2019, 01:21:16 am

Provided that all religions (yes including Islam) is repsented as well. I just don't think any states should put one religion over an other. In this case putting classes teaching one religous text while not providing other religous literacy classes IN A PUBLIC SCHOOL!

A very good reason to support private schools, religious schools and charter schools.

Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Emjay on January 29, 2019, 01:21:56 am
The link posted above doesn't take you to the article @kevindavis

Why the headline?  Why does Trump always 'tout' and never just support?
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: RoosGirl on January 29, 2019, 01:34:03 am
Why the headline?  Why does Trump always 'tout' and never just support?

www.dictionary.com (http://www.dictionary.com)
tout
[tout]Informal.
verb (used with object)
to solicit support for importunately.

importunate
[im-pawr-chuh-nit]
adjective
urgent or persistent in solicitation, sometimes annoyingly so.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Frank Cannon on January 29, 2019, 01:40:13 am
I think that ought to be left up to the local folks to decide, don't you?

Do you hold that position on abortion?
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Frank Cannon on January 29, 2019, 01:42:07 am

The shouting doesn't advance your position further.

No, but it does make it more annoying. They type of annoying the poster claims Trump is.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Victoria33 on January 29, 2019, 02:24:14 am
I think that ought to be left up to the local folks to decide, don't you?
@roamer_1
@QueenCatofAragon
@Freya

I don't think a Bible study course in school can be done.  The instructor is going to interpret the scripture according to his/her belief.  As soon as the kid would get home and tell what he/she learned, if it was not what parents believe, they would be at the Superintendent's office with their Bible in their hands.  There is no way to do this and please every parent of the kids.  And, if there are non-believers in the class, a law suit will be in the court immediately. 

I teach a Bible class at my church - we are "one" in our core Bible belief.  All of you should come - we have coffee and pastries - okay, maybe that is why they come rather than coming to listen to me.  This coming Saturday we will finish the study of "The Revelation to John". 

Bible class in schools is not going to work.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: roamer_1 on January 29, 2019, 02:31:27 am
Do you hold that position on abortion?

No, but it'd be way better than what we have now.

My position on abortion is not particularly religious - But rather, a Constitutional one (not that the religious aspect is not also important to me). As a federal matter, there are only two ways the government at any level can sanction your death: Just Cause (war), or Due Process (crime).

Which one does abortion fall under?

In ALL other cases, it is the constitutional mandate to protect life as an enumerated and particular right (as described in the DoI, antecedent in authority to the Constitution).
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: roamer_1 on January 29, 2019, 02:44:13 am

I don't think a Bible study course in school can be done.  The instructor is going to interpret the scripture according to his/her belief.  As soon as the kid would get home and tell what he/she learned, if it was not what parents believe, they would be at the Superintendent's office with their Bible in their hands.  There is no way to do this and please every parent of the kids.  And, if there are non-believers in the class, a law suit will be in the court immediately. 

I teach a Bible class at my church - we are "one" in our core Bible belief.  All of you should come - we have coffee and pastries - okay, maybe that is why they come rather than coming to listen to me.  This coming Saturday we will finish the study of "The Revelation to John". 

Bible class in schools is not going to work.

@Victoria33
Sure it can be done. Prayer and generic Bible study was normative when I was in early school in Chicago.

But more to the point, it is a matter that local folks can figure out as is best for them.... Like opening the day with a study hall, where qualified religious leaders from various churches can open the day with those in attendance from their flock... There is a big enough selection of larger churches in most towns to where smaller churches and gatherings that did not qualify (according to school poulations respectively) could band together in selection, or share the load with larger churches... All very much voluntary, all very distributed, with those not fitting or abstaining going to a regular study hall sponsored only by the school.

There now... no poor little children having to bear anything but what their parents would have them bear... no one's rights violated, and even separation of church and state, except for the venue itself...

Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Emjay on January 29, 2019, 02:50:31 am

The shouting doesn't advance your position further.

Neither does the misspelling.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Emjay on January 29, 2019, 02:52:20 am
@roamer_1
@QueenCatofAragon
@Freya

I don't think a Bible study course in school can be done.  The instructor is going to interpret the scripture according to his/her belief.  As soon as the kid would get home and tell what he/she learned, if it was not what parents believe, they would be at the Superintendent's office with their Bible in their hands.  There is no way to do this and please every parent of the kids.  And, if there are non-believers in the class, a law suit will be in the court immediately. 

I teach a Bible class at my church - we are "one" in our core Bible belief.  All of you should come - we have coffee and pastries - okay, maybe that is why they come rather than coming to listen to me.  This coming Saturday we will finish the study of "The Revelation to John". 

Bible class in schools is not going to work.

Basically, I agree.  A school sponsored after-school Bible class might work.

But I went to a Bible Class at my Church (Episcopal) and we almost came to blows at times , so... it's iffy.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Emjay on January 29, 2019, 02:54:38 am
www.dictionary.com (http://www.dictionary.com)
tout
[tout]Informal.
verb (used with object)
to solicit support for importunately.

importunate
[im-pawr-chuh-nit]
adjective
urgent or persistent in solicitation, sometimes annoyingly so.

'tout' is a verb implying low-grade advancing of ideas as in racetrack tout.  It has 'disrespect' written all over it.  We don't need a dictionary to tell us that.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: RoosGirl on January 29, 2019, 03:36:11 am
'tout' is a verb implying low-grade advancing of ideas as in racetrack tout.  It has 'disrespect' written all over it.  We don't need a dictionary to tell us that.

Yeah, I guess dictionary.com is wrong.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: RoosGirl on January 29, 2019, 03:37:28 am
PS  No one except people with gambling problems use the word "tout" with respect to racing.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Frank Cannon on January 29, 2019, 03:41:02 am
PS  No one except people with gambling problems use the word "tout" with respect to racing.

Sorry... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAIlVCStp3c#)
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: RoosGirl on January 29, 2019, 03:51:44 am
Sorry... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAIlVCStp3c#)

So you're in to show tunes, huh?
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Gefn on January 29, 2019, 03:53:32 am
@roamer_1
@QueenCatofAragon
@Freya

I don't think a Bible study course in school can be done.  The instructor is going to interpret the scripture according to his/her belief.  As soon as the kid would get home and tell what he/she learned, if it was not what parents believe, they would be at the Superintendent's office with their Bible in their hands.  There is no way to do this and please every parent of the kids.  And, if there are non-believers in the class, a law suit will be in the court immediately. 

I teach a Bible class at my church - we are "one" in our core Bible belief.  All of you should come - we have coffee and pastries - okay, maybe that is why they come rather than coming to listen to me.  This coming Saturday we will finish the study of "The Revelation to John". 

Bible class in schools is not going to work.

It may not work anymore but everyone should learn the golden rule. If you don’t learn it at home, learn it at school. We need more kindness in the world, more empathy
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Frank Cannon on January 29, 2019, 03:54:16 am
So you're in to show tunes, huh?

Your G od damn right!!!

Sorry... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9SxlO7tQLc#)
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Smokin Joe on January 29, 2019, 04:06:14 am
I think that ought to be left up to the local folks to decide, don't you?
Exactly. We had a course on religions of the world, which also included Christianity, when I was in school. Considering I was at a Catholic School for my Junior and Senior years, even Catholicism was taught about, warts and all, (those warts being what the Protestants were protesting), and together, Christianity.

Of course, nowadays that would be spun as the evil Christians going out and converting people like decent heathens (Picts, Vikings, Celts and others) and snapping up land from those poor downtrodden Muslims (in Europe), etc.  No way Vlad Tepes would be seen as a hero of is country, and Charles Martel would be seen as an oppressor....The Inquisition is already not portrayed as seeking out stray followers of Mohammed.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Smokin Joe on January 29, 2019, 04:08:54 am
I used to do this sort of thing when I was a kid... Very interested in saving the alligators back then...
Not that I knew a damn thing about it... Ran into a feller from Louisiana some time later that told me you can't hardly swing a dead cat but that a gator would come chomp off your leg... More dang gators than they knew what to do with...

Taught me a thing or two about minding my own business...
Then the feds came in and made griz an endangered species...
Now you can't hardly swing a dead cat without hitting your wife in the face... Which is kinda fun... But she'd certainly prefer walking a bit further away... She's gotta stay pretty close because of all the griz.

And that taught me even more.
Then the wolf.
And the eagles.
and, and, and...

Folks should leave other folks be and let em live like they know how.

And I hereby once again solemnly apologize to all y'all in the Big Swampy for my impertinence.
A yootful indiscretion.  :shrug:
Funny how any people are all for 'saving' some dangerous critter 2000 miles from their back yards.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Smokin Joe on January 29, 2019, 04:12:16 am
It may not work anymore but everyone should learn the golden rule. If you don’t learn it at home, learn it at school. We need more kindness in the world, more empathy
I wholeheartedly agree. Unfortunately, turning people into objects of derision is part and parcel of Alinsky tactics, and, as history shows, often preparatory to declaring open warfare on the target group. By convincing themselves that others 'deserve what's coming to them', people have unleashed horror after unspeakable horror on others and somehow slept at night. There is an ill wind blowing through American culture, surfing on the airwaves.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: BlueHammer on January 29, 2019, 01:16:04 pm
Basically, I agree.  A school sponsored after-school Bible class might work.

legally, it wouldn't the bases of the first amendment and the separation of church and state in schools boils down to one thing: Public schools must respect the religious beliefs of the students they serve while not showing favoritism for any particular religious belief.

it'll work as long as nobody says anything....once somebody does say something, a 1st year law student would be able to put the kabosh on the bible class or koran class or any other signularly religious class
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Right_in_Virginia on January 29, 2019, 01:20:29 pm

I don't think a Bible study course in school can be done.  The instructor is going to interpret the scripture according to his/her belief. 

Like they do in Sunday school?   :pondering:

Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: BlueHammer on January 29, 2019, 01:27:03 pm
Like they do in Sunday school?   :pondering:

I think it was in reference to doing it in a public school
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: edpc on January 29, 2019, 01:50:44 pm
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Who said what? Stop....you’re killing me....again....
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: musiclady on January 29, 2019, 01:52:39 pm
This is referring to courses on the Bible as literature, not Bible studies per se.

Our public school had this class when our kids were there and they studied the poetry in the Psalms (beautiful!) and the literary style elsewhere.

It was not a religious class, but the left cannot tolerate having kids exposed to the truth and beauty in Scripture.

@roamer_1 is absolutely right. This is a local matter to be decided by the community and is not even remotely a violation of the purported “separation “ of church and state.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: roamer_1 on January 29, 2019, 02:40:11 pm
legally, it wouldn't the bases of the first amendment and the separation of church and state in schools boils down to one thing: Public schools must respect the religious beliefs of the students they serve while not showing favoritism for any particular religious belief.

it'll work as long as nobody says anything....once somebody does say something, a 1st year law student would be able to put the kabosh on the bible class or koran class or any other signularly religious class

No, that's what it 'means' now... That's not what it used to mean. Liberals love penumbras. That should be reversed. How the hell DC thinks it can dictate to Montana is beyond me.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: BlueHammer on January 29, 2019, 02:41:04 pm
This is referring to courses on the Bible as literature, not Bible studies per se.

Our public school had this class when our kids were there and they studied the poetry in the Psalms (beautiful!) and the literary style elsewhere.

It was not a religious class, but the left cannot tolerate having kids exposed to the truth and beauty in Scripture.

@roamer_1 is absolutely right. This is a local matter to be decided by the community and is not even remotely a violation of the purported “separation “ of church and state.

at least your interpretation of it......but in the end whether it is constitutional or not is not a state or county thing.....other wise there would have been plenty of states that would have already banned guns
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: musiclady on January 29, 2019, 02:42:25 pm
at least your interpretation of it......but in the end whether it is constitutional or not is not a state or county thing.....other wise there would have been plenty of states that would have already banned guns

My interpretation of what?  Please clarify.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: roamer_1 on January 29, 2019, 02:45:58 pm
Funny how any people are all for 'saving' some dangerous critter 2000 miles from their back yards.

Ain't it though?
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: BlueHammer on January 29, 2019, 02:46:32 pm
My interpretation of what?  Please clarify.

separation of church and state
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: BlueHammer on January 29, 2019, 02:47:48 pm
No, that's what it 'means' now... That's not what it used to mean. Liberals love penumbras. That should be reversed. How the hell DC thinks it can dictate to Montana is beyond me.

it's simple....Montana is part of the USA and subject to the same laws as every other state.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: musiclady on January 29, 2019, 02:50:04 pm
separation of church and state

The 1st Amendment protects us from the State restricting our religion and guarantees our freedom to practice our own religion.

That's the way it is.

But that wasn't my point.  Teaching the Bible as literature as an English course doesn't violate anything for anybody, and it is a local decision as to whether or not the community opposes freedom of thought enough to deny teachers the right to teach a particular English class.

I have the feeling from reading some of your posts that you're in favor of the government's restriction of personal freedom and local choice.....
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: musiclady on January 29, 2019, 02:51:34 pm
it's simple....Montana is part of the USA and subject to the same laws as every other state.

I live in Ohio, and it is not illegal here to teach the Bible as literature (last my kids had it was early 2000's).
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: BlueHammer on January 29, 2019, 02:55:07 pm
The 1st Amendment protects us from the State restricting our religion and guarantees our freedom to practice our own religion.

That's the way it is.

But that wasn't my point.  Teaching the Bible as literature as an English course doesn't violate anything for anybody, and it is a local decision as to whether or not the community opposes freedom of thought enough to deny teachers the right to teach a particular English class.

I have the feeling from reading some of your posts that you're in favor of the government's restriction of personal freedom and local choice.....

you're leaving out one important part of the 1st amendment.....as long as the class includes the same opportunity for all faiths because it cannot establish one religion in any way over others.....must be selective memory on your part
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: musiclady on January 29, 2019, 02:57:20 pm
you're leaving out one important part of the 1st amendment.....as long as the class includes the same opportunity for all faiths because it cannot establish one religion in any way over others.....must be selective memory on your part

How is teaching literature "establishing one religion?"

Simple answer:  It's not.

Perhaps your memory is not selective, but completely absent because you've never been taught?
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: BlueHammer on January 29, 2019, 03:01:36 pm
How is teaching literature "establishing one religion?"

Simple answer:  It's not.

Perhaps your memory is not selective, but completely absent because you've never been taught?

If it's literature of a certain faith, then the same opportunity needs to be applied to all faiths......you know this to be true just don't want to accept it

I'm a Catholic.....I went to parochial schools.....I can guarantee I have spent 10X as much time wrapped in religious material as you.....I still go to church.....I just don't buy what the bible belt bible thumpers try to push.......to us Catholics, you're all heathens anyway
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: roamer_1 on January 29, 2019, 03:01:59 pm
it's simple....Montana is part of the USA and subject to the same laws as every other state.

Howabout bullcrap. That removes federalism and state sovereignty entirely. That is not how it is designed.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: roamer_1 on January 29, 2019, 03:04:12 pm
you know this to be true just don't want to accept it


The hell you say.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: musiclady on January 29, 2019, 03:05:01 pm
If it's literature of a certain faith, then the same opportunity needs to be applied to all faiths......you know this to be true just don't want to accept it

I'm a Catholic.....I went to parochial schools.....I can guarantee I have spent 10X as much time wrapped in religious material as you.....I still go to church.....I just don't buy what the bible belt bible thumpers try to push.......to us Catholics, you're all heathens anyway

Bible belt thumpers??   :silly: :silly:

It's literature.  It's poetry.  And teaching it in High School is not even remotely the State establishing a religion.

Perhaps a little more time in study of the Constitution would do you some good.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: musiclady on January 29, 2019, 03:05:48 pm
The hell you say.

He's kinda funny in an arrogant, ignorant sort of way, don't you think?
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: BlueHammer on January 29, 2019, 03:08:21 pm
Howabout bullcrap. That removes federalism and state sovereignty entirely. That is not how it is designed.

the first amendment applies the same everywhere......that's how it was designed.....this incremental notion that it can be interpreted in a way that applies differently from state to state is just

but based on your reasoning, you would be completely against Trump's 50 state right to conceal carry initiative, correct?
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Bigun on January 29, 2019, 03:09:39 pm
The hell you say.

PLEASE don't feed the trolls!
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: musiclady on January 29, 2019, 03:14:26 pm
PLEASE don't feed the trolls!

Good advice!

(I temporarily gave in to temptation!)
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: BlueHammer on January 29, 2019, 03:14:36 pm
Bible belt thumpers??   :silly: :silly:

It's literature.  It's poetry.  And teaching it in High School is not even remotely the State establishing a religion.

Perhaps a little more time in study of the Constitution would do you some good.

so then there won't be an issue including poetry from the qu'ran and the torah as well as other faiths
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: BlueHammer on January 29, 2019, 03:15:59 pm
PLEASE don't feed the trolls!

why is it the most narrow minded resort to calling what they disagree with 'trolling'?

oh yeah.......lack of a reasonable counter-point
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Bigun on January 29, 2019, 03:20:23 pm
why is it the most narrow minded resort to calling what they disagree with 'trolling'?

oh yeah.......lack of a reasonable counter-point

I've learned over a reasonably long lifetime that it's best not to engage with idiots so begone fly!
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: RoosGirl on January 29, 2019, 03:22:03 pm
why is it the most narrow minded resort to calling what they disagree with 'trolling'?

oh yeah.......lack of a reasonable counter-point

Why are you here calling us knuckle-draggers and droolers?  bleep liberals are all the same kind of special.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: skeeter on January 29, 2019, 03:24:39 pm
If it's literature of a certain faith, then the same opportunity needs to be applied to all faiths......you know this to be true just don't want to accept it

I'm a Catholic.....I went to parochial schools.....I can guarantee I have spent 10X as much time wrapped in religious material as you.....I still go to church.....I just don't buy what the bible belt bible thumpers try to push.......to us Catholics, you're all heathens anyway

You're batting a thousand here on TBR so far.

School District of Abington Township v. Schempp says teaching about a religion is ok, preaching is not.

Then Google The Islam Project .
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: LMAO on January 29, 2019, 03:25:03 pm
 I am curious what the reaction of some would be if the thread was “Barack Obama touts proposed Koran literacy  classes in state schools?”
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Wingnut on January 29, 2019, 03:27:25 pm
Why are you here calling us knuckle-draggers and droolers?  bleep liberals are all the same kind of special.

We should not complain about his shortcomings, but about his long stayings.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Bigun on January 29, 2019, 03:31:31 pm
We should not complain about his shortcomings, but about his long stayings.

 :amen:  :beer:
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: roamer_1 on January 29, 2019, 03:43:45 pm
and the torah

Torah is part of the Christian Bible, ya dork.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: roamer_1 on January 29, 2019, 03:54:01 pm
He's kinda funny in an arrogant, ignorant sort of way, don't you think?

Funny alright... In the not-humorous sort of way...
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: musiclady on January 29, 2019, 03:54:42 pm
so then there won't be an issue including poetry from the qu'ran and the torah as well as other faiths

Sorry for not taking you seriously, but I'm still laughing that you think Montana and Ohio are in the "Bible belt."

Sorta makes everything else you say suspect.

Methinks that WE are not the "narrow minded" ones, but as always, you liberals are.......   happy77
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: musiclady on January 29, 2019, 03:55:04 pm
Torah is part of the Christian Bible, ya dork.

 888high58888
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: musiclady on January 29, 2019, 04:02:22 pm
I've learned over a reasonably long lifetime that it's best not to engage with idiots so begone fly!

Then again, there's this.........

(https://mimimatthews.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/playing-cat-and-mouse-by-j-h-dolph-1835-1903.jpg)

.........which is kinda fun when a liberal troll shows up.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: catfish1957 on January 29, 2019, 04:02:43 pm
888high58888

Wonder if Trump wants both Corinthians covered this time? :silly:
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Bigun on January 29, 2019, 04:05:11 pm
Then again, there's this.........

(https://mimimatthews.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/playing-cat-and-mouse-by-j-h-dolph-1835-1903.jpg)

.........which is kinda fun when a liberal troll shows up.

Yeah! You do have a point.   wink777
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: BlueHammer on January 29, 2019, 04:20:30 pm
Why are you here calling us knuckle-draggers and droolers?  bleep liberals are all the same kind of special.

it was a response to a derogatory statement. I don't care about liberals, but they are the more reasonable ones these days......by a pretty wide margin
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: BlueHammer on January 29, 2019, 04:23:08 pm
Then again, there's this.........

(https://mimimatthews.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/playing-cat-and-mouse-by-j-h-dolph-1835-1903.jpg)

.........which is kinda fun when a liberal troll shows up.



lol......that shit doesn't work
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: LMAO on January 29, 2019, 04:31:14 pm
legally, it wouldn't the bases of the first amendment and the separation of church and state in schools boils down to one thing: Public schools must respect the religious beliefs of the students they serve while not showing favoritism for any particular religious belief.

it'll work as long as nobody says anything....once somebody does say something, a 1st year law student would be able to put the kabosh on the bible class or koran class or any other signularly religious class

You would have a case of every single religious belief wanting their representation in public school curriculum. It may get to the point that then public schools do nothing but teach religion instead of  math, science, history etc.

Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: roamer_1 on January 29, 2019, 04:34:07 pm
You would have a case of every single religious belief wanting their representation in public school curriculum. It may get to the point that then public schools do nothing but teach religion instead of  math, science, history etc.

That was not the case before.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Smokin Joe on January 29, 2019, 04:49:08 pm
it was a response to a derogatory statement. I don't care about liberals, but they are the more reasonable ones these days......by a pretty wide margin

 :silly:
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: musiclady on January 29, 2019, 04:50:28 pm
You would have a case of every single religious belief wanting their representation in public school curriculum. It may get to the point that then public schools do nothing but teach religion instead of  math, science, history etc.

Teaching the Bible as literature has been done before.  It is not "teaching religion," but teaching literature.

It has been successfully taught, and has never once taken over the curriculum.

As I said upthread..... "The Bible as Literature" was in our public school English curriculum not that long ago, and it never caused a problem.

Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: musiclady on January 29, 2019, 04:52:39 pm


lol......that shit doesn't work

Except when you don't realize it's being done.   

But please do carry on.   We know that you are a "reasonable" liberal, and that you are far superior to us cats.  happy77
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: LMAO on January 29, 2019, 04:56:52 pm
That was not the case before.

 However, I still have not received an answer to my question of what would people’s reaction here would be if one were to change in this thread’s title Trump to Obama and Bible to Koran?
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: roamer_1 on January 29, 2019, 04:59:05 pm
Teaching the Bible as literature has been done before.  It is not "teaching religion," but teaching literature.

It has been successfully taught, and has never once taken over the curriculum.

As I said upthread..... "The Bible as Literature" was in our public school English curriculum not that long ago, and it never caused a problem.

The actual teaching of Christian morals was in our public schools not so long ago - I remember the 10 commandments on the wall and morning prayer - I remember basic teaching (Adam and Eve, Noah, Jonah, etc) as part of the curriculum... as examples of right and wrong... and that in a public school in Chicago.

Later I went to Christian school, and could not comment on the public system until I was out here - But even here, morning prayer, 10 commandments... I remember when it quit, though I do not know if that was a transitional thing or if it was by edict (as they coincided). It was in my transition to middle school. And not long after that, the 10 commandments were removed from in front of the courthouse. I was there that day. :(
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: musiclady on January 29, 2019, 05:04:03 pm
However, I still have not received an answer to my question of what would people’s reaction here would be if one were to change in this thread’s title Trump to Obama and Bible to Koran?

The Koran is presently being taught in many schools.

And is magically NOT an issue for liberals and the supposed "separation" of Church from State.

I may not be in the majority here, but if it were taught as poetry (is it being taught that way?), then it would not be a problem.

But the libs WILL allow Islam being taught and will NOT allow Christianity being taught.

The double standard you should be looking at is theirs, not Conservatives.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: edpc on January 29, 2019, 05:05:42 pm
it was a response to a derogatory statement. I don't care about liberals, but they are the more reasonable ones these days......by a pretty wide margin.


They always seem that way, when they’re out of power. Back in ‘92, Clinton pretended to be ‘a new kind of democrat,’ but we knew better and he proved it.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: roamer_1 on January 29, 2019, 05:06:20 pm
However, I still have not received an answer to my question of what would people’s reaction here would be if one were to change in this thread’s title Trump to Obama and Bible to Koran?

In Michigan, I would not be offended... There are muslim populations there that should be able to teach their children as they see fit.

Here, it would piss me off. There might be two Muslims to rub together in the whole dang town. And yet, my children received muslim and native American religious information in school here, while Christian religious information was summarily blocked. My children were given prayer rugs, taught to kneel on them, facing Mecca, and taught simple Muslim prayers as a diversity exercise... To include 'There is no god but allah and mo-hamhead is his prophet.

So cry me a river.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: musiclady on January 29, 2019, 05:09:05 pm
The actual teaching of Christian morals was in our public schools not so long ago - I remember the 10 commandments on the wall and morning prayer - I remember basic teaching (Adam and Eve, Noah, Jonah, etc) as part of the curriculum... as examples of right and wrong... and that in a public school in Chicago.

Later I went to Christian school, and could not comment on the public system until I was out here - But even here, morning prayer, 10 commandments... I remember when it quit, though I do not know if that was a transitional thing or if it was by edict (as they coincided). It was in my transition to middle school. And not long after that, the 10 commandments were removed from in front of the courthouse. I was there that day. :(

We recited the Lord's Prayer in public school and they read Psalm 23 over the loudspeaker when someone in the school died.

Christianity is deep in the fabric of our country, its education (why were schools started in this country? To teach the Bible), and our history as a whole.

The left is scratching its eyes out to remove it all, but they cannot, because it is too deeply embedded in  our roots as a nation.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: roamer_1 on January 29, 2019, 05:12:48 pm
We recited the Lord's Prayer in public school and they read Psalm 23 over the loudspeaker when someone in the school died.

Christianity is deep in the fabric of our country, its education (why were schools started in this country? To teach the Bible), and our history as a whole.

The left is scratching its eyes out to remove it all, but they cannot, because it is too deeply embedded in  our roots as a nation.

That's mostly right, but I think they are succeeding. That is why so very many of our youth, and adults in generations after us have become so embroiled in materialism and moral turpitude. And it is liberal indoctrination in the schools that is doing it. I truly think that anyone sending their kids to public school in this day and age are committing abuse.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: skeeter on January 29, 2019, 05:20:38 pm

They always seem that way, when they’re out of power. Back in ‘92, Clinton pretended to be ‘a new kind of democrat,’ but we knew better and he proved it.

Remember when Obama said 'we need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion.' LOL
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: XenaLee on January 29, 2019, 05:21:33 pm
That's mostly right, but I think they are succeeding. That is why so very many of our youth, and adults in generations after us have become so embroiled in materialism and moral turpitude. And it is liberal indoctrination in the schools that is doing it. I truly think that anyone sending their kids to public school in this day and age are committing abuse.

Many folks can't afford to send their kids to private school.  They are stuck with that as their only option.  So no, it's not abuse.  It's just the way it is.   Instead of demeaning folks that can't afford private schooling, we should work to correct the problems with public schooling.  JS....
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: roamer_1 on January 29, 2019, 05:33:43 pm
Many folks can't afford to send their kids to private school.  They are stuck with that as their only option.  So no, it's not abuse.  It's just the way it is.   Instead of demeaning folks that can't afford private schooling, we should work to correct the problems with public schooling.  JS....

Not demeaning anyone... But I would not send my kids through public school, period. I would home school if necessary. In fact, I regret that my kids were ever exposed to public school at all - When I could no longer afford Christian school, they should have stayed home. That's one of the most regrettable things in my life.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: XenaLee on January 29, 2019, 05:38:52 pm
Not demeaning anyone... But I would not send my kids through public school, period. I would home school if necessary. In fact, I regret that my kids were ever exposed to public school at all - When I could no longer afford Christian school, they should have stayed home. That's one of the most regrettable things in my life.

Well... one of my long-time friends in Houston has a grandson that is having to go to public school... even though his son has been working 12-hour days (wife works part time in retail) and still can't afford to send the kid to private school thanks to the enormous amount they have to pay for "healthcare" every month.  Docs just found a hole in his heart, which means he's not allowed to go back to work yet... and  he's only 35.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Bigun on January 29, 2019, 05:43:27 pm
I've said it before, many times in fact, but once more can't hurt.

The first and worst mistake we ever made in this country was to allow the gooberment to educate (read indoctrinate) our children!
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: roamer_1 on January 29, 2019, 05:46:52 pm
Well... one of my long-time friends in Houston has a grandson that is having to go to public school... even though his son has been working 12-hour days (wife works part time in retail) and still can't afford to send the kid to private school thanks to the enormous amount they have to pay for "healthcare" every month.  Docs just found a hole in his heart, which means he's not allowed to go back to work yet... and  he's only 35.

I hear you... And sometimes there is no resort... But I know a whole lot of homeschoolers these days, and schooling hardly ever takes more than a few hours a day, with way better results than the public system can produce. I literally don't know a single homeshooled kid that ain't pulling A's

If the parents can't do it, maybe the grands can... or there are co-ops where parents trade off according to specialty... I ain't saying it works for everybody, but public schooling is not only a huge disadvantage, it is a moral minefield. I pity the poor kid that has to endure it. Especially boys.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: roamer_1 on January 29, 2019, 05:47:23 pm
I've said it before, many times in fact, but once more can't hurt.

The first and worst mistake we ever made in this country was to allow the gooberment to educate (read indoctrinate) our children!

That's a plain fact, right there.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: corbe on January 29, 2019, 05:54:39 pm
    And now for something completely different (but on topic):

Trump and evangelicals are wrong about teaching the Bible in schools

by David Leach • January 29, 2019


What do you do when you’re Donald Trump and you just caved so BIGLY to Nancy Pelosi that even Ann Coulter — author of In Trump We Trust: E Pluribus Awesome! — calls you “the biggest wimp ever to serve as President of the United States?” You look for a way to appease your loyal but dwindling base of supporters.

Now, what do you do when you’re Donald Trump if, on top of caving to Pelosi, your job approval numbers have sunk so low that your presidency is drawing parallels to the SS Titanic? You also throw a bone to evangelicals and the Fellowship of Pharisees that lead them.

That’s exactly what the thrice-married, serial-philandering, pathologically lying Christian president who’s never asked God for forgiveness did yesterday, although, he didn’t really “do” anything.

<..snip..>

https://www.stridentconservative.com/trump-and-evangelicals-are-wrong-about-teaching-the-bible-in-schools/ (https://www.stridentconservative.com/trump-and-evangelicals-are-wrong-about-teaching-the-bible-in-schools/)


Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Bigun on January 29, 2019, 05:59:16 pm
    And now for something completely different (but on topic):

Trump and evangelicals are wrong about teaching the Bible in schools

by David Leach • January 29, 2019


What do you do when you’re Donald Trump and you just caved so BIGLY to Nancy Pelosi that even Ann Coulter — author of In Trump We Trust: E Pluribus Awesome! — calls you “the biggest wimp ever to serve as President of the United States?” You look for a way to appease your loyal but dwindling base of supporters.

Now, what do you do when you’re Donald Trump if, on top of caving to Pelosi, your job approval numbers have sunk so low that your presidency is drawing parallels to the SS Titanic? You also throw a bone to evangelicals and the Fellowship of Pharisees that lead them.

That’s exactly what the thrice-married, serial-philandering, pathologically lying Christian president who’s never asked God for forgiveness did yesterday, although, he didn’t really “do” anything.

<..snip..>

https://www.stridentconservative.com/trump-and-evangelicals-are-wrong-about-teaching-the-bible-in-schools/ (https://www.stridentconservative.com/trump-and-evangelicals-are-wrong-about-teaching-the-bible-in-schools/)

They could be right!  All I know is that if I had my way there would be no such thing as a public (read gooberment run) school.

Everything the gooberment does has strings attached to it.  EVERYTHING!

Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: libertybele on January 29, 2019, 06:09:31 pm
I've said it before, many times in fact, but once more can't hurt.

The first and worst mistake we ever made in this country was to allow the gooberment to educate (read indoctrinate) our children!

 :amen:

When our children were in middle school we decided to pull them out of the public school system and put them into private schools.  What a difference.  The teachers informed us of the changes in text books (especially history) over the years and stated that the public school system is "dumbing down" our children.  Long story short, both of our kids were in the "gifted" program in the public school, but when tested in the private school they were actually behind and had to take summer courses to catch up before the private school would place them.

Now we have 'Common Core'  which IMHO is nothing more than an avenue to further indoctrinate our children.  Jeb! was responsible for that push.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: libertybele on January 29, 2019, 06:16:02 pm
    And now for something completely different (but on topic):

Trump and evangelicals are wrong about teaching the Bible in schools

by David Leach • January 29, 2019


What do you do when you’re Donald Trump and you just caved so BIGLY to Nancy Pelosi that even Ann Coulter — author of In Trump We Trust: E Pluribus Awesome! — calls you “the biggest wimp ever to serve as President of the United States?” You look for a way to appease your loyal but dwindling base of supporters.

Now, what do you do when you’re Donald Trump if, on top of caving to Pelosi, your job approval numbers have sunk so low that your presidency is drawing parallels to the SS Titanic? You also throw a bone to evangelicals and the Fellowship of Pharisees that lead them.

That’s exactly what the thrice-married, serial-philandering, pathologically lying Christian president who’s never asked God for forgiveness did yesterday, although, he didn’t really “do” anything.

<..snip..>

https://www.stridentconservative.com/trump-and-evangelicals-are-wrong-about-teaching-the-bible-in-schools/ (https://www.stridentconservative.com/trump-and-evangelicals-are-wrong-about-teaching-the-bible-in-schools/)

Exactly what I thought when I read the headline. Trump is trying to distract from his recent border wall failure.

I think he'd be better off implementing FREE learning centers in every city so that people can learn to speak Spanish.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: XenaLee on January 29, 2019, 06:17:09 pm
I hear you... And sometimes there is no resort... But I know a whole lot of homeschoolers these days, and schooling hardly ever takes more than a few hours a day, with way better results than the public system can produce. I literally don't know a single homeshooled kid that ain't pulling A's

If the parents can't do it, maybe the grands can... or there are co-ops where parents trade off according to specialty... I ain't saying it works for everybody, but public schooling is not only a huge disadvantage, it is a moral minefield. I pity the poor kid that has to endure it. Especially boys.

Homeschooling means that the parent(s) that are teaching the kids aren't working full time.   That has become an almost impossibility with most folks since the Obamanation and ObamaCare.  Parents have had to be working more than one job just to pay the bills, buy the food, pay for the healthcare.... and then the healthcare insurance drain on the family's income.   In my friend's case.... all three generations (father, son, grandson) are a product of public schooling due to lack of money and therefore, lack of any other choices.

Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: musiclady on January 29, 2019, 06:19:12 pm
That's mostly right, but I think they are succeeding. That is why so very many of our youth, and adults in generations after us have become so embroiled in materialism and moral turpitude. And it is liberal indoctrination in the schools that is doing it. I truly think that anyone sending their kids to public school in this day and age are committing abuse.

I agree with most of what you've said, but will side with @XenaLee in saying that some people have little choice, so I wouldn't call it abuse.

I should add that when our kids were in school (they're in their thirties, pushing forty now), there were still public schools with a number of Christian teachers who continued to teach right from wrong and didn't indoctrinate to the left.  That's why we were able to send them there.

Three of them were Salutatorians and one a Valedictorian and they all gave Commencement speeches (approved by the administration) that pretty much straight preached the Gospel.  I know it was an exception even then, but schools like ours used to exist.

Since then, it's gone precipitously downhill and we would definitely not send our kids to public schools now.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: XenaLee on January 29, 2019, 06:22:39 pm
I agree with most of what you've said, but will side with @XenaLee in saying that some people have little choice, so I wouldn't call it abuse.

I should add that when our kids were in school (they're in their thirties, pushing forty now), there were still public schools with a number of Christian teachers who continued to teach right from wrong and didn't indoctrinate to the left.  That's why we were able to send them there.

Three of them were Salutatorians and one a Valedictorian and they all gave Commencement speeches (approved by the administration) that pretty much straight preached the Gospel.  I know it was an exception even then, but schools like ours used to exist.

Since then, it's gone precipitously downhill and we would definitely not send our kids to public schools now.

What is needed is more Christian-based private schools that are affordable to middle income and lower middle-class parents.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: ABX on January 29, 2019, 06:27:59 pm
I'm fine with this as long as they use the right version and guidance- the 1861 Presbiluthertarianism Calvin Edition (with the post Hobbs translation of Isiah 63, not the pre-translation which is heresy) as written about by Sister Abigal Hogbottom in the Cleveland Ohio First Church of Rain Run-off and Blessings.

Everything else is heresy and should be banned.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: libertybele on January 29, 2019, 06:30:33 pm
I agree with most of what you've said, but will side with @XenaLee in saying that some people have little choice, so I wouldn't call it abuse.

I should add that when our kids were in school (they're in their thirties, pushing forty now), there were still public schools with a number of Christian teachers who continued to teach right from wrong and didn't indoctrinate to the left.  That's why we were able to send them there.

Three of them were Salutatorians and one a Valedictorian and they all gave Commencement speeches (approved by the administration) that pretty much straight preached the Gospel.  I know it was an exception even then, but schools like ours used to exist.

Since then, it's gone precipitously downhill and we would definitely not send our kids to public schools now.

The problem for most parents is $$.  I just looked up the tuition fees where we sent our kids and now it is over $13k.  If you have only one child that is relatively affordable, but sending multiple children would get to be a bit pricey. 
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: musiclady on January 29, 2019, 06:34:36 pm
What is needed is more Christian-based private schools that are affordable to middle income and lower middle-class parents.

Indeed!

I considered Home Schooling, but as a strong Pro-Life advocate, I wanted them to get out of their childhoods alive, and was pretty sure I couldn't guarantee that if they were home with me all day.  wink777
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Victoria33 on January 29, 2019, 06:35:11 pm
The actual teaching of Christian morals was in our public schools not so long ago - I remember the 10 commandments on the wall and morning prayer - I remember basic teaching (Adam and Eve, Noah, Jonah, etc) as part of the curriculum... as examples of right and wrong... and that in a public school in Chicago.

Later I went to Christian school, and could not comment on the public system until I was out here - But even here, morning prayer, 10 commandments... I remember when it quit, though I do not know if that was a transitional thing or if it was by edict (as they coincided). It was in my transition to middle school. And not long after that, the 10 commandments were removed from in front of the courthouse. I was there that day. :(
@roamer_1

The bold print is why it cannot be done in schools today.  I also remember how it used to be. Churches were full on Sunday; I was a church pianist on Sunday morning, Sunday night, on Wednesday night.  Church is what one did on Sunday.  The country is not like it was in those years.  Killings were unusual in those years.  Cars were not locked; the keys were in the ignition. Houses were not locked.  Those years are gone and I believe a school Bible class would end up in court and not be allowed.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: XenaLee on January 29, 2019, 06:39:47 pm
Indeed!

I considered Home Schooling, but as a strong Pro-Life advocate, I wanted them to get out of their childhoods alive, and was pretty sure I couldn't guarantee that if they were home with me all day.  wink777

Lol!   My mother would have made a great home-schooler teacher (very Gestapo when she needed to be).   She basically, single-handedly, taught me how to write when I was a kid....because the school in Norfolk was way ahead of the schools in Texas, and they were going to 'try' to put me back a year because of it.  I was already a year ahead of the other kids, but NAH.  She wouldn't have it.  She taught me herself... and I ended up with better hand-writing than most of the class.  (don't have that now, though due to years of lax and laziness re: penmanship.   **nononono*)
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: BlueHammer on January 29, 2019, 06:59:26 pm
You would have a case of every single religious belief wanting their representation in public school curriculum. It may get to the point that then public schools do nothing but teach religion instead of  math, science, history etc.

well....that's what you are asking for with a class or activity at the expense of the taxpayer dollar....which is why you don't see it
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: QueenCatofAragon on January 29, 2019, 07:04:40 pm


lol......that shit doesn't work

@BlueHammer

Oooh, he said a bad word!  What an edgelord, lmao

I'm scared!
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Frank Cannon on January 29, 2019, 07:07:58 pm
@BlueHammer

Oooh, he said a bad word!  What an edgelord, lmao

I'm scared!

You remind me of someone I used to know. You work for the Roy Moore Senate campaign?
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: ABX on January 29, 2019, 07:08:59 pm
@roamer_1

The bold print is why it cannot be done in schools today.  I also remember how it used to be. Churches were full on Sunday; I was a church pianist on Sunday morning, Sunday night, on Wednesday night.  Church is what one did on Sunday.  The country is not like it was in those years.  Killings were unusual in those years.  Cars were not locked; the keys were in the ignition. Houses were not locked.  Those years are gone and I believe a school Bible class would end up in court and not be allowed.

I think that people believe something like this will 'fix' our society is one of the main reasons we have the problems we do. People have ceded personal responsibility to others- expecting that schools teach things that should be taught in homes. Expecting the government to force these things to happen.

When these things were taught in school, they were a reflection of society, not something that actually fixed it.

My sarcastic comment above aside, I have no problem with a community deciding this curriculum fits their society (as long as it doesn't push others out for different beliefs). What take issue with is people expecting this to fix anything when they can't even be bothered to do it at home.

If we continued to live these values in our homes, neighborhoods, and cities; if churches stopped being social clubs and started being guides to life; if fraternal organizations were again looked at as a way to make good men better and helped teach everlasting values, then we wouldn't be demanding the government do this for us. It would be there naturally because they reflected us.

I really am not crazy about the thought, in this day and age, of government run schools telling children what their religion means.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: musiclady on January 29, 2019, 07:10:49 pm
@BlueHammer

Oooh, he said a bad word!  What an edgelord, lmao

I'm scared!

Don't try to fool us, @QueenCatofAragon .

With that AWESOME avatar, you ain't afraid of nothin!
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: QueenCatofAragon on January 29, 2019, 07:14:36 pm
Don't try to fool us, @QueenCatofAragon .

With that AWESOME avatar, you ain't afraid of nothin!

@musiclady

I love her, lol.

This troll isn't even trying.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: QueenCatofAragon on January 29, 2019, 07:17:29 pm
You remind me of someone I used to know. You work for the Roy Moore Senate campaign?

@Amb. Frank Cannon

No, you see, I used to post here, but as a secret Dem operative with (horror movie music) "an agenda", I just got busted by the smart posters and had to take a break.  I spent some time in the south of France, courtesy of Soros. 

As for Moore, I hear he's trying to get a job as a school crossing guard.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Frank Cannon on January 29, 2019, 07:21:10 pm
@Amb. Frank Cannon

No, you see, I used to post here, but as a secret Dem operative with (horror movie music) "an agenda", I just got busted by the smart posters and had to take a break.  I spent some time in the south of France, courtesy of Soros. 

As for Moore, I hear he's trying to get a job as a school crossing guard.

I knew it. LauraTXMN how are you? Long time no see.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: musiclady on January 29, 2019, 07:27:20 pm
@musiclady

I love her, lol.

This troll isn't even trying.

You're right about that.

Pretty lame attempt to be "smarter" than the rest of us.   *****rollingeyes*****
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: musiclady on January 29, 2019, 07:27:45 pm
@Amb. Frank Cannon

No, you see, I used to post here, but as a secret Dem operative with (horror movie music) "an agenda", I just got busted by the smart posters and had to take a break.  I spent some time in the south of France, courtesy of Soros. 

As for Moore, I hear he's trying to get a job as a school crossing guard.

 888high58888
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: QueenCatofAragon on January 29, 2019, 07:30:04 pm
I knew it. LauraTXMN how are you? Long time no see.

@Amb. Frank Cannon

Bingo
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Hoodat on January 29, 2019, 09:51:41 pm
I distinctly remember the Commonwealth of Virginia requiring study of ancient Greek an Roman religions as part of English Literature curriculum.  If you didn't pass, you didn't graduate.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Sighlass on January 29, 2019, 09:54:10 pm
4 kids homeschooled on less than $500 per year... That is $500.00 for all of them, not each.  Eldest just made a 30 on his ACT and starting his second semester in Engineering school. Government has no business in education.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Bigun on January 29, 2019, 10:15:58 pm
4 kids homeschooled on less than $500 per year... That is $500.00 for all of them, not each.  Eldest just made a 30 on his ACT and starting his second semester in Engineering school. Government has no business in education.

 :amen: :amen: :amen:   888high58888
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Frank Cannon on January 29, 2019, 10:19:13 pm
4 kids homeschooled on less than $500 per year... That is $500.00 for all of them, not each.  Eldest just made a 30 on his ACT and starting his second semester in Engineering school. Government has no business in education.

Does that $500 also include the loss of income from staying home schooling kids?
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Smokin Joe on January 29, 2019, 10:25:34 pm
Not demeaning anyone... But I would not send my kids through public school, period. I would home school if necessary. In fact, I regret that my kids were ever exposed to public school at all - When I could no longer afford Christian school, they should have stayed home. That's one of the most regrettable things in my life.
Don't think that local school districts won't go after people who keep their kids out of the public schools and homeschool them. People=funding. If you do homeschool, fully expect social services on your doorstep, and if they have to, they will make up stuff to ensure the parents can't homeschool (they did in my area).
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: libertybele on January 29, 2019, 10:29:01 pm
4 kids homeschooled on less than $500 per year... That is $500.00 for all of them, not each.  Eldest just made a 30 on his ACT and starting his second semester in Engineering school. Government has no business in education.

Good for you!!  Agreed gov't shouldn't be in the education business.  I know two retired teachers and most of their time was spent teaching the kids what they needed to know in order to pass the 'standardized' tests rather than spending more time just teaching.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Smokin Joe on January 29, 2019, 10:30:02 pm
well....that's what you are asking for with a class or activity at the expense of the taxpayer dollar....which is why you don't see it
So you are saying the taxpayers shouldn't have any input on how their school dollars are spent?
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: roamer_1 on January 29, 2019, 10:36:24 pm
I think that people believe something like this will 'fix' our society is one of the main reasons we have the problems we do. People have ceded personal responsibility to others- expecting that schools teach things that should be taught in homes. Expecting the government to force these things to happen.

When these things were taught in school, they were a reflection of society, not something that actually fixed it.

My sarcastic comment above aside, I have no problem with a community deciding this curriculum fits their society (as long as it doesn't push others out for different beliefs). What take issue with is people expecting this to fix anything when they can't even be bothered to do it at home.

If we continued to live these values in our homes, neighborhoods, and cities; if churches stopped being social clubs and started being guides to life; if fraternal organizations were again looked at as a way to make good men better and helped teach everlasting values, then we wouldn't be demanding the government do this for us. It would be there naturally because they reflected us.

I really am not crazy about the thought, in this day and age, of government run schools telling children what their religion means.

Nicely stated, @ABX , but I will take exception to it, as I truly think it is the other way around.

More and more I think the thing that keeps a society coloring between the lines, is the continuity between all aspects of a society. In part you are right - in that part - But I think it goes the other way around. I think religion has recoiled from society into the homes thereof precisely because it can no longer survive in the broader sphere. And in that, polite society, *all of it*, has also retreated, and we are left with cacophony and crime.

All of it is applied with force - Folks know how important that homogeneity is in culture, and folks have stood up to fight this infection at every turn, because it is so important to a culture.

We have not gone down this path on our own. It has been imposed. Every single thing that is the glue of culture has been purposefully eroded,and law has been used to continue that erosion, preventing folks from fixing the problem.

You are seeing the result of that imposition, and the continuing liberalism, beginning in the cities and leeching out like a poison into the countryside... Even now, the very heartland has become infected, and there is little left that can be done, without what's left standing up come hell or high water, as a people, and saying oh hell no, and putting it back the way it was.

But that is becoming ever harder to do - because this grim disease is no longer hidden in metaphors and and things spoken in whispers... It strides boldly in the halls of power. It owns federal law. It owns the media. It owns corporate board rooms.

It pours this vile shit down the throats of our young, taxes us blind, using our own money to give itself impetus, doubling and redoubling with every generation.

People have fought against it for decades, but our own laws have been perverted to stand in our way, against a foe 3000 miles away...

Given their own head, with the law to protect them, most communities would outlaw abortion. Most would outlaw gay marriage, most would instill morality into their community, just like they always have. If you think my little town would not put those 10 commandments back in front of the courthouse and back in every classroom, and would not re-institute public prayer, and do everything they could to put sin back on the other side of the tracks, you've got another think coming.

We cannot. It is being prevented and smothered as another culture is imposed from on high.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: dfwgator on January 29, 2019, 10:41:18 pm
Schools already do too many things that should be done at home.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: roamer_1 on January 29, 2019, 10:47:04 pm
Don't think that local school districts won't go after people who keep their kids out of the public schools and homeschool them. People=funding. If you do homeschool, fully expect social services on your doorstep, and if they have to, they will make up stuff to ensure the parents can't homeschool (they did in my area).

Yeah. Lucky for us, the Rockies, and particularly the northern Rockies are infused with a libertarian bent. We don't cotton to folks telling us what to do. Homeschooling will thrive here better than most places.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Bigun on January 29, 2019, 10:50:55 pm
Nicely stated, @ABX , but I will take exception to it, as I truly think it is the other way around.

More and more I think the thing that keeps a society coloring between the lines, is the continuity between all aspects of a society. In part you are right - in that part - But I think it goes the other way around. I think religion has recoiled from society into the homes thereof precisely because it can no longer survive in the broader sphere. And in that, polite society, *all of it*, has also retreated, and we are left with cacophony and crime.

All of it is applied with force - Folks know how important that homogeneity is in culture, and folks have stood up to fight this infection at every turn, because it is so important to a culture.

We have not gone down this path on our own. It has been imposed. Every single thing that is the glue of culture has been purposefully eroded,and law has been used to continue that erosion, preventing folks from fixing the problem.

You are seeing the result of that imposition, and the continuing liberalism, beginning in the cities and leeching out like a poison into the countryside... Even now, the very heartland has become infected, and there is little left that can be done, without what's left standing up come hell or high water, as a people, and saying oh hell no, and putting it back the way it was.

But that is becoming ever harder to do - because this grim disease is no longer hidden in metaphors and and things spoken in whispers... It strides boldly in the halls of power. It owns federal law. It owns the media. It owns corporate board rooms.

It pours this vile shit down the throats of our young, taxes us blind, using our own money to give itself impetus, doubling and redoubling with every generation.

People have fought against it for decades, but our own laws have been perverted to stand in our way, against a foe 3000 miles away...

Given their own head, with the law to protect them, most communities would outlaw abortion. Most would outlaw gay marriage, most would instill morality into their community, just like they always have. If you think my little town would not put those 10 commandments back in front of the courthouse and back in every classroom, and would not re-institute public prayer, and do everything they could to put sin back on the other side of the tracks, you've got another think coming.

We cannot. It is being prevented and smothered as another culture is imposed from on high.

Gets my vote for post of the year.  Maybe the decade!  100% spot on! 

@roamer_1
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: roamer_1 on January 29, 2019, 11:04:20 pm
Gets my vote for post of the year.  Maybe the decade!  100% spot on! 

@roamer_1

:)

 :beer:
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: musiclady on January 29, 2019, 11:13:14 pm
Nicely stated, @ABX , but I will take exception to it, as I truly think it is the other way around.

More and more I think the thing that keeps a society coloring between the lines, is the continuity between all aspects of a society. In part you are right - in that part - But I think it goes the other way around. I think religion has recoiled from society into the homes thereof precisely because it can no longer survive in the broader sphere. And in that, polite society, *all of it*, has also retreated, and we are left with cacophony and crime.

All of it is applied with force - Folks know how important that homogeneity is in culture, and folks have stood up to fight this infection at every turn, because it is so important to a culture.

We have not gone down this path on our own. It has been imposed. Every single thing that is the glue of culture has been purposefully eroded,and law has been used to continue that erosion, preventing folks from fixing the problem.

You are seeing the result of that imposition, and the continuing liberalism, beginning in the cities and leeching out like a poison into the countryside... Even now, the very heartland has become infected, and there is little left that can be done, without what's left standing up come hell or high water, as a people, and saying oh hell no, and putting it back the way it was.

But that is becoming ever harder to do - because this grim disease is no longer hidden in metaphors and and things spoken in whispers... It strides boldly in the halls of power. It owns federal law. It owns the media. It owns corporate board rooms.

It pours this vile shit down the throats of our young, taxes us blind, using our own money to give itself impetus, doubling and redoubling with every generation.

People have fought against it for decades, but our own laws have been perverted to stand in our way, against a foe 3000 miles away...

Given their own head, with the law to protect them, most communities would outlaw abortion. Most would outlaw gay marriage, most would instill morality into their community, just like they always have. If you think my little town would not put those 10 commandments back in front of the courthouse and back in every classroom, and would not re-institute public prayer, and do everything they could to put sin back on the other side of the tracks, you've got another think coming.

We cannot. It is being prevented and smothered as another culture is imposed from on high.

Wow....... is that a GREAT post, @roamer_1 !

BRAVO!!!
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Smokin Joe on January 29, 2019, 11:17:03 pm
Nicely stated, @ABX , but I will take exception to it, as I truly think it is the other way around.

More and more I think the thing that keeps a society coloring between the lines, is the continuity between all aspects of a society. In part you are right - in that part - But I think it goes the other way around. I think religion has recoiled from society into the homes thereof precisely because it can no longer survive in the broader sphere. And in that, polite society, *all of it*, has also retreated, and we are left with cacophony and crime.

All of it is applied with force - Folks know how important that homogeneity is in culture, and folks have stood up to fight this infection at every turn, because it is so important to a culture.

We have not gone down this path on our own. It has been imposed. Every single thing that is the glue of culture has been purposefully eroded,and law has been used to continue that erosion, preventing folks from fixing the problem.

You are seeing the result of that imposition, and the continuing liberalism, beginning in the cities and leeching out like a poison into the countryside... Even now, the very heartland has become infected, and there is little left that can be done, without what's left standing up come hell or high water, as a people, and saying oh hell no, and putting it back the way it was.

But that is becoming ever harder to do - because this grim disease is no longer hidden in metaphors and and things spoken in whispers... It strides boldly in the halls of power. It owns federal law. It owns the media. It owns corporate board rooms.

It pours this vile shit down the throats of our young, taxes us blind, using our own money to give itself impetus, doubling and redoubling with every generation.

People have fought against it for decades, but our own laws have been perverted to stand in our way, against a foe 3000 miles away...

Given their own head, with the law to protect them, most communities would outlaw abortion. Most would outlaw gay marriage, most would instill morality into their community, just like they always have. If you think my little town would not put those 10 commandments back in front of the courthouse and back in every classroom, and would not re-institute public prayer, and do everything they could to put sin back on the other side of the tracks, you've got another think coming.

We cannot. It is being prevented and smothered as another culture is imposed from on high.
Well said!
In this day and age, media set the 'norms' in people's minds, and what is seen in media is a gross distortion of what is real. Those who don't know any better  (young and impressionable, especially) think what they see on TV, from the sitcoms to the dramas to the DIY channel are how 'normal' people live, and act accordingly to fit in.
That's where the problems arise, because their model is deeply flawed, does not represent much of society, and not a model anyone really wants to live with. 
You are right that the very viable alternative, with minor adjustments over the past century, is being quashed by decree in the public schools and elsewhere, so ordinary clean and righteous living doesn't get exposure in media or education, just the bizarre and sensationalist stuff that gets ratings and sells soap, or the degeneracy that reflects the 'tastes' of the programmers.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: EdJames on January 29, 2019, 11:27:13 pm
Nicely stated, @ABX , but I will take exception to it, as I truly think it is the other way around.

More and more I think the thing that keeps a society coloring between the lines, is the continuity between all aspects of a society. In part you are right - in that part - But I think it goes the other way around. I think religion has recoiled from society into the homes thereof precisely because it can no longer survive in the broader sphere. And in that, polite society, *all of it*, has also retreated, and we are left with cacophony and crime.

All of it is applied with force - Folks know how important that homogeneity is in culture, and folks have stood up to fight this infection at every turn, because it is so important to a culture.

We have not gone down this path on our own. It has been imposed. Every single thing that is the glue of culture has been purposefully eroded,and law has been used to continue that erosion, preventing folks from fixing the problem.

You are seeing the result of that imposition, and the continuing liberalism, beginning in the cities and leeching out like a poison into the countryside... Even now, the very heartland has become infected, and there is little left that can be done, without what's left standing up come hell or high water, as a people, and saying oh hell no, and putting it back the way it was.

But that is becoming ever harder to do - because this grim disease is no longer hidden in metaphors and and things spoken in whispers... It strides boldly in the halls of power. It owns federal law. It owns the media. It owns corporate board rooms.

It pours this vile shit down the throats of our young, taxes us blind, using our own money to give itself impetus, doubling and redoubling with every generation.

People have fought against it for decades, but our own laws have been perverted to stand in our way, against a foe 3000 miles away...

Given their own head, with the law to protect them, most communities would outlaw abortion. Most would outlaw gay marriage, most would instill morality into their community, just like they always have. If you think my little town would not put those 10 commandments back in front of the courthouse and back in every classroom, and would not re-institute public prayer, and do everything they could to put sin back on the other side of the tracks, you've got another think coming.

We cannot. It is being prevented and smothered as another culture is imposed from on high.

Nailed it to a T.  100% Spot on!
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: dfwgator on January 29, 2019, 11:31:17 pm
I'm fine with this as long as they use the right version and guidance- the 1861 Presbiluthertarianism Calvin Edition (with the post Hobbs translation of Isiah 63, not the pre-translation which is heresy) as written about by Sister Abigal Hogbottom in the Cleveland Ohio First Church of Rain Run-off and Blessings.

Everything else is heresy and should be banned.

I was walking across a bridge one day, and I saw a man standing on the edge, about to jump. I ran over and said: "Stop. Don't do it."

"Why shouldn't I?" he asked.

"Well, there's so much to live for!"

"Like what?"

"Are you religious?"

He said: "Yes."

I said: "Me too. Are you Christian or Buddhist?"

"Christian."

"Me too. Are you Catholic or Protestant?"

"Protestant."

"Me too. Are you Episcopalian or Baptist?"

"Baptist."

"Wow. Me too. Are you Baptist Church of God or Baptist Church of the Lord?"

"Baptist Church of God."

"Me too. Are you original Baptist Church of God, or are you Reformed Baptist Church of God?"

"Reformed Baptist Church of God."

"Me too. Are you Reformed Baptist Church of God, Reformation of 1879, or Reformed Baptist Church of God, Reformation of 1915?"

He said: "Reformed Baptist Church of God, Reformation of 1915."

I said: "Die, heretic scum," and pushed him off.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: DCPatriot on January 29, 2019, 11:33:16 pm
Nicely stated, @ABX , but I will take exception to it, as I truly think it is the other way around.

More and more I think the thing that keeps a society coloring between the lines, is the continuity between all aspects of a society. In part you are right - in that part - But I think it goes the other way around. I think religion has recoiled from society into the homes thereof precisely because it can no longer survive in the broader sphere. And in that, polite society, *all of it*, has also retreated, and we are left with cacophony and crime.

All of it is applied with force - Folks know how important that homogeneity is in culture, and folks have stood up to fight this infection at every turn, because it is so important to a culture.

We have not gone down this path on our own. It has been imposed. Every single thing that is the glue of culture has been purposefully eroded,and law has been used to continue that erosion, preventing folks from fixing the problem.

You are seeing the result of that imposition, and the continuing liberalism, beginning in the cities and leeching out like a poison into the countryside... Even now, the very heartland has become infected, and there is little left that can be done, without what's left standing up come hell or high water, as a people, and saying oh hell no, and putting it back the way it was.

But that is becoming ever harder to do - because this grim disease is no longer hidden in metaphors and and things spoken in whispers... It strides boldly in the halls of power. It owns federal law. It owns the media. It owns corporate board rooms.

It pours this vile shit down the throats of our young, taxes us blind, using our own money to give itself impetus, doubling and redoubling with every generation.

People have fought against it for decades, but our own laws have been perverted to stand in our way, against a foe 3000 miles away...

Given their own head, with the law to protect them, most communities would outlaw abortion. Most would outlaw gay marriage, most would instill morality into their community, just like they always have. If you think my little town would not put those 10 commandments back in front of the courthouse and back in every classroom, and would not re-institute public prayer, and do everything they could to put sin back on the other side of the tracks, you've got another think coming.

We cannot. It is being prevented and smothered as another culture is imposed from on high.

Outstanding, @roamer_1 !!




Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Bigun on January 29, 2019, 11:33:23 pm
Nailed it to a T.  100% Spot on!

That makes it unanimous among those I most respect here.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: EdJames on January 29, 2019, 11:41:58 pm
That makes it unanimous among those I most respect here.

The sentiment is reciprocal!  :patriot:
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: BlueHammer on January 30, 2019, 02:12:50 am
Nicely stated, @ABX , but I will take exception to it, as I truly think it is the other way around.

More and more I think the thing that keeps a society coloring between the lines, is the continuity between all aspects of a society. In part you are right - in that part - But I think it goes the other way around. I think religion has recoiled from society into the homes thereof precisely because it can no longer survive in the broader sphere. And in that, polite society, *all of it*, has also retreated, and we are left with cacophony and crime.

All of it is applied with force - Folks know how important that homogeneity is in culture, and folks have stood up to fight this infection at every turn, because it is so important to a culture.

We have not gone down this path on our own. It has been imposed. Every single thing that is the glue of culture has been purposefully eroded,and law has been used to continue that erosion, preventing folks from fixing the problem.

You are seeing the result of that imposition, and the continuing liberalism, beginning in the cities and leeching out like a poison into the countryside... Even now, the very heartland has become infected, and there is little left that can be done, without what's left standing up come hell or high water, as a people, and saying oh hell no, and putting it back the way it was.

But that is becoming ever harder to do - because this grim disease is no longer hidden in metaphors and and things spoken in whispers... It strides boldly in the halls of power. It owns federal law. It owns the media. It owns corporate board rooms.

It pours this vile shit down the throats of our young, taxes us blind, using our own money to give itself impetus, doubling and redoubling with every generation.

People have fought against it for decades, but our own laws have been perverted to stand in our way, against a foe 3000 miles away...

Given their own head, with the law to protect them, most communities would outlaw abortion. Most would outlaw gay marriage, most would instill morality into their community, just like they always have. If you think my little town would not put those 10 commandments back in front of the courthouse and back in every classroom, and would not re-institute public prayer, and do everything they could to put sin back on the other side of the tracks, you've got another think coming.

We cannot. It is being prevented and smothered as another culture is imposed from on high.

One question ..... did you go out and goose step around the yard after you finished typing this?
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: DCPatriot on January 30, 2019, 02:16:45 am
One question ..... did you go out and goose step around the yard after you finished typing this?

So, rather than break his piece down and refute/address them, you imply he's a Nazi or Fascist?

If you're going to troll our forum, you're going to have to do better than that.

Homey don't play that 'round here.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Smokin Joe on January 30, 2019, 02:17:11 am
One question ..... did you go out and goose step around the yard after you finished typing this?
Now you are implying people are Nazis? Does your mommy know you are screwing around with the computer?
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Wingnut on January 30, 2019, 02:18:09 am
One question ..... did you go out and goose step around the yard after you finished typing this?

Post up some Hitler images will you. It will make your comment more convincing.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: corbe on January 30, 2019, 02:18:55 am
   Many Briefers always give a new member a wide berth, I do, just ask @LegalAmerican but your 1 act Minstrel Show is growing tired rather quickly, @BlueHammer and as your novelty wears off, so will you to never be heard from again, here.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: BlueHammer on January 30, 2019, 02:22:58 am
   Many Briefers always give a new member a wide berth, I do, just ask @LegalAmerican but your 1 act Minstrel Show is growing tired rather quickly, @BlueHammer and as your novelty wears off, so will you to never be heard from again, here.

Now that I found this place, I intend on remaining ..... there is just too much fun to be had

Fact is, you’d like to get rid of all liberals....but you need em, and that really burns you up
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: BlueHammer on January 30, 2019, 02:23:40 am
Post up some Hitler images will you. It will make your comment more convincing.

No need......you got the point
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: roamer_1 on January 30, 2019, 02:24:27 am
One question ..... did you go out and goose step around the yard after you finished typing this?

You sound disgruntled... Like you were turdned down by Antifa. There's some fascists for ya.

And like I said before, what the heck does it matter to you all the way over there in Massivetwoshits?

Worry about your own damn neck of the woods and leave mine the hell alone.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: roamer_1 on January 30, 2019, 02:26:27 am
So, rather than break his piece down and refute/address them, you imply he's a Nazi or Fascist?


He ain't got the stones.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: corbe on January 30, 2019, 02:29:32 am
Now that I found this place, I intend on remaining ..... there is just too much fun to be had

Fact is, you’d like to get rid of all liberals....but you need em, and that really burns you up

    You severely underestimate the powers that be here @BlueHammer
    Incidentally Liberals don't give me half the Heartburn Trumpers do, BUT again you have no clue about Briefers that you paint with your broad brush.

    PS: you aint worth a time~out, I'll leave that up to someone else or Management.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: BlueHammer on January 30, 2019, 02:32:38 am
    You severely underestimate the powers that be here @BlueHammer
    Incidentally Liberals don't give me half the Heartburn Trumpers do, BUT again you have no clue about Briefers that you paint with your broad brush.

    PS: you aint worth a time~out, I'll leave that up to someone else or Management.

Ok......thanks......it’s easy to ban someone, I know.....but it won’t make you any closer to the truth
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Smokin Joe on January 30, 2019, 02:34:15 am
Ok......thanks......it’s easy to ban someone, I know.....but it won’t make you any closer to the truth
And YOU will?  **nononono*

 :silly:
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: corbe on January 30, 2019, 02:35:52 am
   I would love to start a poll:

   How long should TBR allow Bluehammer to play here?

   Of Course It would be deleted immediately with a stern scolding from Management and I'm already in deep $hit in that Category.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Cyber Liberty on January 30, 2019, 02:37:06 am
And YOU will?  **nononono*

 :silly:

Sure!   He has all the answers.  Just ask him.  Wait...don't bother.  He'll just tell you.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: RoosGirl on January 30, 2019, 02:38:07 am
Fat Farting Santa
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Sanguine on January 30, 2019, 02:40:00 am
Fat Farting Santa

Again?
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: roamer_1 on January 30, 2019, 02:41:35 am
Fat Farting Santa

With bells on.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Right_in_Virginia on January 30, 2019, 02:44:23 am
Ok......thanks......it’s easy to ban someone, I know.....but it won’t make you any closer to the truth

And what is "the truth" @BlueHammer   Do tell.   88devil
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: BlueHammer on January 30, 2019, 02:47:31 am
And YOU will?  **nononono*

 :silly:

Probably not......some of you will require much more work than previously thought.....I’m going to get stoned now.....I can do do that here....land of the free.....not like those red states

(http://www.reactiongifs.com/r/weed-is-tight.gif)
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: corbe on January 30, 2019, 02:48:03 am
  The Truth according to @BlueHammer of what I can surmise, Is that Frank's been wrong the last 6 months, Trump is not G_D, it's actually Pocahontas, after all.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: DCPatriot on January 30, 2019, 02:48:17 am
Probably not......some of you will require much more work than previously thought.....I’m going to get stoned now.....I can do do that here

(http://www.reactiongifs.com/r/weed-is-tight.gif)

 888high58888
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: corbe on January 30, 2019, 02:51:26 am
Damn dude you just set the few stoners we had here back to their respective closets in shame.

 (https://izismile.com/img/img7/20140220/640/i_am_just_going_to_hang_my_head_in_shame_now_640_12.jpg)
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: corbe on January 30, 2019, 02:53:15 am
   What are the odds he comes back in 30 minutes:

   Mellow
   Angry
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Sanguine on January 30, 2019, 02:54:38 am
One question ..... did you go out and goose step around the yard after you finished typing this?

You're a little bit confused.  Goosestepping is fascistic which is a leftist/big government/big brother ideology.  Roamer is a good conservative.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Chosen Daughter on January 30, 2019, 03:00:02 am
Nicely stated, @ABX , but I will take exception to it, as I truly think it is the other way around.

More and more I think the thing that keeps a society coloring between the lines, is the continuity between all aspects of a society. In part you are right - in that part - But I think it goes the other way around. I think religion has recoiled from society into the homes thereof precisely because it can no longer survive in the broader sphere. And in that, polite society, *all of it*, has also retreated, and we are left with cacophony and crime.

All of it is applied with force - Folks know how important that homogeneity is in culture, and folks have stood up to fight this infection at every turn, because it is so important to a culture.

We have not gone down this path on our own. It has been imposed. Every single thing that is the glue of culture has been purposefully eroded,and law has been used to continue that erosion, preventing folks from fixing the problem.

You are seeing the result of that imposition, and the continuing liberalism, beginning in the cities and leeching out like a poison into the countryside... Even now, the very heartland has become infected, and there is little left that can be done, without what's left standing up come hell or high water, as a people, and saying oh hell no, and putting it back the way it was.

But that is becoming ever harder to do - because this grim disease is no longer hidden in metaphors and and things spoken in whispers... It strides boldly in the halls of power. It owns federal law. It owns the media. It owns corporate board rooms.

It pours this vile shit down the throats of our young, taxes us blind, using our own money to give itself impetus, doubling and redoubling with every generation.

People have fought against it for decades, but our own laws have been perverted to stand in our way, against a foe 3000 miles away...

Given their own head, with the law to protect them, most communities would outlaw abortion. Most would outlaw gay marriage, most would instill morality into their community, just like they always have. If you think my little town would not put those 10 commandments back in front of the courthouse and back in every classroom, and would not re-institute public prayer, and do everything they could to put sin back on the other side of the tracks, you've got another think coming.

We cannot. It is being prevented and smothered as another culture is imposed from on high.

Good post Roamer
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Smokin Joe on January 30, 2019, 03:00:47 am
Probably not......some of you will require much more work than previously thought.....I’m going to get stoned now.....I can do do that here....land of the free.....not like those red states

(http://www.reactiongifs.com/r/weed-is-tight.gif)
LOL! I am not Winston Smith.
A bit of advice, Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.

Sorry... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjwb2KIIGyg#)
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: roamer_1 on January 30, 2019, 03:12:32 am
Probably not......some of you will require much more work than previously thought.....I’m going to get stoned now.....I can do do that here....land of the free.....not like those red states

 LOL!

That was funny to read as I am sitting here sipping on some five star shine... We do that here.
And you haven't a clue what it means to be free.

Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: BlueHammer on January 30, 2019, 03:13:06 am
LOL! I am not Winston Smith.
A bit of advice, Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.

Sorry... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjwb2KIIGyg#)

You have a point.....though you’re way off when it comes to weed
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Smokin Joe on January 30, 2019, 03:19:34 am
You have a point.....though you’re way off when it comes to weed
Don't waste your time. I knew lots of people who smoked it, back when "Acapulco Gold" was  the rage (before Paraquat). The survivors still do (some of them). (It used to be $5 an ounce). So don't try to convince me of the 'benefits'.
There are none for me.

Do what you want in your state. You're 2000 miles from me.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Bigun on January 30, 2019, 03:21:30 am
Sure!   He has all the answers.  Just ask him.  Wait...don't bother.  He'll just tell you.

OK @Cyber Liberty!  I think I'll do just that!  Hey @BlueHammer! You have just been promoted to King of America! Now lay out your agenda for straightening out this monumental mess we currently find ourselves in.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: DB on January 30, 2019, 03:29:48 am
Anyone seen @Dexter and @BlueHammer at the same time?

Is Dexter BlueHammer when stoned?
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: corbe on January 30, 2019, 03:29:56 am
(https://media.giphy.com/media/boVbH3gV3BZ6M/giphy.gif)
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: musiclady on January 30, 2019, 03:46:25 am
So, rather than break his piece down and refute/address them, you imply he's a Nazi or Fascist?

If you're going to troll our forum, you're going to have to do better than that.

Homey don't play that 'round here.

His IQ isn't high enough  to respond to intelligent posts.

But I'm glad he's enjoying his snow day from High School by calling his intellectual and moral superiors Fascists.

(Seriously........... is this the dumbest leftist troll TBR had ever had??  I'm pretty sure he is).
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: musiclady on January 30, 2019, 03:47:34 am
Anyone seen @Dexter and @BlueHammer at the same time?

Is Dexter BlueHammer when stoned?

Nah.......... Dexter is much more intelligent and logical than this bozo. No drug can make someone this dense.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Hoodat on January 30, 2019, 03:54:03 am
The problem for most parents is $$.  I just looked up the tuition fees where we sent our kids and now it is over $13k.  If you have only one child that is relatively affordable, but sending multiple children would get to be a bit pricey.

That is still less than what the State currently spends to 'educated your child.  If the State gave that money to the kid instead, then everyone could afford a good private school education.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: corbe on January 30, 2019, 03:55:24 am
The Road Goes On and On ~ Robert Earl Keen

Sorry... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77Tug6tFLTM#)
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: musiclady on January 30, 2019, 03:58:26 am
That is still less than what the State currently spends to 'educated your child.  If the State gave that money to the kid instead, then everyone could afford a good private school education.

And yet, the worse public schools get, the more money the left throws at them.

I tell you, progressives are dopes....
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Hoodat on January 30, 2019, 03:59:35 am
One question ..... did you go out and goose step around the yard after you finished typing this?

Goose-stepping is a socialist past time.  Don't you know your own history?
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Frank Cannon on January 30, 2019, 04:01:42 am
Probably not......some of you will require much more work than previously thought.....I’m going to get stoned now.

I'd like to join in on that....

(https://www.publiusforum.com/images/islamic_art_stoning_woman.jpg)
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: DCPatriot on January 30, 2019, 04:05:04 am
Goose-stepping is a socialist past time.  Don't you know your own history?

For some reason, I think of Mussolini's fascist troops marching like the Rockets.

So, I gave him the benefit of the doubt and suggested both.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: BlueHammer on January 30, 2019, 09:38:47 am
LOL!

That was funny to read as I am sitting here sipping on some five star shine... We do that here.
And you haven't a clue what it means to be free.

They do that everywhere......as for being free, I have both the time and the money to do whatever I want....any questions?
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Smokin Joe on January 30, 2019, 09:44:25 am
They do that everywhere......as for being free, I have both the time and the money to do whatever I want....any questions?
Right. Just drop that check in the mail and buy that 20mm antitank rifle.

You used to be able to do that. Out here, there's room to shoot one, just for fun.

You don't know the freedom you've lost.

Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: BlueHammer on January 30, 2019, 09:49:58 am
Right. Just drop that check in the mail and buy that 20mm antitank rifle.

You used to be able to do that. Out here, there's room to shoot one, just for fun.

You don't know the freedom you've lost.

That’s so cliche ..... WTF gives a shit about a 20mm anti tank gun?
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Smokin Joe on January 30, 2019, 10:02:55 am
That’s so cliche ..... WTF gives a shit about a 20mm anti tank gun?
Precisely. you see, you only care about what you want to do and all else may be sacrificed so YOU can have the freedom YOU want, and the hell with anyone else.
It's a big country, we live in different worlds, and have different things in our pursuit of happiness.

But that rifle one could order with a check in the mail when I was young is now classified as a "destructive device" subject to NFA of '34 rules, background checks, CGA of '68 rules, and a host of other restrictions, fees, and taxes.

Those don't affect you because you don't want to have one, but that is how freedom is lost. It in't stolen at its heart, but nibbled away at along the edges, those freedoms taken which don't matter to most until there are no longer any options.
Frankly, it is the same with a simple bolt action rifle, except for the NFA of '34 rules. 

You don't care to be free, but you are more than willing to have everyone else shoehorned into your concept of 'freedom' to do diddley-sh*t. Enjoy your chains, most people do.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: DB on January 30, 2019, 10:15:14 am
Pig. Mud. Avoid.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: BlueHammer on January 30, 2019, 10:15:39 am
Precisely. you see, you only care about what you want to do and all else may be sacrificed so YOU can have the freedom YOU want, and the hell with anyone else.
It's a big country, we live in different worlds, and have different things in our pursuit of happiness.

But that rifle one could order with a check in the mail when I was young is now classified as a "destructive device" subject to NFA of '34 rules, background checks, CGA of '68 rules, and a host of other restrictions, fees, and taxes.

Those don't affect you because you don't want to have one, but that is how freedom is lost. It in't stolen at its heart, but nibbled away at along the edges, those freedoms taken which don't matter to most until there are no longer any options.
Frankly, it is the same with a simple bolt action rifle, except for the NFA of '34 rules. 

You don't care to be free, but you are more than willing to have everyone else shoehorned into your concept of 'freedom' to do diddley-sh*t. Enjoy your chains, most people do.

Excuse me? Don’t try to project your own hypocritical misery onto others ..... you don’t give a shit about anyone’s freedom except your own to fire some useless gun. I mean it might actually start to make sense if you had tanks to shoot at, but even then it’s ridiculous at best.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: BlueHammer on January 30, 2019, 10:17:19 am
Pig. Mud. Avoid.

Like you just did? You can’t help yourself
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Smokin Joe on January 30, 2019, 10:38:51 am
Excuse me? Don’t try to project your own hypocritical misery onto others ..... you don’t give a shit about anyone’s freedom except your own to fire some useless gun. I mean it might actually start to make sense if you had tanks to shoot at, but even then it’s ridiculous at best.
Silly boy. A 20mm wouldn't scratch the paint on a modern tank.

But you see, you have already declared some thing I might want ridiculous.
Where would you say the cut off is? At .50 BMG? .416 Rigby? .30 caliber? .22? A slingshot?  :nono:

It isn't that I want that particular rifle, but you would limit what rifle I can have, from 2000 miles away, with no concept of the place I live in, the hazards I face. I might want it to trigger avalanches on my access road so I can plow the snow away without risking being buried.

There are many entertainments which hold absolutely no allure for me. Should we ban those?

That would dispense with entire classes of 'music', the portrayal of more than a few 'lifestyles', and a host of clubs.
I don't drink, What do I care if that's banned--by your metric, I wouldn't, it affects me not.
Same for the various and sundry recreational drugs, various painkillers, video games, chick flicks, vehicles with less than 8 inches ground clearance, three piece suits, italian loafers, and neckties.

Ban them all, by your metric, because that would not affect me. See how that works? I really see no use for most of those things. why would anyone want to wear a strip of cloth around their neck that can get caught in machinery or be used as a ligature in a dispute? Seems pretty stupid in my world.

But if we don't protect the freedom of others to exercise their rights, basic rights which really harm no one, then who will be there when you feel those walls of totalitarianism closing in? It isn't about what you want, freedom has a serious element of live and let live where people don't unnecessarily mess with people who aren't hurting anyone.

Quote

    First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.

    Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— because I was not a trade unionist.

    Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.

    Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

Pastor Martin Niemöller

Maybe you'll awaken to the concept, but I somehow doubt it.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: BlueHammer on January 30, 2019, 01:35:47 pm
Silly boy. A 20mm wouldn't scratch the paint on a modern tank.

But you see, you have already declared some thing I might want ridiculous.
Where would you say the cut off is? At .50 BMG? .416 Rigby? .30 caliber? .22? A slingshot?  :nono:

It isn't that I want that particular rifle, but you would limit what rifle I can have, from 2000 miles away, with no concept of the place I live in, the hazards I face. I might want it to trigger avalanches on my access road so I can plow the snow away without risking being buried.

There are many entertainments which hold absolutely no allure for me. Should we ban those?

That would dispense with entire classes of 'music', the portrayal of more than a few 'lifestyles', and a host of clubs.
I don't drink, What do I care if that's banned--by your metric, I wouldn't, it affects me not.
Same for the various and sundry recreational drugs, various painkillers, video games, chick flicks, vehicles with less than 8 inches ground clearance, three piece suits, italian loafers, and neckties.

Ban them all, by your metric, because that would not affect me. See how that works? I really see no use for most of those things. why would anyone want to wear a strip of cloth around their neck that can get caught in machinery or be used as a ligature in a dispute? Seems pretty stupid in my world.

But if we don't protect the freedom of others to exercise their rights, basic rights which really harm no one, then who will be there when you feel those walls of totalitarianism closing in? It isn't about what you want, freedom has a serious element of live and let live where people don't unnecessarily mess with people who aren't hurting anyone.

Maybe you'll awaken to the concept, but I somehow doubt it.

nahhhhh.....I'd blubber on about meaningless bullcrap about penny loafers........self-triggering for the last 40 years......your post is pure nonsense
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Smokin Joe on January 30, 2019, 01:37:15 pm
nahhhhh.....I'd blubber on about meaningless bullcrap about penny loafers........self-triggering for the last 40 years......your post is pure nonsense
You just don't get it. I get that. Like I said, you don't know freedom.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: roamer_1 on January 30, 2019, 02:13:50 pm
They do that everywhere......as for being free, I have both the time and the money to do whatever I want....any questions?

Meh. That's not freedom.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: catfish1957 on January 30, 2019, 02:19:17 pm
Meh. That's not freedom.

A modern day stoner hippy?  lol

(https://i.pinimg.com/736x/c5/52/f6/c552f6accce854834614945f5aadc468.jpg)
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: roamer_1 on January 30, 2019, 02:37:46 pm
A modern day stoner hippy?  lol

Time is nothing without you do something with it...
And money is just a way of keeping score.

Neither is a measure of freedom.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: QueenCatofAragon on January 30, 2019, 02:38:49 pm
Excuse me? Don’t try to project your own hypocritical misery onto others ..... you don’t give a shit about anyone’s freedom except your own to fire some useless gun. I mean it might actually start to make sense if you had tanks to shoot at, but even then it’s ridiculous at best.
 

@BlueHammer

Well, that’s not for you to decide, any more than it’s up to me to choose which therapist you should consider for that pent-up anger.  When you go, ask him to explain projection.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: BlueHammer on January 30, 2019, 02:45:56 pm
Time is nothing without you do something with it...
And money is just a way of keeping score.

Neither is a measure of freedom.

snappy........but mostly untrue
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: BlueHammer on January 30, 2019, 02:48:56 pm
 

@BlueHammer

Well, that’s not for you to decide, any more than it’s up to me to choose which therapist you should consider for that pent-up anger.  When you go, ask him to explain projection.

I'm not angry at all........for some reason, the entire gaggle here can't stop talking crap about liberals and socialism and communism and everything else rightie deems to come along with that demographic
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: musiclady on January 30, 2019, 02:53:19 pm
@mystery-ak is a very patient person to continue to allow this brain cell challenged leftist troll to post here.

His propaganda isn't even clever.  :shrug:
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: roamer_1 on January 30, 2019, 02:53:54 pm
snappy........but mostly untrue

No, true as all get out.
The best things in life are truly free... cost nothing.

money is no salve for that.
time might be, but like I said, depends on what you do with it, or what you can do with it.

Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: BlueHammer on January 30, 2019, 02:57:48 pm
Meh. That's not freedom.

in your opinion......I do whatever I want......which is freedom
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: BlueHammer on January 30, 2019, 02:59:15 pm
No, true as all get out.
The best things in life are truly free... cost nothing.

money is no salve for that.
time might be, but like I said, depends on what you do with it, or what you can do with it.

it appears you don't know the difference between free in the context you use and freedom.....figure it out and get back to me
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: bigheadfred on January 30, 2019, 03:00:28 pm
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
 Aleister Crowley
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: musiclady on January 30, 2019, 03:00:34 pm
in your opinion......I do whatever I want......which is freedom

No.  That's license, not freedom.

And you only have that in your imagination.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Sanguine on January 30, 2019, 03:04:05 pm
No.  That's license, not freedom.

And you only have that in your imagination.

Which is extremely limited by his lack of knowledge.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: roamer_1 on January 30, 2019, 03:07:30 pm
in your opinion......I do whatever I want......which is freedom

No... That is lawlessness.
And I doubt you can 'do whatever you want' in the over-regulated northeast anyway... Certainly nothing I would want to do can be done over there. Either it ain't there, or it's illegal.

Been there, done that, wouldn't go back for nothing... You can keep it.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Bigun on January 30, 2019, 03:15:00 pm
Which is extremely limited by his lack of knowledge.

I'm actually beginning to feel a little bit sorry for the dufus!  Think I'll go take some aspirin and lie down till I feel better.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: bigheadfred on January 30, 2019, 03:19:02 pm
I'm actually beginning to feel a little bit sorry for the dufus!  Think I'll go take some aspirin and lie down till I feel better.

That is exactly what I just did.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Cyber Liberty on January 30, 2019, 03:21:23 pm
Kewl!  When I went to bed last night the Socialist troll was gone for the night...past his bed time.  I wake up to find him predictably terrified of guns.  He must have gotten his Mom to fix him a Hot Pocket this morning.

'Nother snow day, @BlueSlingshot?
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: BlueHammer on January 30, 2019, 03:24:20 pm
No... That is lawlessness.
And I doubt you can 'do whatever you want' in the over-regulated northeast anyway... Certainly nothing I would want to do can be done over there. Either it ain't there, or it's illegal.

Been there, done that, wouldn't go back for nothing... You can keep it.

not at all........

but great........stay away.....one less curmudgeon to deal with
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: BlueHammer on January 30, 2019, 03:25:54 pm
Kewl!  When I went to bed last night the Socialist troll was gone for the night...past his bed time.  I wake up to find him predictably terrified of guns.  He must have gotten his Mom to fix him a Hot Pocket this morning.

'Nother snow day, @BlueSlingshot?

ouch!!! you zinged me!!!
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Cyber Liberty on January 30, 2019, 03:32:39 pm
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Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: QueenCatofAragon on January 30, 2019, 03:32:42 pm
I'm not angry at all........for some reason, the entire gaggle here can't stop talking crap about liberals and socialism and communism and everything else rightie deems to come along with that demographic

@BlueHammer

Sure you are.  Your posts read like you’re typing with clenched teeth.  Ranting over and over about the “misery” of others.

Classic projection.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Cyber Liberty on January 30, 2019, 03:35:08 pm
@BlueHammer

Sure you are.  Your posts read like you’re typing with clenched teeth.  Ranting over and over about the “misery” of others.

Classic projection.

His posts reads like another all-night bull session with a bunch of Poli Sci freshman.  Supplied with Mom-made Hot Pockets.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Smokin Joe on January 30, 2019, 03:35:10 pm
snappy........but mostly untrue
Like i said, you don't know freedom. Money, possessions--own you.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Victoria33 on January 30, 2019, 03:44:22 pm
@roamer_1

You said: "If you think my little town would not put those 10 commandments back in front of the courthouse...".

Texas has the 10 commandments in stone in front of the Texas Capital building. Some years ago, it was tried to remove those stone 10 commandments. Our State Attorney General at the time, Greg Abbott, took the case to the Supreme Court.

It was our lead prosecutor at the time, TED CRUZ, who won that case at the Supreme Court.  It was Abbott who employed Cruz as his lead prosecutor.

Governor Gregg Abbott for President of the United States.

 
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: BlueHammer on January 30, 2019, 03:47:24 pm
Like i said, you don't know freedom. Money, possessions--own you.

I actually don't have much in posessions.....I lease a car, I'm an empty nest now in a condo, gave all my tools to my kids.....my biggest restrictions to my freedom are my dog and travel schedules
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: txradioguy on January 30, 2019, 03:47:32 pm
Probably not......some of you will require much more work than previously thought.....I’m going to get stoned now.....I can do do that here....land of the free.....not like those red states

(http://www.reactiongifs.com/r/weed-is-tight.gif)

Oh great...you're in Colorado... 888mouth
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: BlueHammer on January 30, 2019, 03:48:38 pm
@BlueHammer

Sure you are.  Your posts read like you’re typing with clenched teeth.  Ranting over and over about the “misery” of others.

Classic projection.

your comprehension must be horrible
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: txradioguy on January 30, 2019, 03:48:58 pm
One question ..... did you go out and goose step around the yard after you finished typing this?

Oh you're gonna be a fun one I can tell.  All full of projection...socialist sophistry...and pure 100% barnyard manure.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: BlueHammer on January 30, 2019, 03:49:43 pm
Oh great...you're in Colorado... 888mouth

even better.........I'm in the great peoples republic of Massachusetts though we do have our share of drooling magaheads here, too
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: BlueHammer on January 30, 2019, 03:50:35 pm
Oh you're gonna be a fun one I can tell.  All full of projection...socialist sophistry...and pure 100% barnyard manure.

don't be jealous
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Smokin Joe on January 30, 2019, 03:51:05 pm
Oh great...you're in Colorado... 888mouth
Ironically, he claims to be in MA, and I'm in CO at the moment (working).

(No, I don't partake, legal or not.)
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: DCPatriot on January 30, 2019, 03:51:49 pm
His posts reads like another all-night bull session with a bunch of Poli Sci freshman.  Supplied with Mom-made Hot Pockets.

@Dexter

My friend, perhaps you might re-post your initial post since your last sabbatical. 

IIRC, it was self-deprecating and overall respectful...informing us and reminding yourself how much you've 'learned' here with the gang.

Just like Ronnie said surrounded in ankle-deep horse manure..."there's got to be a pony here somewhere".

Maybe we can 'rescue' @BlueHammer ?

Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: txradioguy on January 30, 2019, 03:57:26 pm
Excuse me? Don’t try to project your own hypocritical misery onto others ..... you don’t give a shit about anyone’s freedom except your own to fire some useless gun. I mean it might actually start to make sense if you had tanks to shoot at, but even then it’s ridiculous at best.

Why are you assuming he's miserable? 

Have you ever fired a rifle or a pistol?  Why do you assume they are useless?

The only thing on the ground that you can safely shoot at a tank with...is another tank.  20mm does nothing against the armor of a modern day MBT.

See if you would research a little bit you'd know this.

Instead you remind me of all the trolls from DU that wold pop over to places like Conservative Underground and Conservative Cave and try to be as trollish and obnoxious as you can to see how quickly you'll get banned so you can run back and talk about how intolerant Republicans/The Right/Conservatives are and get street cred from your fellow intolerant Socialists.


There was a very famous and much anticipated question that used to be asked of trolls at CU right before they got banned...I'll hold off on asking it for now...but if it looks like that's about to happen to you...I'll share that question with you.

Can't wait to shoot down all your little Socialist/Communist/Progressive talking points.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: txradioguy on January 30, 2019, 04:01:40 pm
Ironically, he claims to be in MA, and I'm in CO at the moment (working).

(No, I don't partake, legal or not.)

@Smokin Joe well he said legal and since I'm in the shadow of Pikes Peak and Cheyenne Mountain right now I naturally assumed he meant Colorado.  If he's in MA then that explains (besides the fact he's a Progressive) his arrogant attitude.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Smokin Joe on January 30, 2019, 04:04:01 pm
@Smokin Joe well he said legal and since I'm in the shadow of Pikes Peak and Cheyenne Mountain right now I naturally assumed he meant Colorado.  If he's in MA then that explains (besides the fact he's a Progressive) his arrogant attitude.
Yep. West coast liberals are bad, but Northeastern ones are usually the worst.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: bigheadfred on January 30, 2019, 04:11:12 pm
Yep. West coast liberals are bad, but Northeastern ones are usually the worst.

Blue hammer. One bad a** weed.

Blue yammer is more the like.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: BlueHammer on January 30, 2019, 04:11:39 pm
Why are you assuming he's miserable? 

Have you ever fired a rifle or a pistol?  Why do you assume they are useless?

The only thing on the ground that you can safely shoot at a tank with...is another tank.  20mm does nothing against the armor of a modern day MBT.

See if you would research a little bit you'd know this.

Instead you remind me of all the trolls from DU that wold pop over to places like Conservative Underground and Conservative Cave and try to be as trollish and obnoxious as you can to see how quickly you'll get banned so you can run back and talk about how intolerant Republicans/The Right/Conservatives are and get street cred from your fellow intolerant Socialists.


There was a very famous and much anticipated question that used to be asked of trolls at CU right before they got banned...I'll hold off on asking it for now...but if it looks like that's about to happen to you...I'll share that question with you.

Can't wait to shoot down all your little Socialist/Communist/Progressive talking points.

the amount of vitriol thrown at the left here would have any rational person assume that you're all miserable..

I have guns.....I'm a member of a gun club.....

I don't care about the 20mm gun....I'm not the one who brought it up

you remind me of a typical trump voter......

I'll let you in on a little secret....in my life, I've voted for a democrat for president exactly once ..... Clinton/Dole

If there is anything I am disappointed with, it's what has happened to the republican party......mostly because in the end, I don't think it will survive the trump presidency......probably result in the next 30-40 year span of control of the legislative branch by the democrat. I see moderates such as myself staying away from republicans for a long time

Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: skeeter on January 30, 2019, 04:14:10 pm
Yep. West coast liberals are bad, but Northeastern ones are usually the worst.

Just because they deliver their leftwing idiocies with fronted pronunciations and rounded vowels, and maybe a bit more loudly, doesn't mean they're more idiotic than their counterparts on the west coast.

I am literally surrounded by these CA morons and believe me they don't get any worse.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: txradioguy on January 30, 2019, 04:15:19 pm
the amount of vitriol thrown at the left here would have any rational person assume that you're all miserable..

Nope not Miserable.  Just dumbfounded at the left and their efforts to destroy this country and what it stands for.  That all.

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I have guns.....I'm a member of a gun club.....

Then why call themuseless IF what you say is true.

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I don't care about the 20mm gun....I'm not the one who brought it up

You're the one that harped on it

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you remind me of a typical trump voter......

I didn't vote for Trump.  Try again genius.

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I'll let you in on a little secret....in my life, I've voted for a democrat for president exactly once ..... Clinton/Dole

Umm...Clinton didn't have a running mate named Dole.

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If there is anything I am disappointed with, it's what has happened to the republican party......mostly because in the end, I don't think it will survive the trump presidency......probably result in the next 30-40 year span of control of the legislative branch by the democrat. I see moderates such as myself staying away from republicans for a long time

We don't need so called "moderates" in the party.  You're all Democrats in everything but name...the squishy "moderates" are what has allowed Progressivism to grow like a cancer in this country to begin with.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: skeeter on January 30, 2019, 04:16:19 pm
the amount of vitriol thrown at the left here would have any rational person assume that you're all miserable..

I have guns.....I'm a member of a gun club.....

I don't care about the 20mm gun....I'm not the one who brought it up

you remind me of a typical trump voter......

I'll let you in on a little secret....in my life, I've voted for a democrat for president exactly once ..... Clinton/Dole

If there is anything I am disappointed with, it's what has happened to the republican party......mostly because in the end, I don't think it will survive the trump presidency......probably result in the next 30-40 year span of control of the legislative branch by the democrat. I see moderates such as myself staying away from republicans for a long time

You're a member of a 'gun club' eh? heheh
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: QueenCatofAragon on January 30, 2019, 04:16:28 pm
your comprehension must be horrible

@BlueHammer

Lol

Btw, are you on Android or IPhone?  Just curious.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: roamer_1 on January 30, 2019, 04:22:21 pm

Governor Gregg Abbott for President of the United States.

@Victoria33

I think I would be alright with that... Hard telling yet... Not being a Texan, I am largely unfamiliar w/ Gov. Abbott. But I am more likely to like a Texan at the helm than a New Yorker, I'll tell you what...

If he throws his hat in the ring, I'll get very interested in his record.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Smokin Joe on January 30, 2019, 04:28:58 pm
@Victoria33

I think I would be alright with that... Hard telling yet... Not being a Texan, I am largely unfamiliar w/ Gov. Abbott. But I am more likely to like a Texan at the helm than a New Yorker, I'll tell you what...

If he throws his hat in the ring, I'll get very interested in his record.
Yep. I have tired of Northeastern liberal folks.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: BlueHammer on January 30, 2019, 04:30:18 pm
@BlueHammer

Lol

Btw, are you on Android or IPhone?  Just curious.

Iphone, of course......I've had apple stock for over 15 years
I have an Iphone, Ipad, MAcbook Pro, MAcMini, 3 AppleTV's and an Apple watch
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Bigun on January 30, 2019, 04:31:59 pm
Yep. I have tired of Northeastern liberal folks.

@Smokin

And, as far as I'm concerned, that goes for SCOTUS appointees as well!  Time to put some people on that court who did not graduate from Harvard, Princeton, or Yale!
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: roamer_1 on January 30, 2019, 04:34:13 pm
Yep. I have tired of Northeastern liberal folks.

Boy, and how, I'll tell you what.
Trying to get at OANN News... I hear tell they are out of KC...

Sure as hell would like to hear news and opinion that doesn't originate on one coast or the other... It ain't just the politics I am tired of.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: roamer_1 on January 30, 2019, 04:35:33 pm
@Smokin

And, as far as I'm concerned, that goes for SCOTUS appointees as well!  Time to put some people on that court who did not graduate from Harvard, Princeton, or Yale!

That's right.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Smokin Joe on January 30, 2019, 04:36:39 pm
@Smokin

And, as far as I'm concerned, that goes for SCOTUS appointees as well!  Time to put some people on that court who did not graduate from Harvard, Princeton, or Yale!
888high58888
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: QueenCatofAragon on January 30, 2019, 04:38:41 pm
Iphone, of course......I've had apple stock for over 15 years
I have an Iphone, Ipad, MAcbook Pro, MAcMini, 3 AppleTV's and an Apple watch

@BlueHammer

So you turned off auto-caps as an affectation.  Lol, thought so.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Cyber Liberty on January 30, 2019, 04:39:47 pm
@Dexter

My friend, perhaps you might re-post your initial post since your last sabbatical. 

IIRC, it was self-deprecating and overall respectful...informing us and reminding yourself how much you've 'learned' here with the gang.

Just like Ronnie said surrounded in ankle-deep horse manure..."there's got to be a pony here somewhere".

Maybe we can 'rescue' @BlueHammer ?

Blue Yammer isn't here to learn....he's here to lecture us until we see the errors of our ways and stop being miserable.   this one has no capacity for learning, and in that he's different from Dex and Jazzy.  I have respect for those guys.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Cyber Liberty on January 30, 2019, 04:41:33 pm
@BlueHammer

So you turned off auto-caps as an affectation.  Lol, thought so.

Once an Apple fanbois, always an Apple fanbois.  :shrug:

(How ya been?)
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: XenaLee on January 30, 2019, 04:47:48 pm
Just because they deliver their leftwing idiocies with fronted pronunciations and rounded vowels, and maybe a bit more loudly, doesn't mean they're more idiotic than their counterparts on the west coast.

I am literally surrounded by these CA morons and believe me they don't get any worse.

Maybe corbe should do another (senseless) poll on which lefties are the worst, demographically....lol.  I posit that no matter where they dwell (north, south, east or west), they are a pox on the entire nation and are equally as evil and as disastrous...

so there's my vote up front.   :laugh:
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: BlueHammer on January 30, 2019, 04:48:01 pm
@BlueHammer

So you turned off auto-caps as an affectation.  Lol, thought so.

I'm actually on a linux box right now.....the use of typos is a good way of weeding out people who have nothing of value to state
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: txradioguy on January 30, 2019, 04:48:09 pm
Once an Apple fanbois, always an Apple fanbois.  :shrug:

(How ya been?)

Hey now there's some of us that started out with...and our hearts are still with Blackberry.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: XenaLee on January 30, 2019, 04:49:10 pm
Blue Yammer isn't here to learn....he's here to lecture us until we see the errors of our ways and stop being miserable.   this one has no capacity for learning, and in that he's different from Dex and Jazzy.  I have respect for those guys.

You are obviously much more generous with lefties than I am.   888mouth
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: skeeter on January 30, 2019, 04:52:27 pm
Maybe corbe should do another (senseless) poll on which lefties are the worst, demographically....lol.  I posit that no matter where they dwell (north, south, east or west), they are a pox on the entire nation and are equally as evil and as disastrous...

so there's my vote up front.   :laugh:

Yep. Barking leftwing moonbat is an international language. Tedious & insufferably pretentious wherever they are found.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Bigun on January 30, 2019, 04:54:57 pm
Yep. Barking leftwing moonbat is an international language. Tedious & insufferably pretentious wherever they are found.

Regardless of where they come from, facts and logic are to them as silver bullets and wooden crosses are to Count Dracula!
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: BlueHammer on January 30, 2019, 05:27:48 pm
Yep. Barking leftwing moonbat is an international language. Tedious & insufferably pretentious wherever they are found.

I always hear that from people with limited vocabularies
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: BlueHammer on January 30, 2019, 05:28:28 pm
Regardless of where they come from, facts and logic are to them as silver bullets and wooden crosses are to Count Dracula!

hey......you''re the one following the liar
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: txradioguy on January 30, 2019, 05:31:58 pm
hey......you''re the one following the liar

You need to do a better recon of this place...there are very few...a handful maybe of what you call "followers"...by and large the folks here are perfectly capable of thinking for themselves. 
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Machiavelli on January 30, 2019, 05:33:48 pm

Provided that all religions (yes including Islam) is repsented as well. I just don't think any states should put one religion over an other. In this case putting classes teaching one religous text while not providing other religous literacy classes IN A PUBLIC SCHOOL!

 goopo
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: skeeter on January 30, 2019, 05:34:57 pm
I always hear that from people with limited vocabularies

Right. Otherwise they wouldn’t be barking.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: bigheadfred on January 30, 2019, 05:35:30 pm
I always hear that from people with limited vocabularies

uh huh

Everyone here can read you loud and clear.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: txradioguy on January 30, 2019, 05:39:44 pm
I always hear that from people with limited vocabularies

I haven't seen this much arrogance since:

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Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Sanguine on January 30, 2019, 05:44:11 pm

Provided that all religions (yes including Islam) is repsented as well. I just don't think any states should put one religion over an other. In this case putting classes teaching one religous text while not providing other religous literacy classes IN A PUBLIC SCHOOL!

Islam is not a religion as the others are.  Islam is a political/religious/life system that does not allow for the peaceful existence of other ideologies.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Cyber Liberty on January 30, 2019, 05:47:16 pm
I always hear that from people with limited vocabularies

 :yawn2:
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: bigheadfred on January 30, 2019, 05:51:44 pm
Islam is not a religion as the others are.  Islam is a political/religious/life system that does not allow for the peaceful existence of other ideologies.

Correct me if I am wrong. Islam is the only one being taught in public schools.

Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Sanguine on January 30, 2019, 05:54:17 pm
Correct me if I am wrong. Islam is the only one being taught in public schools.

That is my understanding, but I haven't done a study of the topic.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Bigun on January 30, 2019, 05:55:49 pm
Islam is not a religion as the others are.  Islam is a political/religious/life system that does not allow for the peaceful existence of other ideologies.

BOOM!  Truth spoken here!
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Victoria33 on January 30, 2019, 06:05:21 pm
:yawn2:
@Cyber Liberty
@QueenCatofAragon

Is a blue hammer a Democrat who hits people over the head with a hammer?
Why would one be here?  Put the trash can back in the yard behind the lounge, and dump this hammer.  Thanks, Cyber.  888high58888
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Cyber Liberty on January 30, 2019, 06:22:36 pm
@Cyber Liberty
@QueenCatofAragon

Is a blue hammer a Democrat who hits people over the head with a hammer?
Why would one be here?  Put the trash can back in the yard behind the lounge, and dump this hammer.  Thanks, Cyber.  888high58888

He's here to troll conservatives and take the anecdotes back to DU or KOS.  Somebody found him at KOS, so his game is pretty clear.  As if he's the first to ever try that.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: bigheadfred on January 30, 2019, 06:29:19 pm
Islam is not a religion as the others are.  Islam is a political/religious/life system that does not allow for the peaceful existence of other ideologies.

It should demoted to cult status. More specifically, a death cult and treated as such.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: QueenCatofAragon on January 30, 2019, 06:33:47 pm
Is there a glitch?  I tried to remove a post to type over and it didn't work.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: QueenCatofAragon on January 30, 2019, 06:34:42 pm
I'm actually on a linux box right now.....the use of typos is a good way of weeding out people who have nothing of value to state

Lame.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: BlueHammer on January 30, 2019, 06:36:36 pm
Islam is not a religion as the others are.  Islam is a political/religious/life system that does not allow for the peaceful existence of other ideologies.

are you telling me that all those bastardizations of christianity scattered in middle america aren't political/religious/life systems?

too funny
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Sanguine on January 30, 2019, 06:39:40 pm
are you telling me that all those bastardizations of christianity scattered in middle america aren't political/religious/life systems?

too funny

You say "bastardizaions" which mean that the religion has been changed/corrupted.  Islam is islam.  There is no corruption.  It is what it is. 

And, "middle america"?  Really?   *****rollingeyes*****
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: txradioguy on January 30, 2019, 06:41:13 pm
are you telling me that all those bastardizations of christianity scattered in middle america aren't political/religious/life systems?

too funny

No they aren't.

Islam dictates every.single.part.of.your.life.

Family, business transactions, marriage, divorce, inheritance, bathing and cleansing, goooming, dressing, money.  Islam decides how all of this happens.

That doesn't happen in the Christian faith.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: BlueHammer on January 30, 2019, 06:42:26 pm
You say "bastardizaions" which mean that the religion has been changed/corrupted.  Islam is islam.  There is no corruption.  It is what it is. 

And, "middle america"?  Really?   *****rollingeyes*****

yes, really........you see all the references to the northeast following me around? back at you all
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: BlueHammer on January 30, 2019, 06:43:49 pm
No they aren't.

Islam dictates every.single.part.of.your.life.

Family, business transactions, marriage, divorce, inheritance, bathing and cleansing, goooming, dressing, money.  Islam decides how all of this happens.

That doesn't happen in the Christian faith.

so does every other faith.....but thankfully we have secularization here to mute those requirements.....I still don't eat meat on Friday's

i work with several muslims......i think your depiction is inaccurate
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Cyber Liberty on January 30, 2019, 06:45:49 pm
yes, really........you see all the references to the northeast following me around? back at you all

Why should you be upset when somebody repeats what you so proudly say?
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: musiclady on January 30, 2019, 06:47:13 pm
Which is extremely limited by his lack of knowledge.

Good point, @Sanguine .

Little brain washed leftists, with limited brain power as a result have NO imagination.

That's why they want the government to do everything for them.

They no longer have the power to think for themselves.

This poor schlep (who is skipping school again today) is the product of years of having others tell him what to think and not having the intestinal fortitude to refuse their orders and actually use his brain in a productive manner.

I would feel sorry for him because he's so weak........ but I don't because he's trolling for evil people and is too stupid to stop doing it.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: BlueHammer on January 30, 2019, 06:47:20 pm
Why should you be upset when somebody repeats what you so proudly say?

who said anything about 'upset' ..... I have pretty thick skin ..... it is merely a back at you.....sounds like you're the one struggling
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: musiclady on January 30, 2019, 06:52:18 pm
who said anything about 'upset' ..... I have pretty thick skin ..... it is merely a back at you.....sounds like you're the one struggling

Nobody here is struggling, child.

They're laughing at the leftist moron who thinks he's clever, but is exceedingly dull and nauseatingly predictable.

Do you actually think you're accomplishing anything for your masters here?   :silly:

Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: bigheadfred on January 30, 2019, 06:53:11 pm
so does every other faith.....but thankfully we have secularization here to mute those requirements.....I still don't eat meat on Friday's

i work with several muslims......i think your depiction is inaccurate

I think your knowledge base is inadequate. I suggest a long sabbatical to seek out what Islam really is.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Cyber Liberty on January 30, 2019, 06:54:02 pm
who said anything about 'upset' ..... I have pretty thick skin ..... it is merely a back at you.....sounds like you're the one struggling

Typical leftist troll deflection tactic:  Accuse me of your own actions/feelings.  Are your friends at KOS proud of your trolling TBR?
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Bigun on January 30, 2019, 06:55:04 pm
I think your knowledge base is inadequate. I suggest a long sabbatical to seek out what Islam really is.

You might as well be talking to that edgebanding machine at work!  just sayin!
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Cyber Liberty on January 30, 2019, 06:55:56 pm
I think your knowledge base is inadequate. I suggest a long sabbatical to seek out what Islam really is.

He can't even figure out what "conservatism" is.  Plumbing the depths of Islam may be a bit much to expect out of this one.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: dfwgator on January 30, 2019, 06:58:31 pm


Governor Gregg Abbott for President of the United States.

 :beer:

Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: bigheadfred on January 30, 2019, 07:04:51 pm
He can't even figure out what "conservatism" is.  Plumbing the depths of Islam may be a bit much to expect out of this one.

I am hoping he visits a 100% moslem country for a year or ten. ASAP.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: corbe on January 30, 2019, 07:15:02 pm
Nobody here is struggling, child.

They're laughing at the leftist moron who thinks he's clever, but is exceedingly dull and nauseatingly predictable.

Do you actually think you're accomplishing anything for your masters here?   :silly:



 :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: txradioguy on January 30, 2019, 07:18:56 pm

Do you actually think you're accomplishing anything for your masters here?   :silly:

@musiclady

The best way to tell if he's got an audience...is to see how many visitors to TBR are looking at the thread he's posting on. 

That's what we used to do when we'd get someone like buzzclik or Will Pitt showing up to troll at another forum I was a member of.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Sanguine on January 30, 2019, 07:46:03 pm
yes, really........you see all the references to the northeast following me around? back at you all

You glossed right over the main point.  Care to address that?
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Cyber Liberty on January 30, 2019, 07:51:21 pm
You glossed right over the main point.  Care to address that?

That wasn't "glossing over," that was pouring a whole new slab of concrete over it.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: musiclady on January 30, 2019, 08:00:24 pm
@musiclady

The best way to tell if he's got an audience...is to see how many visitors to TBR are looking at the thread he's posting on. 

That's what we used to do when we'd get someone like buzzclik or Will Pitt showing up to troll at another forum I was a member of.

Only four TBR members and 4 guests right now.

I'd say he's a dismal failure, not only in his feeble argumentation, but in his lack of success as a troll.

Pretty bad when your impotence even reaches to your trollhood.  :cool:


@txradioguy
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: txradioguy on January 30, 2019, 08:06:36 pm
Only four TBR members and 4 guests right now.

I'd say he's a dismal failure, not only in his feeble argumentation, but in his lack of success as a troll.

Pretty bad when your impotence even reaches to your trollhood.  :cool:


@txradioguy

Yeah but he's disappeared to other threads right now.  Look to see if the numbers jump if/when he makes another comment in here
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: musiclady on January 30, 2019, 08:11:03 pm
Yeah but he's disappeared to other threads right now.  Look to see if the numbers jump if/when he makes another comment in here

I see that.  I just went on another thread where he's spewing his idiocy.

Man, this troll is STUPID!   *****rollingeyes*****
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: BlueHammer on January 30, 2019, 08:16:26 pm
Only four TBR members and 4 guests right now.

I'd say he's a dismal failure, not only in his feeble argumentation, but in his lack of success as a troll.

Pretty bad when your impotence even reaches to your trollhood.  :cool:


@txradioguy

you're going to be disappointed
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: BlueHammer on January 30, 2019, 08:17:33 pm
Yeah but he's disappeared to other threads right now.  Look to see if the numbers jump if/when he makes another comment in here

you're going to be disappointed

I was looking to see if anyone mentioned Mnuchin and the lifting of sanctions here, but nothing......good little Russia lovers
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: txradioguy on January 30, 2019, 08:17:42 pm
you're going to be disappointed

We haven't been so far.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: BlueHammer on January 30, 2019, 08:18:35 pm
We haven't been so far.

you don't know any better
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Hoodat on January 30, 2019, 08:21:17 pm
even better.........I'm in the great peoples republic of Massachusetts though we do have our share of drooling magaheads here, too

As a Massa-2-shitts resident, why do you get to dictate whether some school district in rural Georgia includes the book of Job as part of its reading curricullum?
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: BlueHammer on January 30, 2019, 08:25:38 pm
As a Massa-2-shitts resident, why do you get to dictate whether some school district in rural Georgia includes the book of Job as part of its reading curricullum?

who says I get to dictate anything? take some deep breaths ..... get your thoughts straight
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: QueenCatofAragon on January 30, 2019, 08:30:29 pm
you don't know any better

You’re @bluehammer5 on Twitter—-the speech is exactly the same, account created right after you stopped posting at Kos.  You even mention the Tea Party, or “tea baggers.”  Dude, six months and 4 followers?  😂. Maybe I’ll be nice and give you a fifth.

So you obviously agree with the post you retweeted in which someone said Trump supporters would have to explain to their kids & grandkids just like supporters of Hitler.  That line of thought is interesting.  I didn’t vote for the guy, but did Trump murder six million people I don’t know about?
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: BlueHammer on January 30, 2019, 08:36:45 pm
You’re @bluehammer5 on Twitter—-the speech is exactly the same, account created right after you stopped posting at Kos.  You even mention the Tea Party, or “tea baggers.”  Dude, six months and 4 followers?  😂. Maybe I’ll be nice and give you a fifth.

So you obviously agree with the post you retweeted in which someone said Trump supporters would have to explain to their kids & grandkids just like supporters of Hitler.  That line of thought is interesting.  I didn’t vote for the guy, but did Trump murder six million people I don’t know about?

lol.......you're actually out there stalking me......unsuccessfully, however.....it ain't me

maybe I'm a bowling ball

(http://123bowl.com/123bowl/cache/file/CB28FAD1-D769-714F-DB484846B4D9F5F7.jpg)
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: txradioguy on January 30, 2019, 08:38:02 pm
you don't know any better

Ok...so tell us...what makes you believe you're the smartest person on this forum?

Certainly it's not what you've written so far.  Dazzle us with your RINO squishy "moderate" brilliance.  Give us your views on the topics we've posted here that are irrefutable because of the facts you present.

I have a feeling I know what your answer to this is gonna be.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Cyber Liberty on January 30, 2019, 08:38:15 pm
lol.......you're actually out there stalking me......unsuccessfully, however.....it ain't me

Ummm hmmmm.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Sanguine on January 30, 2019, 08:38:59 pm
You’re @bluehammer5 on Twitter—-the speech is exactly the same, account created right after you stopped posting at Kos.  You even mention the Tea Party, or “tea baggers.”  Dude, six months and 4 followers?  😂. Maybe I’ll be nice and give you a fifth.

So you obviously agree with the post you retweeted in which someone said Trump supporters would have to explain to their kids & grandkids just like supporters of Hitler.  That line of thought is interesting.  I didn’t vote for the guy, but did Trump murder six million people I don’t know about?

Looks like Twitter just isn't contentious enough for him.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: musiclady on January 30, 2019, 08:45:36 pm
you're going to be disappointed

Actually, I'm delighted.

You're the dumbest, lamest troll I've seen in 18 years on political forums.

That's quite an accomplishment.


What does it feel like to be such a loser that you get your jollies making a complete fool of yourself? 

I hang around with conservatives, so I've never met anyone like you........ you know, people who have no purpose in life.

Well, pretty much no life at all based on what we've seen here......
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: QueenCatofAragon on January 30, 2019, 08:48:35 pm
lol.......you're actually out there stalking me......unsuccessfully, however.....it ain't me

maybe I'm a bowling ball

(http://123bowl.com/123bowl/cache/file/CB28FAD1-D769-714F-DB484846B4D9F5F7.jpg)

No, it’s called checking social media when you’re getting a line of BS.  Even employers do it. 

So do you agree with the tweet about Trump supporters?  And would you like a fifth follower, lol?
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: QueenCatofAragon on January 30, 2019, 08:50:38 pm
Looks like Twitter just isn't contentious enough for him.

@Sanguine

I hate to break it to him, but his compulsive tweets to Trump probably aren’t even being seen.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: LegalAmerican on January 30, 2019, 08:52:12 pm
If the public school system can teach Islam and the Koran, there is no excuse for them to oppose teaching the Christian Bible. By promoting Islam and opposing Christianity, that would be a real Church and State issue. Because that really would be the establishment of a 'sanctioned' religion. Which is what Separation of Church and State was intended to prevent.


Correct. Our constitution came from the principles of our BIBLE. We have scripture in stone on walls in D.C.  Moses with ten commandments on walls & doors. D.C. is laid out in the form of a cross.  24 of our 55 founding fathers were clergy or sons of clergy, that is why each session starts with a prayer.  Our constitution is meant only for a Christian people, who believe in a God. Not islam.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: BlueHammer on January 30, 2019, 08:52:36 pm
Ok...so tell us...what makes you believe you're the smartest person on this forum?

Certainly it's not what you've written so far.  Dazzle us with your RINO squishy "moderate" brilliance.  Give us your views on the topics we've posted here that are irrefutable because of the facts you present.

I have a feeling I know what your answer to this is gonna be.

you're struggling with the language......I never said that

but here goes:

immigration? It's problem but trump is too stupid to work with congress to generate a solution. do we need a whole wall? no....but improving barrier infrastructure would have my vote
tax cut? what tax cut? 2018 is going to cost me $10000 more than 2017....the tax cut along with the deficit during an economic expansion is pretty stupid......so we are going to run close to the same deficits as during a mortgage crisis when the government was basically shoving trillions into the economy......mmmmkay
foreign policy? it's being run by the russians
i support bringing all military home from the middle east and afghanistan...we can always go back
I don't mind the increase in defense spending, but it's criminal that there has not been an improvement in helping vets
pro-choice .... freedom, baby
we could solve much of the fiscal mess by attacking waste and fraud
in favor of government provided voter ID as well as eliminating the electoral college

I just think in general, that many of you here have built up so much negativity towards the left .... but they're not going anywhere .... in fact, if anything, the right is losing the numbers game and there's only so much that gerrymandering can hold back.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: BlueHammer on January 30, 2019, 08:55:02 pm

Correct. Our constitution came from the principles of our BIBLE. We have scripture in stone on walls in D.C.  Moses with ten commandments on walls & doors. D.C. is laid out in the form of a cross.  24 of our 55 founding fathers were clergy or sons of clergy, that is why each session starts with a prayer.  Our constitution is meant only for a Christian people, who believe in a God. Not islam.

that's an interpretation.......is the word BIBLE anywhere in the constitution?

it's like saying that the country got it's start in Boston so the rest of you are just a bunch of worthless followers
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Cyber Liberty on January 30, 2019, 08:55:47 pm
I just think in general, that many of you here have built up so much negativity towards the left .... but they're not going anywhere .... in fact, if anything, the right is losing the numbers game and there's only so much that gerrymandering can hold back.

Translation for us knuckle-draggers:  "We will bury you."
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: mountaineer on January 30, 2019, 08:58:40 pm
Looks like Twitter just isn't contentious enough for him.
Four followers. Nobody's reading his posts?
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: musiclady on January 30, 2019, 09:04:18 pm
Four followers. Nobody's reading his posts?

Based on what he's shown us here, why would they?  happy77
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: corbe on January 30, 2019, 09:08:13 pm
  Those followers are probably his Mom and 3 sisters.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: BlueHammer on January 30, 2019, 09:08:28 pm
Translation for us knuckle-draggers:  "We will bury you."

yup.....sooner or later, you're going to be surrounded by mixed race people and the only hope you have is that they are LGBTQ and stop reproducing
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: musiclady on January 30, 2019, 09:09:40 pm
  Those followers are probably his Mom and 3 sisters.

Or maybe includes Grandma instead of one of his sisters..........
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: BlueHammer on January 30, 2019, 09:10:07 pm
  Those followers are probably his Mom and 3 sisters.

my mom is dead and I have no sisters.........but keep trying......renting space in your frontal lobe was not my plan but........
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: LegalAmerican on January 30, 2019, 09:10:45 pm
that's an interpretation.......is the word BIBLE anywhere in the constitution?

it's like saying that the country got it's start in Boston so the rest of you are just a bunch of worthless followers

Your post mean's you have zero knowledge about our founding fathers.

America’s founders quoted heavily from the Bible, Montesquieu, Blackstone, and Locke---in that order.

In his The Spirit of Laws, Baron Montesquieu wrote: “We shall see that we owe to Christianity, in government, a certain political law, and in war a certain law of nations—benefits which human nature can never sufficiently acknowledge.”


Sir William Blackstone, who has often been quoted by the Supreme Court, said that the laws of nature were written by God and were supplemented by the Holy Scriptures. He wrote: “This law of nature being…dictated by God Himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times. No human laws are of any validity if contrary to this.”


John Locke penned: “The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men.” I used to have a Sunday school teacher, Dr. Greg Forster, who earned his Ph.D. at Yale studying Locke and became a Christian because of Locke’s classic book, The Reasonableness of Christianity.


Although not all framers of the Declaration and Constitution were orthodox Christians, about 95 percent of the founding fathers were active members of Trinitarian Christian churches. To many of them, the Christian faith was central in their lives:


In his “Circular to the States” (1783), George Washington said that America could never hope to be a happy nation unless we learned to imitate Jesus, “the divine author of our blessed religion.”


In his Inaugural Address (1797), John Adams calls “a decent respect for Christianity among the best recommendations for the public service.”


Thomas Jefferson said that Jesus is the reason we can have religious freedom. To force people to believe in religious views they don’t share are a departure from Him, “the holy author of our religion.” Jefferson wrote this in his Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom (1777, adopted 1786).


James Madison, a key leader in the creation of the Constitution, wrote that our obligations to God come before those to the state: “Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe.”



As to the Masonic charge, I view it as an anachronistic charge. The Masons in America did not become anti-Christian until the 1830s and thereafter, long after the time of the framing of our founding documents.

Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: txradioguy on January 30, 2019, 09:11:13 pm
you're struggling with the language......I never said that

Didn't have to...it's been implied in every post you've made.

but here goes:

Quote
immigration? It's problem but trump is too stupid to work with congress to generate a solution. do we need a whole wall? no....but improving barrier infrastructure would have my vote

Improving the "barrier infrastructure" IS building a wall.  Implement the fancy electronic monitoring after the wall/fence/barrier is built.
 It's called a layered defense.  Even the head if ICE says they need the wall built to secure the border.  Congress has sat on their hands since 2006 when the Secure Fence Act was passed and did next to nothing to implement the law they agreed to.  Then Pelosi took over and the funding was reduced to a trickle until Obama came along and unfunded it.  Our southern border is wide open at this point and the vast majority of human trafficking...drugs gangs and illegal aliens take advantage of the lack of security we have down there to move north and wreak havoc.

What is so hard to understand about that?

Oh and good fences make good neighbors.

Quote
tax cut? what tax cut? 2018 is going to cost me $10000 more than 2017....the tax cut along with the deficit during an economic expansion is pretty stupid......so we are going to run close to the same deficits as during a mortgage crisis when the government was basically shoving trillions into the economy......mmmmkay

My break on taxes was nicer this year compared to last.  Maybe you need a new accountant.  Who was telling the fed to run round after round of QE?  Wasn't Trump.  And while he's signed some huge spending bills...he's got a long way to go before he tops Obama and Bush 43 in adding to the National Debt.

Even in the 20 year economic boom that Reagan created there deficits.  What's your point?

Quick question...where do spending bills originate?


Quote
foreign policy? it's being run by the russians

Where is your proof?


Quote
i support bringing all military home from the middle east and afghanistan...we can always go back

"I don't like to pay for the same real estate twice." ~ General George Patton

Quote
I don't mind the increase in defense spending, but it's criminal that there has not been an improvement in helping vets

The vet crisis is a shame.  Wouldn't it be nice if they still had the 700 million in their budget that was taken from them to help make Obamacare look "revenue neutral".

Best fix for the VA...let veterans pick the hospital and/or provider they want to go to.  Simple as that.

Quote
pro-choice .... freedom, baby

But what about freedom for the baby?

Quote
we could solve much of the fiscal mess by attacking waste and fraud
in favor of government provided voter ID as well as eliminating the electoral college

You almost had a good thing going there with Voter ID.  Your Progressive roots came out on the dissolution of the EC.  It's put there to keep small dark blue areas on each coast from dictating to the rest of the country how things will be.

The EC goes away your Progressive brethren will force their idea of Utopia on all of us and it will be the end of the U.S. as we know it.

Quote
I just think in general, that many of you here have built up so much negativity towards the left .... but they're not going anywhere .... in fact, if anything, the right is losing the numbers game and there's only so much that gerrymandering can hold back.

The left has brought it on themselves with their marxist desires for the U.S.  Their demands for speech codes...their anti gun...pro criminal stances...abortion bordering in infanticide...their denial of science when it comes to gender and their belief in junk science when it comes to climate not to mention the outright racism that has never left the Democrat party that is rearing its ugly head again...that doesn't resonate well with the majority of the people.  And it's gonna get worse if this current crop of hard left Congress Critters that got elected stay for more than one or two terms.  Marxist Alex From The Bronx and the Taliban Triplets are pushing back against the Progressives and IMHO we're about to se a case of the Dems eating their own much in the same way we've seen with the hard core Trump base waging war on the Conservatives in the party.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: BlueHammer on January 30, 2019, 09:11:36 pm
Or maybe includes Grandma instead of one of his sisters..........

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Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: DB on January 30, 2019, 09:11:51 pm
Blue Yammer isn't here to learn....he's here to lecture us until we see the errors of our ways and stop being miserable.   this one has no capacity for learning, and in that he's different from Dex and Jazzy.  I have respect for those guys.

He's here to feed his ego because he's just certain that he's smarter than everyone here. That certainty betrays is brilliance exposing him for what he is.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: skeeter on January 30, 2019, 09:12:43 pm
yup.....sooner or later, you're going to be surrounded by mixed race people and the only hope you have is that they are LGBTQ and stop reproducing

More ignorance on parade. My mixed race son is your kind's worst nightmare.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: txradioguy on January 30, 2019, 09:12:52 pm
that's an interpretation.......is the word BIBLE anywhere in the constitution?

it's like saying that the country got it's start in Boston so the rest of you are just a bunch of worthless followers

You probably think the wall of separation is in the Constitution don't you?
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: musiclady on January 30, 2019, 09:13:00 pm
my mom is dead and I have no sisters.........but keep trying............

Your babysitter?  Your maiden aunt?  Your (current) 10th grade social studies teacher??   :silly:

Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: QueenCatofAragon on January 30, 2019, 09:13:59 pm
Four followers. Nobody's reading his posts?

@mountaineer

Almost nobody, it looks like. 
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: txradioguy on January 30, 2019, 09:14:08 pm
Quote
yup.....sooner or later, you're going to be surrounded by mixed race people and the only hope you have is that they are LGBTQ and stop reproducing

And the left thinks we're the racists.  *****rollingeyes*****
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: musiclady on January 30, 2019, 09:15:53 pm
And the left thinks we're the racists.  *****rollingeyes*****

I see what you were talking about, @txradioguy

He comes back to say more stupid things on this thread, and the guest count goes up to 25.

Whew.  He's quite the draw!  LOL!!
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: mystery-ak on January 30, 2019, 09:16:13 pm
my mom is dead and I have no sisters.........but keep trying......renting space in your frontal lobe was not my plan but........

I've asked a couple of times now what was said on that Patriots forum that made you want to register here?.....or did you see TBR on twitter?
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: QueenCatofAragon on January 30, 2019, 09:16:51 pm
  Those followers are probably his Mom and 3 sisters.

Probably so, lol.

What's funny to me is that @BlueHammer rolled up in here thinking he was the smart guy among a bunch of troglodytes, but he's too backward and dumb to cover his tracks on social media.  It's 2019, lol.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: LMAO on January 30, 2019, 09:18:30 pm

.  Our constitution is meant only for a Christian people, who believe in a God. Not islam.

So if one is an atheist or agnostic the Constitution isn’t applicable to them? What about Americans who follow other religious beliefs?

@LegalAmerican
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Cyber Liberty on January 30, 2019, 09:23:46 pm
I've asked a couple of times now what was said on that Patriots forum that made you want to register here?.....or did you see TBR on twitter?

@BlueHammer  I strongly suggest you answer the Owner's question...in PM if you want.  She's asked you more than once.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Cyber Liberty on January 30, 2019, 09:25:16 pm
Probably so, lol.

What's funny to me is that @BlueHammer rolled up in here thinking he was the smart guy among a bunch of troglodytes, but he's too backward and dumb to cover his tracks on social media.  It's 2019, lol.

If he just used the name "John Effin Smith" his tracks would have been better covered.   :laugh:
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: corbe on January 30, 2019, 09:25:23 pm
I've asked a couple of times now what was said on that Patriots forum that made you want to register here?.....or did you see TBR on twitter?

   Maybe Tom Brady is one of those 'bitter' Freepers.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: txradioguy on January 30, 2019, 09:28:31 pm
I see what you were talking about, @txradioguy

He comes back to say more stupid things on this thread, and the guest count goes up to 25.

Whew.  He's quite the draw!  LOL!!

Window lickers one and all.  They've got their faces pressed tot he glass to see what's going on with their volunteer for the troll mission...too scared to join in themselves.

Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: txradioguy on January 30, 2019, 09:30:28 pm
Quote
Our constitution is meant only for a Christian people, who believe in a God. Not islam.

Speaking of bullsh*t.  *****rollingeyes*****
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: LMAO on January 30, 2019, 09:35:11 pm
Speaking of bullsh*t.  *****rollingeyes*****

@txradioguy

 :beer:
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: musiclady on January 30, 2019, 09:35:25 pm
Speaking of bullsh*t.  *****rollingeyes*****

I think perhaps a debate between our troll and this one would be a wonderful match of intellect, no?  wink777
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: musiclady on January 30, 2019, 09:36:30 pm
So if one is an atheist or agnostic the Constitution isn’t applicable to them? What about Americans who follow other religious beliefs?

@LegalAmerican

The statement you are responding to was made in complete ignorance.

No surprises there.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: QueenCatofAragon on January 30, 2019, 09:37:17 pm
If he just used the name "John Effin Smith" his tracks would have been better covered.   :laugh:

(https://media.giphy.com/media/Pgy4Na8aRyBuE/giphy.gif)
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Bigun on January 30, 2019, 09:38:19 pm
Four followers. Nobody's reading his posts?

And he comes here and disrupts fo days on end.   Isn't that something?
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Cyber Liberty on January 30, 2019, 09:46:33 pm
More ignorance on parade. My mixed race son is your kind's worst nightmare.

I just wandered upthread and saw what post elicited that quote.  I'm sorta proud I flushed that racist pheasant out of the reeds....
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: txradioguy on January 30, 2019, 09:46:35 pm
I think perhaps a debate between our troll and this one would be a wonderful match of intellect, no?  wink777

I don't know if we ahve enough popcorn for that one.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Cyber Liberty on January 30, 2019, 09:50:41 pm
I don't know if we ahve enough popcorn for that one.

We have plenty, remember?  I bought the popcorn concession for just such a situation.

The problem is, people like that never pair up, they only exist to irritate good people.  Sort of like Human Relationships in general, no?
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: corbe on January 30, 2019, 09:56:01 pm
   Pick up the White Courtesy Phone @LegalAmerican
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: sneakypete on January 30, 2019, 09:59:02 pm
President Trump on Monday embraced a proposal from lawmakers in six states that would allow public schools to offer Bible literacy classes shortly after the subject was discussed on "Fox & Friends."

"Numerous states introducing Bible Literacy classes, giving students the option of studying the Bible. Starting to make a turn back? Great!" Trump wrote on Twitter.

The tweet came roughly a half hour after North Dakota state Rep. Aaron McWilliams appeared on "Fox & Friends." McWilliams is co-sponsoring a measure in North Dakota to support Bible literacy classes.

Read More: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-touts-proposed-bible-literacy-classes-in-state-schools/ (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-touts-proposed-bible-literacy-classes-in-state-schools/)

How about bringning back Civics in the school? Also, are they going to offer other religious books literacy as well?

Dumbest damn crap anyone ever came up with,so you KNOW the Dims are going to love it because it opens the door to teach Islam in public schools.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: QueenCatofAragon on January 30, 2019, 10:00:20 pm
yup.....sooner or later, you're going to be surrounded by mixed race people and the only hope you have is that they are LGBTQ and stop reproducing

And the proof keeps coming.  He said on Twitter that Trump is afraid of brown people, lol.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: sneakypete on January 30, 2019, 10:00:56 pm
I think that ought to be left up to the local folks to decide, don't you?

@roamer_1

No. It should be left up to the various religious to do their own damn brainwashing in their own damn facilities.

If you think this is a good idea,I don't want to see you  whining about teaching Islam in public schools.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Cyber Liberty on January 30, 2019, 10:03:20 pm
And the proof keeps coming.  He said on Twitter that Trump is afraid of brown people, lol.

I know we did not part on the best of terms, @QueenCatofAragon, but I really do appreciate your looking into that sewer for us...for professional reasons....
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: sneakypete on January 30, 2019, 10:04:16 pm

WHAT PART OF SEPERATION OF CHURCH AND STATE DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND??

@roamer_1   @kevindavis

The part where his superstition isn't the only one that should be brainwashing students in public schools.

If you want your offsprung to be raised believing in mythical creatures that rule over the world,send them to a private religious school. The public schools already have enough problems as it is.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: sneakypete on January 30, 2019, 10:05:27 pm
Hold your water, geez. Apparently you’re the one who needs to study up on that founding principle.

No one is proposing to establish a state religion.

@skeeter

Of course you are. You can't possibly be stupid enough to think anything else.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: sneakypete on January 30, 2019, 10:08:26 pm
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Yeah, at the Federal level, not at the local/state level, unless that state has the same amendment in their constitution.
 

HorseHillary! You just want a chance to see your superstitions made into law to punish non-believers and make them fall into line.

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Also, not sure why anyone would insist on repeating the liberal interpretation "Separation of church and state".

Uhhhh,because that is the plain language it was written in by people who wrote it BECAUSE they came from nations with state religions and knew the problems this always creates?
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: musiclady on January 30, 2019, 10:08:45 pm
Window lickers one and all.  They've got their faces pressed tot he glass to see what's going on with their volunteer for the troll mission...too scared to join in themselves.

Just think!  He's the brightest and best of the lot!

Can you imagine what the IQ's are of the lurkers??  :happyhappy:
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: LMAO on January 30, 2019, 10:08:49 pm
Dumbest damn crap anyone ever came up with,so you KNOW the Dims are going to love it because it opens the door to teach Islam in public schools

Despite being one of those “brainwashed believers” :tongue2:, I agree with both you and @kevindavis on this. Private religious schools are another matter

@sneakypete

Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: musiclady on January 30, 2019, 10:09:37 pm
I don't know if we ahve enough popcorn for that one.

Good point.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: sneakypete on January 30, 2019, 10:11:03 pm
He does have leftist leanings....  just saying.

@The Ghost

NOBODY leans further left than devout Christians.  Christ was the original communist.

Marx understood you were his biggest competition for total control over the minds and hearts of the masses,so he took over control of the Russian Orthodox Church in Russia,and banned all others.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: bigheadfred on January 30, 2019, 10:11:10 pm
Dumbest damn crap anyone ever came up with,so you KNOW the Dims are going to love it because it opens the door to teach Islam in public schools.

There are school districts mandating the teaching of islam all over the country.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: roamer_1 on January 30, 2019, 10:15:03 pm
@roamer_1

No. It should be left up to the various religious to do their own damn brainwashing in their own damn facilities.

If you think this is a good idea,I don't want to see you  whining about teaching Islam in public schools.

I already said that might be fine over in michigan, where they have significant muslim populations... There might as well be none up in here... Why teach what no one wants?

In the mean time, far more of the children are Christian hereabouts... WAY more than ain't == So send those that don't want to participate to a study hall, and leave the rest alone.

The majority is not to be held hostage by the minority
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: sneakypete on January 30, 2019, 10:15:43 pm


 
Folks should leave other folks be and let em live like they know how.

 

@roamer_1

THAT I can agree with. I have no problem with you wanting to brainwash YOUR children if that is what you want,but leave everyone else's children out of it.

Actually,that is a minor lie. I DO object to you teaching your children to be superstitious fools,but they ARE YOUR children,and as long as you aren't making them walk on fire or do other things that are physically dangerous,it's really none of my business. Or any business of the local or state authorities.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: roamer_1 on January 30, 2019, 10:16:26 pm
@roamer_1   @kevindavis

The part where his superstition isn't the only one that should be brainwashing students in public schools.

If you want your offsprung to be raised believing in mythical creatures that rule over the world,send them to a private religious school. The public schools already have enough problems as it is.

Riiiight... leaving those in public schools being indoctrinated by liberalism instead. Great idea! /not
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Bigun on January 30, 2019, 10:17:19 pm
@sneakypete

Here's what I can tell you. It's an absolute historical FACT that there would be no USA if it weren't for the Churches that were around prior to its existence.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: sneakypete on January 30, 2019, 10:17:46 pm
@roamer_1
@QueenCatofAragon
@Freya

I don't think a Bible study course in school can be done.  The instructor is going to interpret the scripture according to his/her belief.  As soon as the kid would get home and tell what he/she learned, if it was not what parents believe, they would be at the Superintendent's office with their Bible in their hands.  There is no way to do this and please every parent of the kids.  And, if there are non-believers in the class, a law suit will be in the court immediately. 

I teach a Bible class at my church - we are "one" in our core Bible belief.  All of you should come - we have coffee and pastries - okay, maybe that is why they come rather than coming to listen to me.  This coming Saturday we will finish the study of "The Revelation to John". 

Bible class in schools is not going to work.

@Victoria33

I agree with every word you wrote above.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: skeeter on January 30, 2019, 10:18:13 pm
@skeeter

Of course you are. You can't possibly be stupid enough to think anything else.

Yeah Pete I know - anyone who disagrees with you on the subject of Christianity is a stupid superstitious yokel. If there’s one thing you’ve made crystal clear here it’s that.

Still, I disagree.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Sanguine on January 30, 2019, 10:18:51 pm
Yeah Pete I know - anyone who disagrees with you on the subject of Christianity is a stupid superstitious yokel. If there’s one thing you’ve made crystal clear here it’s that.

Still, I disagree.

Me too.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: roamer_1 on January 30, 2019, 10:19:00 pm
@roamer_1

THAT I can agree with. I have no problem with you wanting to brainwash YOUR children if that is what you want,but leave everyone else's children out of it.

Actually,that is a minor lie. I DO object to you teaching your children to be superstitious fools,but they ARE YOUR children,and as long as you aren't making them walk on fire or do other things that are physically dangerous,it's really none of my business. Or any business of the local or state authorities.

Like I already said - You must be happy with the liberalism they are teaching instead
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: roamer_1 on January 30, 2019, 10:20:08 pm
Me too.

In spades.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: musiclady on January 30, 2019, 10:20:30 pm
Riiiight... leaving those in public schools being indoctrinated by liberalism instead. Great idea! /not

The complete disaster that is our public school system is DIRECTLY the result of the influence and power of atheism over them.

Before MMO'Hare, our schools were educating, not only intellectually, but helping to develop character.

Now they are doing neither.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: sneakypete on January 30, 2019, 10:20:37 pm
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Basically, I agree.  A school sponsored after-school Bible class might work.

@Emjay

What right does your school have to try to brainwash other people's children,either during or after school?

If they don't have a right to do it during school hours,they damn sure don't have the right to do it after school.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: roamer_1 on January 30, 2019, 10:29:08 pm
The complete disaster that is our public school system is DIRECTLY the result of the influence and power of atheism over them.

Before MMO'Hare, our schools were educating, not only intellectually, but helping to develop character.

Now they are doing neither.

That's right... When I had to pull my kids out of Christian school and put them in public, the difference was enough to make you shudder... It took a full two years for the new schooling to get caught up to where my kids already were.

And nothing more toward integrity... nothing. Nothing to do with civics. it is deplorable.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Wingnut on January 30, 2019, 10:29:54 pm
@The Ghost

NOBODY leans further left than devout Christians.  Christ was the original communist.

Marx understood you were his biggest competition for total control over the minds and hearts of the masses,so he took over control of the Russian Orthodox Church in Russia,and banned all others.

My quote "He does Have leftist Leanings" was not in reference to  Jesus you Christ hating hockey puck.  It was directed at, and to our newest door knob of a liberal troll... The blue "Tidy Bowl" Hammer.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Sanguine on January 30, 2019, 10:40:55 pm
@The Ghost

NOBODY leans further left than devout Christians.  Christ was the original communist.

Marx understood you were his biggest competition for total control over the minds and hearts of the masses,so he took over control of the Russian Orthodox Church in Russia,and banned all others.

@sneakypete you are dead wrong here.  Your hatred of Christianity is only overshadowed by your ignorance of it.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Cyber Liberty on January 30, 2019, 10:53:32 pm
Addressing the original topic....

I lean against this idea for different reasons than the leftists, and for the same reason I don't want states subsidizing private Christian academies.  The moment a government starts subsidizing something, the pressure is on to change that something into an atheistic/amoral thing. 

It would be wise to keep the filthy government mitts well away from things spiritual.  Ceasar's coin and all that.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: sneakypete on January 30, 2019, 11:08:26 pm
My quote "He does Have leftist Leanings" was not in reference to  Jesus you Christ hating hockey puck.   

@The Ghost

Well,it SHOULD have been. He was the original communist. He was also most likely a homosexual.  Dude in his 30's that has never been with a woman and lives in a commune with a bunch of hairy-assed men. If his name was George Smith you would want  him locked up.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: LMAO on January 30, 2019, 11:08:42 pm
Addressing the original topic....

I lean against this idea for different reasons than the leftists, and for the same reason I don't want states subsidizing private Christian academies.  The moment a government starts subsidizing something, the pressure is on to change that something into an atheistic/amoral thing. 

It would be wise to keep the filthy government mitts well away from things spiritual.  Ceasar's coin and all that.

 :amen:
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: sneakypete on January 30, 2019, 11:10:21 pm
@sneakypete you are dead wrong here.  Your hatred of Christianity is only overshadowed by your ignorance of it.

@Sanguine

Really? Tell me about the teachings and preachings of Christ,and how we are all brothers who should share everything. Wasn't one of his sayings something about "what you do to my brother you do to me.",while proclaiming every man was his brother?
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: sneakypete on January 30, 2019, 11:11:54 pm
Addressing the original topic....

I lean against this idea for different reasons than the leftists, and for the same reason I don't want states subsidizing private Christian academies.  The moment a government starts subsidizing something, the pressure is on to change that something into an atheistic/amoral thing. 

It would be wise to keep the filthy government mitts well away from things spiritual.  Ceasar's coin and all that.

@Cyber Liberty

You are right about that,but they are more concerned with controlling and profiting from what they take over than they are changing it.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: dfwgator on January 30, 2019, 11:12:53 pm
The complete disaster that is our public school system is DIRECTLY the result of the influence and power of atheism over them.

Before MMO'Hare, our schools were educating, not only intellectually, but helping to develop character.

Now they are doing neither.

Government can't fix this,  this is for "We the People".   Government isn't going to save us from anything, unless we do it ourselves.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: musiclady on January 30, 2019, 11:13:33 pm
@sneakypete you are dead wrong here.  Your hatred of Christianity is only overshadowed by your ignorance of it.

Well, look at it this way.......... our little leftist troll now has a friend to play with.  wink777
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: txradioguy on January 30, 2019, 11:14:01 pm
@The Ghost

Well,it SHOULD have been. He was the original communist. He was also most likely a homosexual.  Dude in his 30's that has never been with a woman and lives in a commune with a bunch of hairy-assed men. If his name was George Smith you would want  him locked up.

Good job on repeating...and probably actually believing...the falsehoods the Progressives spew about Jesus in order to justify the evil they do.

Bravo!

Next you’ll be telling us Ho Chii Minh was a heroic leader with a righteous cause.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: musiclady on January 30, 2019, 11:14:08 pm
Government can't fix this,  this is for "We the People".   Government isn't going to save us from anything, unless we do it ourselves.

Absolutely true on all counts.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Bigun on January 30, 2019, 11:15:38 pm
Addressing the original topic....

I lean against this idea for different reasons than the leftists, and for the same reason I don't want states subsidizing private Christian academies.  The moment a government starts subsidizing something, the pressure is on to change that something into an atheistic/amoral thing. 

It would be wise to keep the filthy government mitts well away from things spiritual.  Ceasar's coin and all that.

 :amen: everything the government touches ends up FUBAR!
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Sanguine on January 30, 2019, 11:16:55 pm
@Sanguine

Really? Tell me about the teachings and preachings of Christ,and how we are all brothers who should share everything. Wasn't one of his sayings something about "what you do to my brother you do to me.",while proclaiming every man was his brother?

Yes, since we are all children of God, what you do to one, you do to God. 

And, he did require that his apostles and disciples share while prosyletizing, but he did not extend that to society at large, nor did he tell his disciples not to work. 
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: sneakypete on January 30, 2019, 11:20:37 pm
Good job on repeating...and probably actually believing...the falsehoods the Progressives spew about Jesus in order to justify the evil they do.

Bravo!



@txradioguy

Got it all out of a book you may have heard of,named "The Holy Bible". You should read it yourself sometime.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: txradioguy on January 30, 2019, 11:24:34 pm
@txradioguy

Got it all out of a book you may have heard of,named "The Holy Bible". You should read it yourself sometime.

Yeah sure you did. You may have read it...but clearly you don’t understand the Bible.

There’s a big difference.

If you understood the Bible you wouldn’t sound like Nancy Pelosi right now.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: sneakypete on January 30, 2019, 11:25:19 pm
@sneakypete

Here's what I can tell you. It's an absolute historical FACT that there would be no USA if it weren't for the Churches that were around prior to its existence.

@Bigun

ROFLMAO! Getting away from the various church governments in Europe was the prime reason the original settlers came here. It's why they put separation of church and state in the Constitution.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: sneakypete on January 30, 2019, 11:29:32 pm
Like I already said - You must be happy with the liberalism they are teaching instead

@roamer_1

Uhhhh,they ain't teaching liberalism in schools,dood. They are teaching totalitarianism,must like the Catholic Church of Europe did back in the middle ages. All they are lacking is the stocks outside the schools to put the troublemakers in so people can walk by and throw stuff at them.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: sneakypete on January 30, 2019, 11:31:03 pm
@sneakypete you are dead wrong here.  Your hatred of Christianity is only overshadowed by your ignorance of it.

@Sanguine

I hate all organized religions equally because they all share the desire to make the world their slaves.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Bigun on January 30, 2019, 11:32:48 pm
@Bigun

ROFLMAO! Getting away from the various church governments in Europe was the prime reason the original settlers came here. It's why they put separation of church and state in the Constitution.

Laugh all you want but what I said is still true.  I hate to be the one to tell you this but on this particular subject, you are woefully misinformed!
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Sanguine on January 30, 2019, 11:33:35 pm
@Sanguine

I hate all organized religions equally because they all share the desire to make the world their slaves.

I appreciate your consistency.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: sneakypete on January 30, 2019, 11:34:05 pm
Yeah sure you did. You may have read it...but clearly you don’t understand the Bible.

There’s a big difference.

If you understood the Bible you wouldn’t sound like Nancy Pelosi right now.

@txradioguy

LOL! Bet you had to make the sign of the cross before you wrote that,didn't you?

Communism is just another religion,and one that was ripped off from the Christians at that.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: QueenCatofAragon on January 30, 2019, 11:36:00 pm
@The Ghost

Well,it SHOULD have been. He was the original communist. He was also most likely a homosexual.  Dude in his 30's that has never been with a woman and lives in a commune with a bunch of hairy-assed men. If his name was George Smith you would want  him locked up.

 I’ve never blocked a single person here, but there’s always a first time.

@sneakypete, I wish you well with your medical issues, but I don’t want to see this kind of filth on my screen.  No matter what happened in your past, you’re old and you aren’t that well, and if you go on this way, you are a fool.  If you have a grain of sense, you’ll put aside that hate long enough to ask God to show you something.   Before it’s too late, and before your heart gets so hard that He leaves you to it.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: txradioguy on January 30, 2019, 11:38:07 pm
@txradioguy

LOL! Bet you had to make the sign of the cross before you wrote that,didn't you?

Communism is just another religion,and one that was ripped off from the Christians at that.

Your mind reading skills suck Pete.


You guessed wrong.    It don’t let that stop you from continuing your. Boadbrush trashing of religion.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Hoodat on January 30, 2019, 11:38:41 pm
who says I get to dictate anything? take some deep breaths ..... get your thoughts straight

Ah, so then you agree with Trump.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: QueenCatofAragon on January 30, 2019, 11:39:33 pm
I know we did not part on the best of terms, @QueenCatofAragon, but I really do appreciate your looking into that sewer for us...for professional reasons....

@Cyber Liberty

You’re welcome, but I have an account there.  I tweet almost every day.  I found @kevindavis there and we talk occasionally.  There’s a lot of crap on Twitter, but there’s also a lot of good stuff, and just mindless fun, too.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: roamer_1 on January 30, 2019, 11:40:22 pm
@sneakypete you are dead wrong here.  Your hatred of Christianity is only overshadowed by your ignorance of it.

That's right. In fact, by a very large margin, principled Conservatives tend to be Christian.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: roamer_1 on January 30, 2019, 11:48:33 pm
@roamer_1

Uhhhh,they ain't teaching liberalism in schools,dood. They are teaching totalitarianism,must like the Catholic Church of Europe did back in the middle ages. All they are lacking is the stocks outside the schools to put the troublemakers in so people can walk by and throw stuff at them.

Yeah Pete... that's what they call liberalism nowadays. Try to keep up.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: roamer_1 on January 30, 2019, 11:55:33 pm
Addressing the original topic....

I lean against this idea for different reasons than the leftists, and for the same reason I don't want states subsidizing private Christian academies.  The moment a government starts subsidizing something, the pressure is on to change that something into an atheistic/amoral thing. 

It would be wise to keep the filthy government mitts well away from things spiritual.  Ceasar's coin and all that.

That's right at the federal level... But mark my words, not a damn thing is going to change as long as folks can't teach kids moral virtue as they see fit - To include community and county, and maybe even state, to the degree that the state may be necessary... All of which are elected positions, that the people can control if left to their own devices.

There is no reason at all that public schools should be teaching differently than the community would have them- Teaching AGAINST what the community at large supports.

I am all for big gov being out of schools, but townships are another thing altogether.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Formerly Once-Ler on January 30, 2019, 11:58:39 pm
It's wonderful to see Trump witnessing Christ even though Trump has never asked for forgiveness, nor can he site a Bible verse.  It's a miracle.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: EdJames on January 31, 2019, 12:21:42 am
I’ve never blocked a single person here, but there’s always a first time.

@sneakypete, I wish you well with your medical issues, but I don’t want to see this kind of filth on my screen.  No matter what happened in your past, you’re old and you aren’t that well, and if you go on this way, you are a fool.  If you have a grain of sense, you’ll put aside that hate long enough to ask God to show you something.   Before it’s too late, and before your heart gets so hard that He leaves you to it.

@sneakypete you would be wise to pay heed to what this lady is trying to tell you.  I'll be a bit more blunt (you can curse me, block me, or otherwise carry on like a wild savage; I don't mind).  Use that big brain of yours and do some thinking.  Ponder: why do so many people here that you have never met (nor most likely ever will), take a serious interest in your recent health challenges?  Many of whom you have cursed out and attacked savagely in terms of our faith.  We put that aside, pay it no mind.  Why?  Because we care about YOU.

Of course we care about your physical health and well being.  But more importantly we care about your eternal rest.  We like you, Arthur.  We would hate to see your soul lost to eternal damnation.  That's why so many have told you that we would be praying for you (even though you have let us know clearly what you "think" about our God, our faith, and our view of eternal salvation).  Speaking for myself, I believe that you are worth it!  Worth taking the risk that you will verbally chop my head off.  Because if there is one iota of a chance that you will reach out to someone (here or elsewhere) before it is too late for you, then it is well worth it.

It really isn't a hard decision for a man like yourself to make, once you understand the beauty and simplicity of it.  Once you understand the gift that is waiting with your name on it.  Your biggest challenge is to get yourself to the point that you recognize that YOU are worthwhile, that YOU are worth saving.

Be well.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: musiclady on January 31, 2019, 01:24:03 am
@sneakypete you would be wise to pay heed to what this lady is trying to tell you.  I'll be a bit more blunt (you can curse me, block me, or otherwise carry on like a wild savage; I don't mind).  Use that big brain of yours and do some thinking.  Ponder: why do so many people here that you have never met (nor most likely ever will), take a serious interest in your recent health challenges?  Many of whom you have cursed out and attacked savagely in terms of our faith.  We put that aside, pay it no mind.  Why?  Because we care about YOU.

Of course we care about your physical health and well being.  But more importantly we care about your eternal rest.  We like you, Arthur.  We would hate to see your soul lost to eternal damnation.  That's why so many have told you that we would be praying for you (even though you have let us know clearly what you "think" about our God, our faith, and our view of eternal salvation).  Speaking for myself, I believe that you are worth it!  Worth taking the risk that you will verbally chop my head off.  Because if there is one iota of a chance that you will reach out to someone (here or elsewhere) before it is too late for you, then it is well worth it.

It really isn't a hard decision for a man like yourself to make, once you understand the beauty and simplicity of it.  Once you understand the gift that is waiting with your name on it.  Your biggest challenge is to get yourself to the point that you recognize that YOU are worthwhile, that YOU are worth saving.

Be well.

Amen! Well said, Ed....... WELL said.

And absolutely true.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: corbe on January 31, 2019, 01:39:34 am
   For those that will miss Bluehammer I will double up on my stupid $hit for the next 2 days.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Sanguine on January 31, 2019, 01:40:49 am
   For those that will miss Bluehammer I will double up on my stupid $hit for the next 2 days.

Sorry, Corbs, but you're a piker compared to him. 
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: corbe on January 31, 2019, 01:42:50 am
 wink777
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: bigheadfred on January 31, 2019, 01:43:51 am
   For those that will miss Bluehammer I will double up on my stupid $hit for the next 2 days.

No more bluehammer?

Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: mystery-ak on January 31, 2019, 01:50:07 am
No more bluehammer?

Do you miss him?....all he had to do is answer my question... :whistle:
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: corbe on January 31, 2019, 01:50:10 am
   I was wondering why he hadn't posted in a couple of hours and checked the Member list and he's not there, so I assume the Mods got tired of his BS. 
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Bigun on January 31, 2019, 01:51:43 am
Do you miss him?....all he had to do is answer my question... :whistle:

You bet!  Like a dose of caster oil!
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: corbe on January 31, 2019, 01:53:09 am
   I do give the Mods credit for allowing us something to play with from time to time.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: bigheadfred on January 31, 2019, 02:04:38 am
Do you miss him?....all he had to do is answer my question... :whistle:

Yeah, I kinda do. I didn't get to have any bighead fun.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Cyber Liberty on January 31, 2019, 02:09:47 am
That's right at the federal level... But mark my words, not a damn thing is going to change as long as folks can't teach kids moral virtue as they see fit - To include community and county, and maybe even state, to the degree that the state may be necessary... All of which are elected positions, that the people can control if left to their own devices.

There is no reason at all that public schools should be teaching differently than the community would have them- Teaching AGAINST what the community at large supports.

I am all for big gov being out of schools, but townships are another thing altogether.

I agree with that about the townships.  That is at the local level where every parent knows somebody on the School Board.  There needs to be some way of pooling resources to run the schools, so there is community involvement.  But I want the Feds and States out of the decision making loop because the bureaucrats are too damned far away and aloof to respond to the local community's desires.

Just look at the way our betters in DeeCee treat us knuckle-draggers.  I have difficulty trying to decide what Jimmy Carter is going to Hell for:  Unleashing Iran's brutal Mullahs or creating the Department of Education.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Cyber Liberty on January 31, 2019, 02:12:29 am
Do you miss him?....all he had to do is answer my question... :whistle:

I did warn him about that.  Ignoring the Owner's questions is not the smartest approach if one wants to stay.  You are a nice person and easy to talk to, unlike some other Forums we know of.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Cyber Liberty on January 31, 2019, 02:14:34 am
@Cyber Liberty

You’re welcome, but I have an account there.  I tweet almost every day.  I found @kevindavis there and we talk occasionally.  There’s a lot of crap on Twitter, but there’s also a lot of good stuff, and just mindless fun, too.

Mucho appreciado!  It would appear Nancy has already pulled the big chain on that one.  He was a fun chew-toy, while he lasted.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: txradioguy on January 31, 2019, 02:21:22 am
Do you miss him?....all he had to do is answer my question... :whistle:

Damn he got the ban hammer. I put some to
E and effort into debunking his crap.

Now I won’t get to see his typical DU responses.

 :shrug:
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: txradioguy on January 31, 2019, 02:24:01 am
So Blue Hammer...that question I mentioned earlier I’d share with you...was asked by the former owner of CU...screen name Gator...to trolls like you right before he swung the ban hammer...

“Why are you so G D stupid???”


Byeeeeee
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Wingnut on January 31, 2019, 02:26:16 am
   I was wondering why he hadn't posted in a couple of hours and checked the Member list and he's not there, so I assume the Mods got tired of his BS.

Excuse me, sir. Seeing as how the FNG was such a POS and the FOG's ran him off shouldn't we keep this on DL or on the QT? 'Cause if it leaks to the DU  we could be be seeing more FO's, and then we'd all be put on KP and the VIP will be PO'd.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Cyber Liberty on January 31, 2019, 02:39:20 am
Excuse me, sir. Seeing as how the FNG was such a POS and the FOG's ran him off shouldn't we keep this on DL or on the QT? 'Cause if it leaks to the DU  we could be be seeing more FO's, and then we'd all be put on KP and the VIP will be PO'd.

Nahhh.  I have it on good authority (I have a friend of a friend who's married to a Mod's sister) that The Boss Lady likes playing with mice as much as the rest of us cats.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Smokin Joe on January 31, 2019, 02:48:12 am
Yeah, I kinda do. I didn't get to have any bighead fun.
You snooze, you lose. I wonder what he and his posse are going to do between bong hits now?
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Smokin Joe on January 31, 2019, 02:51:50 am
Damn he got the ban hammer. I put some to
E and effort into debunking his crap.

Now I won’t get to see his typical DU responses.

 :shrug:
If you hit him with something good, he either ignored or summarily dismissed it (sans rationale or evidence), anyway, so you probably aren't missing much.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: musiclady on January 31, 2019, 03:00:22 am
Do you miss him?....all he had to do is answer my question... :whistle:

hehe............
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Cyber Liberty on January 31, 2019, 03:01:24 am
You snooze, you lose. I wonder what he and his posse are going to do between bong hits now?

Go bug FR for the five minutes it would take to get his ass kicked out.  We are far better sports about it at TBR, which is why he lasted a while longer.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: musiclady on January 31, 2019, 03:01:39 am
Nahhh.  I have it on good authority (I have a friend of a friend who's married to a Mod's sister) that The Boss Lady likes playing with mice as much as the rest of us cats.

 :beer:
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Wingnut on January 31, 2019, 03:05:33 am
Nahhh.  I have it on good authority (I have a friend of a friend who's married to a Mod's sister) that The Boss Lady likes playing with mice as much as the rest of us cats.

  Did you know that there is an operation that can transform him into a female great dane or a very well hung chihuaua.  I sent him a PM.  But I don't think he got it.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: roamer_1 on January 31, 2019, 03:34:49 am
I agree with that about the townships.  That is at the local level where every parent knows somebody on the School Board.  There needs to be some way of pooling resources to run the schools, so there is community involvement.  But I want the Feds and States out of the decision making loop because the bureaucrats are too damned far away and aloof to respond to the local community's desires.

Just look at the way our betters in DeeCee treat us knuckle-draggers.  I have difficulty trying to decide what Jimmy Carter is going to Hell for:  Unleashing Iran's brutal Mullahs or creating the Department of Education.

@Cyber Liberty

We are in agreement...

I am not as against state involvement as you are - The Constitution would lay such a thing as a dept of education upon the state or with the people...At some point, for there to be a system of gradation, a way to put achievement to paper, suitable for higher learning, I think a uniform or broadly uniform standard would have to exist that extends beyond the local level... And that collegiate level is not the sort of thing that a locality would be likely to provide.

In the case of such things, I will entertain state involvement, still far more controllable by the people, and probably a necessary evil.

But as I say, the standard, in the main, should rightly belong to counties and townships.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: roamer_1 on January 31, 2019, 03:36:53 am
Do you miss him?....all he had to do is answer my question... :whistle:

 :silly:

 888high58888
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: bigheadfred on January 31, 2019, 03:38:55 am
You snooze, you lose. I wonder what he and his posse are going to do between bong hits now?

It wasn't so much me snoozing. He was so incredibly boring.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: roamer_1 on January 31, 2019, 03:43:48 am
It wasn't so much me snoozing. He was so incredibly boring.

Yeah... more like 'nodding off'...
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Cyber Liberty on January 31, 2019, 03:45:21 am
@Cyber Liberty

We are in agreement...

I am not as against state involvement as you are - The Constitution would lay such a thing as a dept of education upon the state or with the people...At some point, for there to be a system of gradation, a way to put achievement to paper, suitable for higher learning, I think a uniform or broadly uniform standard would have to exist that extends beyond the local level... And that collegiate level is not the sort of thing that a locality would be likely to provide.

In the case of such things, I will entertain state involvement, still far more controllable by the people, and probably a necessary evil.

But as I say, the standard, in the main, should rightly belong to counties and townships.

I'm fine with some things.  There needs to be a national level grading/competency testing system in place, or colleges would have to take on the effort to assess the incoming product singlehandedly, and probably poorly.  There seems to be a lot more out-of-state students than I remember when I was in that rat maze.

Which is not to say the Federal government needs to be dictating curriculum.  I can't imagine a poorer choice for that.  States are just about as bad, but they have a say because that's where the pool of funding is likely to be.  I don't think the Feds should be funding or dictating squat in the field of education.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: roamer_1 on January 31, 2019, 03:55:32 am
I don't think the Feds should be funding or dictating squat in the field of education.

YEP.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: To-Whose-Benefit? on January 31, 2019, 08:00:37 am
I've learned over a reasonably long lifetime that it's best not to engage with idiots so begone fly!

Yup. They just drag you off topic again and again by forcing you to define terms which Should be obvious to anyone else.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: XenaLee on January 31, 2019, 05:19:24 pm
   For those that will miss Bluehammer I will double up on my stupid $hit for the next 2 days.

Yes...but... will anyone be able to notice?   :silly: :silly: :silly:
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: musiclady on January 31, 2019, 06:31:54 pm
Yup. They just drag you off topic again and again by forcing you to define terms which Should be obvious to anyone else.

Yeah........ but it was kinda fun to toy with this one.

I hope all the leftist trolls mystery lets in for a few days are as abjectly stupid as this bluehammer was.

He was easy pickins................ and too dense to realize it.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: musiclady on January 31, 2019, 06:32:54 pm
Yes...but... will anyone be able to notice?   :silly: :silly: :silly:

Depends on the time of day......... or night......   wink777
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: XenaLee on January 31, 2019, 06:41:54 pm
Depends on the time of day......... or night......   wink777

Lol.... or the amount of caffeine consumed?  I don't function well until after my 2nd cup.   :laugh:
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Cyber Liberty on January 31, 2019, 06:42:32 pm
Yes...but... will anyone be able to notice?   :silly: :silly: :silly:

@corbe

Tough room....
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: corbe on January 31, 2019, 06:48:51 pm
  Due to financial difficulties attributed to my upcoming Tax payment I have been unable to pay these women off this month and it certainly shows, @Cyber Liberty
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: XenaLee on January 31, 2019, 06:52:13 pm
@corbe

Tough room....

What are friends for?   :whistle:
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: XenaLee on January 31, 2019, 06:54:54 pm
  Due to financial difficulties attributed to my upcoming Tax payment I have been unable to pay these women off this month and it certainly shows, @Cyber Liberty

I perform my services here for free.    888mouth
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Wingnut on January 31, 2019, 06:55:16 pm
What are friends for?   :whistle:

In good times and bad times
I'll be on your side forever more
That's what friends are for.....
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: To-Whose-Benefit? on January 31, 2019, 08:53:19 pm
Well done Briefers.

I would quote to put this @roamer_1 post here so it gets seen by anyone who hasn't read through this whole exchange yet, and are just checking to see how it ended.

Excellent Sir!

Nicely stated, @ABX , but I will take exception to it, as I truly think it is the other way around.

More and more I think the thing that keeps a society coloring between the lines, is the continuity between all aspects of a society. In part you are right - in that part - But I think it goes the other way around. I think religion has recoiled from society into the homes thereof precisely because it can no longer survive in the broader sphere. And in that, polite society, *all of it*, has also retreated, and we are left with cacophony and crime.

All of it is applied with force - Folks know how important that homogeneity is in culture, and folks have stood up to fight this infection at every turn, because it is so important to a culture.

We have not gone down this path on our own. It has been imposed. Every single thing that is the glue of culture has been purposefully eroded,and law has been used to continue that erosion, preventing folks from fixing the problem.

You are seeing the result of that imposition, and the continuing liberalism, beginning in the cities and leeching out like a poison into the countryside... Even now, the very heartland has become infected, and there is little left that can be done, without what's left standing up come hell or high water, as a people, and saying oh hell no, and putting it back the way it was.

But that is becoming ever harder to do - because this grim disease is no longer hidden in metaphors and and things spoken in whispers... It strides boldly in the halls of power. It owns federal law. It owns the media. It owns corporate board rooms.

It pours this vile shit down the throats of our young, taxes us blind, using our own money to give itself impetus, doubling and redoubling with every generation.

People have fought against it for decades, but our own laws have been perverted to stand in our way, against a foe 3000 miles away...

Given their own head, with the law to protect them, most communities would outlaw abortion. Most would outlaw gay marriage, most would instill morality into their community, just like they always have. If you think my little town would not put those 10 commandments back in front of the courthouse and back in every classroom, and would not re-institute public prayer, and do everything they could to put sin back on the other side of the tracks, you've got another think coming.

We cannot. It is being prevented and smothered as another culture is imposed from on high.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: roamer_1 on January 31, 2019, 10:25:45 pm
Well done Briefers.

I would quote to put this @roamer_1 post here so it gets seen by anyone who hasn't read through this whole exchange yet, and are just checking to see how it ended.

Excellent Sir!

Thanks to you @To-Whose-Benefit? , and all the others who have commented on that post...

I would offer in closing, what was the surprise to me was how even on a Conservative site, That some here have such an anti-Christian bias that they would prefer a brittle federal edict to the calm confines of federalism - That is truly a division I would not expect.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: musiclady on January 31, 2019, 10:29:33 pm
Thanks to you @To-Whose-Benefit? , and all the others who have commented on that post...

I would offer in closing, what was the surprise to me was how even on a Conservative site, That some here have such an anti-Christian bias that they would prefer a brittle federal edict to the calm confines of federalism - That is truly a division I would not expect.

Perhaps that's because their anti-Christian bias doesn't come from a rational place (to state the obvious).

It's entirely emotional, so they can't see the anti-Conservatism that comes with their bigotry.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Cyber Liberty on January 31, 2019, 10:38:09 pm
Thanks to you @To-Whose-Benefit? , and all the others who have commented on that post...

I would offer in closing, what was the surprise to me was how even on a Conservative site, That some here have such an anti-Christian bias that they would prefer a brittle federal edict to the calm confines of federalism - That is truly a division I would not expect.

Perhaps that's because their anti-Christian bias doesn't come from a rational place (to state the obvious).

It's entirely emotional, so they can't see the anti-Conservatism that comes with their bigotry.

QFT, on both.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Emjay on January 31, 2019, 10:41:28 pm
Well done Briefers.

I would quote to put this @roamer_1 post here so it gets seen by anyone who hasn't read through this whole exchange yet, and are just checking to see how it ended.

Excellent Sir!

Ok, still bearing the scars from jumping in on page 8 of another subject so I'm not responding to anyone, but Bible literacy is something people should know.  It should be as important to Jews and Christians as the Koran is to Muslims.

It is always the best selling book and it is a bedrock of society.  It's just logical that people should know the basics of it, which is certainly not forcing religion down anyone's throat or any other body part.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: roamer_1 on January 31, 2019, 10:53:56 pm
Perhaps that's because their anti-Christian bias doesn't come from a rational place (to state the obvious).

It's entirely emotional, so they can't see the anti-Conservatism that comes with their bigotry.

I can see that - But it is antithetical, and in direct opposition to Conservative thought - As much as is possible, federalism is designed to let folks be, and let them govern themselves (as a people, a county or town, and as a state), as they see fit.

And in the offing, it provides at least 50, and more likely thousands of little petri dishes where folks can try things out and adopt that which works best for them. That is what the federal edict removes.

If in fact the naysayers are right, then there is nothing to stop them from moving, banding together, and try their own experiment to prove their case and their cause...

I would not stop them, and see it as their right... But they would stop me, and every other person, by issuing from on high. That is not Conservatism.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: To-Whose-Benefit? on January 31, 2019, 11:01:36 pm
Perhaps that's because their anti-Christian bias doesn't come from a rational place (to state the obvious).

It's entirely emotional, so they can't see the anti-Conservatism that comes with their bigotry.


They equate the excesses of the Church itself (a huge, very well organized and Filthy Rich Bureaucracy) with the workaday members/parishioners.

Same argument we have with Big v Small Govt.

The Medieval Church believed itself to be superior to all other heads of state/kings/queens.

Somewhere along the way the Papacy confused being the Vicar of Christ with being the King of Kings itself.


And as PJ O'Rourke's maxim holds: "Giving money and power to Govt is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."

Don't matter Who Your Guy Is, they're Going to screw it up.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: roamer_1 on January 31, 2019, 11:14:55 pm

Don't matter Who Your Guy Is, they're Going to screw it up.

That's right. Keep it all small and close to home, as a general principle.

That does not mean the same thing as keep it *IN* the home and no where else...
Where then lies the moral sense of a people?

Morality cannot be kept out of law. Law is in fact an extension of morality. Nor can it be kept out of society, because there is no moral neutral.

The only question that remains is whose morality one would prefer. Taking away one will get you another.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Cyber Liberty on January 31, 2019, 11:34:46 pm
And as PJ O'Rourke's maxim holds: "Giving money and power to Govt is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."

Ol' Peej is correct about a lot more things than he's wrong about.  This line is one of his best.  I really liked Parliament of Whores.  Great book, cover to cover.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: LegalAmerican on February 03, 2019, 12:36:01 am
Well done Briefers.

I would quote to put this @roamer_1 post here so it gets seen by anyone who hasn't read through this whole exchange yet, and are just checking to see how it ended.

Excellent Sir!


Our constitution was made for, a moral & religious people only. S. ADAMS.  THE CONSTITUTION CAME FROM THE BASIC PRINCIPLES FROM the Bible.  24  of our founding fathers of the 55, came from Clergy or sons of clergy. All were Christian.
TWO..two were Diest. Most were Episcopalian's.  Memory? 47%.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: txradioguy on February 03, 2019, 07:32:31 pm

Our constitution was made for, a moral & religious people only.

It was made for all Americans.  Regardless of race or religious background.  I know some very patriotic defenders of the Constitution and what America stands for who are either atheist or agnostic.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: LMAO on February 03, 2019, 07:33:33 pm
It was made for all Americans.  Regardless of race or religious background.  I know some very patriotic defenders of the Constitution and what America stands for who are either atheist or agnostic.

 :patriot:
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Bigun on February 03, 2019, 07:44:01 pm
It was made for all Americans.  Regardless of race or religious background.  I know some very patriotic defenders of the Constitution and what America stands for who are either atheist or agnostic.

@LegalAmerican @txradioguy @LMAO

Anyone who thinks we are still living under the form of government our founders gave us should take five minutes of their time to read this and disabuse themselves of that silly notion!

http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,350127.msg1907684.html#msg1907684 (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,350127.msg1907684.html#msg1907684)
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: skeeter on February 03, 2019, 08:18:08 pm
It was made for all Americans.  Regardless of race or religious background.  I know some very patriotic defenders of the Constitution and what America stands for who are either atheist or agnostic.

Yes its for all Americans. But without acknowledging a creator there's no way to know from whom our liberties descend, which is the very basis of our form of government.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: sneakypete on February 03, 2019, 10:16:47 pm
It was made for all Americans.  Regardless of race or religious background.  I know some very patriotic defenders of the Constitution and what America stands for who are either atheist or agnostic.

@txradioguy

BINGO! It was made to protect ALL Americans.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: txradioguy on February 05, 2019, 03:39:46 pm
But without acknowledging a creator there's no way to know from whom our liberties descend, which is the very basis of our form of government.

@skeeter I agree completely.  But the 1st Amendment also allows those that don't believe in a creator to believer that without any kind of punishment or retribution.

The Framers and the Founders understood where our rights came from...but they also ensured those that don't believe in a creator would be allowed to enjoy those same liberties and freedoms.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: skeeter on February 05, 2019, 03:45:09 pm
@skeeter I agree completely.  But the 1st Amendment also allows those that don't believe in a creator to believer that without any kind of punishment or retribution.

The Framers and the Founders understood where our rights came from...but they also ensured those that don't believe in a creator would be allowed to enjoy those same liberties and freedoms.

Of course thats true. I just wonder how long we can expect to hold on to our way of life when an increasing percentage of those voting do not understand why they enjoy what dwindling liberties we have left.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: sneakypete on February 05, 2019, 03:50:56 pm
Of course thats true. I just wonder how long we can expect to hold on to our way of life when an increasing percentage of those voting do not understand why they enjoy what dwindling liberties we have left.

@skeeter

That's not the problem. The problem is they KNOW about these liberties,and have nothing but contempt for them.

There is no such critter as a Stalinist that loves liberty.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: txradioguy on February 05, 2019, 03:55:59 pm
Of course thats true. I just wonder how long we can expect to hold on to our way of life when an increasing percentage of those voting do not understand why they enjoy what dwindling liberties we have left.

It's gonna be a fight for sure...and our backs are already against the wall.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: skeeter on February 05, 2019, 04:04:12 pm
@skeeter

That's not the problem. The problem is they KNOW about these liberties,and have nothing but contempt for them.

There is no such critter as a Stalinist that loves liberty.

Well as @txradioguy says there's a fight coming.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: roamer_1 on February 05, 2019, 04:09:46 pm
@skeeter I agree completely.  But the 1st Amendment also allows those that don't believe in a creator to believer that without any kind of punishment or retribution.

The Framers and the Founders understood where our rights came from...but they also ensured those that don't believe in a creator would be allowed to enjoy those same liberties and freedoms.

@txradioguy
Within the context of good order - And that is where you will run into trouble. Order implies/dictates morality, and morality demands an ethos. We are a nation of laws, that is true, but those laws necessarily reflect ethics, and without naming that, you will inevitably wind up in moral relativism.

So it is well to proclaim men free to believe as they will - but in order to have a nation, they must act in unison ethically, or there is no law, and no liberty.

Thus it is yet necessary to define that ethos  and where it comes from, believe it or not.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: txradioguy on February 05, 2019, 04:15:43 pm
@txradioguy
Within the context of good order - And that is where you will run into trouble. Order implies/dictates morality, and morality demands an ethos. We are a nation of laws, that is true, but those laws necessarily reflect ethics, and without naming that, you will inevitably wind up in moral relativism.

So it is well to proclaim men free to believe as they will - but in order to have a nation, they must act in unison ethically, or there is no law, and no liberty.

Thus it is yet necessary to define that ethos  and where it comes from, believe it or not.

No argument from me.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Hoodat on February 05, 2019, 08:13:53 pm
@txradioguy
Within the context of good order - And that is where you will run into trouble. Order implies/dictates morality, and morality demands an ethos.

All laws are ultimately a reflection of someone's moral code, whether it is protecting pedestrians by prohibiting jaywalking, or by granting them right of way on all streets and highways.  The purpose of our Founding Fathers was to make it possible for the members of a society to come together and establish a moral code under which they choose to live.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: roamer_1 on February 05, 2019, 08:25:02 pm
All laws are ultimately a reflection of someone's moral code, whether it is protecting pedestrians by prohibiting jaywalking, or by granting them right of way on all streets and highways.  The purpose of our Founding Fathers was to make it possible for the members of a society to come together and establish a moral code under which they choose to live.

Right, but that can only be achieved through a shared ethos. Otherwise, like the Tower of Babel, what results is divisiveness and confusion (like we are experiencing now).
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: LegalAmerican on February 05, 2019, 08:32:18 pm
All laws are ultimately a reflection of someone's moral code, whether it is protecting pedestrians by prohibiting jaywalking, or by granting them right of way on all streets and highways.  The purpose of our Founding Fathers was to make it possible for the members of a society to come together and establish a moral code under which they choose to live.



........... :thumbsup:

Well said.  All the others want to compose lofty words in an ivory tower.  You speak plain truth. 
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: LegalAmerican on February 05, 2019, 08:36:10 pm
Of course thats true. I just wonder how long we can expect to hold on to our way of life when an increasing percentage of those voting do not understand why they enjoy what dwindling liberties we have left.


Another well said comment and THAT includes all the N.T.' ers who help destroy our country, with virtue signaling. You support our president or you are against our country.  Simple.  He is working very hard to save America.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: LegalAmerican on February 05, 2019, 08:39:04 pm
Here is where the smear started . May 2015. It has not stopped.

Sorry... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw8c2Cq-vpg&t=479s#)

Sorry... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwJZGlC5lXM&t=277s#)
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: txradioguy on February 05, 2019, 08:42:57 pm

 You support our president or you are against our country.  Simple.  He is working very hard to save America.

Blind allegiance to one man or woman has never been nor should it ever be what this country stands for...no matter how much you want that to the way it is.

I'll support him when he does something right and use my right to voice my differences when he does something that isn't in the best interest of our nation.

Cheerleading zealots like you that demand absolute loyalty or you're branded a "NT" do nothing but drive the wedge further into the party.

Not to mention you come off sounding very clownish in the process.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: LegalAmerican on February 05, 2019, 08:45:28 pm
Sorry... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vsbr8QMPLWY&t=11s#)
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Smokin Joe on February 05, 2019, 09:02:36 pm
Blind allegiance to one man or woman has never been nor should it ever be what this country stands for...no matter how much you want that to the way it is.

I'll support him when he does something right and use my right to voice my differences when he does something that isn't in the best interest of our nation.

Cheerleading zealots like you that demand absolute loyalty or you're branded a "NT" do nothing but drive the wedge further into the party.

Not to mention you come off sounding very clownish in the process.
QFT

Principles, not personalities.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: catfish1957 on February 05, 2019, 09:19:52 pm

 You support our president or you are against our country. 

You are one sick puppy dude.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: txradioguy on February 05, 2019, 09:49:17 pm
Quote
You support our president or you are against our country.

No I support the Constitution.  Without that we aren't a country.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: roamer_1 on February 05, 2019, 10:01:07 pm

Cheerleading zealots like you that demand absolute loyalty or you're branded a "NT" do nothing but drive the wedge further into the party.

QFT.

Quote
Not to mention you come off sounding very clownish in the process.

Not to mention liberal = Who the heck uses terms like 'virtue signaling'?
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Hoodat on February 05, 2019, 11:17:01 pm
QFT

Principles, not personalities.

That should be a tradition.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: LegalAmerican on February 11, 2019, 05:26:41 am
you're struggling with the language......I never said that

but here goes:

immigration? It's problem but trump is too stupid to work with congress to generate a solution. do we need a whole wall? no....but improving barrier infrastructure would have my vote
tax cut? what tax cut? 2018 is going to cost me $10000 more than 2017....the tax cut along with the deficit during an economic expansion is pretty stupid......so we are going to run close to the same deficits as during a mortgage crisis when the government was basically shoving trillions into the economy......mmmmkay
foreign policy? it's being run by the russians
i support bringing all military home from the middle east and afghanistan...we can always go back
I don't mind the increase in defense spending, but it's criminal that there has not been an improvement in helping vets
pro-choice .... freedom, baby
we could solve much of the fiscal mess by attacking waste and fraud
in favor of government provided voter ID as well as eliminating the electoral college

I just think in general, that many of you here have built up so much negativity towards the left .... but they're not going anywhere .... in fact, if anything, the right is losing the numbers game and there's only so much that gerrymandering can hold back.


Blue;  NOTHING you wrote is correct. YOU are ANTI-AMERICAN and ANTI-CONSTITUTION...while using our 1sr amendment on here. You will lose that. Sad to say, you do NOT understand the reason for electoral college.  Such as your small MASS.  would NOT have the same power as Texas. With electoral college...YOU DO.  You want to go by popular vote? Then ONLY LARGE STATES. would have a say in government. We are a REPUBLIC for that reason. So You are against our REPUBLIC, CONSTITUTION, AMERICA.  Why are you living here?  I only addressed a couple of your points. I can't re-educate you on it all.

We do know, that JEALOUSY is part of who, the LEFT ARE.  That is a mental disorder. Many books have been written about that and articles.  It should be said, JEALOUSY is THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL...not the love of money.  I would love to see Muna's explanation.  Really.
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·         http://www.youtube.com/v/3ZmfdDbx_RY&ve (http://www.youtube.com/v/3ZmfdDbx_RY&ve) ... tube_gdata

·         ***liberalism has been determined to be a mental disorder,


·        http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/2008 (http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/2008) ... ng-psychia...

Dr. Rossiter says the liberal agenda preys on weakness and feelings of inferiority in the population by;

*** creating and reinforcing perceptions of victimization;

*** satisfying* infantile claims* to entitlement, indulgence and compensation;


*** augmenting primitive feelings of envy; ***

*** rejecting the sovereignty of the individual, subordinating him to the will of the government.

“The roots of liberalism – and its associated madness – can be clearly identified by understanding how children develop from infancy to adulthood and how distorted development produces the irrational beliefs of the liberal mind,” he says. “When the modern liberal mind whines about imaginary victims, rages against imaginary villains and seeks above all else to run the lives of persons competent to run their own lives, the neurosis of the liberal mind becomes painfully obvious.”


And brain scans done at Duke University show that the frontal cortex is totally different in progressives.

"The marker found on the DNA of the Progressive, Socialist, Liberal etc. has been determined to be a defect! It has been said " Liberalism" is a mental disorder ,but more likely a birth defect. "
.
• "Liberals claim to be open to all viewpoints and opinions other than their own, and then are shocked and angered to find there ARE, other viewpoints and opinions than their own." William F. Buckley.


"Researchers have discovered a "liberal gene", sad but true. Seems your political views are only a novelty for you.

""Previous research has identified a connection between a variant of this gene and novelty-seeking behavior, and this behavior has previously been associated with personality traits related to political liberalism.""
~From: ucsdnews(dot)ucsd(dot)edu(sla..
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: LegalAmerican on February 11, 2019, 05:41:55 am
What blind allegiance?  lol. I go by the works achieved by my president.  Nothing blind about that. Why should I bad mouth a great president?   More jobs, more manufacturing, works without PAY, as all his family does. Protecting us from OPEN BORDERS...which the demon-rats want. Demon-rats, going on vacations to Hawaii= Pelosi & 30 other democrats to Puerto Rico, then Pelosi wanted to travel  again to Egypt, with we whole family and grand children, to avoid VOTING, NEGOTIATION in the White House. My president was there the whole time. BlueHammer thinks my president is the "stupid one"?   Pelosi costing America, 18 billion DOLLARS for not negotiation for 5.6 billion.  Hey Blue,,you didn't want waste in government. Were you this concerned under Obama?  Wasteful programs, like shrimp on treadmills , and paying people to actually watch grass grow. (Not your weed.) In fact the barrier is better than first planned!  You know so little BLUE.

That is an outright lie about your taxes.  zero...TO 50,000 income pay no taxes at all. (Going by memory) You are retired?  What income do you receive?  S.S. military retirement?  Pension?  No way are you paying more in withholding taxes this year. If you are still working, you received MORE IN YOUR PAYCHECK  weekly.


 PART TWO BELOW...THERE IS PART ONE AND MORE IF YOU WANT TO KNOW.

Sorry... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xs1P1olxR4&t=92s#)


Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Wingnut on February 11, 2019, 05:50:41 am
What blind allegiance?  lol. I go by the works achieved by my president.  Nothing blind about that. Why should I bad mouth a great president?   More jobs, more manufacturing, works without PAY, as all his family does. Protecting us from OPEN BORDERS...which the demon-rats want. Demon-rats, going on vacations to Hawaii= Pelosi & 30 other democrats to Puerto Rico, then Pelosi wanted to travel  again to Egypt, with we whole family and grand children, to avoid VOTING, NEGOTIATION in the White House. My president was there the whole time. BlueHammer thinks my president is the "stupid one"?   Pelosi costing America, 18 billion DOLLARS for not negotiation for 5.6 billion.  Hey Blue,,you didn't want waste in government. Were you this concerned under Obama?  Wasteful programs, like shrimp on treadmills , and paying people to actually watch grass grow. (Not your weed.) In fact the barrier is better than first planned!  You know so little BLUE.

That is an outright lie about your taxes.  zero...TO 50,000 income pay no taxes at all. (Going by memory) You are retired?  What income do you receive?  S.S. military retirement?  Pension?  No way are you paying more in withholding taxes this year. If you are still working, you received MORE IN YOUR PAYCHECK  weekly.

Nice. You found the Bold key .  Let the CAP LOCK go  <personal insult removed>.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Cyber Liberty on February 11, 2019, 05:52:42 am
Nice. You found the Bold key .  Let the CAP LOCK go <personal insult removed>.

Are you going to tell her about Blue Ban Hammer, or should I?
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: LegalAmerican on February 11, 2019, 05:53:36 am
WASTE IN GOVERNMENT?  FOR BLUE..JUST IN 2013  ALONE!  All 8 years by Obama.

Top 10 Examples of Government Waste in 2013 - The Daily Signal

https://www.dailysignal.com/2013/.../mb-1230-booze-pole-dancing-luxurious-hotels-t... (https://www.dailysignal.com/2013/.../mb-1230-booze-pole-dancing-luxurious-hotels-t...)
Dec 30, 2013 - Booze, Pole Dancing, and Luxurious Hotels: Top 10 Examples of Government Waste in 2013. ... Here is our list of the top 10 examples of wasteful government spending this year, serving as a reminder that there is no shortage of excessive spending in Washington. ... For other examples of ...
Government Blatantly Wastes $30 Billion This Year | The Fiscal Times
www.thefiscaltimes.com/.../2013/12/.../10-Most-Absurd-Stories-Government-Waste-Y (http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/.../2013/12/.../10-Most-Absurd-Stories-Government-Waste-Y)...


Dec 17, 2013 - The government spent billions of tax dollars on things like 3-D pizza printers for ... examples of egregious government waste that cost taxpayers $30 billion this ... Fort Hood Shooter Still on Federal Payroll — $53,000 (in 2013): ...
Top 10 worst examples of state government waste in 2013
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/top-10-worst-examples-of-state-government-w... (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/top-10-worst-examples-of-state-government-w...)


Jan 5, 2014 - Governments across America waste billions of tax dollars each year, but some are better than others at bad spending. ... While most of the attention on official waste rightly focuses on the binge-spenders inside the Beltway, it happens in state capitals across the land, too.
Coburn shows what $28 billion in government waste looks like ...
https://www.cnn.com/2013/12/17/politics/coburn-government-waste/index.html (https://www.cnn.com/2013/12/17/politics/coburn-government-waste/index.html)


Dec 17, 2013 - A. They all made Republican Sen. Tom Coburn's annual book of government waste. The Oklahoma Republican, a devout believer in small government, said the federal government wasted $28 billion in 2013 on "questionable and lower-priority" programs.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Wingnut on February 11, 2019, 05:54:32 am
Are you going to tell her about Blue Ban Hammer, or should I?

This one is <personal insult removed>
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: RoosGirl on February 11, 2019, 06:01:00 am
It makes me laugh my ass off that she's a Trump supporter.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: LegalAmerican on February 11, 2019, 06:04:03 am
Nice. You found the Bold key .  Let the CAP LOCK go <personal insult removed>.

That so many on here are obsessed with the caps button is ludicrous to me. I type and whatever button hits, it hits. I can't keep explaining about my bad typing on here. PUT ME ON IGNORE if that is so egregious to you. I worry about our country and our freedoms. you worry about caps.  Oh, and now being" shamed" for finding the bold key?  None of you have any manners do you?  I am not part of the collective bee hive.  I am an individual. Not like the white sheet wearing KKK democrat members at SOTU.  Then personal attack, calling me a dumb bunny.  I think most of you have a lot of personal issues, and take it out on other posters.  I TRY TO ADDRESS THE POINTS/ARTICLES stated on here. You may not agree with me on policy & that is fine. Give some reasonable  debate points. NOT NAME CALling. I HAVE ENOUGH ISSUE WITH AUTO CORRECT ON HERE WITH MY BAD TYPING.  GOOD DAY.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: LegalAmerican on February 11, 2019, 06:05:52 am
Are you going to tell her about Blue Ban Hammer, or should I?


Blue got banned?  You can tell me.  Ghost is on ignore.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Wingnut on February 11, 2019, 06:09:14 am

Blue got banned?  You can tell me.  Ghost is on ignore.

Turn it on. Turn it on again
I can show you, I can show you some of the people in my life...
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Cyber Liberty on February 11, 2019, 06:14:11 am

Blue got banned?  You can tell me.  Ghost is on ignore.

Yeah.  Mods got fed up after a few days of his circle-talk, and "Poof!"
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Cyber Liberty on February 11, 2019, 06:18:25 am
Turn it on. Turn it on again
I can show you, I can show you some of the people in my life...

Hey...you blarin' that danged music again, Whippersnapper?
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Wingnut on February 11, 2019, 06:24:10 am
Hey...you blarin' that danged music again, Whippersnapper?

Pandora.  Head Over Heels
Tears for Fears

Time flies...
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Cyber Liberty on February 11, 2019, 06:36:58 am
Time flies...

Ah!  Tempus Fugit.  Song by Yes.
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Wingnut on February 11, 2019, 06:43:34 am
Ah!  Tempus Fugit.  Song by Yes.

Good one.!


Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Cyber Liberty on February 11, 2019, 06:57:37 am
Good one.!

From the album, Drama.  A rare album for yes, in that Jon Anderson wasn't on it.  It was right after he and Wakeman left the group (and eventually returned).  The Buggles were on that album.

I think we're the only Briefers still up. 
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Wingnut on February 11, 2019, 07:11:13 am
From the album, Drama.  A rare album for yes, in that Jon Anderson wasn't on it.  It was right after he and Wakeman left the group (and eventually returned).  The Buggles were on that album.

I think we're the only Briefers still up.

Rich Wakeman?  Journey to the center of the Earth...Wakeman?

Roos passed out so it is just you and me!
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Hoodat on February 11, 2019, 07:49:52 am
From the album, Drama.  A rare album for yes, in that Jon Anderson wasn't on it.  It was right after he and Wakeman left the group (and eventually returned).  The Buggles were on that album.

I think we're the only Briefers still up.

@Cyber Liberty

Drama is a great album.  Love "Does It Really Happen".
Title: Re: Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Post by: Cyber Liberty on February 11, 2019, 07:59:49 am
Rich Wakeman?  Journey to the center of the Earth...Wakeman?

Roos passed out so it is just you and me!

Yes, that Rick Wakeman.  I was a big fan of his solo albums in the 70's, one of which was Journey.  I liked White Rock, which is virtually impossible to find in any form (vinyl, CD or streaming).