A must watch.
Here is a TV excerpt from Al Jazeera television. This woman is brave and eloquent. Her defense of a free society, religious freedom and secularism is a message that is need in Islamic nations and other outposts of insanity like the US. This link may only operate for a few days so go watch it now.
http://switch5.castup.net/frames/20041020_MemriTV_Popup/video_480x360.asp?ai=214&ar=1050wmv&ak=null
The link is long and appears to be cut off on the site. But it is all there. If you highlight that sentence and copy it intoyour address bar you will be taken to the web site to watch this segment.
posted by GodlessZone at Saturday, March 04, 2006
6 Comments:
she's obviously a Republican. Good for her.
March 09, 2006
Gag. choke. As a recovering Republican sympathizer I think you fantasize. She was against using government to impose religion on people. The Republicans are just the US version of the Taliban these days with one law and regulation after another based on their theology being forced on everyone. Republicans are just socialists of the soul.
March 09, 2006
it sounds like you are the one making every effort to impose your religious belief on every one else. you are opposed to Chrisitians participating in the public forum becuase you fear them. As for Republicans being the Taliban, other then those on the left (where you freely reside) who else opposed the liberation of females on the Arab Avenue?
If the world had heeded to your way of thinking we would have been extinct long ago.
Your weak position of the bigot is so transparent you don't realize the rest of us see you as what you claim Chrisitians are.
Crack open a history text sometime and quite relying on those who are misleading you. You're much better then that.
March 10, 2006
I have no religious beliefs to impose. I am opposed to law being used to impose religion. Anyone's religion. Your stupidity is so clear now. You say I clearly "freely reside" on the Left. Let's see. I oppose welfare statism. I oppose government subsidies. I want lower taxes. I want to cut federal spending. I want to abolish the department of education and energy for a start. I have voted for one Democrat in my entire life and he ran on a platform of cutting taxes. I have made it clear here that I support small government and that is why I oppose the Bush regime. Now which of these are Left-wing views. Oh, I also think environmentalism is a a replacement religion for secularlists looking for something to worship. All those are left-wing views!
I support small government and will oppose big government regardless of who proposes it. I'm a Jeffersonian and share his view on religion and government as well.
Again you stupidly think I'm being misled, presumeably by professors at university since you are convinced I'm a student. I don't know what they are teaching since I haven't been to university for almost 30 years. As for reading history texts you bet I read them. In the history of Christianity and economics that I am currently writing, it is necessary to read them. I recently finished Charles Freeman's excellent history "The Closing of the Western Mind" which deals with European history during the last years of the Roman empire and how politics took control of the church. I recommend it. I am next working on reading Zagorin's "How the Idea of Religious Tolerance Came to the West." I have been forced to clear out around 200 history books from my personal library because I ran out of space. Some of the essays I've written are mainly historical in content. I recently read a history on World War I. I probably go through around 30 history books a year. The rest I read are current events, biographies, philosophy, etc. I would average about one to two such books per week.
March 10, 2006
I am impressed. Not only of the knowledge you have attained but your speedy response to my comments.
I stand corrected on my assessment of you.
i will look for freeman's book.
March 10, 2006
I won't be speedy for the rest of the day. I have to go work now. I do recommend Freeman's book as a fascinating history of a period of history unknown to most. Another one I recommend is by Beisner and is called The Soveignty of Reason. It is a hard to find, and expensive, history of the rise of the concept of reason within English Protestantism. He covers the period from the Reformation to around the late 1700s. Very fascinating stuff and will be useful in my history on religion and economics.
March 10, 2006
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