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rug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-15-11 04:15 PM
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Tolerating the wrong kind of language
Posted on Thursday, 10.13.11

Outside a Baptist church in the South several years ago, a black man was crying his eyes out.

God came along and asked, “My son, why are you weeping?”

The man replied, “Because I’ve been coming to this church for the last three weeks and they won’t let me in because I’m black.”

“Don’t worry about it,” God said. “I’ve been coming for years, and they won’t let me in, either.”

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darkstar3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-15-11 04:41 PM
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1. So Jeffress called Mormonism a cult, and in response the author believes that
"this kind of language has no place in our political discourse".

Really? :boring:
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trotsky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-16-11 08:08 AM
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2. And we get right back to...
god always supporting the exact same things the individual believer does. God = the idealized vision of self.
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trotsky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-17-11 07:17 AM
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4. Hey, whaddya know.
Right-wing fundies use that exact same quote to point out how people like you (liberal believers) are going to hell.

Here, please read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
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