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babylonsister (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-24-10 09:06 AM Original message |
Has the Religious Right lost its children? |
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niyad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-24-10 09:07 AM Response to Original message |
1. that is what happens when you are batshit crazy. |
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RedCloud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-27-10 08:40 AM Response to Reply #1 |
79. Their sons and their daughters are beyond their command... |
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DavidDvorkin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-24-10 09:09 AM Response to Original message |
2. Let's hope he's right. |
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Crystal Clarity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-24-10 01:12 PM Response to Reply #2 |
32. He is right |
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DavidDvorkin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-24-10 02:58 PM Response to Reply #32 |
33. I grew up as a rabbi's son |
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Crystal Clarity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-24-10 05:47 PM Response to Reply #33 |
39. Yeah me too... afraid to hope. |
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tex-wyo-dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-24-10 04:11 PM Response to Reply #32 |
37. thanks for the great post, Crystal! |
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Crystal Clarity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-24-10 05:53 PM Response to Reply #37 |
41. Thanks tex-wyo-dem |
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roxiejules (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-26-10 12:22 AM Response to Reply #37 |
71. Well said, tex-wyo-dem |
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Wounded Bear (665 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-24-10 06:15 PM Response to Reply #32 |
44. Good to hear, Crystal! |
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InvisibleTouch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-10 10:02 AM Response to Reply #32 |
62. You make an important point. |
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Crystal Clarity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-10 12:12 PM Response to Reply #62 |
65. That's just it right there |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-26-10 12:19 AM Response to Reply #32 |
70. First welcome |
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Joe Bacon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-10 08:25 AM Response to Reply #2 |
59. Sorry, but Wallis is wrong. |
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Crystal Clarity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-10 11:31 AM Response to Reply #59 |
64. Neither Wallis nor I said anything about |
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Mopar151 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-10 05:40 PM Response to Reply #59 |
66. Who's being intolerant here? |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-26-10 12:40 AM Response to Reply #59 |
73. That is kind of intolerant from you |
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Dappleganger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-27-10 08:32 AM Response to Reply #59 |
75. LOL! |
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snooper2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-27-10 08:37 AM Response to Reply #59 |
77. I wonder how many people clicked on your profile |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-24-10 09:10 AM Response to Original message |
3. Great. This is great news. This is better than ice cream |
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MikeNY (242 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-24-10 09:10 AM Response to Original message |
4. Just War Theory doesn't exist in American Christianity |
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NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-24-10 09:16 AM Response to Original message |
5. I would consider my parents members of the Catholic Religious Right |
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old mark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-24-10 09:19 AM Response to Original message |
6. Probably only the smart ones....they will keep the stupid and the sheep, |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-24-10 09:22 AM Response to Original message |
7. I suspect they may temporarily lose their children.. |
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Dappleganger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-24-10 11:33 AM Response to Reply #7 |
17. My overly religious parents lost me... |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-24-10 11:50 AM Response to Reply #17 |
24. The point I'm making though is that as people age and ponder their own mortality.. |
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KakistocracyHater (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-10 12:52 AM Response to Reply #24 |
51. that's why Red Letter Christians, Sufis, Quabbalists, etc are needed, |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-10 08:12 AM Response to Reply #51 |
55. What we are taught at a very young age we absorb in a largely non-rational way.. |
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KakistocracyHater (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-10 10:33 PM Response to Reply #55 |
68. only partialy true, I think the 'adult version' of the religions I mentioned |
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AnArmyVeteran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-24-10 12:23 PM Response to Reply #17 |
28. Unless they go to 'colleges' like Liberty U where they churn out fanatics every day. |
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tex-wyo-dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-24-10 10:02 PM Response to Reply #28 |
47. +1000...great post! n/t |
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PerpetuallyDazed (806 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-10 08:24 AM Response to Reply #28 |
58. Homeschooling gets such a bad rap! Please remember we're not all like that... |
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Dappleganger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-27-10 08:34 AM Response to Reply #28 |
76. There are plenty of liberals who homeschool... |
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Skidmore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-24-10 05:58 PM Response to Reply #17 |
42. It's more like discovering the first time |
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msongs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-24-10 09:23 AM Response to Original message |
8. superstition and fairy tales lose their appeal as children grow up lol nt |
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Heidi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-24-10 09:34 AM Response to Reply #8 |
13. If that were true, there would be many fewer wars, my GLBT friends would be able to marry, |
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LWolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-24-10 09:26 AM Response to Original message |
9. I hope so. nt |
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City Lights (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-24-10 09:27 AM Response to Original message |
10. There is no evidence of this in my neck of the woods. |
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reformist2 (998 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-24-10 09:33 AM Response to Original message |
11. It is bizarre how their politics are dominated by two issues which Jesus never talked about. |
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Brigid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-24-10 03:01 PM Response to Reply #11 |
34. Yep. |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-24-10 04:12 PM Response to Reply #34 |
38. This was the guy who took a pair of scissors to his Bible |
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Fuzz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-24-10 09:33 AM Response to Original message |
12. I'm a child of the religious right, granted it was long ago, but they |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-24-10 09:56 AM Response to Original message |
14. There have been some polls among fundamentalist denominations |
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Alcibiades (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-27-10 08:29 AM Response to Reply #14 |
74. Great article! |
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starroute (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-24-10 10:56 AM Response to Original message |
15. Some are losing their faith but others are seeking to make it deeper |
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Renegades of Funk (118 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-24-10 11:28 AM Response to Original message |
16. Thank God |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-24-10 11:37 AM Response to Original message |
18. Children rebel as they grow up.. At least for a time, they will push away |
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sufrommich (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-24-10 11:39 AM Response to Reply #18 |
20. Unfortunately as adults, they tend to revert to the way |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-24-10 11:44 AM Response to Reply #20 |
21. It's probably unavoidable. .. we are not a very contemplative society, are we? |
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sufrommich (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-24-10 11:47 AM Response to Reply #21 |
22. Oh, I agree that many escape their parents attempts to |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-24-10 11:52 AM Response to Reply #22 |
26. As a "recovered" Catholic, I can tell you that there is hope.. |
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sufrommich (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-24-10 12:06 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. That's great. I was raised by a lutheran mother and |
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w8liftinglady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-24-10 03:03 PM Response to Reply #26 |
35. That's exactly what happened to me...with the same outcome |
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mike r (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-24-10 11:39 AM Response to Original message |
19. Kinda hard to find a date when your parent is an obsessive, preachy, hate-filled nutbag |
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K8-EEE (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-24-10 11:48 AM Response to Original message |
23. If they keep going the "homoseckshul agenda" route they def will |
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Mariana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-24-10 03:26 PM Response to Reply #23 |
36. I think you're right. |
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piratefish08 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-24-10 11:51 AM Response to Original message |
25. sweet. hopefully attrition will take care of the rest. |
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slampoet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-24-10 12:34 PM Response to Original message |
29. The Steets of Seattle are filled with HUNDREDS of teens and youths who were thrown out |
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Peacetrain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-24-10 12:35 PM Response to Original message |
30. I think he is absolutely right!! |
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autorank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-24-10 12:38 PM Response to Original message |
31. k*r This is great |
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Warren DeMontague (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-24-10 05:48 PM Response to Original message |
40. Someone should tell James Dobson that maybe all that beating-with-sticks wasn't such a good idea |
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Mopar151 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-10 05:49 PM Response to Reply #40 |
67. I bet his dog did'nt like it either.......n/t |
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Initech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-24-10 06:04 PM Response to Original message |
43. Perhaps the old white males of the Xtian church are losing their powers. |
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jesus_of_suburbia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-24-10 06:24 PM Response to Reply #43 |
45. Unfortunately the church has a stranglehold on all races. |
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Scurrilous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-24-10 06:57 PM Response to Original message |
46. K & R |
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ismnotwasm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-24-10 10:11 PM Response to Original message |
48. Good |
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LostInAnomie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-24-10 10:14 PM Response to Original message |
49. I'm not sure the Religious Right necesarily rely on their children to keep their numbers. |
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Douglas Carpenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-24-10 11:42 PM Response to Original message |
50. kick and recommend!! |
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Festivito (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-10 06:21 AM Response to Original message |
52. As per the old joke, there is a pattern of loss from 16-30ish. |
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mwb970 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-10 06:34 AM Response to Original message |
53. I've always wondered why they are satisfied with just the two issues. |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-10 08:15 AM Response to Reply #53 |
56. Because neither issue requires self-reflection.. |
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Cal33 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-10 07:42 AM Response to Original message |
54. This sounds like the younger generation is refusing to |
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NJmaverick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-10 08:21 AM Response to Original message |
57. Very possible, many extremist religions have problems holding on to their children |
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Bluenorthwest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-10 09:47 AM Response to Original message |
60. Wallis the fence sitting hair splitting wonder |
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InvisibleTouch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-10 09:58 AM Response to Original message |
61. I sure hope so! |
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Overseas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-25-10 10:07 AM Response to Original message |
63. Hope so. //nt |
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red red red (166 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-26-10 12:13 AM Response to Original message |
69. Proves one thing... |
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Hamlette (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jul-26-10 12:38 AM Response to Original message |
72. If so, my guess is the kids think the stand on gays makes less sense than the stand on abortion |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-27-10 08:40 AM Response to Original message |
78. A lot of Athests come from fundy families. |
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