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therightfangirlI stayed up for Rubio's and Romney's speeches on Thursday night - very motivating, I thought.
Anyway. It always aggravates me how so many of my friends lump all Republicans together as bigots or Bible-huggers and such. It's rude and it's not necessarily true and after reading offensive posts about all republicans being against women's rights and welfare (although I'm sure they weren't meant to be really offensive, but I find them very in-your-face) I have trouble falling asleep!
So this occurred to me:
It seems to me (and I'm doing a bit of generalizing here, mind you) that liberals have nice ideals - they want everyone to have enough of everything, they want everyone to get along, love each other, save the planet, etc.
So do republicans! Except our method of achieving that ideal doesn't take the easy road. It'll take time and for awhile it might hurt. But you can't jump to the final goal without trudging through the hard stuff.
If that makes sense? It makes more sense in my head than when I wrote it out here... Also, this is my first post here, I'm just tired of thinking to myself in a den of liberals that I can't talk to.
Anyway. It always aggravates me how so many of my friends lump all Republicans together as bigots or Bible-huggers and such. It's rude and it's not necessarily true and after reading offensive posts about all republicans being against women's rights and welfare (although I'm sure they weren't meant to be really offensive, but I find them very in-your-face) I have trouble falling asleep!
So this occurred to me:
It seems to me (and I'm doing a bit of generalizing here, mind you) that liberals have nice ideals - they want everyone to have enough of everything, they want everyone to get along, love each other, save the planet, etc.
So do republicans! Except our method of achieving that ideal doesn't take the easy road. It'll take time and for awhile it might hurt. But you can't jump to the final goal without trudging through the hard stuff.
If that makes sense? It makes more sense in my head than when I wrote it out here... Also, this is my first post here, I'm just tired of thinking to myself in a den of liberals that I can't talk to.
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Date: 2012-09-03 11:33 pm (UTC)Person A: I believe that marriage consists of a male and a female.
Activist: In some countries, homosexuality is punishable by death. So, you support that!
I'd have more respect for the activists if they protested the ACTUAL atrocities committed against homosexuals in places like Iran half as passionately as they protested Chick-Fil-A. But I guess it's easier to bitch at Christians because they aren't in the habit of blowing stuff up every time someone hurts their feelings.
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Date: 2012-09-04 12:38 am (UTC)Yes. It boggles the mind that the Left won't allow any criticism of Islam and wants to allow more and more Muslim immigration into Western countries, when it's Islam that is bad, bad news for women, homosexuals, religious minorities, and all those groups that the Left supposedly loves.
It's just completely nuts. How do the leftists think they'd be treated under Sharia? But no, let's harass and demonize Average Joe American Christian for simply stating his views in a calm manner.
Countries dominated by hardcore Islam are among the *least* tolerant nations on the planet.
I am not religious at all, and there is plenty to criticize about some of the major Christian denominations here in the US. But to assert that American Christians are as bad or worse than the folks who want to blow us up and institute Sharia? Yeah, no.
The Left seems to have made evangelicals their designated bogeyman.
Under a Muslim regime, the feminists, gays, protestors, and "intellectuals" (writers, professors) would be the first to go, just as they would under a Mao-style or Soviet-style Marxist regime.