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 Manchu wrote:
You guys are arguing with someone who says 50% of Christians in the USA are extremists.

So you feel the need to lie about what I said as well? What I said is that the extremists are a vocal minority that have control over 50% of the politicians. (ie the Republicans).

If thats the case then why hasn't a real Jebus freak like Santorum won the primary?

 Frazzled wrote:
If thats the case then why hasn't a real Jebus freak like Santorum won the primary?

See George W Bush.

 jasper76 wrote:

 Frazzled wrote:
If thats the case then why hasn't a real Jebus freak like Santorum won the primary?

See George W Bush.

You think HE was a Jebus freak. The phrase "don't have a clue buddy" comes to mind. Again please reference Santorum and Ted Cruz. Educate yourself!

Yes, I do, although I'm not surre I like the phrase, but I do know what you mean by it. I admit that the likes of Santorum and Cruz are more hardcore.

skyth wrote:

 Manchu wrote:
You guys are arguing with someone who says 50% of Christians in the USA are extremists.

So you feel the need to lie about what I said as well? What I said is that the extremists are a vocal minority that have control over 50% of the politicians. (ie the Republicans).

You said this:

skyth wrote:You actually believe a Muslim group has significant political power in the US? Especially comparef to Christianity that has almost 100% of elected politicians belonging to it and half of them belonging to the extremist right wing version?

Which most would interpret as you saying that 50% of American politicians are members of an 'extremist right wing' group of Christianity. Considering that to be the case, it isn't at all unthinkable to interpret that as you saying that 50% of Christians in the US are extremists, considering nearly the entirety of the Christians holding political stations are members of main line Christian denominations.

Thanks for the fact-check Stonebeard.

Skyth -- I apologize for misquoting you as saying 50% of Christians are extremist when what you actually said is 50% of American elected officials are extremist right-wing Christians.

So, now that it's cleared up, I return to my original point: why is anyone interested in the opinions of someone who posts this kind of nonsense? (Remember, if we're keeping score, I already guessed entertainment.)

Hardly nonsense. I'm not sure what is debatable. The extreme right 'Christians' hold considerable political power and try to use force of law to give their version of religion special privledges.

It was asked why an allegedly Christian establishment bore the brunt of the ire over the Indiana law as opposed to another religion. The obvious answer is it's backlash from the abuse of power.

 skyth wrote:
Hardly nonsense. I'm not sure what is debatable. The extreme right 'Christians' hold considerable political power and try to use force of law to give their version of religion special privledges.

like what exactly?

 skyth wrote:
Hardly nonsense. I'm not sure what is debatable. The extreme right 'Christians' hold considerable political power and try to use force of law to give their version of religion special privledges.

Again, I would ask who these people are and how one would delineate an 'extreme right wing' Christian, particulary with respect to 'standard' Christians. Additionally, I would like to ask how the Indiana law favored Christian buisness owners over any buisness owners belonging to any other religion.

 Frazzled wrote:

 skyth wrote:
Hardly nonsense. I'm not sure what is debatable. The extreme right 'Christians' hold considerable political power and try to use force of law to give their version of religion special privledges.

like what exactly?

"extreme right christians" in this case, simply being people who believe that what is in the womb is a human being, and does not want it killed. Completely comparable to other manners of religious extremism, as seen below.







He's using those words, trying to invoke images like this.

Well now we are compounding one lie with another. Fifty percent elected officials is not accurate at all, but pretending that being anti-abortion alone is simply what one is pretending defines religious extremism is just as naive. Believing that the only comparison is ISIS or that there isn't such a thing as extremist Christians one would have to be willfully ignorant.

 Ahtman wrote:
Well now we are compounding one lie with another. Fifty percent elected officials is not accurate at all, but pretending that being anti-abortion alone is simply what one is pretending defines religious extremism is just as naive. Believing that the only comparison is ISIS or that there isn't such a thing as extremist Christians one would have to be willfully ignorant.

Again it would to define what laws or actions he's talking about.