[quote=scaredyclassic][quote=njtosd][quote=FlyerInHi]Nytosd, I don’t have scaredy’ talent of saying things with few words. Plus typing on smartphone is not very convenient.
I’m trying to say that conservatives like claim that that blacks are rightfully targeted because of the way they act. Conservatives are now so openly disfunctionally trashy that they are hardly recognizable as conservatives. Right there, there’s no equivalence with the democrats.
“We” are intelligent people. For example, in international relations, the Russians and Chinese like to say they are equivalent to the USA. Not at all. Any attempt at moral equivalence should be laughed off and ridiculed.
Compare the platforms The ideas are not even remotely morally equivalent. Examples are gay marriage and abortion which are settled issues. Republicans espouse retrograde positions of returning back in time.
As far as Jesus, religious people are rigid and start with the premise that God exists; and that everyone else must consider that God does exist. Right there, conservatives act entitled to an asymmetric advantage. The center and reasonable position should be “there is no God until he shows up” The extreme position in fact is the conviction in God.[/quote]
Again, odd and disjointed.
As far as intelligence goes, you’re just getting back to the “liberals are all things good and conservatives are all things bad.” I’ve known many whip smart conservatives and liberals. There were two guys that I used to work with who were on opposite ends of the political spectrum (but were friends – can you believe it??) and both made impressive arguments for their sides.
Do you know that Depeche Mode was a band from the 1980s? I wasn’t referring to Jesus in the traditional sense of the the word. Christians do not each have a personal Jesus – He’s a shared resource. It sounds like maybe you need to read up a bit.
I’m giving up on this one because you seem to have floated off into a particularly bizarre direction. Enjoy yourself.
PS – Dysfunctionally trashy sound like they aren’t very good at being trashy. Is that what you meant? 😉 And what are these people recognizable as?[/quote]
i really love the depeche mode song. i can immediately here the catchy lick in my gead. but i started wondering, theologically, what are the implications of this song. this christianity today analysis of depeche mode resonated with me.
I have been trying to get my son to learn to play it on the guitar. My kids used to give me a hard time about my taste in music (especially Motown) but they are beginning to see the light. But I digress . . .
Sadly, it doesn’t seem that there was wasn’t much theology involved. The song was inspired by a book called “Elvis and Me”:
The song was inspired by the book Elvis and Me by Priscilla Presley. According to songwriter Martin Gore:
It’s a song about being a Jesus for somebody else, someone to give you hope and care. It’s about how Elvis Presley was her man and her mentor and how often that happens in love relationships; how everybody’s heart is like a god in some way, and that’s not a very balanced view of someone, is it?
In terms of the secular invading the sacred – I have to say that I have never understood the idea of a “personal relationship with Jesus” and never heard it discussed until the 1990s (I think). It seemed to show up around the time of the rise of “born again” Christians (now that I think of it, where did they go?) – but maybe there’s no relationship. It sounds vaguely wrong to me from a lot of perspectives – but particularly because it sounds kind of grabby, which I would think contradicts basic Christian values.
