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Containment of Iraq worked well for several decades. Suddenly we had to invade because “it’s different this time.”
Despite our traditions of Civil Liberties Bush needed the Patriot Act because “it’s different this time.”
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Wait a minute, you’re accusing conservatives of rigidity and then you’re complaining when they do respond? The problem with your logic is that you fail to mention that the death of almost 3000 of our citizens on our home soil was enough of a reason for us to consider taking the fight to our enemies and for creating new measures to protect the American populace.
[quote=briansd1]The Christian religious nutcases believed that world was flat for hundreds of years although the Greeks knew otherwise. It sure took them a long time to be convinced otherwise.
Still today certain conservative elements don’t believe in evolution. Should we wait for another couple hundred years for the proof?[/quote]
Hmmmmm….. Interesting statement you made. I had to look it up because I remembered reading it in a book awhile back….
“David Lindberg and Ronald Numbers also write: “there was scarcely a Christian scholar of the Middle Ages who did not acknowledge [Earth’s] sphericity and even know its approximate circumference.”[3]”
Wow. Even I could not believe how totally wrong you were.
By the way, you should also know that the Catholic Church, the largest Christian denomination, has accepted evolution and teaches it. It did take a neutral view of it in 1950 and accepted it later.
Maybe you should reconsider some of your prejudices towards christians. Just a thought. It seems your prejudices are so medieval.
