DWOC: "Five Reasons To Burn The Koran" (D is for Dimwits)

Stephanie wrote:(D is for Dim Wits)

See, we agree on some things.

Stephanie wrote:I know we agree on a lot of things. For example, we both think you're spectacular and we both think I'm fabulous.

I'd like to ask you a question to clarify something for me.

You think the Jews are "God's chosen people" because of OT scripture. Is that accurate?

Stephanie wrote:Has it ever occured to you that what God chose them for was to bring Christ into the world?

In response to Gen David Petraeus' denunciation of Florida pastor Terry Jones' right to engage in a symbolic protest of the 9/11 attacks by burning copies of the Quran this Sept. 11, President Obama said: "Let me be clear: As a citizen, and as president, I believe that members of the Dove World Outreach Center have the same right to freedom of speech and religion as anyone else in this country."

Gov. Charlie Crist of Florida lauded Obama's remarks, saying America is "a place where you're supposed to be able to practice your religion without the government telling you you can't."

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg called Obama's words a "clarion defense of the freedom of religion" -- and also claimed that he had recently run into a filthy jihadist who actually supported the Quran-burning!

Keith Olbermann read the poem "First they came ..." on air in defense of the Quran-burners, nearly bringing himself to tears at his own profundity.

No wait, my mistake. This is what liberals said about the ground zero mosque only five minutes ago when they were posing as First Amendment absolutists. Suddenly, they've developed amnesia when it comes to the free-speech right to burn a Quran.

Weirdly, conservatives who opposed building the mosque at ground zero are also against the Quran burning. (Except in my case. It turns out I'm for it, but mostly because burning Qurans will contribute to global warming.)

Liberals couldn't care less about the First Amendment. To the contrary, censoring speech and religion is the left's specialty! (Any religion other than Islam.)

They promote speech codes, hate crimes, free speech zones (known as "America" off college campuses), and go around the country yanking every reference to God from the public square via endless lawsuits by the ACLU.

Whenever you see a liberal choking up over our precious constitutional rights, you can be sure we're talking about the rights of Muslims at ground zero, "God Hates Fags" funeral protesters, strippers, The New York Times publishing classified documents, pornographers, child molesters, murderers, traitors, saboteurs, terrorists, flag-burners (but not Quran-burners!) or women living on National Endowment of the Arts grants by stuffing yams into their orifices on stage.

Stephanie wrote:OK, so if that is what they were chosen to do they needed to accept Christ as the messiah. There is a new covenant. The whole "chosen people" thing is done. Your god chose them to bring his only son into the world to pay for their sins and they reject him. What makes you think he would continue to favor and protect them now? Better yet, why should ANYONE believe that god wants the USA, or any other nation or people to favor and protect them now.

SheikBen wrote:

Stephanie wrote:OK, so if that is what they were chosen to do they needed to accept Christ as the messiah. There is a new covenant. The whole "chosen people" thing is done. Your god chose them to bring his only son into the world to pay for their sins and they reject him. What makes you think he would continue to favor and protect them now? Better yet, why should ANYONE believe that god wants the USA, or any other nation or people to favor and protect them now.

I think keli dodged this one and I will not. The language of the covenants that God made with Abraham have the word "forever" attached to them, as opposed to "until the Messiah comes."

I believe God yet blesses the Israelis, but very often in spite of themselves.

SheikBen wrote:I think that's part of it, Stephanie.

My fear with the Quran burning is that the government appears to favor 1st amendment rights only when it is "safe" to do so. That troubles me tremendously.