Atheism is fake rebellion. Agnostics just seem not aggressive enough for them. This is a form of philosophical punk. Being an atheist makes you cool. Religious people are just stick in the muds. Dorothy Day certainly was rebellious. Now, that's a whole lot of objectionable assuming shoved into a li...
Barber, if someone shoots a cop after the Grand Jury rules in Ferguson, that does not mean Darren Wilson is not more in the wrong. Israel is Wilson. That's absurd. Anyone shoots a cop is the one who's wrong, period. You do not justify violence by claiming "my sensitivities were offended."...
Operation Paperclip was also almost 60 years ago. It seems perfectly natural that people would be more knowledgeable---or should I say be more aware of---more recent events, like those in your list. This is hardly an indictment of public priorities. I think the Zimmerman Telegram fiasco is a pretty ...
Just that O'Reilly has credibility shows how insane the system truly is. He's a name, his books sold. I'm not sure that's the same as having "credibility." Actually, the Lincoln book is not bad except in one particular. According to the O'Reilly, the woman involved who ran the boarding ho...
FrankChurch wrote: Why didn't the publisher tell O'Reilly, sorry, Bill, you cannot do a book with that title?
Why would they? It's a series and the previous two sold very well. Killing Lincoln and Killing Kennedy. Or didn't you know about those?
There were a lot of anti-semites prior to WWII who nevertheless believed the Nazis had crossed a line and reviled them for it. British anti-semitism was fairly entrenched, as it was in most places, and yet the moral condemnation of the Final Solution was pretty immediate once the camps were found an...
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You mean compensate certain artists. Some artists will make almost zero money while others will swim in millions. A government supported funding plan would help more artists equally. Hey, Frank---if nobody buys your book or wants your music, why should you get any of their money? Some artists---or ...
In my experience the Fundamentalist church is staunchly pro-Israel. As addendum, from my reading this is true but not out of any sense of tolerance. In many if not most cases, the so-called fundamentalist churches are pro-Israel as part of a desire for prophecy fulfilled. Israel must exist before C...
The last few posts have been interesting. Keeny---may I suggest you check out a book called Constantine's Sword by James Carrol? It's a history of the, shall we say, problematic relationship Christianity has had with Judaism since the former was born. I agree with the rather limited statement that t...
Just finished one of the more peculiar novels I've read in recent times, Paul Park's All Those Vanished Engines . Park has deep literary sensibilities which infuse every one of his novels that I've read so far and makes me scratch my head wondering who his audience is, but I'm not complaining. This ...
Atheism is fake rebellion. Agnostics just seem not aggressive enough for them. This is a form of philosophical punk. Being an atheist makes you cool. Religious people are just stick in the muds. Dorothy Day certainly was rebellious. Now, that's a whole lot of objectionable assuming shoved into a li...
Barber, if someone shoots a cop after the Grand Jury rules in Ferguson, that does not mean Darren Wilson is not more in the wrong. Israel is Wilson. That's absurd. Anyone shoots a cop is the one who's wrong, period. You do not justify violence by claiming "my sensitivities were offended."...
Operation Paperclip was also almost 60 years ago. It seems perfectly natural that people would be more knowledgeable---or should I say be more aware of---more recent events, like those in your list. This is hardly an indictment of public priorities. I think the Zimmerman Telegram fiasco is a pretty ...
Just that O'Reilly has credibility shows how insane the system truly is. He's a name, his books sold. I'm not sure that's the same as having "credibility." Actually, the Lincoln book is not bad except in one particular. According to the O'Reilly, the woman involved who ran the boarding ho...
FrankChurch wrote: Why didn't the publisher tell O'Reilly, sorry, Bill, you cannot do a book with that title?
Why would they? It's a series and the previous two sold very well. Killing Lincoln and Killing Kennedy. Or didn't you know about those?
There were a lot of anti-semites prior to WWII who nevertheless 
believed the Nazis had crossed a line and reviled them for it. British anti-semitism was fairly entrenched, as it was in most places, and yet the moral condemnation of the Final Solution was pretty immediate once the camps were found an...
Mon Nov 17, 2014 8:20 am
Sat Nov 15, 2014 5:22 pm
You mean compensate certain artists. Some artists will make almost zero money while others will swim in millions. A government supported funding plan would help more artists equally. Hey, Frank---if nobody buys your book or wants your music, why should you get any of their money? Some artists---or ...
In my experience the Fundamentalist church is staunchly pro-Israel. As addendum, from my reading this is true but not out of any sense of tolerance. In many if not most cases, the so-called fundamentalist churches are pro-Israel as part of a desire for prophecy fulfilled. Israel must exist before C...
The last few posts have been interesting. Keeny---may I suggest you check out a book called Constantine's Sword by James Carrol? It's a history of the, shall we say, problematic relationship Christianity has had with Judaism since the former was born. I agree with the rather limited statement that t...
Just finished one of the more peculiar novels I've read in recent times, Paul Park's All Those Vanished Engines . Park has deep literary sensibilities which infuse every one of his novels that I've read so far and makes me scratch my head wondering who his audience is, but I'm not complaining. This ...