This clip of Paul on Fox – he says the following regarding Huckabee’s “Merry Christmas” ad:
…reminds me of what Sinclair Lewis said, “when fascism comes it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross”. I don’t know if that if a fair assessment or not but you wonder about using a cross like he is the only Christian or implying that subtly.
This is the statement of a man who doesn’t want my vote. This is a blanket insult to all Christians – that we are, somehow, on a track to fascism because we want to say “Merry Christmas” and are unafraid to proclaim our faith in the public square. Its also a stupid statement – stupid from Lewis who originally made it, and stupid for Paul to repeat it: fascism is anethema to Christianity. The two are entirely incompatible. Fascism asserts that the State may claim all – Christianity says that while we must render to Ceasar what is his, we must only render to God what belongs to God.
If there are fascists in the making out there, they are amongst the people who want to silence others with hate crimes laws and speech codes; who demand equality of result rather than of opportunity; who insist that there is a wall of separation between Church and State (actually, lefties, it is the vibrant Church which is the strongest defense against the tyranny of the State). Paul proves himself ever more to be of the rather kook fringe – whatever his good ideas are (and he has some) they are drowned out by his more bizarre beliefs.
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neocon,
I would like to congratulate you on the effort you had to exert by copying and pasting my link into your browser since I so inconveniently forgot to add the link tags in – my apologies. I even see that you read the first couple of sentences and I feel that I must applaud you there however, your knee jerk mentality you so eloquently display at all times and your intellectual incuriosity has proven your incompetence once again. If you had read farther into the article you would have found “Quoting the late singer Ethel Waters, Huckabee added, ‘God don’t sponsor no flops.’ “. And he has made such claims prior to this article which I will happily find for you since you probably don’t really care to look. So the next time you would like to call someone a liar (and yes saying they lie is the same thing) why don’t you make sure you know what you are talking about. Thank you.
And one other thing neocon, you stated:
For one that makes absolutely no sense. Yes my support for him does make perfect sense because I am tired of this oversized, secretive, and power hungry government that we have. I’m tired of watching my hard earned money leak out of my pocket. I’m tired of watching bridges in this country crumble yet paying to blow up and build new ones in other countries. I’m tired of the government telling me what and how my children learn (even in parochial school). I’m tired of policing the rest of the world yet crime in this country is out of control. I’m tired of providing welfare to the rest of the world yet our poverty is increasing exponentially. And the list goes on neocon and it scares me that you support these things- that you actually want these things to not only increase but to become larger in scope. We don’t need the same tired thing that you are selling.
“Huckabee DID NOT explicitly state that he was endorsed by God. That was a local pastor who said that.”
Your right. But the Huckster DID say this,
Question: …what do you attribute this surge to?
Huckabee: There’s only one explanation for it, and it’s not a human one. It’s the same power that helped a little boy with two fish, and five loaves feed a crowd of 5,000 people.
Wow, I wonder? What could he ever be talking about?
Just to clarify what Faceplant meant by the “surge” – he is referring to Huckabee’s surge in polling not the surge in Iraq. And thank you Faceplant for making my point even more solid and making neocon look even more like a… well, nevermind.
Jonathan,
No, words actually mean specific things – and, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishement of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof” means what it says – there can’t be a State-sponsored religion, and government can’t prohibit the free exercise of religion. A “wall of separation” would be absurd – it would say that government could never prevent a religious act from happening, and that religious bodies could never influence government. Jefferson, of course, wasn’t absurd – he used a poor choice of words, but what he was trying to do was reassure a Christian Church that nothing in the constitution allowed the government to interefere with the practice of religion (you do know that, don’t you? That he was writing to a Christian church. I mean, you are aware of these really very basic facts, right?).
Faceplant,
Its a Christian thing – we attribute all good things to His doing, while understanding that all bad things result from opposing His will. For Huckabee, its a natural – he’s rising in the polls and this is all part of God’s plan for his life. Of course, the final issue is unknown – but Huckabee, as a Christian, will take victory or defeat the same way – as what God knew was best for him at this time in his life and, also, what best fit in with God’s plan for the world as a whole. We don’t call Him the Lord of Creation just for fun, ya know?
“Of course, the final issue is unknown – but Huckabee, as a Christian, will take victory or defeat the same way – as what God knew was best for him at this time in his life and, also, what best fit in with God’s plan for the world as a whole.”
I think this might be the first time, I’ve ever said this but… You’re probably right. I wasn’t looking at it from that angle.
Uncommon..
If you really think the military supports RonPaul..you are living in a parallel universe.