Holocaust Museum Shooting Highlights Growth of Hate Groups
The shooting was most likely an attempt to draw attention to white supremacy
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Hate Crimes
Great comment by MENOTYOU above. There are two enities in this country that cause we Americans to get fired up; the Federal Goverment and New Media. They not only blow things out of proportion but cause resentment.Minorities (for lack of a better word), occupy our prisons/jails in the highest percentage. Is that our fault? I think hate comes from the defense of both the above along with making us walk on egg shells with freedom of speach.
Hate Crimes
Great comment by MENOTYOU above. There are two enities in this country that cause we Americans to get fired up; the Federal Goverment and New Media. They not only blow things out of proportion but cause resentment.Minorities (for lack of a better word), occupy our prisons/jails in the highest percentage. Is that our fault? I think hate comes from the defense of both the above along with making us walk on egg shells with freedom of speach.
Hate Crime - the term
I break into a sardonic grin sometimes when I think of the term "hate crime" -- it deserves scorn, derision, and a reaction of fear. At face value, the term itself is either meaningless or redundant, as all crimes could be called "hate crimes" in a general sense, if one wants to think of a crime as an expression of hatred for the law, for society, or for an individual. That's not too much of stretch, I think. However, this society attributes new meaning to this politically-coined catch phrase, as if to somehow define an unprecedented category of crime, supposedly never before committed or witnessed among humankind. What rubbish -- what ignorant foolishness. I supposed my hatred for the misused and politically-laced term "hate crime" could qualify me as guilty of a "hate crime"? May as well.
But in its contemporary usage, this effectively meaningless term is actually dangerous. The term "hate crime" is sociological putty in the hands of our society's architects. It can be shaped and molded to represent any category of action so that it can be branded as a crime. Because the general public thinks little about the serious implications of these vague manipulations of words, this term has already been used to add an especially strong, inflammatory stigma to certain actions, many of which were previously not even thought of as a crime. Good examples include certain uses of our constitutionally-guaranteed right to freedom of speech, including our right to publicly say things that offend certain people -- some of those oratories are now branded as "hate crimes", with serious legal consequences for the speaker.
This is insane.
Where have all the thinkers gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the thinkers gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the thinkers gone?
We have picked them every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?
The Hate Crime, CRIME
All this hoopla about hate crimes is laughable to the educated mind. It is designed to further erode liberty and give the government more authority over our lives and thoughts. It is absolutely insane to give the angry rants of any pissed off human being a life of their own. When mad we often hastily say things we do not mean.
When people commit crimes they should by all means be prosecuted for their crime. What they said before, during or after committing it is totally irrelevent. If you are victimized because a murderer hates you are you any less dead if they don't?
The big question is, if we are to intensify penalty for hate crime then do we give reward or less of a sentence to criminals who are polite and willingly tolerate others? Pretty nuts huh?
I think those in control have been smoking too much of their own stuff. Give us all a break!
"Change the subject off tithes" say Creationists
Dryfire, July 17, paragraph 2, inaccurately says I try to change the subject. My comments come from the fact that preachers eat and dress better because my taxes unconstitutionally help feed and clothe them. They can retire sooner because they have robbed non-exempt taxpayers. I've paid real estate taxes on many rental units and my taxes are undeniably higher because of religious tax evasion. HSteve says my arguments "suck everything down." HSteve seems to be a student--who will probably be a taxpayer at some time. If Congress is forced to repeal religious tax favors, that will be "good and helpful" for HSteve as a taxpayer. Look ahead, HS. Believers are supposed to "witness for Christ," so they misuse these comment sites for sermonizing, hoping to create more tithers and increase church income.
Twisting the truth and nit-picking...
People break the law of gravity when they jump up. Gravity however is able to overpower them and thus brings them back to earth. Yet, when they are going up they do not have this sense of guilt, shame, and or fear that is experienced when this law of morality is broken.
Now, notice ladies and gentlemen that aura doesn't defy anything that I had mentioned earlier. He/she only nit-picks at what I said in hopes of changing subject. Why would he/she do that? Now aura has offerred no real evidence to show that God of Christianity is made up or invented. But I have offerred some very convincing evidence to show otherwise.
aura has also claimed that there is a pay check incentive. True, some pastors make their life's living through their ministry. However, it must not be a very good paying job since I know two who work a second job. One is a school teacher and the other is a computer technician for the same school. And they both pay income tax for those second jobs. Also, I doubt that all of the employees and employers of other non-profit businesses like Red Cross, Salvation Army, etc. work for free. Obviously aura is just bigotted against anyone of other religions.
Dr. Shade has mentioned a couple of times that some pastors don't use the tithes they receive wisely. However, that is no excuse to say that all preachers and ministers are scammers. To say that would be to say that all Germans are anti-Semitic racists like Hitler. Obviously that is bad reasoning, but that is what aura is saying on the basis of one bad pastor. He/she is not even willing to consider other pastors like Rick Warren who give back a large portion of their claim to the tithes back to the church.
Hopefully, aura will become more open-minded, but obviously not now.
Good-bye aura, I hope you will see the Truth someday.
Paychecks come from tithes, says DShade June 29 09
My comments are made to end religious tax-favors. They force all taxpayers to feed. house and clothe preachers and their families. Gods were invented to start the scam of persuading people to pay the enormous TEN PER CENT OF LIFETIME INCOME to preachers. If a believer pays 10% on a steady yearly income of $40,000, for 40 years, that's $160,000. DShade doesn't want attention drawn to the money-maklng motive that created gods and their tithe-dependent evangelizers. On June 29, DShade mentioned "those who make their life's living by preaching or on missionary trips, their paychecks come from tithes." Yes, there is the PAYCHECK--the motive for going into the unpatriotically tax-favored preaching business. Some comments start with "Ladies and Gentlemen"--like a circus ringmaster introducing a tricky performance. This comment site is for debate, but it's being used for sermons. Scripture says Christ was a hybrid--half immortal, which means incapable of dying and half-mortal, sure to die. If mythic Christ stayed "dead," that would be the "miracle."
pointless arguements over your own beliefs
You aren't proving any points just long paragraphs of BS that you read then argue about. ADV stop trying to be the BIGGER person because its 2 to one and by the looks of it your losing. im not arguing, im reading these articles for school. and trying to look at comments for good thing that will help me find other things that can help me but your arguements suck everything down.... No one will win this because ADV doesn't see that OTHER PEOPLE have their own beliefs..
Dryfire says astronauts broke the law of gravity
DF's faith-based comments invite dissent. If anyone ever "broke the law of gravity," everything would go flying off the earth. Quacks made lots of money by having people pay for lectures and books that said they could move things without touching them. At Cal Tech in Pasadena, I saw Randy explain the way tricksters work. DF says he doesn't know of anyone except me who objects to religious tax exemption. Of course, he wouldn't join Freedom From Religion Foundation in Madison, WI, or Atheists United or any of the many atheist organizations that are increasing and have websites. As a realtor, I joined a broker's tour of a house owned by a TV preacher. It was for sale because he was convicted of using an ear microphone and an accomplice to tell church audience members things about themselves. The place had walls covered with padded costly fabric and ceilings with fresco paintings and a wine cellar that held enough bottles to last a monastery ten years. Offerings collected "to aid the poor" went to that mansion.
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The reason the stolen body myth doesn't hold water is because the men who would be doing the stealing would've been fishermen and ex-taxcollectors, and they would have to steal the body from armed Roman soldiers who are guarding with the tomb literally with their life. Yet, no report of dead disciples or wounded disciples? These same men that would die for a dead body? The coma myths are worse. How could Christ have under gone flogging and crucifixion, be wrapped up in a tomb for three days, have no medical attention, and lived? Oh, and let us not forget that he would've had to move the large heavy stone to get out! Modern doctors can tell you that this can not happen. Hallucinations? Nope, people typically never see the same hallucination. Also, the Romans and the Jewish leaders could have easily gone to the tomb pointed out that the body was still there. Wrong tomb? Nope, again people could have and would have pointed out that the body was still in the grave.
HSSHS, aren't you arguing that people shouldn't argue on these things?
