So are you claiming that the Jews have a blanket command, like muslims do (by their holy books and example of Muhammad), to treat apostates and unbelievers in a sub-human way?No, but they took land by slaying enemies, man woman and child and without that opportunity.
Either you or most of Islam doesn't understand something about Islam, because that's just not how it has worked under actual Islamic control outside of a sliver of rabid and largely rejected extremists. I'm going to bet against you on that.
That almost sounds reasonable, but then it really sounds like stepping over a point because it's not aligned with the picture you mean to paint. Again, Muslims are largely opposing the fanatics you seem determined to paint as the rule. But the opposition by Islam to them speaks against your efforts.
A point utterly undone by the absence of those efforts within any of the nations opposing ISIS.
What particularly do you find in the difference between Christian and Muslim that most offends you? With me its the inherent contempt and the inequality before the law. Contrary to your best efforts, I'm not defending or complimenting the Moors. I'm simply noting that when they were in control of a great number of Jews and Christians they didn't convert them or kill them. That as with most Muslims most places over most of history, your representation of what Islam has to be and how it has to behave is contradicted by the actual. That was my only point in using this example as a rebuttal.
You can keep saying that but it only makes you look silly. Nothing in what I wrote says that about the historical treatment.
Hyperbole to make your point is reasonable. To mischaracterize someone else's position is simply dishonest, past a point. If you find that rhetorically acceptable I can't stop you, but I'll be obliged to stop the conversation and point out that what you just said isn't an honest reflection of what I actually wrote. Seems a silly way to waste time you keep insisting you're short on, but that's people for you.
That would be an inaccurate stretch, but more than a great stone's throw from taking this:
"Islam once controlled a great deal of southern Europe and the Christians and Jews living there were not killed or converted."
And claiming I equated it with a "paradise". lain:
The first is a questionable exaggeration. The second is distorted to the point of bearing no rational relationship. That or you have a grotesque definition of what constitutes a paradise.
Neither statement is true, but it's part of the problem with ungrounded rhetoric. At some point it will lead you into a position at odds with any factual support.[/quote]
And you completely missed the point. The OP is about censorship. YouTube (and FB and Twitter) are biased against people on the right. It is because as those social sites think in their heart, so they are. This is played out more dramatically with muslims because they are raised to have in their hearts that apostates and unbelievers are to be treated poorly. Whether it be murder, enslavement, or merely inequity before the law doesn't matter. All include censorship. And all include death - although only one directly.
BTW, mention again how muslims fighting each other means that one side is good and the other is bad.
But since I grapple with the plain facts, your response would be at best a non-response.I'd say a man who only argues in generalities and will not grapple with the plain facts lacks faith in his principles in application.
Glad to see you didn't indulge in the fallacy of trying to use a specific to counter a generality.
Ok then, define a person that advocates to do what is right, politically, according to the bible and not to conserve what we have. To resist not only the leftist's proposals, but the conservative approaches as well. A person that advocates what is right according to the bible because absolutes exist and the bible is the best place to find absolutes that can direct our politics. A person that follows the general principle found in the bible; Ecc 10:2 "The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left."I wrote: I don't really. I'd say that every right winger is a conservative, but not every conservative is a right winger.
See, to my mind you just decided to write your own dictionary. That's not the popular usage, so while I'm sure you can define a thing until it fits you it's no way to communicate between parties.
Now within the expression of conservative philosophy are a number of camps.
- a : an adherent or advocate of political conservatismb capitalized : a member or supporter of a conservative political party
- 2a : one who adheres to traditional methods or viewsb : a cautious or discreet person
In expressing what is meant by the popular phrase Right Wing, Merriam sets out: "[FONT=&]the part of a political group that consists of people who support conservative or traditional ideas and policies [/FONT][FONT=&]:[/FONT][FONT=&] the part of a political group that belongs to or supports the Right"[/FONT]
Or, conservative and Right Wing are largely interchangeable terms, though distinctions between moderate and right wing conservatives tend to be made relating to a hard line on application of their general principles.
Conservatives resist progressive changes, side typically with institutions and in the preservation of prevailing traditions. The social order of the day was founded in slavery. The Klan rapidly became the face of preserving as much of that defeated institution and the social order it fed. Progressive notions defeated slavery, abolishing the status quo that had been affirmed by the last word in Constitutional interpretation, the S. Ct.
Then the alternative offered by the opposing side, conservatives, would have to be demonstrably worse or we're right back to stupidity. Either way you have a problem. But mostly you have a problem because you say Democrats hate blacks and that is rationally unsupportable for the reasons given prior.
You see, being on the right or left predates current usage by quite a bit. And since conservative and right wing were so close in what they advocated some decades ago, dictionaries and common usage frequently put them together. They are already behind the times. They should stick with God's definition above.
"Right winger" would be the most accurate political name, but let's see if you can come up with something better.
No, there was a reasonable minority that was not racist even by our lights. FDR may have been in the majority, but there was at least a minority, and he knew about them and why they weren't racist, that he could have sided with. But he was a leftist, and so he sided with the racists.Rather, as with most men of his age, he was by our lights a racist.
I never ascribed racism to reason and philosophy. I ascribed it as a symptom of being a leftist. In general, leftists do not believe in absolutes. That means that morality can be relative; and if a moral relativist doesn't like people for whatever reason, moral relativists are justified in their own minds in dehumanizing them.To ascribe racism to an intellectual foundation is a serious mistake. Racism isn't founded in reason or philosophy, though it can be upended by both.
If that were true they'd have determined if a baby was human or not before it was born.Let's revisit a less sanitized version, what you actually wrote that I responded to strongly:
Yorzhik said:...since leftist love murdering babies before they are born, they will love censorship, too.
Rather, to embrace it is to embrace bias over rationality. From an unproven premise comes, without much surprise attaching, an errant conclusion. The fundamental error on the part of the majority of the left isn't founded in the love of killing babies. It's founded in the wrong headed belief that a woman's right to control of her reproduction and self is an absolute, where the rights and being of the unborn is at best tangential until such time as it can be said to exist independently of her. That's why even most of those who favor a woman's choice will balk at extending those rights until the moment of birth. Were the killing of infants the desire and root another reaction would be in evidence.