Friday, May 29, 2015

Reading list

THE POLITICAL CHRISTIAN: Do We Have Any Choice?
. . . " My personal view, and I want to stress it’s MY PERSONAL VIEW, is that it’s spiritually suicidal not to be politically aware, and even politically involved to some degree.  Some Christians want to continually shut the world out and live in a vacuum.  According to that mind set, as long as we have our church services, our retreats, seminars and concerts, as along as we still have all of our Christian paraphernalia, then everything will be hunky-dory because, hey, it’s “of the Lord”.  " . . .

CULTURE OF ENTITLEMENT: Bill Clinton: Sure, you can give me an award — but first give $500,000 to… “ 'The Clinton Foundation had rejected the Happy Hearts Fund invitation more than once, until there was a thinly veiled solicitation and then the offer of an honorarium.' ”
deniers
http://liberallogic101.com/?p=26064
'I’M AFRAID': Baltimore Residents Want COPS To KICK A-- AGAIN as Violence Spikes
 "Who do they call when they’re afraid to leave their house? Is it Al Sharpton?" . . .

Hope PosterCreator of Viral Obama Poster Loses Hope  . . . "Uneducated? Complacent? It almost sounds like Fairey is describing the millions of ‘low information’ voters who cast their ballots for Obama in 2008 and 2012.  "  . . .  Jon Gabriel of Ricochet:
Perhaps Obama was too busy raising $1.1 billion in 2012 to get around to taking money out of politics.


The New York Times' hypocrisy regarding displays of "offensive" religious imagery runs unabated, as shown in a Scott Reyburn article in Friday's Arts section on the sale of Chris Ofili's controversial painting "The Holy Virgin Mary," which shows the Virgin Mary clotted with elephant dung against a porn-collage background -- and accompanied by a photograph of the offensive work.
Yet when the paper refused to reprint a cartoon of Muhammad that appeared in the Paris satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo that resulted in the January 2015 massacre of 12 magazine staffers, it offered this smug, cowardly justification:
- See more at: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/clay-waters/2015/05/29/nyts-artistic-display-religious-hypocrisy-runs-offensive-virgin-mary#sthash.PvJi2DPu.dpuf
The New York Times' hypocrisy regarding displays of "offensive" religious imagery runs unabated, as shown in a Scott Reyburn article in Friday's Arts section on the sale of Chris Ofili's controversial painting "The Holy Virgin Mary," which shows the Virgin Mary clotted with elephant dung against a porn-collage background -- and accompanied by a photograph of the offensive work.
Yet when the paper refused to reprint a cartoon of Muhammad that appeared in the Paris satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo that resulted in the January 2015 massacre of 12 magazine staffers, it offered this smug, cowardly justification:
- See more at: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/clay-waters/2015/05/29/nyts-artistic-display-religious-hypocrisy-runs-offensive-virgin-mary#sthash.PvJi2DPu.dpuf
The New York Times' hypocrisy regarding displays of "offensive" religious imagery runs unabated, as shown in a Scott Reyburn article in Friday's Arts section on the sale of Chris Ofili's controversial painting "The Holy Virgin Mary," which shows the Virgin Mary clotted with elephant dung against a porn-collage background -- and accompanied by a photograph of the offensive work.
Yet when the paper refused to reprint a cartoon of Muhammad that appeared in the Paris satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo that resulted in the January 2015 massacre of 12 magazine staffers, it . . .

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