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Let us not forget Article 11 of the Treaty with Tripoli, passed unanimously by the first congress: "As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquillity, of Mu...

It's been my experience that humorists who poke fun at the left and right are perceived as left-of-center by those on the right, whereas to be right-of-center means that poking fun at the right is not allowed.

Or you could simply have ignored the postings. Frankly, after over twenty one years on the Internet, I've learned not to get too emotional about anything I see on it. There is nothing that says you have to respond to postings. People say we're not forced to come here and post, the same can be said f...

Why outlaw contraception? Here's a real good question: if accepting Christ as my savior is the only way for me to get into Heaven, what is the point in making most Christian values into secular law? If I'm legally required to lead a moral life by Christian standards but I'm not required by law to ac...

Problem: This isn't Ralph's forum. It's owned and maintained by someone else and fact that these people are ultimately responsible for who is a moderator means that the actions of the moderators reflect on them. If you give someone authority and later on you find they're using that authority in ways...

To those who claim that there may be partisanship here, I would feel much more comfortable about such accusations if one could show cases of left-of-center webcomic creators who locked down threads becaue people posted comments that said creators disagreed with.

To be perfectly honest, I'm not at all shocked at this. I was rather shocked to see threads that RHJunior was locking because he didn't like what people were saying. This was a bit different from my personal experience with other forums run by saner people who only lock down threads due to bad langu...

Here's a small hint: not being allowed to color in a nativity scene at school doesn't qualify as persecution. Being beaten up almost every day at school for being homosexual qualifies as persecution. Having laws passed banning you from activities such as getting married qualifies as persecution. Bei...

Saying three hundred churches a year are burned is a completely meaningless statistic. Can one prove that each and every one of them was done by anti-Christian forces? I know of at least one Church that was set on fire by a disgruntled Christian who felt the church was too liberal. Can someone pleas...

Given the complex state of Christian affairs. I and the fact that modern evangelical christianity prompotes nothing but socially benificial cuases, and great charitable acts. There are Christians who I genuinely respect. Rev. Joel Hunter is one of them. He was going to be the leader of the Christia...

Its always funny watching Christians complain of persecution, despite the fact that the overwhelming majority of our elected officials, including Democrats, are Christian. The number of non-Christians in high elected offices is not large, and look at the treatment that the Muslim who got elected had...

I'm rather surprised no one has mentioned Joss Whedon's SF series "Firefly" which in fact pretty much has this exact premise. Whedon got the idea for Firefly from reading a book on the civil war and wondering what things would look like from the perspective of the losers.[/quote]

"There is no such thing as an unarmed Raconan" rings about as true as the statement "there was no such thing as an unarmed medieval peasant". The latter statement is technically true. Few peasants didn't have knives, and farmers had all sorts of implements that could be (and often were when they wer...

Authors who put politics into their work generally lead me to assume that they want to be taken seriously, and they want their stories to be on some level advertising for their beliefs. That is all fine and well, but when authors do that, I tend to demand that they show a greater depth and maturity ...

Religion is essentially a child-like view of the universe. Children want to believe that there is justice in the world. That the grown ups make everything right. Religion in essence is adults trying to believe in a higher justice to comfort them that in the end, everything works out. That even if yo...

Also remember that while there won't be any artificial supplies of Lux, there aren't going to be nearly as many folk drawing on Lux outside either.

I think at this point Gilder and most of the rest of the village are considering Quentyn to be history. He's heading out past the Mistwall and they're not expecting him back. Or maybe a few brief visits here and there, but otherwise he's not going to be any sort of relevent player here. He's got a c...

They were sloppy and stupid. And for what it's worth, competant schemers and plotters can understand honor and courage. They should have asked themsleves every way the plan could fail, and taken steps to counter it, however unlikely. They should have, legally, realized the Questor could save the vil...

It could be that Freeman Downs is the swing vote amount the seven villages on the Expansionist versus Open Trade issue. That would explain why something like this was pulled off. Controlling that representative would be very tempting indeed, which would lead to a blatant grab like this. Incidentally...

This reeks of revenge. The time to have reclaimed the land was back when the original Quentyn was declared legally dead (which he would have to have been for his daughter to be able to sell the property off). In fact a good lawyer could make the case that the authorities waived all rights of the lan...