Foolishness is trying to disregard a system that works and replace it with one of communism, oops, I mean socialism. Atheist and liberals are trying to push political correctness on us in the disguise of equality, when people are in fact different. The left forgets that it was the religious who brought us the civil rights movement and the early feminist movement. They want to do something to make it seem like the liberals are for the rights of minorities by forcing quotas on businesses and collages, which in turn stagnate free enterprise and actually keep the minorities downtrodden. All this just to scam some votes off their “victims”.
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Er, you mean the same "system that works" that is disregarded by pretty much every other single democratic western nation? All those other nations that have social democratic political systems?
Sounds like your system is awfully successful when there is only one developed country that uses it. Not.
Oh, and you might want to look up the definition of the world "equality".
Man, there is just so much wrong here it is not funny.
Foolishness is trying to disregard a system that works and replace it with one of communism, oops, I mean socialism.
Capitalism isn't, strictly speaking, a "system". It's effectively every man for himself, which is what you get when there is no overall system. Is it even worth pointing out that Socialism and Communism are purely economic theories, and thus have bugger all to do with anything else in your little rant?
Yes, there were christians involved in the Civil Rights movement, and it's a good thing that they and their secular counterparts were able to overcome all the other christians who supported slavery, Jim Crow, and all the other aspects of racial discrimination. But christians were active in the early feminist movement????? Never heard that one. Can anyone explain what this dweeb is talking about?
Jezebel's Evil Sister -
I _think_ what this disturbed person is talking about (though I could be wrong, the less I want to think like them the better) ... is that what is referred to as the 1st Wave of Feminism (specifically the Suffragists) were of an era when all arguments towards enfranchisement included religious ones (I bet we all can think of similar arguments of the time).
What 'Fark' is doing is taking the references to religion by the 1st-wavers completely out the of context (historical, social, cultural) of the time and then placing it into a contemporary 'us vs. the atheists!' framework.
It's pretty much the sign of a REALLY bad case of intellectual laziness, if not outright dishonesty.
Us contemporary feminists today (and I claim that label myself proudly as a rational, scientific liberal committed to working to equality) actually study the 1st-wavers and actually understand what they were on about. Unlike this moron.
As far as I'm concerned, yes, Martin Luther King was a preacher, and many Catholics supported his ideas but they were and are accused of, guess what?, yes, communism, and guess why?, because they didn't bother aligning with atheists and agnostics who were much more compassionate than their religious zealots counterparts crying for segregation(in fact, very rare numbers of agnostic and atheists were in favour of segregation). Moreover, whereas it's true that some anti-feminist were agnostic(Schopenhauer), the eternal anti-feminist argument is that we're the daughters of Eve(and I'm not talking about Eva Braun). Or are you saying now that Schlaffly, Robertson and all who opposed ERA are now agnostic?
And that is exactly why the people here in godless countries with a working healthcare and a far better social security system rate far happier than most of the world. The Netherlands were on third place if I remember correctly (unfortunatly I have no online source for this, it was a newspaper article about same study in an international magazine)
And who has the happiest children in the 21 richest western countries? The Netherlands if you can believe the study done by Unicef. The UK ranks lowest and the US one place above that. They looked at healthcare, schooling, saety, prostpects and the "happiness" as the children experienced it.
But you can be happy that you don't have that infernal system in place and that you can rot in the gutters if you can't pay your healthcare insurance and have a serious accident.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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