Are Republicans misunderstanding Obama's "bring a gun to a knife fight" comment?
there is absolutely no relevance to comparisons of this comment and Sarah Palin's "dont retreat, reload" comment, or Sarah Palin's gun cross-hairs, or Sharon Angle's "second amendment solutions", or Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh's daily violent rhetoric. the actual Obama quote is - ...Barack Obama said to counter Republican attacks “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun,” Obama said at a Philadelphia fundraiser Friday night. “Because from what I understand folks in Philly like a good brawl. I’ve seen Eagles fans.” this is obviously a play on the VERY old and common phrase "Never bring a knife to a gun fight". it has nothing to do with actual guns or violence. it simply means that you have to be prepared for what you are facing.. so obviously, Obama was saying that they would be more prepared than Republicans when debating the issue. not at all comparable to the violent rhetoric of the right. lets not get these mixed up. i understand that right-wingers have trouble with analogies and methaphors. please take a minute to think critically about what you're talking about before putting it on the Internet.. it will serve you and your party better than embarrassing yourselves.
Was Jesus a humanist and anti-authoritarian?
I thought this was interesting: Their Christianity is arrogant and judgmental: Rick Santorum says Barack Obama saw his church as an “avenue for power” and has a “phoney theology.” In other words, he’s not a real Christian like me. They’re wilfully stupid in claiming Obama wages war on religion — in a nation that places In God We Trust on its money while schoolchildren pledge allegiance to God along with country. And they’re drunk with secular, imperial power: “If you were Satan,” says Santorum, “who would you attack in this day and age? There is no one else to go after other than the United States.” Hey, we’re Number 1. Their evangelical din drowns out Christian alternatives. Not just the long-standing social justice campaigns by mainstream churches but the most stirring case of all: African-American churches of the civil rights era, which set a vastly different example. Black theologian James Cone writes about their version of faith in his new book, The Cross and the Lynching Tree. He says the point of the death of Christ is that the poor and weak are the most morally admirable among us since, lacking power, they aren’t corrupted by it. Christ joined them in their worldly defeat by suffering and dying too. But the point was also to rise up and transcend weakness and injustice — without betraying your basic decency by becoming like those who lorded it over you. For that reason, non-violence and “meekness” are necessary even as you act to overcome your status. So non-violence is the natural stance for those who take the crucifixion seriously, as Martin Luther King did. The core of this faith is that “God snatches victory out of defeat, life out of death and hope out of despair.