We read:
"Marilyn Davenport, a Tea Party activist and member of the Orange County Republican Party’s central committee, is drawing fire from people in her own party after circulating a racist email depicting President Barack Obama and his parents as chimpanzees. In the email: “Now you know why — No birth certificate!”
The OC Weekly broke the story and were able to reach Davenport for comment. Her response:
“Oh, come on! Everybody who knows me knows that I am not a racist. It was a joke. I have friends who are black. Besides, I only sent it to a few people–mostly people I didn’t think would be upset by it.”
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Jon, two wrongs do not make a right. You should have learned that during your religious studies. Oh, wait, you are a damned atheist. Never mind.
ReplyDeleteAfter a recent comment on this site from an idiot engineer who, hiding behind his cloak of anonymity, made the outrageous statement that the very fact that I am a professor of mathematics makes me unqualified to teach mathematics, I decided not to respond to any more comments by people who have to remain anonymous.
ReplyDeleteBut I can't let this item go unchallenged.
The point of Jon's posting is to reveal the double standard once again. What was OK for Bush is not OK for Obama. This has nothing to do with whether or not two wrongs make a right.
Religious studies? They make people more moral? Wouldn't that be nice if it were true! The shameful track record says otherwise.
You don't need religious studies to know that two wrongs don't make a right. Oh wait - the Bible does say that - an eye for eye!
ReplyDelete"Oh wait - the Bible does say that - an eye for eye!"
ReplyDeleteOh that wacky bible!
I suppose some Christian here will consider his/her religion superior to the Jewish one and say Jesus contradicted the "eye for an eye" reference, but Jesus also said that he didn't come to remove one jot of the Jewish Law. In Matthew it's until he fulfils it (however that is interpreted)- or in Luke, Jesus says it would be easier for Heaven and Earth to pass away than for one tittle of the (Jewish) Law to fail. Way to go with the ambiguity of "God's Word"!!
ReplyDeleteIf the Devil wanted to sow confusion among humankind, it couldn't have done better than to inspire the Bible.
ReplyDeleteOh come on, this has nothing to do with religion and you know it. It's about partisan bias where conservative views are criticized and liberal views are praised. It's about criticism against conservatives being rewarded and like criticism against liberals chastised. Only until we get rid of this horrible double-standard, can we even think about moving forward.
ReplyDeleteYou repugs inject religion into politics all the time. Why can't I?
ReplyDeleteYou don't need religious studies to know that two wrongs don't make a right. Oh wait - the Bible does say that - an eye for eye!
ReplyDeleteAnd the troll wonders why I refuse to waste time on its dishonesty…
This was addressed exactly 4 weeks ago. And yet, once again you've built an obvious strawman using the exact same empty lie which was recently exposed.
I'm amazed that Jon continues to allow your belligerent disregard for facts make atheists look bad in his parlor; especially after he made an explicit request to stop such attacks.
Luke continues being a(n) _____________. Keep up the good work, Luke.
ReplyDeleteAhh, the double-standards of the left strike again. If leftists are fine with this…
ReplyDeletehttp://bit.ly/eSHcYV
…then they have no grounds for complaining about anyone comparing a leftist to a monkey. (Those in glass houses, and all that…)
http://bit.ly/eSHcYV is a fair comparison.
ReplyDeleteI noticed that I misspelled John's name. I thought I had seen it spelled as "Jon" at one point, but that was incorrect. My apologies.
ReplyDeleteLuke and Sig - the very first comment on the thread was a gratuitous attack on atheists (and on Jon/John)- not an atheist attack on religion! The following comments were in consequence.
ReplyDeleteLuke, like many christians, doesn't like the contradictions and ambiguities of the Bible being highlighted, and evades the issue by huffing and puffing about trolls and strawmen.
ReplyDeleteAnon 6:02 'If the Devil wanted to sow confusion among humankind, it couldn't have done better than to inspire the Bible.'
ReplyDeleteHe did, he encouraged Islam.
-btm
Jonathan L,
ReplyDeletere: anon12:48, look up Poe's Law
So getting back to the "racist email depicting President Barack Obama and his parents as chimpanzees" topic, do Republicans believe in evolution now?
ReplyDeletewhat does it matter if someone believes in evolution or not? The whole premise is why people fight each other "survival of the fittest" and fight over skin color, some species are superior to others.
ReplyDeleteIn reality there is only ONE single human race, but liberals would rather have us divided
"believes in evolution" makes it sound like it's a religion or requires faith. It is a scientific theory ("theory" having a specific meaning in a scientific context). The theory must be well supported by actual scientific evidence, and in the case of evolutionary theory it is. There are many other aspects within the theory that are disputed or still subject to hypothesis and research. Creationists pick on these or otherwise try to undermine the theory often misrepresenting it. While they have no scientific evidence or theories concerning their own beliefs, which apparently relies entirely on speculation and their own literal interpretation of what has ended up in the Bible text, and having blind faith in that.
ReplyDeleteAnon 8:24,
ReplyDeleteRemember that Republicans only use hand-picked "facts" to promote their ideological agenda. Any facts that do not play into their ideology are summarily discarded and are replaced by belief or lies.
As for my question, "do Republicans believe in evolution now?", that was a sarcastic statement, highlighting the above.
Dont you just enjoy the two faced liberals on how they call insulting BUSH as FREE SPEECH but insulting OBAMA is HATE SPEECH
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