Random Politics & Religion #09

Little known fact about Lincoln's assassination.

The phrase was not merely "sic semper tyrannis," the full statement of the assassin was "sic semper tyrannis de petasi!"

Also, Booth apparently didn't hurt his leg in the jump, he hurt it when his horse fell on him during the escape.

Also, Booth apparently didn't hurt his leg in the jump, he hurt it when his horse fell on him during the escape.

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by whom and when? he's still a saint / still has a feast day in eastern orthodoxy

/waits impatiently for nap time to be over

c'mon old lady! quit leaving me hanging!

And what about Christians?

Last I saw, there are more Christians than gay people.

Should we infringe and discriminate against a majority to satisfy a minority?

/waits impatiently for nap time to be over

c'mon old lady! quit leaving me hanging!

Fishing in XIV, you will have to wait.

/waits impatiently for nap time to be over

c'mon old lady! quit leaving me hanging!

The 1969 Roman Catholic calendar revision did not remove Nicholas when forty saints were taken off. Commemoration of ninety other saints, including Nicholas, was made optional. This means celebration of their feast days is not required for faithful Roman Catholics. Nicholas, with all the saints in this group, is still recognized as a real saint in the Roman Catholic Church. It was even stressed that there is no doubt regarding Nicholas' authenticity.

Are you being serious right now?

Its pretty obvious to me that he was taking the piss and being sarcastic - since all those regimes were secular and in his previous sentence he was highlighting how everything in the middle east is blamed on religion.

I agree that people have the right to live according to whatever crazy rules they feel like making up for themselves. If they want to be level five vegans and not eat anything that casts a shadow.. that's great.

However. The moment they try to force anyone else to live under the same rules is where we run into problems.

As an example, even now in 2016 we have idiots that refuse medical care for their own dying children because of their "religious" beliefs.

We have people that believe they should be allowed to let their children dance around with poisonous snakes and drink diluted poisons to prove their faith in god.

Once you create an exemption for idiotic behavior humans will almost instinctively race to test the very limits of idiocy.

Are you being serious right now?

Going to call BS on this one.

Because Egypt, Tunisia, Syria etc has all been theocracies, with excellent human rights record.
Or because it's the Muslim military generals who instigate coups and murder elected presidents whenever they dislike him in Turkey.
Maybe it's because no Muslim country has flourished in 14 centuries.

Wrong. Theocracies are not just rule by the divinely appointed. Israel is a parliamentary democratic theocracy. Saudi Arabia is a hereditary, none divine, monarchy that is also a theocracy. Japan is a constitutional, divinely ruled, monarchy that is not a theocracy.

In many cases the only difference between religion and philosophy is the word "God"....If all of my values come from religious thought, and all of your values come from some the teachings of some secular sociopath, why is it that the latter should be treated with more respect in lawmaking?

ME politics are more complex than just blaming most or all their problems on religion (and claiming that they're better off without it).

Seoul (CNN)A senior North Korean diplomat, along with his wife and children, has safely defected to South Korea, making it the highest-level diplomatic defection from North to South Korea in history.
Thae Yong Ho, the deputy ambassador of the North Korean embassy in the UK, is under government protection, Jeong Joo-hee, a spokesman for the South Korean Unification Ministry, told reporters Wednesday.

Thae defected because "he was tired of Kim Jong Un's regime. He respects the democratic system of South Korea and for the sake of the future of his family, he defected," Jeong told reporters.

The Embassy of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, or DPRK, was not immediately available for comment.
The UK Foreign Office told CNN it will not be commenting on Thae's defection.

Thae is listed as the second-highest official after the ambassador in a diplomatic list published by the UK Foreign Office.
Thae and his family are now safely in Soputh Korea, Jeong said, but he did not elaborate on how or when the defection took place.
"They are currently under the government's protection and are going through necessary procedures conducted by relevant agencies, which are standard procedures," Jeong said.

Defections from North Korea are not uncommon. The impoverished country is known for its harsh demands of loyalty to the regime and almost complete isolation from the rest of the world.
And Pyongyang's relentless pursuit of nuclear weapons has put it at odds with the international community.
The most senior diplomat to flee the regime was a former DPRK ambassador to Egypt who defected to the United States in 1997. And the highest defection to date was Hwang Jang Yob, who fled to South Korea after holding high-profile positions in the North Korea's Worker Party. He was credited with developing the North Korean ideology of "juche," or "self-reliance."

According to the South Korean Unification Ministry website, 749 people defected from the North to the democratic South in the first six months of 2016.
In April, most of the serving staff of a North Korean restaurant in Ningbo, China, defected en masse to South Korea.
A spokesman for the North Korean Red Cross called that defection a "group abduction" of DPRK employees "in broad daylight," according to DPRK state media.

how do you propose we deal with the bolded? You simply force them to live by your rules

This is one of the most accurate and relevant statements I've seen someone make regarding the Middle East.

I am not ofetn wrong.

Human sterility by enhancing the zika virus or some sort of chemical that dissolves in water. ....

It's a WIP

Make room for the lizards!

Interesting interview. Most of us can agree with what Taibbi is saying even though it was published by Slate.

Has Donald Trump Ruined Journalism?
Matt Taibbi says most political media is shilling for one side or the other.

I think it was the corporate decision that news had to be a part of the profit picture. And that can't be blamed on Trump.

You'd be surprised how much personal info some people are willing to dump on a complete stranger. The campaign is probably actively screening for those sob stories so it doesn't seem too farfetched to me that candidates make time for the especially sound byte worthy ones.

I think plants are probably a given but some people really really get into this ***and watch it with the same enthusiasm and attention as a random sportsball game. Most people are weirdos. Much easier to rationalize things when you accept that lol.

Why is it that evangelists say they are "doing the Lord's work" but the second you do something with stem cells or something, you're "playing God"?

Aren't there a bunch of stories about Jesus healing the sick? Why aren't scientists "doing the Lord's work" too?