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Edited on Mon Feb-12-07 10:46 AM by kenny blankenship
will end in a one way ticket to the Hot Country.
They believe that all should be condemned to life because life is the worst thing they know.
They have backwards ass political beliefs because the religious beliefs that they cling to--or those that they "come from" if they are not believers--are even more life-negating and hateful. Attitudes derived from religious doctrine inform what people believe is the "meaning of life" which in turn shapes our attitudes towards society and politics. We got lucky in this country in that most of our institutions and traditions were shaped by communities which believed in Augustinian-Calvinist Predestination. That means that is traditional among Americans and in American religious and political culture to believe that Life is a non-stop pageant of Horror and Suffering which exists for the purification and edification of the Few who are Saved. The Chosen of God will receive favor not only after life on Earth but while they are still living. They will be happy, they will be well-off. The greatest suffering in this life will be borne by the Wicked--those who will not receive salvation after death. Attempting to ameliorate the general misery of material existence, according to this traditional view, is bucking the Divine Order of the Universe. It is rebellion against God and there's nothing more sure to bring down eternal damnation on one's head than rebellion against God. Liberalism is impiety pure and simple, in fact it's the crime of Lucifer himself. Thus all should be born and all should suffer life, so that the few who are favored by God and chosen by Him through no merit of their own to receive eternal life may witness the torments of the damned and, seeing how fortunate they are to have been spared, give even greater praise to Our Lord.
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