Could you imagine what would happen if someone burned a Mosque? Chaos. Now someone may have torched Palin's church and I bet most people could care less. This country is going down a slippery slope.
Nobody cares. Palin bought some dresses. She deserves this. /sar Civil war within 10 years? Who wants to take bets?
This is a horrible crime. My understanding is that arson is a crime that is often solved. Chances are that it was committed by a local resident. It could also have nothing to do with the fact that Palin attended the church, although that should have nothing to do with any eventual sentence that is doled out.
It's in Wasilla, so I doubt it had anything to do with Palin. If it waas her Anchorage church, then maybe. The Wasilla church that Palin used to attend is an Assembly of God church. Those churches are Baptist churches where the members all think they are "righteous" and that others are going to hell, that Catholics suck, that Jews aren't going to heaven because they refuse to accept Jesus, etc. There is a good chance that one of the church members was preaching to some person about how they were going to hell, probably a hoodlum teenager at the local high school, by another high school kid, and the hoodlum type kid went and burned down the church because the evangelical was being such a jerk to him.
We have an active member of this board who advocates exterminating Christians. We have moderators who don't give dang about it. We are a desensistized society. We are ripe for a civil war.
I was trying to figure this out. I think the state of Texas doesn't care. They will only get the bottom half of Missouri. It'd pretty much be Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Kentucky, Tennessee, and maybe West Virginia. And in LA, MS, AL you would have to imagine some massive resistence to this new confederacy as well. I just don't see the whole Civil War thing working out, and if it were to happen, it would be short lives, as the Union would beat the living snot out of the New Confederacy.
An ideological war is what I see happening. Not based at all on geography. I don't advocate it, I just see the potential for one.
The states aren't red/blue, but rather purplish. What's more likely is the anti-religious zealots will piss off the religious zealots enough to vote in another W type next time around.
Yeah but (ok well outside of Utah) in each state you'd have internal conflict. In this hypothetical situation it wouldn't be a civil war, rather it'd resemble anarchy.
Obama has contributed the majority of his charitable funds to his own church. This is on the record. Again, not understanding the post. I can say I have not ever contributed a cent to an organized church. W and Obama cannot say this.
Anarchy is a lack of government. In the Civil War, there were two governments, so there was actually less anarchy then than now!
I happen to agree with this, but I have to keep it simple for those here who don't realize that words and actions eventually have counteractions.
That's hard to see happening. In Wisconsin for example, you have both evangelicals and non-evangelicals, atheists, etc. but the way they interact and respect each other is going to be a lot different than it is in the Southern States. Thus, the people of Wisconsin aren't very likely to go to war with each other, while say in Mississippi or something like that they are. So we will have this geographical divide based on states like Wisconsin, and basically the entire North, Southwest not wanting to go to war with each other, who will find it unacceptable for the Southern states, who would be more willing to go to war against each other, so we will have this big geographic block which the majority of the nation's resources against a small bloc of southern states, with the southern states finding tons of resistence from within their own state. It just doesn't seem that feasibly to me for another civil war to happen. Taking ove the Whitehouse with an evangelical ideologist doesn't seem that likely to me. I think best, they could take over Congress again.
