Compassionate Conservatism

Galvatron · Post by **Galvatron** » 2004-06-30 09:21pm

Compassionate Conservatism asserts in part that:

* The Constitution does not mandate a wall separating church and state;

* Government should fund religious social service programs that include proselytizing and worship as key components;

* We should reexamine a policy of “multiple establishment” of religion, in which different religions and denominations are directly funded by the federal government; and

* It is an “error” to judge federally-funded social service programs by the effectiveness of the services they provide, instead of judging them by religious “long-term ends.”

WHAT ARE GEORGE "DUBYA" BUSH'S RELIGIOUS BELIEFS?

Aaron · Post by **Aaron** » 2004-06-30 11:48pm

I don't know what scares me more. That he actually buys into this crap, or that half the population of the USA, supposadly the most developed country in the world does.

Post by **Zaia** » 2004-06-30 11:58pm

WTF does the last one mean? What 'religious long-term ends'?

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2004-07-01 12:01am

1. LMAO...funny....in that ultra horrifying way.

2. Cool...I'll want money for my particular sect of Shintoism

3. Yeah okay...whatever

4.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2004-07-01 12:44am

Zaia wrote:WTF does the last one mean? What 'religious long-term ends'?

Probably that everyone ends up Christian.

Xenophobe3691 · Post by **Xenophobe3691** » 2004-07-01 12:46am

Zaia wrote:WTF does the last one mean? What 'religious long-term ends'?

I believe they're talking about when the Last Trump blows and a shit ton of people who've led outstanding lives without believing in Christ get thrown into a lake of fire.

Post by **Zaia** » 2004-07-01 12:59am

Xenophobe3691 wrote:
Zaia wrote:WTF does the last one mean? What 'religious long-term ends'?
I believe they're talking about when the Last Trump blows and a shit ton of people who've led outstanding lives without believing in Christ get thrown into a lake of fire.

Oh good, that policy was missing in all the other candidates I was considering for El Presidente! *votes for Bush!*

JME2 · Post by **JME2** » 2004-07-01 01:37am

If anything, this is an indication of a new set of Dark Ages; Before you know it, science will be persecuted and outlawed again.

Darth Raptor · Post by **Darth Raptor** » 2004-07-01 01:39am

Zaia wrote:WTF does the last one mean? What 'religious long-term ends'?

That part was horrifyingly theocratic. Don't judge by their practical usefullness, but rather by their spiritual fulfillment? That should induce a gag reflex in whoever reads that. But half of all Americans would give it their seal of approval.

Galvatron · Post by **Galvatron** » 2004-07-01 07:30pm

Zaia wrote:WTF does the last one mean? What 'religious long-term ends'?

As David A. Harris of the National Jewish Democratic Council put it...

"The book outlines, in no uncertain terms, that the goal of the ‘faith-based’ domestic agenda espoused by Governor Bush is indeed taxpayer-funded proselytization of the poor.”

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2004-07-01 07:33pm

I'm waiting for a right-winger to come storming in here saying that we're exaggerating, that it's no big deal that the President is shitting on the First Amendment, etc.

Xenophobe3691 · Post by **Xenophobe3691** » 2004-07-01 07:41pm

Zaia wrote: Oh good, that policy was missing in all the other candidates I was considering for El Presidente! *votes for Bush!*

Great to know I cleared it up for you, it was kinda confusing to me too, until I started thinking like my mom and turned my brain Off to Logic and On to Religion. It still hurts...