Kerry on Religion: 'Not the Way I Think Most People Want to Live'

[Vigilante]

Making friends and supporters everywhere this fucking asshole goes... He's running Biden a close second for being stupid!

During a talk to the U.S. embassy staff in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia at the first stop on his trip to Africa, Secretary of State John Kerry remarked about what he called the "different cross-currents of modernity" and the challenges they present on the African continent. The comments contain a veiled reference to religion, and the part that religion might be playing in some of the current conflicts in Africa:

This is a time here in Africa where there are a number of different cross-currents of modernity that are coming together to make things even more challenging. Some people believe that people ought to be able to only do what they say they ought to do, or to believe what they say they ought to believe, or live by their interpretation of something that was written down a thousand plus, two thousand years ago. That’s not the way I think most people want to live.
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The words "something that was written down a thousand plus, two thousand years ago" appear to refer to the Bible, or the Koran, or perhaps both. More than one conflict in Africa today has either implicit or explicit religious connections:......

Kerry on Religion: 'Not the Way I Think Most People Want to Live' | The Weekly Standard

 

[Katzndogz]

He shouldn't talk about thinking when he obviously doesn't.

On the other hand Kerry in Africa telling muslims that he doesn't think they want to live that way has to be good for some chuckles.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Making friends and supporters everywhere this fucking asshole goes... He's running Biden a close second for being stupid!

During a talk to the U.S. embassy staff in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia at the first stop on his trip to Africa, Secretary of State John Kerry remarked about what he called the "different cross-currents of modernity" and the challenges they present on the African continent. The comments contain a veiled reference to religion, and the part that religion might be playing in some of the current conflicts in Africa:

This is a time here in Africa where there are a number of different cross-currents of modernity that are coming together to make things even more challenging. Some people believe that people ought to be able to only do what they say they ought to do, or to believe what they say they ought to believe, or live by their interpretation of something that was written down a thousand plus, two thousand years ago. That’s not the way I think most people want to live.
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The words "something that was written down a thousand plus, two thousand years ago" appear to refer to the Bible, or the Koran, or perhaps both. More than one conflict in Africa today has either implicit or explicit religious connections:......

Kerry on Religion: 'Not the Way I Think Most People Want to Live' | The Weekly Standard

^^^^^ Tuff dat, V.

You want to make us live the way you want.

Won't happen.

Yes, we live in the 21st century, not a thousand or two thousand or three thousand years go

 

[JimBowie1958]

Demographics will settle how people ought to live.

What I or anyone thinks about it really doesn't matter; those who have more kids and raise them to be resistant to Kerrey the Crook's sense of 'modernity' will inherit the Earth.

Unfortunately that group would appear to be the Islamacists.

 

[Vigilante]

Making friends and supporters everywhere this fucking asshole goes... He's running Biden a close second for being stupid!

During a talk to the U.S. embassy staff in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia at the first stop on his trip to Africa, Secretary of State John Kerry remarked about what he called the "different cross-currents of modernity" and the challenges they present on the African continent. The comments contain a veiled reference to religion, and the part that religion might be playing in some of the current conflicts in Africa:

This is a time here in Africa where there are a number of different cross-currents of modernity that are coming together to make things even more challenging. Some people believe that people ought to be able to only do what they say they ought to do, or to believe what they say they ought to believe, or live by their interpretation of something that was written down a thousand plus, two thousand years ago. That’s not the way I think most people want to live.
​

The words "something that was written down a thousand plus, two thousand years ago" appear to refer to the Bible, or the Koran, or perhaps both. More than one conflict in Africa today has either implicit or explicit religious connections:......

Kerry on Religion: 'Not the Way I Think Most People Want to Live' | The Weekly Standard

^^^^^ Tuff dat, V.

You want to make us live the way you want.

Won't happen.

Yes, we live in the 21st century, not a thousand or two thousand or three thousand years go

Flakey, how many people have a religions view compared to people like you that have no morals, ethics or principles?

 

[Avatar4321]

Most of us don't want to be honest, charitable, good people?

 

[JimBowie1958]

Most of us don't want to be honest, charitable, good people?

Meh, maybe most of us do, but then again, the problem is more a matter of prioritization than anything.

 

[shart_attack]

He shouldn't talk about thinking when he obviously doesn't.

On the other hand Kerry in Africa telling muslims that he doesn't think they want to live that way has to be good for some chuckles.

... and for getting some American embassies over there torched, and some of our men and women who run them there killed — you know, kinda sorta like an online video by an American preacher allegedly did in Libya.

It's always perfectly okay to snotty-nosed liberal Democrats who've never gotten their hands dirty with real work when said liberal Democrats say the sorts of things that are egregiously and patently offensive to other cultures that any American who isn't a liberal Democrat can't likewise say. Always.

Keep talkin', Democrats. Just keeeeeeeeeeeeeep talkin'.

You can't blame George W. Bush any more.

 

[Political Junky]

And the Right continues its efforts to run everyone's lives, worldwide.

 

[S.J.]

And the Right continues its efforts to run everyone's lives, worldwide.

Bullshit, but nice try at reversing the roles.

 

[dannyboys]

John is just upset that 'The Pickle Lady' tells him what to do and think. But as her 'Lap Poodle' what else can he do?
That's not so true these days as much as a couple of years ago.
'The Pickle Lady' isn't doing a lot of 'thinking' for herself any more. Just being fussed over by her Black nurses and drooling a lot.

 

[Moonglow]

Making friends and supporters everywhere this fucking asshole goes... He's running Biden a close second for being stupid!

During a talk to the U.S. embassy staff in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia at the first stop on his trip to Africa, Secretary of State John Kerry remarked about what he called the "different cross-currents of modernity" and the challenges they present on the African continent. The comments contain a veiled reference to religion, and the part that religion might be playing in some of the current conflicts in Africa:

This is a time here in Africa where there are a number of different cross-currents of modernity that are coming together to make things even more challenging. Some people believe that people ought to be able to only do what they say they ought to do, or to believe what they say they ought to believe, or live by their interpretation of something that was written down a thousand plus, two thousand years ago. That’s not the way I think most people want to live.
​

The words "something that was written down a thousand plus, two thousand years ago" appear to refer to the Bible, or the Koran, or perhaps both. More than one conflict in Africa today has either implicit or explicit religious connections:......

Kerry on Religion: 'Not the Way I Think Most People Want to Live' | The Weekly Standard

^^^^^ Tuff dat, V.

You want to make us live the way you want.

Won't happen.

Yes, we live in the 21st century, not a thousand or two thousand or three thousand years go

Flakey, how many people have a religions view compared to people like you that have no morals, ethics or principles?

You claim the moral, ethical and principled high ground!?? Try to stop with the name calling and let us see how long before you hit the skids again..

 

[JakeStarkey]

V has no moral base, no spiritual view.

He is one of the far right reactionary social cons who abuse religious freedom in order to gain power over others.

 

[Asclepias]

Both the bible and the quran are fairytales sourced from the same ancient religion. Its amazing the damage both have done to the world after 1491.

 

[Katzndogz]

He shouldn't talk about thinking when he obviously doesn't.

On the other hand Kerry in Africa telling muslims that he doesn't think they want to live that way has to be good for some chuckles.

... and for getting some American embassies over there torched, and some of our men and women who run them there killed — you know, kinda sorta like an online video by an American preacher allegedly did in Libya.

It's always perfectly okay to snotty-nosed liberal Democrats who've never gotten their hands dirty with real work when said liberal Democrats say the sorts of things that are egregiously and patently offensive to other cultures that any American who isn't a liberal Democrat can't likewise say. Always.

Keep talkin', Democrats. Just keeeeeeeeeeeeeep talkin'.

You can't blame George W. Bush any more.

How did Nakula Nakula suddenly become an American preacher? How did that happen? Do you have a link? Some kind of proof? Everything about the guy says he was just some ordinary Coptic Christian who wanted to expose islam and made a cheap movie about it.

 

[Moonglow]

Nakula Nakula, an ordinary guy on probation, and part of that probation prohibited him from using the internet to produce anything with an alias, and without prior consent from his probation officer..

 

[RandomVariable]

"Some people believe that people ought to be able to only do what they say they ought to do, or to believe what they say they ought to believe, or live by their interpretation"

Secretary Kerry is not saying not to follow to letter of the Book. (He is not say to do it and he is also not saying which Book.) He is saying that there are those who have interpretations of the Book which are probably not best followed. I think we can all think of some people who have interpretations of the Book which are best not followed.

Remarks at Embassy Addis Ababa and the U.S. Mission to the African Union

This is a time here in Africa where there are a number of different cross-currents of modernity that are coming together to make things even more challenging. Some people believe that people ought to be able to only do what they say they ought to do, or to believe what they say they ought to believe, or live by their interpretation of something that was written down a thousand plus, two thousand years ago. That’s not the way I think most people want to live.

 

[Vigilante]

^^^^^ Tuff dat, V.

You want to make us live the way you want.

Won't happen.

Yes, we live in the 21st century, not a thousand or two thousand or three thousand years go

Flakey, how many people have a religions view compared to people like you that have no morals, ethics or principles?

You claim the moral, ethical and principled high ground!?? Try to stop with the name calling and let us see how long before you hit the skids again..

And from a post of yours less than a half hour ago...

Which shithead is that?? There are just too many to figure that one out...

Child, YOU are a PATHETIC loser, besides being a hypocrite!

 

[Asclepias]

Religions are outdated as political philosophy. If they can be interpreted in a manner that caused the amount of destruction Christianity and Islam have done then they need to be confined to places of worship or the home.

 

[Moonglow]

Flakey, how many people have a religions view compared to people like you that have no morals, ethics or principles?

You claim the moral, ethical and principled high ground!?? Try to stop with the name calling and let us see how long before you hit the skids again..

And from a post of yours less than a half hour ago...

Which shithead is that?? There are just too many to figure that one out...

Child, YOU are a PATHETIC loser, besides being a hypocrite!

I don't have the ability to degenerate myself by playing the vindictive pious ass you are..