When a country abandons God. God then abandons the country.

[surada]

Where's your evidence that democrats are communist?

Maybe not yet.

According to Alexander Solzhenitsyn:

"...As humanism in its development became more and more materialistic, it made itself increasingly accessible to speculation and manipulation by socialism and then by communism. So that Karl Marx was able to say that "communism is naturalized humanism."

This statement turned out not to be entirely senseless. One does see the same stones in the foundations of a despiritualized humanism and of any type of socialism: endless materialism; freedom from religion and religious responsibility, which under communist regimes reach the stage of anti-religious dictatorships; concentration on social structures with a seemingly scientific approach. This is typical of the Enlightenment in the 18th Century and of Marxism. Not by coincidence all of communism's meaningless pledges and oaths are about Man, with a capital M, and his earthly happiness. At first glance it seems an ugly parallel: common traits in the thinking and way of life of today's West and today's East? But such is the logic of materialistic development.

The interrelationship is such, too, that the current of materialism which is most to the left always ends up by being stronger, more attractive, and victorious, because it is more consistent. Humanism without its Christian heritage cannot resist such competition. We watch this process in the past centuries and especially in the past decades, on a world scale as the situation becomes increasingly dramatic. Liberalism was inevitably displaced by radicalism; radicalism had to surrender to socialism; and socialism could never resist communism. The communist regime in the East could stand and grow due to the enthusiastic support from an enormous number of Western intellectuals who felt a kinship and refused to see communism's crimes. And when they no longer could do so, they tried to justify them. In our Eastern countries, communism has suffered a complete ideological defeat; it is zero and less than zero. But Western intellectuals still look at it with interest and with empathy, and this is precisely what makes it so immensely difficult for the West to withstand the East.

I am not examining here the case of a world war disaster and the changes which it would produce in society. As long as we wake up every morning under a peaceful sun, we have to lead an everyday life. There is a disaster, however, which has already been under way for quite some time. I am referring to the calamity of a despiritualized and irreligious humanistic consciousness..."

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn: Harvard Commencement Address (A World Split Apart)

Complete text audio and video of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Harvard Commencement Address

www.americanrhetoric.com

Do you actually care what Marx said? It a totally failed ideology.

I care that socialism is a subtle narcotic which destroys the spirit and eventually leads to socialism.

It would more correct to prove socialism has ever entered the politics of America instead of the usual Republican propaganda scare tactics.

Look no further than partisan politics and cronyism. But you'd have to actually open your eyes to see it's both parties and not just the one you hate.

I'd say that when the government starts forcing people to purchase products or controls what products are available for purchase we have entered into socialism/communism.

I don't hate the Republican party or Republicans... I was one until Bush invaded Iraq.. But these days they are hardly recognizable.. Trump's chicanery and vulgarity has changed the whole mindset to one of lies, slander and violent rhetoric..

You should have known he was a snake when you took him in.

Which time? Which Bush?

Papa Bush was justified in chasing Saddam out of Kuwait.. Dubya was just out of his mind. He claimed he was fighting Gog and Magog.. Sucking up to Israel.

Do you know Kuwait? I lived there. Kuwait was in the wrong. Kuwait met Iraq's OPEC quots during the wars with Iran. They share an oilfield .. Historically Kuwait was a province of Iraq. Anyway, Kuwait wouldn't forgive Iraq's debt and was still pumping from Iraqi reserves.

Saudi Arabia had also covered Iraq's OPEC quota.. The Saudis forgave Saddam's debt.

You literally just contradicted yourself when you said Papa Bush was justified in chasing Saddam out of Kuwait and then followed that up with Kuwait was in the wrong.

Kuwait was in the wrong, but that doesn't mean he can invade Kuwait.. especially since the US had subtly given Saddam the greenlight.

 

[hobelim]

if scripture is true

It is but you clearly don't understand it if you are going around condemning people to hell.

Ahem....As I have told you many times I am not condemning you or anyone to hell. Have you forgotten? I am telling you that because you violate the commands of God as a matter of religious devotion and desecrate the teachings of Jesus by worshiping and eating the lifeless work of human hands for spiritual life YOU ARE ALREADY IN HELL, not because I say so but because of what you say and openly admit to doing.

Your idiotic rationales for doing what you do at mass and inability to perceive the stupidity of it prove that you are under a curse, the death promised for your failure to conform to the will of God.

You have your reward already!

What a load of bollocks. Its always the same when religious republicans cannot justify the crazy religion they support. Our comes the obligatory threat of eternal fire.
Now you've extended it to doing gods commands without his authority and suggesting you know the appropriate punishment on gods behalf.
Who Do you think you are?
How arrogant of you to suggest you speak on behalf of your ghost?
You have nothing and never will. You're delusional.

lol.... Relax. I am being a sanctimonious prick on purpose. I am paying back these religious hypocrites in their own coin. Do you have any idea how much suffering they have caused throughout the ages? Should I coddle them? Pretend they are living according to the instruction in the bible when they obviously are not? Do you want these people to influence customs and laws to turn the world into a living hell based on their perverse views of life inspired by their inability to comprehend the simple hidden teaching in ancient hebrew children stories?

I am basing everything I said on what ding professes to believe, that the bible is the truth, the very word of God. Whether he exists or not he is a character in that book. As that character he says "do this, don't do that" and according to what is written ding is under the condemnation of that God for doing what God said to not do under penalty of death.

Remember these stories were written to educate children about the many types of personalities in this world, either clean or unclean. Every creature described in kosher law is a metaphor for a human archetype. Eat the flesh of unclean creatures that do not ruminate and you will defile and contaminate your mind and devolve into an unclean creature that cannot ruminate, think deeply.

Defy that instruction and you will lose your mind, your very soul. Have a go at trying to have a rational conversation with ding about his irrational beliefs that contradict his own holy book.

Maybe then you will realize that those fairy tales teach timeless truths about actual reality not because I am speaking for a ghost but because you will see and hear their insanity with your own eyes and ears, the consequence for failing to stand guard over the sanctity of their own mind.

I'm bookmarking this post.

Screw that.

Just go to confession and tell the priest to tell God for you just how sorry you are for your sins and then to prove your sincerity violate the law of God, sin some more, and get down on your knees and worship the lifeless work of human hands and then eat it for spiritual life.

Go ahead, Eat it. I'm sure that God will be very impressed

I am

Did you know that confessing one's sins has a practical benefit? One might even say it's a functional advantage.

lol... Confess sins that are not sinful and do that which is sinful?

Sure its a functional advantage to the church and state. Getting people to confess their so called sins was an old fashioned way of gathering and weaponizing information before wiretaps and computers. The human mind being rendered useless through the power of death consequent to defying the law of God was just a bonus that insures the perpetuation of that scam and keeps the potentates of darkness in power.

Go to hell, your sins are not forgiven.

 

[ding]

Where's your evidence that democrats are communist?

Maybe not yet.

According to Alexander Solzhenitsyn:

"...As humanism in its development became more and more materialistic, it made itself increasingly accessible to speculation and manipulation by socialism and then by communism. So that Karl Marx was able to say that "communism is naturalized humanism."

This statement turned out not to be entirely senseless. One does see the same stones in the foundations of a despiritualized humanism and of any type of socialism: endless materialism; freedom from religion and religious responsibility, which under communist regimes reach the stage of anti-religious dictatorships; concentration on social structures with a seemingly scientific approach. This is typical of the Enlightenment in the 18th Century and of Marxism. Not by coincidence all of communism's meaningless pledges and oaths are about Man, with a capital M, and his earthly happiness. At first glance it seems an ugly parallel: common traits in the thinking and way of life of today's West and today's East? But such is the logic of materialistic development.

The interrelationship is such, too, that the current of materialism which is most to the left always ends up by being stronger, more attractive, and victorious, because it is more consistent. Humanism without its Christian heritage cannot resist such competition. We watch this process in the past centuries and especially in the past decades, on a world scale as the situation becomes increasingly dramatic. Liberalism was inevitably displaced by radicalism; radicalism had to surrender to socialism; and socialism could never resist communism. The communist regime in the East could stand and grow due to the enthusiastic support from an enormous number of Western intellectuals who felt a kinship and refused to see communism's crimes. And when they no longer could do so, they tried to justify them. In our Eastern countries, communism has suffered a complete ideological defeat; it is zero and less than zero. But Western intellectuals still look at it with interest and with empathy, and this is precisely what makes it so immensely difficult for the West to withstand the East.

I am not examining here the case of a world war disaster and the changes which it would produce in society. As long as we wake up every morning under a peaceful sun, we have to lead an everyday life. There is a disaster, however, which has already been under way for quite some time. I am referring to the calamity of a despiritualized and irreligious humanistic consciousness..."

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn: Harvard Commencement Address (A World Split Apart)

Complete text audio and video of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Harvard Commencement Address

www.americanrhetoric.com

Do you actually care what Marx said? It a totally failed ideology.

I care that socialism is a subtle narcotic which destroys the spirit and eventually leads to socialism.

It would more correct to prove socialism has ever entered the politics of America instead of the usual Republican propaganda scare tactics.

Look no further than partisan politics and cronyism. But you'd have to actually open your eyes to see it's both parties and not just the one you hate.

I'd say that when the government starts forcing people to purchase products or controls what products are available for purchase we have entered into socialism/communism.

I don't hate the Republican party or Republicans... I was one until Bush invaded Iraq.. But these days they are hardly recognizable.. Trump's chicanery and vulgarity has changed the whole mindset to one of lies, slander and violent rhetoric..

You should have known he was a snake when you took him in.

Which time? Which Bush?

Papa Bush was justified in chasing Saddam out of Kuwait.. Dubya was just out of his mind. He claimed he was fighting Gog and Magog.. Sucking up to Israel.

Do you know Kuwait? I lived there. Kuwait was in the wrong. Kuwait met Iraq's OPEC quots during the wars with Iran. They share an oilfield .. Historically Kuwait was a province of Iraq. Anyway, Kuwait wouldn't forgive Iraq's debt and was still pumping from Iraqi reserves.

Saudi Arabia had also covered Iraq's OPEC quota.. The Saudis forgave Saddam's debt.

You literally just contradicted yourself when you said Papa Bush was justified in chasing Saddam out of Kuwait and then followed that up with Kuwait was in the wrong.

Kuwait was in the wrong, but that doesn't mean he can invade Kuwait.. especially since the US had subtly given Saddam the greenlight.

Still contradictory. Even more so now that you add that the US gave Saddam the green light.

 

[ding]

if scripture is true

It is but you clearly don't understand it if you are going around condemning people to hell.

Ahem....As I have told you many times I am not condemning you or anyone to hell. Have you forgotten? I am telling you that because you violate the commands of God as a matter of religious devotion and desecrate the teachings of Jesus by worshiping and eating the lifeless work of human hands for spiritual life YOU ARE ALREADY IN HELL, not because I say so but because of what you say and openly admit to doing.

Your idiotic rationales for doing what you do at mass and inability to perceive the stupidity of it prove that you are under a curse, the death promised for your failure to conform to the will of God.

You have your reward already!

What a load of bollocks. Its always the same when religious republicans cannot justify the crazy religion they support. Our comes the obligatory threat of eternal fire.
Now you've extended it to doing gods commands without his authority and suggesting you know the appropriate punishment on gods behalf.
Who Do you think you are?
How arrogant of you to suggest you speak on behalf of your ghost?
You have nothing and never will. You're delusional.

lol.... Relax. I am being a sanctimonious prick on purpose. I am paying back these religious hypocrites in their own coin. Do you have any idea how much suffering they have caused throughout the ages? Should I coddle them? Pretend they are living according to the instruction in the bible when they obviously are not? Do you want these people to influence customs and laws to turn the world into a living hell based on their perverse views of life inspired by their inability to comprehend the simple hidden teaching in ancient hebrew children stories?

I am basing everything I said on what ding professes to believe, that the bible is the truth, the very word of God. Whether he exists or not he is a character in that book. As that character he says "do this, don't do that" and according to what is written ding is under the condemnation of that God for doing what God said to not do under penalty of death.

Remember these stories were written to educate children about the many types of personalities in this world, either clean or unclean. Every creature described in kosher law is a metaphor for a human archetype. Eat the flesh of unclean creatures that do not ruminate and you will defile and contaminate your mind and devolve into an unclean creature that cannot ruminate, think deeply.

Defy that instruction and you will lose your mind, your very soul. Have a go at trying to have a rational conversation with ding about his irrational beliefs that contradict his own holy book.

Maybe then you will realize that those fairy tales teach timeless truths about actual reality not because I am speaking for a ghost but because you will see and hear their insanity with your own eyes and ears, the consequence for failing to stand guard over the sanctity of their own mind.

I'm bookmarking this post.

Screw that.

Just go to confession and tell the priest to tell God for you just how sorry you are for your sins and then to prove your sincerity violate the law of God, sin some more, and get down on your knees and worship the lifeless work of human hands and then eat it for spiritual life.

Go ahead, Eat it. I'm sure that God will be very impressed

I am

Did you know that confessing one's sins has a practical benefit? One might even say it's a functional advantage.

lol... Confess sins that are not sinful and do that which is sinful?

Sure its a functional advantage to the church and state, getting people to confess their so called sins was an old fashioned way of gathering and weaponizing information before wiretaps.....

smarten up.

It would do you some good to speak your sins out loud to someone. It doesn't even have to be a priest. Just the act of speaking them out load will release the power it holds over you. I'm going to pray for you now.

Dear Lord, please help hobelim reach rock bottom as fast and as humanely as possible so that he may see the depths which he has fallen and repent like the prodigal son.

 

[Colin norris]

Where's your evidence that democrats are communist?

Maybe not yet.

According to Alexander Solzhenitsyn:

"...As humanism in its development became more and more materialistic, it made itself increasingly accessible to speculation and manipulation by socialism and then by communism. So that Karl Marx was able to say that "communism is naturalized humanism."

This statement turned out not to be entirely senseless. One does see the same stones in the foundations of a despiritualized humanism and of any type of socialism: endless materialism; freedom from religion and religious responsibility, which under communist regimes reach the stage of anti-religious dictatorships; concentration on social structures with a seemingly scientific approach. This is typical of the Enlightenment in the 18th Century and of Marxism. Not by coincidence all of communism's meaningless pledges and oaths are about Man, with a capital M, and his earthly happiness. At first glance it seems an ugly parallel: common traits in the thinking and way of life of today's West and today's East? But such is the logic of materialistic development.

The interrelationship is such, too, that the current of materialism which is most to the left always ends up by being stronger, more attractive, and victorious, because it is more consistent. Humanism without its Christian heritage cannot resist such competition. We watch this process in the past centuries and especially in the past decades, on a world scale as the situation becomes increasingly dramatic. Liberalism was inevitably displaced by radicalism; radicalism had to surrender to socialism; and socialism could never resist communism. The communist regime in the East could stand and grow due to the enthusiastic support from an enormous number of Western intellectuals who felt a kinship and refused to see communism's crimes. And when they no longer could do so, they tried to justify them. In our Eastern countries, communism has suffered a complete ideological defeat; it is zero and less than zero. But Western intellectuals still look at it with interest and with empathy, and this is precisely what makes it so immensely difficult for the West to withstand the East.

I am not examining here the case of a world war disaster and the changes which it would produce in society. As long as we wake up every morning under a peaceful sun, we have to lead an everyday life. There is a disaster, however, which has already been under way for quite some time. I am referring to the calamity of a despiritualized and irreligious humanistic consciousness..."

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn: Harvard Commencement Address (A World Split Apart)

Complete text audio and video of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Harvard Commencement Address

www.americanrhetoric.com

Do you actually care what Marx said? It a totally failed ideology.

I care that socialism is a subtle narcotic which destroys the spirit and eventually leads to socialism.

It would more correct to prove socialism has ever entered the politics of America instead of the usual Republican propaganda scare tactics.

Look no further than partisan politics and cronyism. But you'd have to actually open your eyes to see it's both parties and not just the one you hate.

I'd say that when the government starts forcing people to purchase products or controls what products are available for purchase we have entered into socialism/communism.

I don't hate the Republican party or Republicans... I was one until Bush invaded Iraq.. But these days they are hardly recognizable.. Trump's chicanery and vulgarity has changed the whole mindset to one of lies, slander and violent rhetoric..

You should have known he was a snake when you took him in.

Which time? Which Bush?

Papa Bush was justified in chasing Saddam out of Kuwait.. Dubya was just out of his mind. He claimed he was fighting Gog and Magog.. Sucking up to Israel.

Do you know Kuwait? I lived there. Kuwait was in the wrong. Kuwait met Iraq's OPEC quots during the wars with Iran. They share an oilfield .. Historically Kuwait was a province of Iraq. Anyway, Kuwait wouldn't forgive Iraq's debt and was still pumping from Iraqi reserves.

Saudi Arabia had also covered Iraq's OPEC quota.. The Saudis forgave Saddam's debt.

You literally just contradicted yourself when you said Papa Bush was justified in chasing Saddam out of Kuwait and then followed that up with Kuwait was in the wrong.

Bush didn't care who was in the wrong. It was invaded to protect the oil reserves.
Anyone whobelieves otherwise is a fool.

 

[Carl in Michigan]

Hello everyone I'm new here and I'm interested in civilized discourse about our great nation

Hello.

Are you interested in a civilized discussion about the fact that many of the laws of this great nation are based on the most superficial superstitious perverse and ignorant interpretation of the divine commands possible whatever anyone believes or doesn't believe about God, Jesus, or the bible, which makes it way less great than it should be given the founding principles and professed dedication to truth equality and justice?

I’m willing to rent you a nice little, cozy thatch-and-tarp townhouse in Rwanda.

Pft...

I'll say what I damn well please. I'm an American goddamnit!

And if you don't see any room for improvement peckerwood you are an idiot.

You make the ASSumption that your anti god version of morality is an improvement. Reality says you're wrong

 

[Carl in Michigan]

if scripture is true

It is but you clearly don't understand it if you are going around condemning people to hell.

Ahem....As I have told you many times I am not condemning you or anyone to hell. Have you forgotten? I am telling you that because you violate the commands of God as a matter of religious devotion and desecrate the teachings of Jesus by worshiping and eating the lifeless work of human hands for spiritual life YOU ARE ALREADY IN HELL, not because I say so but because of what you say and openly admit to doing.

Your idiotic rationales for doing what you do at mass and inability to perceive the stupidity of it prove that you are under a curse, the death promised for your failure to conform to the will of God.

You have your reward already!

What a load of bollocks. Its always the same when religious republicans cannot justify the crazy religion they support. Our comes the obligatory threat of eternal fire.
Now you've extended it to doing gods commands without his authority and suggesting you know the appropriate punishment on gods behalf.
Who Do you think you are?
How arrogant of you to suggest you speak on behalf of your ghost?
You have nothing and never will. You're delusional.

lol.... Relax. I am being a sanctimonious prick on purpose. I am paying back these religious hypocrites in their own coin. Do you have any idea how much suffering they have caused throughout the ages? Should I coddle them? Pretend they are living according to the instruction in the bible when they obviously are not? Do you want these people to influence customs and laws to turn the world into a living hell based on their perverse views of life inspired by their inability to comprehend the simple hidden teaching in ancient hebrew children stories?

I am basing everything I said on what ding professes to believe, that the bible is the truth, the very word of God. Whether he exists or not he is a character in that book. As that character he says "do this, don't do that" and according to what is written ding is under the condemnation of that God for doing what God said to not do under penalty of death.

Remember these stories were written to educate children about the many types of personalities in this world, either clean or unclean. Every creature described in kosher law is a metaphor for a human archetype. Eat the flesh of unclean creatures that do not ruminate and you will defile and contaminate your mind and devolve into an unclean creature that cannot ruminate, think deeply.

Defy that instruction and you will lose your mind, your very soul. Have a go at trying to have a rational conversation with ding about his irrational beliefs that contradict his own holy book.

Maybe then you will realize that those fairy tales teach timeless truths about actual reality not because I am speaking for a ghost but because you will see and hear their insanity with your own eyes and ears, the consequence for failing to stand guard over the sanctity of their own mind.

I'm bookmarking this post.

Screw that.

Just go to confession and tell the priest to tell God for you just how sorry you are for your sins and then to prove your sincerity violate the law of God, sin some more, and get down on your knees and worship the lifeless work of human hands and then eat it for spiritual life.

Go ahead, Eat it. I'm sure that God will be very impressed

I am

Did you know that confessing one's sins has a practical benefit? One might even say it's a functional advantage.

lol... Confess sins that are not sinful and do that which is sinful?

Sure its a functional advantage to the church and state, getting people to confess their so called sins was an old fashioned way of gathering and weaponizing information before wiretaps.....

smarten up.

It would do you some good to speak your sins out loud to someone. It doesn't even have to be a priest. Just the act of speaking them out load will release the power it holds over you. I'm going to pray for you now.

Dear Lord, please help hobelim reach rock bottom as fast and as humanely as possible so that he may see the depths which he has fallen and repent like the prodigal son.

I'm gonna borrow that prayer. I know a few who need to hit rock bottom quickly too

 

[surada]

Where's your evidence that democrats are communist?

Maybe not yet.

According to Alexander Solzhenitsyn:

"...As humanism in its development became more and more materialistic, it made itself increasingly accessible to speculation and manipulation by socialism and then by communism. So that Karl Marx was able to say that "communism is naturalized humanism."

This statement turned out not to be entirely senseless. One does see the same stones in the foundations of a despiritualized humanism and of any type of socialism: endless materialism; freedom from religion and religious responsibility, which under communist regimes reach the stage of anti-religious dictatorships; concentration on social structures with a seemingly scientific approach. This is typical of the Enlightenment in the 18th Century and of Marxism. Not by coincidence all of communism's meaningless pledges and oaths are about Man, with a capital M, and his earthly happiness. At first glance it seems an ugly parallel: common traits in the thinking and way of life of today's West and today's East? But such is the logic of materialistic development.

The interrelationship is such, too, that the current of materialism which is most to the left always ends up by being stronger, more attractive, and victorious, because it is more consistent. Humanism without its Christian heritage cannot resist such competition. We watch this process in the past centuries and especially in the past decades, on a world scale as the situation becomes increasingly dramatic. Liberalism was inevitably displaced by radicalism; radicalism had to surrender to socialism; and socialism could never resist communism. The communist regime in the East could stand and grow due to the enthusiastic support from an enormous number of Western intellectuals who felt a kinship and refused to see communism's crimes. And when they no longer could do so, they tried to justify them. In our Eastern countries, communism has suffered a complete ideological defeat; it is zero and less than zero. But Western intellectuals still look at it with interest and with empathy, and this is precisely what makes it so immensely difficult for the West to withstand the East.

I am not examining here the case of a world war disaster and the changes which it would produce in society. As long as we wake up every morning under a peaceful sun, we have to lead an everyday life. There is a disaster, however, which has already been under way for quite some time. I am referring to the calamity of a despiritualized and irreligious humanistic consciousness..."

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn: Harvard Commencement Address (A World Split Apart)

Complete text audio and video of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Harvard Commencement Address

www.americanrhetoric.com

Do you actually care what Marx said? It a totally failed ideology.

I care that socialism is a subtle narcotic which destroys the spirit and eventually leads to socialism.

It would more correct to prove socialism has ever entered the politics of America instead of the usual Republican propaganda scare tactics.

Look no further than partisan politics and cronyism. But you'd have to actually open your eyes to see it's both parties and not just the one you hate.

I'd say that when the government starts forcing people to purchase products or controls what products are available for purchase we have entered into socialism/communism.

I don't hate the Republican party or Republicans... I was one until Bush invaded Iraq.. But these days they are hardly recognizable.. Trump's chicanery and vulgarity has changed the whole mindset to one of lies, slander and violent rhetoric..

You should have known he was a snake when you took him in.

Which time? Which Bush?

Papa Bush was justified in chasing Saddam out of Kuwait.. Dubya was just out of his mind. He claimed he was fighting Gog and Magog.. Sucking up to Israel.

Do you know Kuwait? I lived there. Kuwait was in the wrong. Kuwait met Iraq's OPEC quots during the wars with Iran. They share an oilfield .. Historically Kuwait was a province of Iraq. Anyway, Kuwait wouldn't forgive Iraq's debt and was still pumping from Iraqi reserves.

Saudi Arabia had also covered Iraq's OPEC quota.. The Saudis forgave Saddam's debt.

You literally just contradicted yourself when you said Papa Bush was justified in chasing Saddam out of Kuwait and then followed that up with Kuwait was in the wrong.

Bush didn't care who was in the wrong. It was invaded to protect the oil reserves.
Anyone whobelieves otherwise is a fool.

No it wasn't for oil reserves.. The oil business hates a war zone and Iraqi reserves were in jeapardy because of the complete lack of reserve mgmt. Saddam invited Halliburton to come back in and repair and update the reserves in 1997 at a cost of 20 billion.. That wasn't what Bibi wanted. Read Clean Break Strategy.

In the first 4 years after Bush declared victory I counted 600 incidents of sabotage before I stopped counting. It was 8 years before their oil business recovered and initially big oil refused to go back in.

 

[ding]

Where's your evidence that democrats are communist?

Maybe not yet.

According to Alexander Solzhenitsyn:

"...As humanism in its development became more and more materialistic, it made itself increasingly accessible to speculation and manipulation by socialism and then by communism. So that Karl Marx was able to say that "communism is naturalized humanism."

This statement turned out not to be entirely senseless. One does see the same stones in the foundations of a despiritualized humanism and of any type of socialism: endless materialism; freedom from religion and religious responsibility, which under communist regimes reach the stage of anti-religious dictatorships; concentration on social structures with a seemingly scientific approach. This is typical of the Enlightenment in the 18th Century and of Marxism. Not by coincidence all of communism's meaningless pledges and oaths are about Man, with a capital M, and his earthly happiness. At first glance it seems an ugly parallel: common traits in the thinking and way of life of today's West and today's East? But such is the logic of materialistic development.

The interrelationship is such, too, that the current of materialism which is most to the left always ends up by being stronger, more attractive, and victorious, because it is more consistent. Humanism without its Christian heritage cannot resist such competition. We watch this process in the past centuries and especially in the past decades, on a world scale as the situation becomes increasingly dramatic. Liberalism was inevitably displaced by radicalism; radicalism had to surrender to socialism; and socialism could never resist communism. The communist regime in the East could stand and grow due to the enthusiastic support from an enormous number of Western intellectuals who felt a kinship and refused to see communism's crimes. And when they no longer could do so, they tried to justify them. In our Eastern countries, communism has suffered a complete ideological defeat; it is zero and less than zero. But Western intellectuals still look at it with interest and with empathy, and this is precisely what makes it so immensely difficult for the West to withstand the East.

I am not examining here the case of a world war disaster and the changes which it would produce in society. As long as we wake up every morning under a peaceful sun, we have to lead an everyday life. There is a disaster, however, which has already been under way for quite some time. I am referring to the calamity of a despiritualized and irreligious humanistic consciousness..."

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn: Harvard Commencement Address (A World Split Apart)

Complete text audio and video of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Harvard Commencement Address

www.americanrhetoric.com

Do you actually care what Marx said? It a totally failed ideology.

I care that socialism is a subtle narcotic which destroys the spirit and eventually leads to socialism.

It would more correct to prove socialism has ever entered the politics of America instead of the usual Republican propaganda scare tactics.

Look no further than partisan politics and cronyism. But you'd have to actually open your eyes to see it's both parties and not just the one you hate.

I'd say that when the government starts forcing people to purchase products or controls what products are available for purchase we have entered into socialism/communism.

I don't hate the Republican party or Republicans... I was one until Bush invaded Iraq.. But these days they are hardly recognizable.. Trump's chicanery and vulgarity has changed the whole mindset to one of lies, slander and violent rhetoric..

You should have known he was a snake when you took him in.

Which time? Which Bush?

Papa Bush was justified in chasing Saddam out of Kuwait.. Dubya was just out of his mind. He claimed he was fighting Gog and Magog.. Sucking up to Israel.

Do you know Kuwait? I lived there. Kuwait was in the wrong. Kuwait met Iraq's OPEC quots during the wars with Iran. They share an oilfield .. Historically Kuwait was a province of Iraq. Anyway, Kuwait wouldn't forgive Iraq's debt and was still pumping from Iraqi reserves.

Saudi Arabia had also covered Iraq's OPEC quota.. The Saudis forgave Saddam's debt.

You literally just contradicted yourself when you said Papa Bush was justified in chasing Saddam out of Kuwait and then followed that up with Kuwait was in the wrong.

Bush didn't care who was in the wrong. It was invaded to protect the oil reserves.
Anyone whobelieves otherwise is a fool.

So how much oil did we get from them?

 

[Colin norris]

Where's your evidence that democrats are communist?

Maybe not yet.

According to Alexander Solzhenitsyn:

"...As humanism in its development became more and more materialistic, it made itself increasingly accessible to speculation and manipulation by socialism and then by communism. So that Karl Marx was able to say that "communism is naturalized humanism."

This statement turned out not to be entirely senseless. One does see the same stones in the foundations of a despiritualized humanism and of any type of socialism: endless materialism; freedom from religion and religious responsibility, which under communist regimes reach the stage of anti-religious dictatorships; concentration on social structures with a seemingly scientific approach. This is typical of the Enlightenment in the 18th Century and of Marxism. Not by coincidence all of communism's meaningless pledges and oaths are about Man, with a capital M, and his earthly happiness. At first glance it seems an ugly parallel: common traits in the thinking and way of life of today's West and today's East? But such is the logic of materialistic development.

The interrelationship is such, too, that the current of materialism which is most to the left always ends up by being stronger, more attractive, and victorious, because it is more consistent. Humanism without its Christian heritage cannot resist such competition. We watch this process in the past centuries and especially in the past decades, on a world scale as the situation becomes increasingly dramatic. Liberalism was inevitably displaced by radicalism; radicalism had to surrender to socialism; and socialism could never resist communism. The communist regime in the East could stand and grow due to the enthusiastic support from an enormous number of Western intellectuals who felt a kinship and refused to see communism's crimes. And when they no longer could do so, they tried to justify them. In our Eastern countries, communism has suffered a complete ideological defeat; it is zero and less than zero. But Western intellectuals still look at it with interest and with empathy, and this is precisely what makes it so immensely difficult for the West to withstand the East.

I am not examining here the case of a world war disaster and the changes which it would produce in society. As long as we wake up every morning under a peaceful sun, we have to lead an everyday life. There is a disaster, however, which has already been under way for quite some time. I am referring to the calamity of a despiritualized and irreligious humanistic consciousness..."

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn: Harvard Commencement Address (A World Split Apart)

Complete text audio and video of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Harvard Commencement Address

www.americanrhetoric.com

Do you actually care what Marx said? It a totally failed ideology.

I care that socialism is a subtle narcotic which destroys the spirit and eventually leads to socialism.

It would more correct to prove socialism has ever entered the politics of America instead of the usual Republican propaganda scare tactics.

Look no further than partisan politics and cronyism. But you'd have to actually open your eyes to see it's both parties and not just the one you hate.

I'd say that when the government starts forcing people to purchase products or controls what products are available for purchase we have entered into socialism/communism.

I don't hate the Republican party or Republicans... I was one until Bush invaded Iraq.. But these days they are hardly recognizable.. Trump's chicanery and vulgarity has changed the whole mindset to one of lies, slander and violent rhetoric..

You should have known he was a snake when you took him in.

Which time? Which Bush?

Papa Bush was justified in chasing Saddam out of Kuwait.. Dubya was just out of his mind. He claimed he was fighting Gog and Magog.. Sucking up to Israel.

Do you know Kuwait? I lived there. Kuwait was in the wrong. Kuwait met Iraq's OPEC quots during the wars with Iran. They share an oilfield .. Historically Kuwait was a province of Iraq. Anyway, Kuwait wouldn't forgive Iraq's debt and was still pumping from Iraqi reserves.

Saudi Arabia had also covered Iraq's OPEC quota.. The Saudis forgave Saddam's debt.

You literally just contradicted yourself when you said Papa Bush was justified in chasing Saddam out of Kuwait and then followed that up with Kuwait was in the wrong.

Bush didn't care who was in the wrong. It was invaded to protect the oil reserves.
Anyone whobelieves otherwise is a fool.

So how much oil did we get from them?

Go away. There's no point explaining it to you.

 

[surada]

Where's your evidence that democrats are communist?

Maybe not yet.

According to Alexander Solzhenitsyn:

"...As humanism in its development became more and more materialistic, it made itself increasingly accessible to speculation and manipulation by socialism and then by communism. So that Karl Marx was able to say that "communism is naturalized humanism."

This statement turned out not to be entirely senseless. One does see the same stones in the foundations of a despiritualized humanism and of any type of socialism: endless materialism; freedom from religion and religious responsibility, which under communist regimes reach the stage of anti-religious dictatorships; concentration on social structures with a seemingly scientific approach. This is typical of the Enlightenment in the 18th Century and of Marxism. Not by coincidence all of communism's meaningless pledges and oaths are about Man, with a capital M, and his earthly happiness. At first glance it seems an ugly parallel: common traits in the thinking and way of life of today's West and today's East? But such is the logic of materialistic development.

The interrelationship is such, too, that the current of materialism which is most to the left always ends up by being stronger, more attractive, and victorious, because it is more consistent. Humanism without its Christian heritage cannot resist such competition. We watch this process in the past centuries and especially in the past decades, on a world scale as the situation becomes increasingly dramatic. Liberalism was inevitably displaced by radicalism; radicalism had to surrender to socialism; and socialism could never resist communism. The communist regime in the East could stand and grow due to the enthusiastic support from an enormous number of Western intellectuals who felt a kinship and refused to see communism's crimes. And when they no longer could do so, they tried to justify them. In our Eastern countries, communism has suffered a complete ideological defeat; it is zero and less than zero. But Western intellectuals still look at it with interest and with empathy, and this is precisely what makes it so immensely difficult for the West to withstand the East.

I am not examining here the case of a world war disaster and the changes which it would produce in society. As long as we wake up every morning under a peaceful sun, we have to lead an everyday life. There is a disaster, however, which has already been under way for quite some time. I am referring to the calamity of a despiritualized and irreligious humanistic consciousness..."

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn: Harvard Commencement Address (A World Split Apart)

Complete text audio and video of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Harvard Commencement Address

www.americanrhetoric.com

Do you actually care what Marx said? It a totally failed ideology.

I care that socialism is a subtle narcotic which destroys the spirit and eventually leads to socialism.

It would more correct to prove socialism has ever entered the politics of America instead of the usual Republican propaganda scare tactics.

Look no further than partisan politics and cronyism. But you'd have to actually open your eyes to see it's both parties and not just the one you hate.

I'd say that when the government starts forcing people to purchase products or controls what products are available for purchase we have entered into socialism/communism.

I don't hate the Republican party or Republicans... I was one until Bush invaded Iraq.. But these days they are hardly recognizable.. Trump's chicanery and vulgarity has changed the whole mindset to one of lies, slander and violent rhetoric..

You should have known he was a snake when you took him in.

Which time? Which Bush?

Papa Bush was justified in chasing Saddam out of Kuwait.. Dubya was just out of his mind. He claimed he was fighting Gog and Magog.. Sucking up to Israel.

Do you know Kuwait? I lived there. Kuwait was in the wrong. Kuwait met Iraq's OPEC quots during the wars with Iran. They share an oilfield .. Historically Kuwait was a province of Iraq. Anyway, Kuwait wouldn't forgive Iraq's debt and was still pumping from Iraqi reserves.

Saudi Arabia had also covered Iraq's OPEC quota.. The Saudis forgave Saddam's debt.

You literally just contradicted yourself when you said Papa Bush was justified in chasing Saddam out of Kuwait and then followed that up with Kuwait was in the wrong.

Bush didn't care who was in the wrong. It was invaded to protect the oil reserves.
Anyone whobelieves otherwise is a fool.

So how much oil did we get from them?

Exactly NONE. We got NO oil from the Iraq war.

 

[frigidweirdo]

Hello everyone I'm new here and I'm interested in civilized discourse about our great nation

Yeah right. Which would mean God has abandoned China.

The only country with post Covid growth, the country that's doubling its GDP every 8 years or so.... right.....

 

[Colin norris]

Where's your evidence that democrats are communist?

Maybe not yet.

According to Alexander Solzhenitsyn:

"...As humanism in its development became more and more materialistic, it made itself increasingly accessible to speculation and manipulation by socialism and then by communism. So that Karl Marx was able to say that "communism is naturalized humanism."

This statement turned out not to be entirely senseless. One does see the same stones in the foundations of a despiritualized humanism and of any type of socialism: endless materialism; freedom from religion and religious responsibility, which under communist regimes reach the stage of anti-religious dictatorships; concentration on social structures with a seemingly scientific approach. This is typical of the Enlightenment in the 18th Century and of Marxism. Not by coincidence all of communism's meaningless pledges and oaths are about Man, with a capital M, and his earthly happiness. At first glance it seems an ugly parallel: common traits in the thinking and way of life of today's West and today's East? But such is the logic of materialistic development.

The interrelationship is such, too, that the current of materialism which is most to the left always ends up by being stronger, more attractive, and victorious, because it is more consistent. Humanism without its Christian heritage cannot resist such competition. We watch this process in the past centuries and especially in the past decades, on a world scale as the situation becomes increasingly dramatic. Liberalism was inevitably displaced by radicalism; radicalism had to surrender to socialism; and socialism could never resist communism. The communist regime in the East could stand and grow due to the enthusiastic support from an enormous number of Western intellectuals who felt a kinship and refused to see communism's crimes. And when they no longer could do so, they tried to justify them. In our Eastern countries, communism has suffered a complete ideological defeat; it is zero and less than zero. But Western intellectuals still look at it with interest and with empathy, and this is precisely what makes it so immensely difficult for the West to withstand the East.

I am not examining here the case of a world war disaster and the changes which it would produce in society. As long as we wake up every morning under a peaceful sun, we have to lead an everyday life. There is a disaster, however, which has already been under way for quite some time. I am referring to the calamity of a despiritualized and irreligious humanistic consciousness..."

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn: Harvard Commencement Address (A World Split Apart)

Complete text audio and video of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Harvard Commencement Address

www.americanrhetoric.com

Do you actually care what Marx said? It a totally failed ideology.

I care that socialism is a subtle narcotic which destroys the spirit and eventually leads to socialism.

It would more correct to prove socialism has ever entered the politics of America instead of the usual Republican propaganda scare tactics.

Look no further than partisan politics and cronyism. But you'd have to actually open your eyes to see it's both parties and not just the one you hate.

I'd say that when the government starts forcing people to purchase products or controls what products are available for purchase we have entered into socialism/communism.

I don't hate the Republican party or Republicans... I was one until Bush invaded Iraq.. But these days they are hardly recognizable.. Trump's chicanery and vulgarity has changed the whole mindset to one of lies, slander and violent rhetoric..

You should have known he was a snake when you took him in.

Which time? Which Bush?

Papa Bush was justified in chasing Saddam out of Kuwait.. Dubya was just out of his mind. He claimed he was fighting Gog and Magog.. Sucking up to Israel.

Do you know Kuwait? I lived there. Kuwait was in the wrong. Kuwait met Iraq's OPEC quots during the wars with Iran. They share an oilfield .. Historically Kuwait was a province of Iraq. Anyway, Kuwait wouldn't forgive Iraq's debt and was still pumping from Iraqi reserves.

Saudi Arabia had also covered Iraq's OPEC quota.. The Saudis forgave Saddam's debt.

You literally just contradicted yourself when you said Papa Bush was justified in chasing Saddam out of Kuwait and then followed that up with Kuwait was in the wrong.

Bush didn't care who was in the wrong. It was invaded to protect the oil reserves.
Anyone whobelieves otherwise is a fool.

So how much oil did we get from them?

Exactly NONE. We got NO oil from the Iraq war.

You probably believe it was to give th e m freedom. You're brain dead son.

 

[surada]

Where's your evidence that democrats are communist?

Maybe not yet.

According to Alexander Solzhenitsyn:

"...As humanism in its development became more and more materialistic, it made itself increasingly accessible to speculation and manipulation by socialism and then by communism. So that Karl Marx was able to say that "communism is naturalized humanism."

This statement turned out not to be entirely senseless. One does see the same stones in the foundations of a despiritualized humanism and of any type of socialism: endless materialism; freedom from religion and religious responsibility, which under communist regimes reach the stage of anti-religious dictatorships; concentration on social structures with a seemingly scientific approach. This is typical of the Enlightenment in the 18th Century and of Marxism. Not by coincidence all of communism's meaningless pledges and oaths are about Man, with a capital M, and his earthly happiness. At first glance it seems an ugly parallel: common traits in the thinking and way of life of today's West and today's East? But such is the logic of materialistic development.

The interrelationship is such, too, that the current of materialism which is most to the left always ends up by being stronger, more attractive, and victorious, because it is more consistent. Humanism without its Christian heritage cannot resist such competition. We watch this process in the past centuries and especially in the past decades, on a world scale as the situation becomes increasingly dramatic. Liberalism was inevitably displaced by radicalism; radicalism had to surrender to socialism; and socialism could never resist communism. The communist regime in the East could stand and grow due to the enthusiastic support from an enormous number of Western intellectuals who felt a kinship and refused to see communism's crimes. And when they no longer could do so, they tried to justify them. In our Eastern countries, communism has suffered a complete ideological defeat; it is zero and less than zero. But Western intellectuals still look at it with interest and with empathy, and this is precisely what makes it so immensely difficult for the West to withstand the East.

I am not examining here the case of a world war disaster and the changes which it would produce in society. As long as we wake up every morning under a peaceful sun, we have to lead an everyday life. There is a disaster, however, which has already been under way for quite some time. I am referring to the calamity of a despiritualized and irreligious humanistic consciousness..."

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn: Harvard Commencement Address (A World Split Apart)

Complete text audio and video of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Harvard Commencement Address

www.americanrhetoric.com

Do you actually care what Marx said? It a totally failed ideology.

I care that socialism is a subtle narcotic which destroys the spirit and eventually leads to socialism.

It would more correct to prove socialism has ever entered the politics of America instead of the usual Republican propaganda scare tactics.

Look no further than partisan politics and cronyism. But you'd have to actually open your eyes to see it's both parties and not just the one you hate.

I'd say that when the government starts forcing people to purchase products or controls what products are available for purchase we have entered into socialism/communism.

I don't hate the Republican party or Republicans... I was one until Bush invaded Iraq.. But these days they are hardly recognizable.. Trump's chicanery and vulgarity has changed the whole mindset to one of lies, slander and violent rhetoric..

You should have known he was a snake when you took him in.

Which time? Which Bush?

Papa Bush was justified in chasing Saddam out of Kuwait.. Dubya was just out of his mind. He claimed he was fighting Gog and Magog.. Sucking up to Israel.

Do you know Kuwait? I lived there. Kuwait was in the wrong. Kuwait met Iraq's OPEC quots during the wars with Iran. They share an oilfield .. Historically Kuwait was a province of Iraq. Anyway, Kuwait wouldn't forgive Iraq's debt and was still pumping from Iraqi reserves.

Saudi Arabia had also covered Iraq's OPEC quota.. The Saudis forgave Saddam's debt.

You literally just contradicted yourself when you said Papa Bush was justified in chasing Saddam out of Kuwait and then followed that up with Kuwait was in the wrong.

Bush didn't care who was in the wrong. It was invaded to protect the oil reserves.
Anyone whobelieves otherwise is a fool.

So how much oil did we get from them?

Exactly NONE. We got NO oil from the Iraq war.

You probably believe it was to give th e m freedom. You're brain dead son.

No.. I have already told you what I think in detail.. and I am a grandmother, not a son.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Hello everyone I'm new here and I'm interested in civilized discourse about our great nation

Yeah right. Which would mean God has abandoned China.

The only country with post Covid growth, the country that's doubling its GDP every 8 years or so.... right.....

They’re devil worshipers.
And they don’t even know it.

 

[surada]

Hello everyone I'm new here and I'm interested in civilized discourse about our great nation

Yeah right. Which would mean God has abandoned China.

The only country with post Covid growth, the country that's doubling its GDP every 8 years or so.... right.....

They’re devil worshipers.
And they don’t even know it.

Devil worshippers? What a wierd thing to say.

 

[frigidweirdo]

Hello everyone I'm new here and I'm interested in civilized discourse about our great nation

Yeah right. Which would mean God has abandoned China.

The only country with post Covid growth, the country that's doubling its GDP every 8 years or so.... right.....

They’re devil worshipers.
And they don’t even know it.

But has God abandoned China? Or perhaps there is no God in the first place. I mean, if China can rise with no religion...... doesn't say much about your God, does it?

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Hello everyone I'm new here and I'm interested in civilized discourse about our great nation

Yeah right. Which would mean God has abandoned China.

The only country with post Covid growth, the country that's doubling its GDP every 8 years or so.... right.....

They’re devil worshipers.
And they don’t even know it.

But has God abandoned China? Or perhaps there is no God in the first place. I mean, if China can rise with no religion...... doesn't say much about your God, does it?

God is spiritual and china’s ill-gotten success is temporal.

 

[ding]

Where's your evidence that democrats are communist?

Maybe not yet.

According to Alexander Solzhenitsyn:

"...As humanism in its development became more and more materialistic, it made itself increasingly accessible to speculation and manipulation by socialism and then by communism. So that Karl Marx was able to say that "communism is naturalized humanism."

This statement turned out not to be entirely senseless. One does see the same stones in the foundations of a despiritualized humanism and of any type of socialism: endless materialism; freedom from religion and religious responsibility, which under communist regimes reach the stage of anti-religious dictatorships; concentration on social structures with a seemingly scientific approach. This is typical of the Enlightenment in the 18th Century and of Marxism. Not by coincidence all of communism's meaningless pledges and oaths are about Man, with a capital M, and his earthly happiness. At first glance it seems an ugly parallel: common traits in the thinking and way of life of today's West and today's East? But such is the logic of materialistic development.

The interrelationship is such, too, that the current of materialism which is most to the left always ends up by being stronger, more attractive, and victorious, because it is more consistent. Humanism without its Christian heritage cannot resist such competition. We watch this process in the past centuries and especially in the past decades, on a world scale as the situation becomes increasingly dramatic. Liberalism was inevitably displaced by radicalism; radicalism had to surrender to socialism; and socialism could never resist communism. The communist regime in the East could stand and grow due to the enthusiastic support from an enormous number of Western intellectuals who felt a kinship and refused to see communism's crimes. And when they no longer could do so, they tried to justify them. In our Eastern countries, communism has suffered a complete ideological defeat; it is zero and less than zero. But Western intellectuals still look at it with interest and with empathy, and this is precisely what makes it so immensely difficult for the West to withstand the East.

I am not examining here the case of a world war disaster and the changes which it would produce in society. As long as we wake up every morning under a peaceful sun, we have to lead an everyday life. There is a disaster, however, which has already been under way for quite some time. I am referring to the calamity of a despiritualized and irreligious humanistic consciousness..."

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn: Harvard Commencement Address (A World Split Apart)

Complete text audio and video of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Harvard Commencement Address

www.americanrhetoric.com

Do you actually care what Marx said? It a totally failed ideology.

I care that socialism is a subtle narcotic which destroys the spirit and eventually leads to socialism.

It would more correct to prove socialism has ever entered the politics of America instead of the usual Republican propaganda scare tactics.

Look no further than partisan politics and cronyism. But you'd have to actually open your eyes to see it's both parties and not just the one you hate.

I'd say that when the government starts forcing people to purchase products or controls what products are available for purchase we have entered into socialism/communism.

I don't hate the Republican party or Republicans... I was one until Bush invaded Iraq.. But these days they are hardly recognizable.. Trump's chicanery and vulgarity has changed the whole mindset to one of lies, slander and violent rhetoric..

You should have known he was a snake when you took him in.

Which time? Which Bush?

Papa Bush was justified in chasing Saddam out of Kuwait.. Dubya was just out of his mind. He claimed he was fighting Gog and Magog.. Sucking up to Israel.

Do you know Kuwait? I lived there. Kuwait was in the wrong. Kuwait met Iraq's OPEC quots during the wars with Iran. They share an oilfield .. Historically Kuwait was a province of Iraq. Anyway, Kuwait wouldn't forgive Iraq's debt and was still pumping from Iraqi reserves.

Saudi Arabia had also covered Iraq's OPEC quota.. The Saudis forgave Saddam's debt.

You literally just contradicted yourself when you said Papa Bush was justified in chasing Saddam out of Kuwait and then followed that up with Kuwait was in the wrong.

Bush didn't care who was in the wrong. It was invaded to protect the oil reserves.
Anyone whobelieves otherwise is a fool.

So how much oil did we get from them?

Go away. There's no point explaining it to you.

Is that because your claim doesn't make any sense?

 

[surada]

Where's your evidence that democrats are communist?

Maybe not yet.

According to Alexander Solzhenitsyn:

"...As humanism in its development became more and more materialistic, it made itself increasingly accessible to speculation and manipulation by socialism and then by communism. So that Karl Marx was able to say that "communism is naturalized humanism."

This statement turned out not to be entirely senseless. One does see the same stones in the foundations of a despiritualized humanism and of any type of socialism: endless materialism; freedom from religion and religious responsibility, which under communist regimes reach the stage of anti-religious dictatorships; concentration on social structures with a seemingly scientific approach. This is typical of the Enlightenment in the 18th Century and of Marxism. Not by coincidence all of communism's meaningless pledges and oaths are about Man, with a capital M, and his earthly happiness. At first glance it seems an ugly parallel: common traits in the thinking and way of life of today's West and today's East? But such is the logic of materialistic development.

The interrelationship is such, too, that the current of materialism which is most to the left always ends up by being stronger, more attractive, and victorious, because it is more consistent. Humanism without its Christian heritage cannot resist such competition. We watch this process in the past centuries and especially in the past decades, on a world scale as the situation becomes increasingly dramatic. Liberalism was inevitably displaced by radicalism; radicalism had to surrender to socialism; and socialism could never resist communism. The communist regime in the East could stand and grow due to the enthusiastic support from an enormous number of Western intellectuals who felt a kinship and refused to see communism's crimes. And when they no longer could do so, they tried to justify them. In our Eastern countries, communism has suffered a complete ideological defeat; it is zero and less than zero. But Western intellectuals still look at it with interest and with empathy, and this is precisely what makes it so immensely difficult for the West to withstand the East.

I am not examining here the case of a world war disaster and the changes which it would produce in society. As long as we wake up every morning under a peaceful sun, we have to lead an everyday life. There is a disaster, however, which has already been under way for quite some time. I am referring to the calamity of a despiritualized and irreligious humanistic consciousness..."

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn: Harvard Commencement Address (A World Split Apart)

Complete text audio and video of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Harvard Commencement Address

www.americanrhetoric.com

Do you actually care what Marx said? It a totally failed ideology.

I care that socialism is a subtle narcotic which destroys the spirit and eventually leads to socialism.

It would more correct to prove socialism has ever entered the politics of America instead of the usual Republican propaganda scare tactics.

Look no further than partisan politics and cronyism. But you'd have to actually open your eyes to see it's both parties and not just the one you hate.

I'd say that when the government starts forcing people to purchase products or controls what products are available for purchase we have entered into socialism/communism.

I don't hate the Republican party or Republicans... I was one until Bush invaded Iraq.. But these days they are hardly recognizable.. Trump's chicanery and vulgarity has changed the whole mindset to one of lies, slander and violent rhetoric..

You should have known he was a snake when you took him in.

Which time? Which Bush?

Papa Bush was justified in chasing Saddam out of Kuwait.. Dubya was just out of his mind. He claimed he was fighting Gog and Magog.. Sucking up to Israel.

Do you know Kuwait? I lived there. Kuwait was in the wrong. Kuwait met Iraq's OPEC quots during the wars with Iran. They share an oilfield .. Historically Kuwait was a province of Iraq. Anyway, Kuwait wouldn't forgive Iraq's debt and was still pumping from Iraqi reserves.

Saudi Arabia had also covered Iraq's OPEC quota.. The Saudis forgave Saddam's debt.

You literally just contradicted yourself when you said Papa Bush was justified in chasing Saddam out of Kuwait and then followed that up with Kuwait was in the wrong.

Kuwait was in the wrong, but that doesn't mean he can invade Kuwait.. especially since the US had subtly given Saddam the greenlight.

Still contradictory. Even more so now that you add that the US gave Saddam the green light.

Do you understand WHY Saddam had invaded Kuwait to begin with?