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[font size = 4] Sen. Tom Cotton Accuses President Obama of Trying to Undermine Israels Foreign Policies Really[/font size = 4]
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hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Hekate
(90,978 posts)rpannier
(24,350 posts)at the knees
chknltl
(10,558 posts)Wrinkly
(Credit due here: fellow DUer Fizgig once posted a photo of herself wearing a t-shirt that had that on it)
Fortinbras Armstrong
(4,473 posts)He wrote a story, "God Is an Iron",
"God is an iron," I said. "Did you know that?"
I turned to look at her and she was staring. She laughed experimentally, stopped when I failed to join in. "And I'm a pair of pants with a hole scorched through the ass?"
"If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God is an iron. Or else He's the dumbest designer that ever lived."
world wide wally
(21,758 posts)L0oniX
(31,493 posts)rpannier
(24,350 posts)Atlantis
I'll chip in for the anchor and chain so he doesn't come up too early and offend Poseidon
vlyons
(10,252 posts)He has out-done Teddy Cruz for the position of most disrespectful to the black president.
BumRushDaShow
(129,883 posts)to see which one will win the Biggest Bullshitter award.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)CNN's Fox copy cat extraorinarily hyped-upped documentry, "Finding Jesus", is their latest tell.
Cha
(297,935 posts)be soooo jealous of this latest sociopath to come down the pike..
And, this just now..
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=6402356
Like the death match pic..
BumRushDaShow
(129,883 posts)they both defile the name of their and the President's alma mater - Harvard.
Cha
(297,935 posts)have gone down the drain for them. smh
Initech
(100,129 posts)n2doc
(47,953 posts)But I guess it must, given how hard he is working for them.
TheDebbieDee
(11,119 posts)Who want to do their part to make New Testament prophecies become a reality.
Fundamentalist Muslims are doing their damn best to make their caliphate prophecies a reality as well.
Now if we can just keep these two groups from killing us ALL......
erronis
(15,428 posts)Let the rest of us earth-loving creatures try to take care of what we have here.
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)to fight it out without involving the rest of us. Fundamentalists of all sorts could just be shipped there.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)in Iron Age fairy tales. The future of our species depends on it.
angrychair
(8,750 posts)All of this is about one thing:
DOOMSDAY POLITICS.
Nothing says "peace and love" like trying to force a series of events that a 2,000 year old book "says" are needed for your SkyDaddy to come down and kill, torture and gut everyone while you float away to never-neverland.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Hekate
(90,978 posts)They don't give a rat's tuchis about the Jews. In the Talibornagain mythos all the Jews who don't convert to Christianity will fry in Hell for eternity when the Rapture comes.
But groups who differ on fundamental issues can use each other when they think it's to their advantage. What a shock.
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)where in the bible the rapture is defined?
As far as I know it is made up bs.
bluesbassman
(19,385 posts)Revelations has some additional passages that booster this view, but to Fundies Paul's writings are the ones that they adhere to the most.
Brainstormy
(2,381 posts)but the word "rapture" doesn't appear in the Bible
angrychair
(8,750 posts)I assume on purpose.
Most importantly, it doesn't matter. Facts don't matter to a doomsday cult like Christianity and mean even less in DOOMSDAY POLITICS. All that matter are the 3 M's of DOOMSDAY POLITICS: Mayhem, Murder, Money.
classof56
(5,376 posts)I can tell you it's not defined in the bible, but rather comprises a bunch of obscure, unrelated scriptures cobbled together and foisted upon "christians" by some pentacostal preacher in the early 19th century to give them something to look forward to besides their grim existences on this earth. Or that's how I now know it to be. Authors Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins jumped on the rapture bandwagon a few years back to produce the "Left Behind" series of books about events that take place post-rapture, after "christians" are snatched up and those convulted scriptures about the end of time can be fulfilled. Terrible theology and even worse writing, those LB books--but the rapture/end times fans have made them incredibly successful and are now the basis for what the end-timers are certain will come to pass in the near future. It's also the basis of their politics. Pretty sick folks, IMO, and I'm glad to no longer align myself with them. Actually, I wouldn't mind if they were all "snatched up". Maybe we'd have a shot at cleaning up their messes and leaving a better world for our kids/grandkids. As it is, they keep spreading their ugly doctrines and destroying the world we live in.
Sorry--probably more than you wanted to know, but sometimes I just get on a roll about this "stuff".
Cheers
Hekate
(90,978 posts)...that around the time Revelations was written, it was part of a popular literary genre around the Mediterranean Sea.
That in itself is kind of a revelation, isn't it? When you wrap your head around that book of the New Testament being part of a literary genre, and not unique to John of Patmos, it gives it a whole different context.
Quite right about the Left Behind books, too -- those authors have made a pile of money off scaring the bejaysus out of the dimwitted, who then go forth and believe this highly-colored and violent fiction is part of the religion founded by Jesus, who was a nice Jewish boy who got crucified by the Romans.
Oh, LaHay and Jenkins, here's an actual quote from Jesus (probably): "Do not lay up for yourselves treasures upon this Earth..."
classof56
(5,376 posts)I did not know that about the book of Revelation, but glad to get the info your pastor shared. Makes good sense, and explains a lot. I have read that John of Patmos' book was a very controversial inclusion in the New Testament, made up as it was of mostly incomprehensible "visions", but lately my studies have cast doubt on many of the NT books and how they got where they are. I do like Reza Aslan's book, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus. a great account of the "nice Jewish boy", as you say. I like that, BTW! As for LaHaye and Jenkins, I think they should be ashamed of themselves, as what Jesus said about treasures upon this Earth is spot on. Lots of verses in the bible about loving money, the root of all evil and the perils that come with it. L&J (as Patheos' Fred Clark calls them) really ought to pay attention!
Peace!
Wounded Bear
(58,765 posts)that if you ferret out the metaphors and symbolism in the BoR, they can be applied to good effect on Rome, the Emperor at the time, and the world in general, all coated with a thick slathering of local mythology, of course.
Or maybe he was just hyped up on marijuana or (insert hallucinogenic drug of choice).
Baitball Blogger
(46,775 posts)of private profits.
If we can put the blame on the right party when everything falls to shit, we might have a chance. If only we didn't have Democratic politicians who are so agreeable to reaching consensus with Republicans.
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)what color the sky is in his world....
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)Faux pas
(14,703 posts)and turning me on to that site!
lark
(23,182 posts)It's all about what helps the Israeli war makers and we are supposed to just lick their boots and pay for all the crazy murderous things they do in that country and cover for them when they flout international laws.
gregcrawford
(2,382 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)mountain grammy
(26,663 posts)or maybe just the Sabbath and celebration.
gordianot
(15,249 posts)All you have to do is get attention; be a bully, spout delusion, engage in jingoistic babble, promote ignorance as a virtue, find someone to ridicule. What you never have to do is say is what you intend to accomplish. Eventually Republican tools wear out all they ever manage to accomplish is make enemies from opponents as well as colleagues and competitors. Cotton has had a meteoric rise obviously manufactured his fall should be spectacular.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Majority of the GOP congress is crazier than him. Wait for it, especially close to the Presidential election, and if a "women" wins the Dem primary, ya think a black man hatred is bad, its gonna get much worse.
tomsaiditagain
(105 posts)thanks to their errant ways and to the fools like this clown.
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)Cotton does it again!
Incredible.
For 6 years!
6 years!!!
Cha
(297,935 posts)implodes before then.. politically speaking.
So much gar-bage coming out of his cotton mouth that he just:nukes:
Hey, I can dream.
Wounded Bear
(58,765 posts)Perhaps daily as the 2016 election season ramps up.
mountain grammy
(26,663 posts)creepy guy.
Beartracks
(12,827 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)opponent of that crime, repeat a million times until brain dead followers start moaning along in unison. Move on to next crime/immoral act. Repeat for decades.
prayin4rain
(2,065 posts)Cha
(297,935 posts)pod people.
chknltl
(10,558 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)By Pablo - March 6, 2012
Unleash Hell?
This is not a game, Mr. Obama said during a news conference at the White House timed to coincide with Super Tuesday voting in the Republican primaries in a number of crucial states.
Mr. Obama gave a staunch defense of his administration's actions to rein in Iran's nuclear ambitions and said tough sanctions put in place by the United States and Europe were starting to work and were part of the reason Iran had returned to the negotiation table.
The one thing we have not done is we have not launched a war, Mr. Obama said. If some of these folks think we should launch a war, let them say so, and explain to the American people.
http://pavlovianobeisance.com/
The Emergency Committee for Israel Cries Wolf
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-emergency-committee-for-israel-cries-wolf#ixzz1oMJGS8eY
Yes, Obama earned a Nobel and deserves it, considering what he's been dealing with since 2009...
Cha
(297,935 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)Cha
(297,935 posts)won't like it one little bit.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Turbineguy
(37,392 posts)leaving the fact that they went to Harvard off their resumes if this keeps up.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Some of these clowns are doing some serious negative PR for the Ivy Leagues.
sinkingfeeling
(51,490 posts)Arkansas'.
d_legendary1
(2,586 posts)They're certainly not on America's side!
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)His pockets stuffed with AIPAC/Israel cash...how much did they bribe you with this time Cotton??
Did you blow through the $$million$$ already #47traitor?
And WTH is a US senator so fucking concerned with a foreign country's business?
What about the USA Cotton? You damn traitor!
Omaha Steve
(99,833 posts)Because he has been unhappy about the unintended consequences!
Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)blackspade
(10,056 posts)WTF?