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To: Qualified Opinion who wrote (14863)	4/3/2015 6:31:13 AM
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The move to allow Iran to keep centrifuges at Fordow, a controversial onetime military site, has elicited concern that Tehran could ramp up its nuclear work with ease

To: Qualified Opinion who wrote (14863)	4/3/2015 9:35:49 AM
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Progressives Want to Silence, not Debate, Opponents ....................................................................................................... Capitol Confidential ^ \| 10/6/2014 \| Tom Gantert Rather than participate in the national discussion involving the market place of ideas, some on the “progressive” side of the debate want to silence — or in one extreme case imprison — those who disagree with them. Consider the tactics and goals progressives have said they are using to win their arguments: Environmental activist Robert Kennedy Jr. actually said in an interview that he wished there was a law to imprison those who don’t believe in global warming. “So, if RFK Jr. wants to jail everyone who disagrees with him — that the sustainability and livability of the earth is at a crisis point that we have to address right now — he’d fill the jails with about half the scientists in the world,” said Jim Lakely, a spokesman for The Heartland Institute, a free-market think tank that disputes the notion that climate change is hurting the world. In July, the leader of a progressive think tank made news at a convention of progressive activists. Arshad Hasan, who heads ProgressNow, said at the convention that he wants to “shut down” the limited-government opponents, including the Mackinac Center, which Hasan erroneously referred to as the “Mackinac Institute.” Hasan was moderating a break-out session titled “Stink Tanks In Your State: Inside the State Policy Network,” based on a series of attacks against free-market think tanks coordinated by ProgressNow. The media eventually exposed blatant examples of plagiarism in the version of a similar report published by Progress Michigan. Bob LaBrant, who served as the political and legal director for the Michigan Chamber of Commerce before becoming a consultant, wondered how Hasan would go about shutting down opposing think tanks. “Does he want to manipulate the granting of 501(c)(3) status?” LaBrant said about the tax exemption for nonprofits set up for educational purposes. “I don’t know how he thinks he can do that with without wiping out section 501(c)(3) of the tax code. They obviously don’t want a ‘market place of ideas,’” LaBrant said. “Our system is based on a marketplace of ideas. Good ideas will catch attention. Bad ideas basically get discarded.” And a national union is trying to get support pulled for the free-market policy organization American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) union called supporting ALEC “evil” as it urged Google to pull funding from the right-center lobbying group that works to influence legislators on public policy. AFSCME, however, gave $210,000 in 2013 to the Progressive States Network, which is a far-left organization that works to influence legislators on public policy. ALEC Spokesman Bill Meierling compared the attacks on his organization to “tarring and feathering.” “We find these organizations would rather engage in a ‘name, shame and defame’ campaign instead of actually discussing policy,” he said. “As a policy organization we want more perspectives at the table. It doesn’t mean we will always agree, but we may be able to find common ground. Our goal is to bring all views to the table so the most free-market approach can be discussed.” Google and Yahoo both recently announced they were also withdrawing support from ALEC. Unions have been pressuring corporations to drop the group. Lawrence Reed, president of the Foundation for Economic Education and president emeritus of the Mackinac Center, said there is “almost nothing that’s truly ‘progressive’ about so-called progressives.” “And now it’s becoming ever more apparent that progressives are so intellectually challenged, so paranoid about their opponents, and so eager to embrace almost any means to justify their ends that they are gleefully engaged in tactics to shut people up,” Reed said. “Their methods are quickly becoming as bankrupt as their objectives.”

To: Qualified Opinion who wrote (14863)	4/3/2015 10:05:49 AM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 16547

1) Hitler wanted Christianity removed from the public square Like the engineers of that proverbial railway bridge, the Nazis worked relentlessly to replace the nuts and bolts of traditional Christianity with a new political religion. The shrewdest way to accomplish this was to co-opt Christianity via the Gleichschaltung while at the same time shrinking traditional religion’s role in civil society. 2) Hitler banned the giving of donations to churches Hitler banned religious charity, crippling the churches’ role as a counterweight to the state. Clergy were put on government salary, hence subjected to state authority. “The parsons will be made to dig their own graves,” Hitler cackled. “They will betray their God to us. They will betray anything for the sake of their miserable little jobs and incomes.” 3) Hitler replaced Christian celebrations with celebrations of the state Following the Jacobin example, the Nazis replaced the traditional Christian calendar. The new year began on January 30 with the Day of the Seizure of Power. Each November the streets of central Munich were dedicated to a Nazi Passion play depicting Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch. The martyrdom of Horst Wessel and his “old fighters” replaced Jesus and the apostles. Plays and official histories were rewritten to glorify pagan Aryans bravely fighting against Christianizing foreign armies. Anticipating some feminist pseudo history, witches became martyrs to the bloodthirsty oppression of Christianity. 4) Hitler favored the complete elimination of Christianity When some Protestant bishops visited the Fuhrer to register complaints, Hitler’s rage got the better of him. “Christianity will disappear from Germany just as it has done in Russia . . . The German race has existed without Christianity for thousands of years . . . and will continue after Christianity has disappeared . . . We must get used to the teachings of blood and race.” 5) Hitler favored the removal of mandatory prayers in schools In 1935 mandatory prayer in school was abolished… 6) Hitler favored the banning of Christmas carols and nativity plays …and in 1938 carols and Nativity plays were banned entirely. 7) Hitler abolished religious instruction for children By 1941 religious instruction for children fourteen years and up had been abolished altogether…. And now the second post. 8) Hitler opposed the ideas of universal truth and objective moral absolutes …Just as the Nazi attack on Christianity was part of a larger war on the idea of universal truth, whole postmodern cosmologies have been created to prove that traditional religious morality is a scam, that there are no fixed truths or “natural” categories, and that all knowledge is socially constructed. Practically everything this man believed was 100% anti-Christian. But he fits in fine on the secular left. In fact, if you read out this list of actions to the groups who represent the secular left, I have no doubt that they would get to their feet and applaud the squashing of religious liberty and religious expression in the public square. Conclusion Adolf Hitler was a man influenced by two big ideas: evolution and socialism. His party was the national SOCIALIST party. Like the secular leftists in our own time, he was not a proponent of small government and individual rights, like religious liberty. He wanted to force his own values onto businesses and individuals that had a different allegiance, such as Christianity. He favored a strong role for the state in interfering with the free market and telling private business owners what to do. He was in favor of regulating the family so that the state could have a bigger influence on children. He did not like the idea that Christian parents would teach their children Christianity, instead of the doctrines that he favored. His ideas are 100% incompatible with Christianity and with capitalism, as well. Christians value individual rights and freedoms, small government and the autonomy of the family against the state. The differences are clear and significant. https://winteryknight.wordpress.com/2015/04/02/should-we-fear-fascism-more-from-christians-or-from-secular-leftists/