US Politics Mega-thread - Page 3780

On May 10 2016 14:50 oneofthem wrote:

okay. i agree people are dumb for not voting hillary. what's your point

America's culture war, waged in recent years over gender roles, sexuality and the definition of marriage, is increasingly being fought inside evangelical Christian circles. On one side are the Christians determined to resist trends in secular society that appear to conflict with biblical teaching. On the other side are the evangelicals willing to live with those trends.

For Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., the key question is "whether or not there is a binding morality to which everyone is accountable."

Mohler is a cofounder of the biannual Together for the Gospel conference, which brought together thousands of evangelicals last month at a sports center in Louisville, a few miles from the Southern Baptist campus. Electronic signs around the top of the arena carried such messages as "We Were Born Out of Protest" and "We Stand On Scripture Alone, Not Man's Wisdom."

"Our theme for this year is, 'We Protest,' " Mohler tells NPR. "You might say [it's] putting the 'protest' back in Protestantism." He and his fellow conservative leaders urge Christians to take a "biblical" stand against such things as no-fault divorce, extramarital sex, transgenderism, and gay marriage. His new book is We Cannot Be Silent: Speaking Truth to a Culture Redefining Sex, Marriage, & the Very Meaning of Right & Wrong.

Mohler and other conservatives are pushing against strong headwinds, however. Survey data show that the number of Americans who think divorce is morally acceptable has increased significantly in recent years, while disapproval of homosexuality and same-sex marriage has declined sharply. [Click to see changing attitudes on homosexuality and same-sex marriage by religion.] The latter holds true even for white evangelicals, among the groups most resistant to LGBT rights. For church leaders like Mohler, the challenge is unmistakable.

On May 10 2016 13:46 GreenHorizons wrote:
I've said it before but I'll make it official. I'm calling Trump winning the general if it's Hillary v Trump, barring some catastrophic meltdown (which has seemed impossible so far).

On May 10 2016 22:12 kwizach wrote:

Mods: are we allowed to discuss monetary bets with other posters? Or perhaps other types of bets?

On May 10 2016 22:58 travis wrote:
I am very pro-bernie and it's annoying as shit to come in here and like 5 times on every page be told what I am thinking by someone who is extremely biased and actually has no clue what I am thinking. Please click the post button less often unless you are actually going to post something that has a purpose other than circlejerking with likeminded people. (to mohdoo and oneofthem)

On May 10 2016 22:55 Sermokala wrote:
No one is even explaining how trump somehow truns the board to make him win. Likeability is a huge factor in elections (just showing that bernie had even a foot in the race) and trump has no likeability even if polls have him level. Undecided just don't break for people they don't like.

On May 10 2016 22:58 travis wrote:
I am very pro-bernie and it's annoying as shit to come in here and like 5 times on every page be told what I am thinking by someone who is extremely biased and actually has no clue what I am thinking. Please click the post button less often unless you are actually going to post something that has a purpose other than circlejerking with likeminded people. (to mohdoo and oneofthem)

On May 10 2016 22:55 Sermokala wrote:
No one is even explaining how trump somehow truns the board to make him win. Likeability is a huge factor in elections (just showing that bernie had even a foot in the race) and trump has no likeability even if polls have him level. Undecided just don't break for people they don't like.

On May 10 2016 22:55 Sermokala wrote:
No one is even explaining how trump somehow truns the board to make him win. Likeability is a huge factor in elections (just showing that bernie had even a foot in the race) and trump has no likeability even if polls have him level. Undecided just don't break for people they don't like.

On May 10 2016 23:08 Thieving Magpie wrote:


Lets talk specifics in policy then!

Bernie does not want to stop atrocities in the middle east and his foreign policy plan is hoping to throw more dark skinned people into the meat grinder--how do you think that will help resolve issues in the middle east or do you simple don't care about trying to help people in need?