Enough Of This Stuff

How about "tyranny of the majority"?

 

The statement is not false, and you know. But okay, let's focus on Christianity. With the exception of extremely isolated situations like your odd abortion clinic bombing (quick ... when was the last one? I didn't think you could remember, either), the worst you'll get from a Christian is for them to be annoying ... much like the Army major in the story.
Christians are not strapping suicide bomb belts on themselves.
They're not flying planes into buildings.
They're not bombing trains and subways.
They're not beheading people.
They're not stoning people.
They're not committing honor killings.

 

I have nothing against atheists, I just hate it when they rub their atheism in our faces like this.

 

Hey Ace --
I don't think I generalized that way about the people who go to megachurches.
Their pastors, on the other hand, well...

 

I think smallp was identified as the anti-megite.

As for me, I won't even listen to a preacher who ain't driving a Mercedes.

 

http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/posts/1607314/

 

In most cases, you are correct, FB. But not in all cases. In some special career fields -- and the story did not indicate Hall's MOS -- majors do command. For example, majors command 12-ship (and soon-to-be 15-ship) air ambulance companies (that'll be me, one day 8) ) and it is not uncommon to see majors command aviation units, depending on size. My commander, the commander of two sister companies in the battalion and the commander of a detachment also in our battalion are all majors.

Many majors also command what we formerly call combat service and service support units (see Army Warfighting Functions). Most majors in command can be found in the special operations communities, both operational guys and public affairs and psyops companies, as well.

For the most part, however, you are correct. Majors, typically after a time on brigade staff, are sent back to the battalion to become the S-3 (operations officer) or executive officer.

 

I believe that says that I am pissed off at "megachurch wingnuts who assume the title of Christian all to their lonesome." Alas, Meat, while not everyone in a megachurch, these people do exist, and their pastors do too, and they all pretty much suck.

 

Oh come on now. Are you a Christian or some namby-pamby legalist?

Any Christian with a brain knows our brothers and sisters have fucked up royally in the name of greed. The marriage of faith and financial success - birthing the phrase that "God helps those who help themselves" - has contributed to the materialistic, by-any-means-necessary-I-must-have-money culture we're mired in right now. America is a shithole in all kinds of places, and it is, in part, the failure of Christians to do one damn thing about it.

I keep trying to tell people: America's civil war is its murder rate, its rape rate, its drug problem, its millions of people in jail. The tyranny and despair is necessarily so stark as it is in the Third World, but it is there, and Christians have done precious little about it.

 

Ruh-roh.

 

Yeah, Alma slapped that right up there on the cathedral door, didn't he?

 

Has quite a point though. Can't say I don't agree with him.