Born-Again Christians

[Democratic Hawk]

Someone once called me a "supposed" Born-Again Christian - it was made in a rather contemptuous tone - to which I replied I've always been a Christian

I don't quite get the question

Dave

[Frodo]

Someone once called me a "supposed" Born-Again Christian - it was made in a rather contemptuous tone - to which I replied I've always been a Christian

I don't quite get the question

Dave

Let's suppose you have been an atheist or lapsed Christian and a registered voter from the biological age of eight-teen your whole life, and suddenly at the age of fifty (to throw out a number) you have a Saul/Paul-on-the-road-to-Damascus epiphany, and you become a born-again Christian. 

This question is suggesting that you should be disenfranchised from that moment onward, and not be allowed to vote again until you're sixty-eight. 

Cute poll question, isn't it? 

[Gabu]

I don't quite get the question

The question is a joke: you have to wait 18 years after you're born before you can vote, so the suggestion is to make people wait 18 years after they've been born a second time, too.

[WMS]

Why looky, 7 Yes votes. So good to see the Tolerant Secular Left in action!

Freedom loving people hate the religious right, WMS.  Can you blame them?  It is rather like the Jews hating Nazis, isn't it?

And in addition, it's time to define terms again, even though this is probably wasted on you.

Not all Christians are born-again.
Not all born-again Christians are evangelicals.
Not all evangelicals are conservative.
Not all conservative evangelical Christians are right-wing (i.e., the religious right').
And there are differences in degree and kind among even the religious right.

I swear, there is nothing more hypocritical than the self-proclaimed 'tolerant progressive left' and their attitude toward religious folk...or Southerners...or rural dwellers...etc.

[opebo]

Why looky, 7 Yes votes. So good to see the Tolerant Secular Left in action!

Freedom loving people hate the religious right, WMS.  Can you blame them?  It is rather like the Jews hating Nazis, isn't it?

And in addition, it's time to define terms again, even though this is probably wasted on you.

Not all Christians are born-again.
Not all born-again Christians are evangelicals.
Not all evangelicals are conservative.
Not all conservative evangelical Christians are right-wing (i.e., the religious right').
And there are differences in degree and kind among even the religious right.

I swear, there is nothing more hypocritical than the self-proclaimed 'tolerant progressive left' and their attitude toward religious folk...or Southerners...or rural dwellers...etc.

Self defense, WMS, self defense.

[WMS]

Why looky, 7 Yes votes. So good to see the Tolerant Secular Left in action!

Freedom loving people hate the religious right, WMS.  Can you blame them?  It is rather like the Jews hating Nazis, isn't it?

And in addition, it's time to define terms again, even though this is probably wasted on you.

Not all Christians are born-again.
Not all born-again Christians are evangelicals.
Not all evangelicals are conservative.
Not all conservative evangelical Christians are right-wing (i.e., the religious right').
And there are differences in degree and kind among even the religious right.

I swear, there is nothing more hypocritical than the self-proclaimed 'tolerant progressive left' and their attitude toward religious folk...or Southerners...or rural dwellers...etc.

Self defense, WMS, self defense.

If you say so.

Now, if you want to bitch at Fred Phelps, be my guest...

[AkSaber]

Uh, I hope not..... ;>_>