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Poll Finds 23 Percent of Texans Think Obama is Muslim
A University of Texas poll has found that 23 percent of Texans are convinced that Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is a Muslim. Only 45 percent of the people polled correctly identified Obama as a Protestant Christian. Nationwide, the number of people who believe in the "Secret Muslim Conspiracy" is about the same as those who believe that the moon landing was faked (5-10 percent), which makes the high numbers in Texas unusual.
Well, asshole, there's Thomas Sowell for starters.
And I don't know whether or not any of these are of the Austrian School (if you're going to make me do your research, then I'm going to make you do mine), but here is a whole shitload of economists who think that doing nothing was the best choice.
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Only 45 percent of the people polled correctly identified Obama as a Protestant Christian.
Excuse me, /. editors, but your hubris is showing.
What makes you so cock-sure that the Big O is a Christian?
Muslims all over the world believe that he is a Muslim. Louis Farrakhan says that he's a Muslim. Muammar Qadhafi says that he's a Muslim. Even Obama himself said on national TV that he is a Muslim.
Consider this: Muslims in America are going all-out for him with fundraisers, rallies, etc. Yet according to the Koran, he's an infidel and must be killed, because he was raised Muslim but is now a Christian.
Unless, of course, he really IS a Muslim and he's hiding something from the rest of us that the Muslim world already knows.
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It's a poll of 800 people, and they don't tell you a damn thing about the demographic makeup of the poll. Is it possible that 23% of East Texans think Obama's a Muslim? Sure, but like 98% of East Texas has 11 fingers and toes anyway, so who cares.
But, the real point is that this is a bullshit poll, and nothing can be drawn from it. It's like polling prisoners at Attica and then putting out a report saying "85% of New Yorkers like to fuck little boys in the mouth".
Basing your beliefs on something demonstrably false, something that you are uncomfortable believing makes no sense. I like the term 'extremist' because they are essentially the same just more extreme ... extremists are REALLY dangerous, vanilla religious beliefs are just less dangerous.
Think of it this way, read your book of choice to yourself as if it were God telling you. When you run into something you think is wrong or crazy take note. If your senses are with you, you should realize that the trustworthiness of the book as a source of information has just dropped. Read it carefully make your own determinations. By the time you make it to the end, if you tried to keep an objective head the whole time you will regard the whole thing as reliable as a fairy tale. Don't argue with me about it, I just want you to try it. Most Christians have never done this, they have a book they say they understand, then they pick and choose beliefs they like that might fit into the bible. Examples would be dropping the rules about stoning people, racism, violence, incest... all ok in the bible (new and old). Please PLEASE try it and don't attempt to justify picking-and-choosing, if the book says something you disagree w/ don't rework it. (I've read new/old tests and much of the quran if that means anything to you)
I dont normally accost strangers over this... but you essentially said you don't believe in the bible you just use the bible as some sort of ethical crutch. Too much for me to resist.
You haven't been talking to the right religious folk.
In one of my time-wasting but slightly entertaining meetings with the jehovah's witnesses, they stated repeatedly under no uncertain terms that "wives submit to your husbands" was about taking orders from the man of the house, not having one's own will, etc.
YOUR flavor of useless christianity may be less radical, but quite a few of them do take it just like "submit" as in BDSM.
In either case, both islam and christianity are very strong indicators of mental retardation so the discussion is pointless.
Not that being in Texas doesn't make one a retard, it's probably due just to the christianity. We should sell it back to Mexico, they already invaded the place anyway.
Great, you've found one theocratic Christian state. Now, let's look at its human rights and foreign policy record for the last hundred years or so. Any public executions of homosexuals or adulterers or apostates? Any invasions?
A single man, or even a small group of men, do not define policies in a democracy. A democracy with a religious elected leader is still not a theocracy, unless being religious is a prerequsite to be elected. The same applies to fundamenalism. In that sense, Iran, for example, is a religious fundamentalist democracy, while US is not (though it's closer than it is comfortable for many people out there), and no European state is anywhere close.
It depends on whom you ask. Ultra-Orthodox Jews do, in fact, believe that the very creation of the State of Israel was a sin (because it was an attempt by men to do something that only God can truly do - return to Jews their holy land). On the other hand, the strongest movement for Israeli nationalism has always been, and remains, secular (i.e., non-Judaist) Zionism.