tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post760933352553304351..comments2024-03-28T06:11:55.879-06:00Comments on The Michael Bane Blog: Mark Steyn on God 'n' GunsMichael Banehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16630187848984050478noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-80696082832270003092008-05-15T04:23:00.000-06:002008-05-15T04:23:00.000-06:00Americans haven’t gone through everything Europe h...Americans haven’t gone through everything Europe has. They are a young nation that still has the inertia of the consumer society and the cult of the dollar. The public doesn’t yet fully comprehend phenomena like the modern crisis, because it still has faith in its society and democracy.<BR/><BR/>Bernard Shaw wrote: “Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many [like in America] for Fred Christiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16593557144835761568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-67909073186910020442008-04-22T18:41:00.000-06:002008-04-22T18:41:00.000-06:00" May the Great Spirit be with you until we meet a..." May the Great Spirit be with you until we meet again."<BR/>Life MemberAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-45137408235286585802008-04-22T01:25:00.000-06:002008-04-22T01:25:00.000-06:00Nonny mouse #2, the problem with professing atheis...Nonny mouse #2, the problem with professing atheism, is that invariably this leads to replacing "religion" with some other "belief system". Humans seem to be hard-wired this way. So, if a person doesn't believe in a God, they simply transfer this to something else, such as ecology, global warming, evolution, socialism, communism, etc... Most don't see that they have a "belief system", whether Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-9069171962640689052008-04-21T11:29:00.000-06:002008-04-21T11:29:00.000-06:00Religion is a set of beliefs and practices which a...Religion is a set of beliefs and practices which are often based on God, allah, buddha, et al. but can also be based on the sun or moon, rivers, trees, dead ancestors or whatever else can be developed in the mind of man.<BR/><BR/>In a nutshell, "religion" is the province and invention of man. Fallen man, greedy man, covetous man, prideful man, men that seek power and strive to hold it. Those Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-4976066449677774012008-04-21T08:08:00.000-06:002008-04-21T08:08:00.000-06:00Yep Anonymous #2 does sound bitter...Now I am gonn...Yep Anonymous #2 does sound bitter...<BR/><BR/>Now I am gonna make him real mad!!!...may God Bless YOU.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-44332893107837310602008-04-20T15:11:00.000-06:002008-04-20T15:11:00.000-06:00Anonymous #2 (wonder why anonymous?) - the grace o...Anonymous #2 (wonder why anonymous?) - the grace of the 1st Amendment is such that you are perfectly entitled to your opinion - to have it, to hold it, to express it even incognito as in this case.<BR/><BR/>Too bad Steyn is not afforded the same right in Canada, which is now trying him (as in criminal proceedings) for expressing his opinion against another group of people who have expressed theirAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8293484.post-10900707487041315982008-04-19T22:55:00.000-06:002008-04-19T22:55:00.000-06:00In the other G7 developed nations, nobody clings t...<I>In the other G7 developed nations, nobody clings to God 'n' guns. The guns got taken away, and the Europeans gave up on churchgoing once they embraced Big Government as the new religion.<BR/><BR/>How's that working out?</I><BR/><BR/>That's a GREAT passage from Steyn.<BR/><BR/>He should have also mentioned the shocking, outrageous destruction of free speech in the European countries as well.<BRAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com