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115th Congress: On Permanent Vacation

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It seems to me that if a person has absolute faith in a religion that considers abortion at any stage of development as murder, with "hereafter" consequences for both the murderer and the murdered, then one-issue voting is understandable.
 
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burd said:
It seems to me that if a person has absolute faith in a religion that considers abortion at any stage of development as murder, with "hereafter" consequences for both the murderer and the murdered, then one-issue voting is understandable.
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It is? Then don't have an abortion.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
It is? Then don't have an abortion.
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It may be that simple for you and me, but I don't think it is for some who hold deep seated religious beliefs on the subject. I think it is a wrong-headed and, in my mind, foolish way of thinking that has serious consequences, but that is another matter.
 
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mookie1995 said:
Crappy life here, but will be rewarded in heaven
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Uncle Karl said it all:

The foundation of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man. Religion is, indeed, the self-consciousness and self-esteem of man who has either not yet won through to himself, or has already lost himself again. But man is no abstract being squatting outside the world. Man is the world of man – state, society. This state and this society produce religion, which is an inverted consciousness of the world, because they are an inverted world. Religion is the general theory of this world, its encyclopaedic compendium, its logic in popular form, its spiritual point d’honneur, its enthusiasm, its moral sanction, its solemn complement, and its universal basis of consolation and justification. It is the fantastic realization of the human essence since the human essence has not acquired any true reality. The struggle against religion is, therefore, indirectly the struggle against that world whose spiritual aroma is religion.

Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.
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Fox news just said their poll has Moore down 10 points. Hahaha. Good strategy
 
Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
Fox news just said their poll has Moore down 10 points. Hahaha. Good strategy
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It’s a real poll from this weekend, having filtered out the “likely voters”, and shows Moore losing 2% over the past month. Trust me, Fox News is not trying to gin up fake enthusiasm for Jones. If anything they’re downplaying it on the editorial side.
Did you see their other GOP senator go after Moore yesterday? The republicans are already in grieving over 2018.
 
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geezer said:
It’s a real poll from this weekend, having filtered out the “likely voters”, and shows Moore losing 2% over the past month. Trust me, Fox News is not trying to gin up fake enthusiasm for Jones. If anything they’re downplaying it on the editorial side.
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Deliberate Bias pollsters (Rasmussen, TCJ, Strategic Vision, whichever front Frank Luntz uses this week) often sandbag to try to give the other side overconfidence.
 
Kepler said:
Bias pollsters (Rasmussen, TCJ, Strategic Vision, whichever front Frank Luntz uses this week) often sandbag to try to give the other side overconfidence.
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I think rage, enthusiasm, uprising, are all better descriptors than overconfidence. Dems will be out voting while Rs are in their basements scrubbing at the stink of their own shame and loathing.
 
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