religion of peace again

[Chris]

our president praised duterte as a strong leader ... bending over to religious fanatics

I'm still sitting here trying to figure out how he could bend over and sell his people out just to wash his hands.

[Pelicans78]

I'm still sitting here trying to figure out how he could bend over and sell his people out just to wash his hands.

States rights

[Chris]

States

State:the territory, or one of the territories, of a government. any of the bodies politic which together make up a federal union, as in the United States of America.

au·ton·o·mous
ôˈtänəməs/Submit
adjective
(of a country or region) having self-government, at least to a significant degree.
"the federation included sixteen autonomous republics"
acting independently or having the freedom to do so.
"an autonomous committee of the school board"
synonyms: self-governing, self-ruling, self-determining, independent, sovereign, free, unmonitored
"an autonomous republic"
(in Kantian moral philosophy) acting in accordance with one's moral duty rather than one's desires.

The autonomous areas differ from federal units and independent states in the sense that they, in relation to the majority of other sub-national territories in the same country, enjoy a special status including some legislative powers, within the state (for a detailed list of federated units, see Federated state#List of federal units by federation).

[Chris]

[Chris]

Gorsuch casts the tie-breaking vote to outlaw Islamic teachings in public schools

https://www.conservativepoliticus.co...ing-huge-move/

[Blake]

They shouldn't teach Christianity either

...or any religion tbh

[Pavlov]

Gorsuch casts the tie-breaking vote to outlaw Islamic teachings in public schools

https://www.conservativepoliticus.co...ing-huge-move/

What's the name of the case, Chris?

[Chris]

What's the name of the case, Chris?

Go yourself Pav

[Blake]

Go yourself Pav

You're a good Christian

[Chris]

You're a good Christian

Go yourself Blake

[Chris]

“The government certainly has no business being involved in religion, but this isn’t a government issue or a religious issue. This is about the judicial branch interpreting the laws as they apply to the teaching of religion. We should be teaching any religions in this country besides standard Judaeo-Christianity, as our founders wanted, and we certainly shouldn’t be filling the children with lies about Islam being a ‘religion of peace’ when they see the carnage on the news almost every day,” wrote Justice Neil Gorsuch.

Gorsuch

[Pavlov]

Go yourself Pav

But you're so excited by the decision -- what's the name of the case?

[spurraider21]

Chris
fake news. No such case





thinking SCOTUS would ever publish that

pro wrestling

[spurraider21]

fake gorsuch quote from nonexistent case

[AaronY]

lol chris so adorable so so adorable

[spurraider21]

“The government certainly has no business being involved in religion, but this isn’t a government issue or a religious issue. This is about the judicial branch interpreting the laws as they apply to the teaching of religion. We should be teaching any religions in this country besides standard Judaeo-Christianity, as our founders wanted, and we certainly shouldn’t be filling the children with lies about Islam being a ‘religion of peace’ when they see the carnage on the news almost every day,” wrote Justice Neil Gorsuch.

Gorsuch

that "grammar" by "gorsuch"

[AaronY]

Chris is my favorite poster to read in all of ST right now. I look forward to each and every one of his posts each day and just savor them all

[Chris]

Can't have any fun with autistic Pavlov trying to debunk everything. Caught a couple perch though

[DMC]

"The chances of a terrorist believing in Islam are pretty good. The chances of somebody who believes in Islam being a terrorist are very, very bad."

The chances of a lung cancer patient being a smoker are very good. The chances of a smoker being a lung cancer patient are very bad.

~36m smokers in the USA. ~220K new lung cancer patients each year. ~80% of those patients are smokers.

Ergo, smoking and lung cancer aren't directly related. Not all smokers will develop lung cancer.

I have a friend who smokes. I wonder why they haven't developed lung cancer.

[Chris]

[pgardn]

The chances of a lung cancer patient being a smoker are very good. The chances of a smoker being a lung cancer patient are very bad.

~36m smokers in the USA. ~220K new lung cancer patients each year. ~80% of those patients are smokers.

Ergo, smoking and lung cancer aren't directly related. Not all smokers will develop lung cancer.

I have a friend who smokes. I wonder why they haven't developed lung cancer.

Heart disease, emphysema, .... lots of other good stuff besides lung cancer. No one has ever seen the products from combustion of tobacco cause lung cell DNA that controls cell growth and the cell cycle to get whacked. We deal with probabilities. I would tell your friend to stop smoking. Or maybe he just gets killed in a car accident, so all is well.

[DMC]

Heart disease, emphysema, .... lots of other good stuff besides lung cancer. No one has ever seen the products from combustion of tobacco cause lung cell DNA that controls cell growth and the cell cycle to get whacked. We deal with probabilities. I would tell your friend to stop smoking. Or maybe he just gets killed in a car accident, so all is well.

Exactly..

Probabilities.

[pgardn]

For Chris:

Boo!
From Norway.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...roup-norwegian

[pgardn]

Exactly..

Probabilities.

Yep.

So no smoking for me.
I don't wish to increase my chances of dying slowly and painfully from putting in my nice pink lungs.
Not all coal miners die of black lung either. I'm not joining the coal mining boom the Trumpies in Peensylvania are expecting. And I'm not going to live in Beijing. I like my lungs pink.

[DMC]

Yep.

So no smoking for me.
I don't wish to increase my chances of dying slowly and painfully from putting in my nice pink lungs.
Not all coal miners die of black lung either. I'm not joining the coal mining boom the Trumpies in Peensylvania are expecting. And I'm not going to live in Beijing. I like my lungs pink.

Same, and likewise, no Islamic s flooding in.