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Can you spot the pattern?
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RE: Can you spot the pattern?
May 19, 2014 at 12:28 pm (This post was last modified: May 19, 2014 at 12:28 pm by Coffee Jesus.)
(May 19, 2014 at 12:17 pm)Elskidor Wrote: They just hate change, and love hanging on to broken traditions. Or maybe they just enjoy hanging on to discrimination.

I have a hypothesis to explain conservatives. People in power tend to oppose any changes that could take away their power.
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RE: Can you spot the pattern?
May 19, 2014 at 12:34 pm
(May 19, 2014 at 12:00 pm)Avodaiah Wrote: Just because you win doesn't make you right.

You're absolutely right! I was gonna play devil's advocate and post this.

Do you, personally, disagree with anything in the OP though?
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RE: Can you spot the pattern?
May 19, 2014 at 12:37 pm
The only thing wrong with the image is that they still oppose almost everything on there - and I think a few have recently expressed the view that slavery was just fine.

Its just that history has moved on.
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RE: Can you spot the pattern?
May 19, 2014 at 1:21 pm
It's ironic that Abraham Lincoln fought slavery as a Republican. Back then, the Democrats were conservative, and the Republicans progressive.

(May 19, 2014 at 12:34 pm)ThePinsir Wrote:
(May 19, 2014 at 12:00 pm)Avodaiah Wrote: Just because you win doesn't make you right.

You're absolutely right! I was gonna play devil's advocate and post this.

Do you, personally, disagree with anything in the OP though?

Were there any liberal-promoted changes that we undid later?
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RE: Can you spot the pattern?
May 19, 2014 at 2:29 pm
(May 19, 2014 at 1:21 pm)Coffee Jesus Wrote: It's ironic that Abraham Lincoln fought slavery as a Republican. Back then, the Democrats were conservative, and the Republicans progressive.

(May 19, 2014 at 12:34 pm)ThePinsir Wrote: You're absolutely right! I was gonna play devil's advocate and post this.

Do you, personally, disagree with anything in the OP though?

Were there any liberal-promoted changes that we undid later?

Prohibition.
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RE: Can you spot the pattern?
May 19, 2014 at 2:36 pm
^^Bingo.
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RE: Can you spot the pattern?
May 19, 2014 at 3:18 pm
That was a bad one.
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RE: Can you spot the pattern?
May 19, 2014 at 3:22 pm
(May 19, 2014 at 12:00 pm)Avodaiah Wrote: Just because you win doesn't make you right.

Make sure you back hand your slave girls to ensure you make up the loss.
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RE: Can you spot the pattern?
May 19, 2014 at 3:32 pm (This post was last modified: May 19, 2014 at 3:38 pm by Coffee Jesus.)
(May 19, 2014 at 2:29 pm)Chas Wrote:
(May 19, 2014 at 1:21 pm)Coffee Jesus Wrote: It's ironic that Abraham Lincoln fought slavery as a Republican. Back then, the Democrats were conservative, and the Republicans progressive.


Were there any liberal-promoted changes that we undid later?

Prohibition.

Really? You mean liberals used to want to ban drugs?

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RE: Can you spot the pattern?
May 19, 2014 at 3:36 pm (This post was last modified: May 19, 2014 at 3:37 pm by A Theist.)
(May 19, 2014 at 12:07 pm)Kitanetos Wrote:
(May 19, 2014 at 12:00 pm)Avodaiah Wrote: Just because you win doesn't make you right.

Clearly, you must be correct that the world would be a better place with Christianity advocating for slavery, child labor, and denying basic human rights to actual humans.

Clearly you must either be woefully misinformed or you're just attempting to misinform others by putting out only partial truths....

It was also Christians who spearheaded the abolition movement to end slavery in the U.S. and in Great Britain. Oberlin College, for example, was founded by two Christian Ministers to train young clergymen for the abolition movement. It's second president was evangelist Charles Finney who tutored one of the most famous of American abolitonists, Theodore Weld.
Also, it was Christians who founded some of this nation's greatest universities like Harvard, Yale, and Brown, i.e....Johnathan Edwards who was attributed to sparking the First Great Awakening in the colonies was one of Yale's presidents, as was his grandson, Timothy Dwight who sparked the Second Great Awakening in the East when America was expanding Westward.
The Evangelist Billy Sunday also publically supported a woman's right to vote.
Christians have always been active in missionary efforts to help feed, clothe, and bring medical care and education to the poor.
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