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White supremacists protecting Churchill statue get 'that work' in UK
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RE: White supremacists protecting Churchill statue get 'that work' in UK
June 14, 2020 at 5:52 am
When I was a kid, I always thought Churchill's first name was 'Thatbastard'.  I'd be happy to see the statue removed, but I'm a little distressed as to how they're going about it.

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RE: White supremacists protecting Churchill statue get 'that work' in UK
June 14, 2020 at 8:07 am
If the statue gets successfully kept down then that's what God wants.
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RE: White supremacists protecting Churchill statue get 'that work' in UK
June 14, 2020 at 8:16 am
(June 14, 2020 at 8:07 am)UtilitarianDeist Wrote: If the statue gets successfully kept down then that's what God wants.

And you call yourself a deist.  pfft.

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RE: White supremacists protecting Churchill statue get 'that work' in UK
June 14, 2020 at 8:32 am (This post was last modified: June 14, 2020 at 8:33 am by UtilitarianDeist.)
(June 14, 2020 at 8:16 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(June 14, 2020 at 8:07 am)UtilitarianDeist Wrote: If the statue gets successfully kept down then that's what God wants.

And you call yourself a deist.  pfft.

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Deism just means I believe in a deity. Theism also tends to assume that a particular religion is true and that God intervenes in the universe.
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RE: White supremacists protecting Churchill statue get 'that work' in UK
June 14, 2020 at 8:33 am
Deism’s still as irrational as theism.
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June 14, 2020 at 8:35 am
You're a theist, but it's okay. If I trip and fall, then that's what your very personal intervening god wants.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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RE: White supremacists protecting Churchill statue get 'that work' in UK
June 14, 2020 at 8:43 am
(June 13, 2020 at 10:58 pm)Huggy Bear Wrote: Violence erupted at the statue of Winston Churchill, after known white supremacist Tommy Robinson called for other to join him in resisting those protesting the statue, after Tommy's bodyguard caught feet and hands, he quickly changed his tune.

Do you have any evidence that Tommy Robinson is a white supremacist? I'm English and judge him to be a nasty piece of work, yes, but his beef is with immigrants, and Islam in particular, not genetic "race."
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June 14, 2020 at 8:53 am (This post was last modified: June 14, 2020 at 8:54 am by UtilitarianDeist.)
(June 14, 2020 at 8:35 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: You're a theist, but it's okay.  If I trip and fall, then that's what your very personal intervening god wants.

To me intervention would be that a God that created the universe sometimes chose to affect that universe. I don't believe in that.

I'm a theist in the sense that I'm not an atheist. I'm also a deist in the sense that the God I believe in isn't of any specific religion, it didn't create the universe because it isn't separate to it, and it doesn't intervene in it because any supposed 'intervention' is just the universe acting on itself.
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RE: White supremacists protecting Churchill statue get 'that work' in UK
June 14, 2020 at 8:55 am (This post was last modified: June 14, 2020 at 8:56 am by The Grand Nudger.)
It's very likely that all of your own misrepresentations of your thoughts turn on novel personal interpretations of given terms. You can call yourself whatever you want. I'll decide that you're whatever term best fits the things you describe no matter what you choose to call it.

That's how words work.
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RE: White supremacists protecting Churchill statue get 'that work' in UK
June 14, 2020 at 8:55 am
It must be great to pick and choose the irrational aspects in which to believe in reference to that which clearly doesn’t exist.
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