Rand Paul: ‘There’s a worldwide war on Christianity’

[cbayer]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/10/11/rand-paul-theres-a-worldwide-war-on-christianity/

By Niraj Chokshi, Published: October 11 at 11:45 am


Rand Paul (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque)

There's a war raging against Christianity, but the attackers must police themselves, says Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul (R).

"From Boston to Zanzibar, there's a worldwide war on Christianity," the world's most-practiced religion, he said Friday at the Values Voters Summit, an annual conservative gathering. The intensity of attacks is so high, he later added, that it's "almost as if we lived in the Middle Ages," a period that included the Crusades.

Today's war is perpetrated by "a fanatical element of Islam," Rand said, adding that most Muslims are not commited to violence against Christians. However, those who are number in the tens of millions, he said. And it falls upon Muslims themselves to take on their violent brothers.

"Some politicians say that this war on Christianity means that we must fight a large conventional war against all radical Islam. ... This isn't going to be fought with a conventional war, it's going to require Islam to police Islam," Paul said, imploring Muslims to embrace what he described as a more peaceful, enlightened past.

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[Turbineguy]

1. Is this his first foray

into stand-up comedy?

[cbayer]

5. Hardly. Have you never hear him speak before?

[Blue Owl]

2. Well then go work for Christianity -- not the government, you idiot

n/t

[Berlum]

3. Victimy RepubliWankers on the Whine

The persecutors are feeling persecuted. Doubleplusungood. They need to shut up with the whining and pull themselves up by their own Bible straps.

[BlueCaliDem]

4. Yeah, Randy, by people like you. eom

[Swede Atlanta]

6. Rand... I have news for you....

the worldwide war is on the vermin on the top of your head.

[Tyrs WolfDaemon]

17. You've got it mixed up

The animal on his head isn't the vermin. The vermin is the human under the critter.

[xfundy]

7. "it falls upon Muslims themselves to take on their violent brothers."

Same could be said for the violent and/or hateful christers in the USA.

[cbayer]

8. So you are agreeing with Rand Paul?

[cleanhippie]

13. Really? You think that from tht one quote used to make a point

Is "agreeing with Rand Paul"?

BE the change you want to see in this group, cbayer. BE the change.

[hrmjustin]

9. Sounds like he is running for president and wants the religious right on his side.

[cbayer]

10. I would agree that that is exactly what he is doing.

[LeftishBrit]

11. 'imploring Muslims to embrace what he described as a more peaceful, enlightened past.'

Talk about 'Do as I say, not as I do!'

Peaceful and enlightened aren't the two words that come most readily to mind when I think of Rand Paul.

[dimbear]

12. The actual region of overt hostilities is smaller. Middle East, Pakistan and Afghanistan mostly.

Liberals here will ignore it at their peril, the lives of Christians in those areas aside.

[struggle4progress]

14. Rand Paul: Obama won't stop war on Christianity

October 11th, 2013
02:33 PM ET

... “This administration does nothing to stop it and it can be argued that it is giving aid and comfort to those who tolerate these crimes” ...

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2013/10/11/rand-paul-obama-wont-stop-war-on-christianity/

He apparently hopes to emulate Sampson, slaying his foes with the jawbone of an ass

[struggle4progress]

15. ... So here are three questions the press should demand Paul answer:

1. You have described yourself as a follower of the libertarian philosophy of Ayn Rand but Rand was a militant atheist who said that every single argument for God is false. Which view do you reject today -- Ayn Rand's "objectivist" philosophy or Christian belief.
2. Ayn Rand said that faith is a "curse of mankind", one that "destroys the mind" - how can you call yourself a follower of Rand and a Christian at the same time?
3. Christianity is based on compassion; Ayn Rand's doctrine of "The VIrtue of Selfishness" says Christian compassion is not just wrong but contemptible. Which of these two doctrines do you disavow? ...
Here's the real issue about Rand Paul's religion

[cbayer]

16. He has repeatedly managed to wiggle out of these questions.

He can't reconcile this and he knows it.

[skepticscott]

18. And yet when the same type of questions

are asked on this board, you (and one other you may know) call them "gotcha" questions, declare them illegitimate, refuse to answer, and say (falsely) that they are no different than asking "have you stopped beating your wife?"

I think we can take this as a blatant admission that you've always known perfectly well that these types of questions are legitimate, and that you've just been trying over and over and over to "wiggle out" of things YOU can't reconcile.

[dimbear]

19. Hitler liked dogs and edelweiss. Do you agree with Hitler?

Also, as a side issue, do you agree with that type of argument?