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Tansy_Gold Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-07-09 10:40 AM
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18. Well, part of their agenda is to make the world fit for Jesus' return
and if they have to employ the old "destroy the village to save it" strategy, that's fine with them.

It's easy for us to apply OUR perspective to their actions, but in order to deal with them we have to be able to understand THEIR perspective. That's something Dems/progressives/liberals/rationals are not very good at doing.

I was raised as a moderate Republican, the Eisenhower/Rockefeller type. I lived for 15 years in the corner of conservative Indiana that produced Dan Quayle. I was part of that community, and I know that they do not think the way I do now. I used to think like them. Don't ask me what changed. I don't know. I just know that I can't see the world the way I used to.

But I *did* see it that way, and I know how they see it. It's not rational, and you can't deal with them rationally.

So we may think they fit their definition of an anti-christ, but THEY don't think so. And their whole belief system is based on, well, on belief, not on evidence.

The only way to deal with them is to ignore them. Do not engage them. Do not compromise with them. Do not accommodate them. All of that is exactly what they want.

They're winning.



TG
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