Fundies & Teapartiers! Please help me understand you!

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Fundies & Teapartiers! Please help me understand you!

Given the following verses explain your position. I am baffled.

Acts 2:44-45

Acts 4:32

Romans 12:14-21 & 13:1-7


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 Well, you will not get an

 

Well, you will not get an answer or at least not a satisfactory one that way. You see, the two groups are far from identical and often have quite different agendas.

 

Sure, there is some overlap but the lack of overlap is going to be quite a problem for that approach.

 

I can tell you that at our local tea party meetings, questions about the exact wording of the pledge of allegiance never come up. Yes, I am sure that there are a couple of people in the group who think that that is somehow proof of founder's intent but they keep private council on that, with the possible exception of when they are in church. If that is where they are at, I am really don't care.

 

We are a fairly diverse lot. We have catholics, non-fundie protestants, unitarians, other atheists and at least a couple of people whom I am pretty sure are log cabins. We don't come together for any of that stuff. We come together for matters of taxation and government spending.

 

In fact, the diversity is probably helping to build on itself as the old line is seen as so damned dominated by a single voting bloc. If someone is not part of the old in group but is part of the group who want to see all of the stuff that does get discussed, where are they supposed to turn?

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True enough, many teaparty

True enough, many teaparty members are not Fundies, I shouldn't have lumped them togther.

I am looking for that Sarah Palin type here. I know there are a lot of those types out there and I'm hoping one of them will take the time to explain their view given these passages. 

EDUCATION! EDUCATION! EDUCATION!


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Prank posts aside for a moment

Sarah Palin's campaign is dead. It got crushed under the bootheel of Bachman, Gingrich, Paul, Romney, and a bunch of other names I can't be bothered to remember.

It appears no one gives a shit about Palin. My prayers to myself were answered... somehow.

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