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Originally posted by RougeUnderoos+Apr 5 2005, 11:48 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (RougeUnderoos @ Apr 5 2005, 11:48 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Sammie@Apr 6 2005, 12:31 AM
You have every right to not like Stockwell Day. That is your right. However, you haven't got a clue who he is and you have no right to destroy his character or attack his beliefs. I'm deeply angered, insulted and disgusted by what you just wrote about him, Red Deer and small town Alberta. You sir, are a bigot!
You have every right to think and believe what you like. Now have the decency to give people with differing opinions the right to think and believe what they want without attempting to assassinate their character.
You don't like Christians? Fine. They don't have to like you either.
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He is an elected official after all, so we do have a right to attack his beliefs. We also have a right to attack his character.
His beliefs are stupid. His character is flawed.
I guess the "character" thing is open to interpretation.
The "earth is 6000 years old" belief is not. That is stupid. [/b][/quote]
What was is it he said about Dinosaurs in regars to that 6000 year old earth thing? Something about how man is supreme under god because their footprints were even found with the dinosaurs in fossils or something?
Something plainly not true and totally ignorant regardless.....
As was said he was/is a public official and if we are going to talk about the party HE LEAD and people like him largely populate then it is an open ball game on his silly world view.
He is a small town redneck preacher who has small town red neck preacher views.
In his bubble of friends who don't ask any tough questions (seemingly like yourself Sammie) he is a safe, smart, and good guy i am sure, but the nation is a big place and in comparison to the bigger picture you better have had to answer tough questions in your past if you are going to convince anyone to follow you. Stockwell Day and his ilk are not tough question type people - they 'just believe' in their answers and that is enough for them. That is just not enough for the big city folk (statistically) who want the freedom to do what they want free from the influence of a vocal and well organized Alebrta based christian (nationally speaking) minority.
Nothing abnormal about that, but he, nor anyone like him, will be elected to run this country. I have nothing against christians or small town folk (why would i?) but most of the country lives in big cities and big cities are what now drive the world economy. To think you are going to win a national election on small town values (where big city pressures, diversities, and realities plainly do not exist) is silly and doomed to failure from the start.
Some broad generalizations there for the sake of simplicity but again that is how the typical non-Alberta viewer see's the most influential parts of the Conservative party today REGARDLESS of whether you think i am wrong...
Claeren.