Does no one care about the issues??

iVillage Member
Registered: 09-08-2008
Does no one care about the issues??
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Thu, 09-11-2008 - 5:32pm

I read pages, and pages, of he said she said BUT every little about issues. Why is this?? Are the issues not important or have we become puppets in this presidential election?? I would like to think that we, as adults, are mature enough to focus on this issues for a change. So, with that said, what is the biggest ISSUE that concerns you in this election??


 


 Example of issues


economy


war


forecloses


immigration


of course there are more but this can get you started


 


Example of non-issue


who knows who


who wears what or may have been made fun of for doing so


what did their child do some warm April evening


of course there are more but these are examples


 


Please leave your comments about the candidates out of this thread and focus on THE ISSUES ONLY (see first list). There are 1000 thread focusing the other topics please address them there. Now lets have fun with who's plans for the issues are better and not who's lipstick is darker ;)


 


iVillage Member
Registered: 10-25-2006
Fri, 09-12-2008 - 9:33am

I am no Bible expert. What is written in the Bible about killing in self-defense?

We are not all Christians in this world. What do the Koran, Veda, Tao-te-Ching and the Talmud have to say about killing in self-defense?

How many of the wars we've fought have actually been fought in self-defense? How do you think God defines that?

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iVillage Member
Registered: 03-30-2007
Fri, 09-12-2008 - 10:21am
I have often wondered about something.
iVillage Member
Registered: 09-06-2008
Fri, 09-12-2008 - 10:30am

I have often wondered about something.

iVillage Member
Registered: 08-13-2008
Fri, 09-12-2008 - 10:34am

I'm sick of hearing about lipstick, suits, friends, churches, etc.

Carey

iVillage Member
Registered: 09-09-2008
Fri, 09-12-2008 - 3:03pm

*** I am no Bible expert. What is written in the Bible about killing in self-defense?

Here is an article discussing the issue...

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=25442

*** We are not all Christians in this world. What do the Koran, Veda, Tao-te-Ching and the Talmud have to say about killing in self-defense?

I don't have that information...but I would surmise that most religions recognize the right to defend yourself.

*** How many of the wars we've fought have actually been fought in self-defense?

All.

*** How do you think God defines that?

I think the Bible is more concerned with a war being "righteous" rather than strictly in "self-defense."

Here are a few articles concerning the Bible and war...

http://www.gotquestions.org/war-Bible.html

http://www3.calvarychapel.com/hope/library/stauffer-claude/studies-topical/war/war.htm

iVillage Member
Registered: 09-06-2008
Fri, 09-12-2008 - 3:22pm
How is "drilling at home" an "alternative energy plan?" Oil IS the dominant energy source, alternatives like biofeuls, solar, nuclear, wind and hydrogen cells (and others) are the "alternatives." Drilling for oil on our own soil isn't moving us one iota closer to any practicable "alternatives."

Now in darkness, world stops turning
Ashes where the bodies burning
No more war pigs have the power
Hand of God has sturck the hour
Day of judgement, God is calling
On their knees, the war pigs crawling Begging
iVillage Member
Registered: 09-06-2008
Fri, 09-12-2008 - 3:23pm
Yeah, that's right up there with whether I'll be able to afford college for my kids, or whether the world is a stable place, or the status of health care. I'm DESPERATELY concerned about whether Barack Obama ever sat in the living room of a guy who bombed the Pentagon when Obama was 8.

Now in darkness, world stops turning
Ashes where the bodies burning
No more war pigs have the power
Hand of God has sturck the hour
Day of judgement, God is calling
On their knees, the war pigs crawling Begging
iVillage Member
Registered: 09-06-2008
Fri, 09-12-2008 - 3:26pm

"God made man in his image, and man - being a gentleman - returned the favor"

-- E.K. Hornbeck character, "Inherit The Wind"

Now in darkness, world stops turning
Ashes where the bodies burning
No more war pigs have the power
Hand of God has sturck the hour
Day of judgement, God is calling
On their knees, the war pigs crawling Begging
iVillage Member
Registered: 09-06-2008
Fri, 09-12-2008 - 3:28pm
Mining the Nicaraguan harbor was "self-defense?"

Now in darkness, world stops turning
Ashes where the bodies burning
No more war pigs have the power
Hand of God has sturck the hour
Day of judgement, God is calling
On their knees, the war pigs crawling Begging
iVillage Member
Registered: 10-25-2006
Fri, 09-12-2008 - 3:42pm

Wow! Thanks for the links. I learned stuff they never taught me in 12 years of Catholic school. Maybe I shouldn't call myself a Christian if I'm expected to believe the interpretation of the Bible presented in those links.

I should really call myself a Buddhist:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/buddhism/buddhistethics/war.shtml

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http://www.pnhp.org/news/2009/october/meet_the_new_health_.php

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQTBYQlQ7yM