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On March 24th, 2009 at 6:23 pm, lgm said:
Would you have raised Cain over Bush at Notre Dame?

Sorry, never would have raised cain — its above my paygrade….

Oh, you meant “raise cane” as in “create a stink”…
The expression “to raise cane” go back to slavery, and is a reference to punishment, but oddly enough it didn’t start there — it started at approx. the same time period but originates with punishment of the lower ranks in the Royal Navy. Its original reference signified mule-ishness requiring more than commononly allowed, but less than needed for a full-out flogging.. raise the cane, (1 or 2 stripes) and thats the fitting punishment.

I thought your unintentional double entendre rather clever…
However, knowing that you are a simple phrase-response generator program, my admiration is reserved for your coder.

OT, NB people who post here:
I think I’ve figured out what “lgm” is an acronym for, re our “ah ha” moment where we realized that lgm was simply a primitive AI phrase-response generator. I’ve incl. my guess at the expanded version below.

L*G*M* :
L*iteral-response G*eneration M*achine

On March 24th, 2009 at 4:45 pm, Red State Skeptic said:

Of course, I don’t feel that the party of war, torture, and the death penalty and should be lecturing anyone on how to be a follower of Christ.

You do realize that the Bible advocates the death penalty for murder and a few other crimes…? So should we follow the will of God or not? Here are some scriptures…

Exodus 20:13
Numbers 35:16-21
Numbers 35:30-31
Deuteronomy 5:17

On March 24th, 2009 at 11:38 pm, atheling said:

GK Chesterton:

“Let all the babies be born. Then let us drown the ones we do not like”.

Chesterton wrote that as an example of the ignorance of atheists. In his era abortions for the sake of abortions were unthinkable even for the hard core athiests.

enthusiastically supported the death penalty, both of which were opposed by the Church.

Also, while limited in application, the Church DOES NOT forbid the death penalty. Just like war and self-defense, there are parameters for it as well.

Nice try, though.

The right only cares what the Vatican has to say when it admonishes the pro-choicers, but when the Pope talks about the Iraq war, he’s nothing but an old crank.

Perhaps you need to understand that abortion has always and unconditionally been condemned in Catholicism. From the beginning and not – contrary to critics – the last 150 years or so. We are bound to not support, endorse, condone, or otherwise be passive about abortion.

On the other hand, the Catechism of the Catholic Church (and, hence, Catholic teaching) recognizes that this world is full of unjust aggressors and that it’s neither prudent nor responsible to be totally passive all the time. Which is why there is criteria and parameters outlining war. The Catholic Church also has parameters of self-defense, saying it is ultimately not a sin to kill someone if they pose a mortal threat to your life or the life of another innocent person.

And, given the fact his comments incited violence among Muslims, Pope Benedict knows that a total reconciliation and peace with them is probably not possible.

“Let all the babies be born. Then let us drown the ones we do not like”.

The Church teaches that abortion is intrinsically evil. Nothing can justify it, unless to save the life of the mother.

War is not intrinsically evil, though many wars are evil. The Church developed a just war doctrine, therefore, war is always subject to examination by the informed conscience, and is not intrinsically evil.

Therein lies the difference.

On March 24th, 2009 at 7:24 pm, jwm said:
Show some respect for the office, jeez………..

We will when he does. Until then, all bets are off here.

On March 24th, 2009 at 6:23 pm, lgm said

You’re an idiot…and blind…and deaf…and unable to critically think through any issue of importance. Go away.