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Originally Posted by CaptainHaplo
Buddahaid - I think both sides have their extremes. Unfortunately, the extremes on both sides are the most "vocal". This is why the "silent majority" truly is much more "centrist" than either side realized.
What we need is to get that majority to stop being silent - and we could get this country away from either extreme.
I laugh alot when I hear that term - "centrist" - mainly because the extremes on both sides like to point it out as "moderate" or undecided - when it simply is nothing more than those who look at things with realistic common sense.
I admit my views are more critical of the "liberal" part of the equation, but that is mainly because I disagree so vehemently with the extreme parts of it that are pushed so hard. There are a number of conservative extremes that I also disagree with, but as they are not really major issues facing the country at the moment, there isn't much reason to spend time worrying over them, in my view.
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I was mulling this over while painting a door frame, and stuck on the life/religion views. Conservatives, who are by and large Christians, will place the beginning of life at conception, and wish this view to be the law of the land. Interesting as Christianity, at least the Latin Catholic type, has always put more emphasis on the afterlife as being of prime importance, and your time on earth of little value save as far as earning points for the good. This is the whole basis behind being a monk and living an austere existence. Anyway, not all religions share that view, and as such enacting that view into law does appear on the surface, to be enforcing one religion above others. Tough one which brings up another issue regarding abortion clinic killings. I can't figure out why some individuals feel compelled to take God's wrath into their own hands as if He can't manage it Himself. If they were to be true believers, than all sinners will be handed their due in the afterlife. So, it seems they must have an inner conflict with their leap of faith.
Buddahaid