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Topic started on 19-11-2009 @ 09:13 AM by ModernAcademia

Investigation exposes influence of Religious Right on homophobia in Africa


www.ekklesia.co.uk
Sexual minorities in Africa have become 'collateral damage' in church conflicts as US conservative evangelicals and those opposing gay priests, ministers and bishops within mainline Protestant denominations woo Africans, a groundbreaking investigation by Political Research Associates (PRA) has suggested.

Kaoma argues that the US Right – once isolated in Africa for supporting pro-apartheid, white supremacist regimes – has successfully reinvented itself as the mainstream of US evangelicalism.
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reply posted on 19-11-2009 @ 10:24 AM by Ridhya
reply to post by blueorder


The most obvious fact that completely negates what you said is that Stalin was the DICTATOR, he was above the law, thought of himself as God, whereas in communism everyone is equal, there are no dictators being waited on hand and foot every whim done, because that makes him above everyone else. Lenin warned everyone on his death bed what would hapen if Stalin took power.


Originally posted by blueorder
exactly, who do you think goes out and gives gays a kicking on the streets- do people think it is bible studying Christians, deeply religious types, or atheists who love to indulge in anti social behaviour whether against gays or just randoms

And now you're doing the same thing as academia and painting ATHEISTS with the same brush... there are both deeply religious right-wingers and non religious left-wingers, as well as non religious right wingers, and deeply religious left wingers, trying to destroy what is different/they dont understand.



reply posted on 19-11-2009 @ 10:31 AM by blueorder
Originally posted by PC equals Newspeak
Well, "democracy" is pretty much the ONLY political concept where the masses are expected to have a clue. Pretty much every non-democratic ideology considers only an educated elite worthy of political power, which makes sense to me and shouldn't be a factor in comparing ideologies.



IN theory neither considers a specific elite to be worthy of power- in fascism, well, specifcally the German National socialist brand, anyone within the chosen volk- in Soviet Communism, anyone who wasn't part of the oppressive class- in reality we know *as in all such systems* it would be down to a chosen elite.

I was more making the point that both ideologies were focussed on everything being for the state and not outside the realm of the state


They hated each other because they had many views conflicting with the other side and they were equally radical in their views.


Certain views contradicted each other, others were very similar- they hated each other because they were basically fighting for the same ground, and they both knew it


I would agree that the step from "ultra-left" to "ultra-right" is far smaller than the step from either to more mainstream political views. I know several people who started out "ultra-left" and turned out "ultra-right" because their previous ideology no longer made any sense to them. A wise man once said : "he who wasn't a left wing when he was young has no heart and he who isn't right wing when he gets old has no brain". That pretty much sums it up for me


haha, yes, I have heard that quote, a lot of truth in it
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