Now back to the public square/highways: The panderers that made the Christian plates the law of the land need to realize that such overt acts often have the unintended consequence of turning people away from a walk of faith (why this is so would make for a lenghty book).

A simple bumper sticker (albeit NOT the one linked by Will) would be better and wouldn’t be viewed as state sponsored AND would have saved the State the costs of the lawsuit.

Agreed, James. Especially since my own thesis has recently begun to coagulate so very indisputably:

The Anti-Christ was spawned or lives here. Within the last century, I’m quite certain of it.

Pro-bono, aka “dump-shit”: Is Nelson Mullins going to pick up the tab for the other side when they are awarded fees and costs? WHOOPS – no, that check comes from the SC Treasury.

But I digress….

This post highlights my thesis that South Carolina has NO business being the second state to conduct a primary given the alarming influence those with an “itching superiority complex” have on the electoral process. This tradition of having Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina and all 22 of their electoral votes dictate to the rest of the nation who a party nominates is beyond my ability to logically comprehend.

Florida should be the first Republican contest. Better yet, 5 regional primaries (one per month from January to May).

Second observation: Your claim that “Everybody should believe what they believe and we’ll find out when we get there …” smacks of some milquetoast Unitarian Universalist kumbaya religious indifference. Getting soft on us, FITS?

If you claim to be a Christian, then you truly believe that Jesus is the only way to the Father. Where then is your love for those who don’t believe that? It’s not true love to allow another to “wait until they get there” when you’ve staked a claim here and now that the Christian faith is the way to go – now. It’s too late to wait until you get there.

It reminds me of the old “We don’t know who’s right” myth. As Father Thomas Williams explains, “Many today, thinking they are practicing intellectual humility, refuse to take a firm position on religious questions that are empirically unverifiable and prefer the comfortable stance of ‘open-mindedness.’ A clear faith would leave them in the awkward position of saying, or at least tacitly implying, that other people are … wrong. We think it judgmental and discourteous to proclaim our religious beliefs as ABSOLUTELY true, as if such religious conviction could only be the fruit of arrogance.

“Yet humility doesn’t mean intelectual ambivalence. We can be convinced without thinking that we are therefore better than others. Our [Christian] faith came to us as a free gift that we did nothing to merit, and has nothing to do with any supposed tribal superiority.”

I enjoy reading these dicussions about religion. And it shouldn’t be couched as politics vs. religion. It becomes dangerous when people start labeling religion as an unfortunate, or worse, evil, act to be tolerated. It’s about the nature of authentic religious freedom and how the practice of it forms part of the common good within the public square.

Wow. We hadn’t even thought about it that way. Pretty neat analysis, though.

Unfortunately our point, at least in this instance, was not to pair Kevin Hall with anyone for any reason (a la SC Hotline), but rather to point out that he was acting like a douchebag. A pandering, annoying douchebag.

-FITS

So what happened on 16 May 2008? That is sooooooooooooo old womanish to tease us like that.

We ALL care about what happens at the next SCGOP convention. If there is one.