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By: The Evangelical Atheist » Blog Archive » Day Breaks, Night Falls

The Evangelical Atheist » Blog Archive » Day Breaks, Night Falls — Sun, 10 Jul 2005 01:02:14 +0000

[…] sh official religions. If you don’t understand the implications of that, go back to my June 6 post. Just days after the announcement, the time for media h […]

By: Longstreet

Longstreet — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 05:36:28 +0000

(Um, no pun intended by the name–it’s more a gaming moniker)

Interestingly enough, South Carolina has tried this sort of thing not once but twice in the past–maybe that’s why they chose it–both the ‘nullification’ and separation parts. It didn’t fly with Andy Jackson, It didn’t fly with Abe Lincoln and those guys had a federal government the size of a gnat. It would indeed be funny to see, what with all the South carolina ‘wetbacks’ sneaking across the border into Georgia to pick fruit and clean houses–and get abortions, of course (no birth control, I bet). The birth rate climbs, the economy shrinks, inflation skyrockets and the next thing you know, they’re competing with the Dominican Republic for yankee vacation dollars to be spent in their casinos and brothels. And wait until the refugees from the first of many, many regime changes as the state religion splinters into fragments over each separate official interpretation of the Bible and the adherents accept the precedent of religious duty to control the state. In a decade, they’d be taking rickety boats to Haiti to work as domestics.

On the other hand, they could end up as a manufacturing center when wages fall below those of China and they sign up for NAFTA.

By: Patrick Kirts

Patrick Kirts — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 16:20:56 +0000

Following up on what Aaron said, it’s always amazed me that these people want to slash government spending, seeing how the “red” states are financially parasitic upon the “blue” states. It is also good to realize that all of these states are more or less purple, and that even though, say, Georgia, looks redder, one must remember that the exurban areas are parasites on, say, blue Atlanta. So what we would have if South Carolina succeeds is a group of exurban fanatics obsessed with not taxing themselves, and they would quickly find that their entire economic support structure which most of them had been unwittingly feeding on while living in isolation from reality would have vanished. Shadenfreude would be an unstoppable force in my life, at any rate.

By: vjack

vjack — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 01:20:39 +0000

I often wonder how many of these people really believe in what they are saying/doing, independent of the political strategy it involves. Is this just another examples of clever politicians taking advantage of the feeble-minded Christian masses to get votes, or do they really believe this garbage? I’m sure there are true believers out there, but they have to be a small minority…don’t they? I’m not sure I can bring myself to get out of bed in the morning if I dwell on the idea of all these freaks running around out there.

By: breakerslion

breakerslion — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 01:08:14 +0000

Thank you Nigel.