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Romney Understands America

Sam87 Wrote: May 15, 2012 8:28 PM

i like your point, it shows that while Christianity may well be responisble for some truly awfull horrors in history (same old list, crusades, inquisitions, burnings, wars), it does not actually represent the religion itself as much as the culture of the people practicing it at the time. But, you need to apply the same yard stick to Islam, which has had many long periods of peace, tolerance and has been a centre of learning which surpassed anything else around, it is not really about the faith as much as it is how people CHOOSE to interprate it

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Romney Understands America

On Saturday, Mitt Romney delivered a speech to the 6,000 Liberty College graduates.

It was an important speech, not only because it seems to have closed the gap between Romney and evangelical Christians but also because it spelled out major themes in Mitt Romney's understanding of America.

Romney: "You know who you are. And you know whom you will serve. Not all colleges instill that kind of confidence . . . ."

This is a truism. Most American universities seek to graduate men and women who are as committed to secularism as nearly all the members of faculty are. In contrast,...

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