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		<title>By: Brett</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brett]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Nov 2013 06:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Surely you must be aware of what a moron you appear to be?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Surely you must be aware of what a moron you appear to be?</p>
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		<title>By: Brett</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brett]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Nov 2013 06:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Surely you must be aware of what a moron you appear to be?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Surely you must be aware of what a moron you appear to be?</p>
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		<title>By: objectivefactsmatter</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[objectivefactsmatter]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Nov 2013 03:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your objections are reasonable. And rape is very complicated so I understand where you&#039;re coming from.


People in the West feel a lot more comfortable if the stream of ideas are unequivocal about things like rape. We&#039;re very sensitive to anything that might seem to excuse it under any circumstances.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Your objections are reasonable. And rape is very complicated so I understand where you&#8217;re coming from.</p>
<p>People in the West feel a lot more comfortable if the stream of ideas are unequivocal about things like rape. We&#8217;re very sensitive to anything that might seem to excuse it under any circumstances.</p>
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		<title>By: Omar Sharbash</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Omar Sharbash]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Nov 2013 01:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, I&#039;m not convinced. 


Striking a relationship between Islam and the &#039;problem&#039; - by appealing to &#039;background noise&#039; - needs a lot of hard work and, even then, is tenuous, at best.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No, I&#8217;m not convinced. </p>
<p>Striking a relationship between Islam and the &#8216;problem&#8217; &#8211; by appealing to &#8216;background noise&#8217; &#8211; needs a lot of hard work and, even then, is tenuous, at best.</p>
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		<title>By: Omar Sharbash</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Omar Sharbash]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Nov 2013 21:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Omar Sharbash</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Omar Sharbash]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Nov 2013 21:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nice of you to join us. 

She admitted in reply to my comment that she&#039;s racist. I&#039;ve quoted it [her reply] below. 

&#039;Calling me a racist doesn&#039;t intimidate me. I have been called worse than that. I am a proud racist homophobe. My mother told me that she figured out where black people came from when she was just a little girl. After Cain killed Abel, he was cast out of the Garden of Eden and went down into the land of Nod. Since there were no people there he mated with apes. According to the Bible, black people are the descendants of Cain. Do you have a better explanation?&#039;]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nice of you to join us. </p>
<p>She admitted in reply to my comment that she&#8217;s racist. I&#8217;ve quoted it [her reply] below. </p>
<p>&#8216;Calling me a racist doesn&#8217;t intimidate me. I have been called worse than that. I am a proud racist homophobe. My mother told me that she figured out where black people came from when she was just a little girl. After Cain killed Abel, he was cast out of the Garden of Eden and went down into the land of Nod. Since there were no people there he mated with apes. According to the Bible, black people are the descendants of Cain. Do you have a better explanation?&#8217;</p>
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		<title>By: Hill</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Hill]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Nov 2013 17:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Racist? 



What racism?  Where?


Islam is not a race. It is a religious and cultural lifestyle choice.


Why not have some courage and work on expanding your intellectual capacity, you ignorant troglodyte.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Racist? </p>
<p>What racism?  Where?</p>
<p>Islam is not a race. It is a religious and cultural lifestyle choice.</p>
<p>Why not have some courage and work on expanding your intellectual capacity, you ignorant troglodyte.</p>
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		<title>By: objectivefactsmatter</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[objectivefactsmatter]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2013 03:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;Totalitarianism is about much more than the exercise of power and the limits - or lack of limits - on that exercise. It also has to do with goals. Traditional authoritarianism is satisfied with compliance; totalitarianism is not - it demands active buy-in, and actively seeks to detect and enforce that buy-in. What would make Constantine totalitarian or not was not whether he was free to exercise authority, but the degree to which it was important to him to control the thoughts and actions of his subjects.&quot;

You&#039;re getting in to psychoanalysis. We don&#039;t even know what he intended with his fusion of Christianity and politics. There&#039;s plenty of evidence that he met your definition as well. But I use the terms more loosely than you do.

&quot;The whole point of coining the term &#039;totalitarian&#039; was to contrast the emerging fascist states with the simple authoritarianism of the past.&quot;

Well that&#039;s fine but I don&#039;t agree with some of the distinctions. I believe it had more to do with means than attitude or ideology.

&quot;One might argue that the French Revolution was, for a time, totalitarian in its goals.&quot;

I don&#039;t disagree. 

&quot;Be that as it may, the fascists, Nazis, and communists represented a wholly different phenomenon from the autocrats of the past - even those monarchs who claimed to rule by divine right.&quot;



Yes and no. Ideology and technology change, but I think some times we read too much in to those factors when we ask questions about humanity and government. Some times as you know ideology is just the superficial argument but the motives are something else. And there are many factors that determine end results that historians record for us. We don&#039;t really know that much for certain. We must deduce quite a bit.


I don&#039;t believe that man has evolved in the sense that many moderns do. I think our apparent evolution is an evolution of culture and ideology. We have techniques that help us live in more luxury and we have modern discoveries along with texts of the ancients to cull what we think is best. Of course we have an advantage then.


It&#039;s easy to make the argument that we&#039;re superior because Darwinism implies it and the ancients aren&#039;t around to defend themselves.


I just don&#039;t think human nature has changed at all. Civilizations change, and humans change in their interactions and circumstances, but not in their base nature. And if I&#039;m right, it means that ideology and the ethical application of technology are more important than we often recognize.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Totalitarianism is about much more than the exercise of power and the limits &#8211; or lack of limits &#8211; on that exercise. It also has to do with goals. Traditional authoritarianism is satisfied with compliance; totalitarianism is not &#8211; it demands active buy-in, and actively seeks to detect and enforce that buy-in. What would make Constantine totalitarian or not was not whether he was free to exercise authority, but the degree to which it was important to him to control the thoughts and actions of his subjects.&#8221;</p>
<p>You&#8217;re getting in to psychoanalysis. We don&#8217;t even know what he intended with his fusion of Christianity and politics. There&#8217;s plenty of evidence that he met your definition as well. But I use the terms more loosely than you do.</p>
<p>&#8220;The whole point of coining the term &#8216;totalitarian&#8217; was to contrast the emerging fascist states with the simple authoritarianism of the past.&#8221;</p>
<p>Well that&#8217;s fine but I don&#8217;t agree with some of the distinctions. I believe it had more to do with means than attitude or ideology.</p>
<p>&#8220;One might argue that the French Revolution was, for a time, totalitarian in its goals.&#8221;</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t disagree. </p>
<p>&#8220;Be that as it may, the fascists, Nazis, and communists represented a wholly different phenomenon from the autocrats of the past &#8211; even those monarchs who claimed to rule by divine right.&#8221;</p>
<p>Yes and no. Ideology and technology change, but I think some times we read too much in to those factors when we ask questions about humanity and government. Some times as you know ideology is just the superficial argument but the motives are something else. And there are many factors that determine end results that historians record for us. We don&#8217;t really know that much for certain. We must deduce quite a bit.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t believe that man has evolved in the sense that many moderns do. I think our apparent evolution is an evolution of culture and ideology. We have techniques that help us live in more luxury and we have modern discoveries along with texts of the ancients to cull what we think is best. Of course we have an advantage then.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s easy to make the argument that we&#8217;re superior because Darwinism implies it and the ancients aren&#8217;t around to defend themselves.</p>
<p>I just don&#8217;t think human nature has changed at all. Civilizations change, and humans change in their interactions and circumstances, but not in their base nature. And if I&#8217;m right, it means that ideology and the ethical application of technology are more important than we often recognize.</p>
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		<title>By: objectivefactsmatter</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[objectivefactsmatter]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2013 03:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;How is the threat of eternal damnation for non-compliance with the religion not coercive?&quot;



Ah, but Christianity does not threaten eternal damnation for lack of &quot;compliance&quot; of anything but faith (or lack of) in Christ&#039;s redemptive gift. If you accept this, it&#039;s a gift. If you don&#039;t accept it, it&#039;s not coercive.


Obviously there is potential for abuse, but as people have learned more about the true, whole content of the texts, the trend has been clearly towards the recognition of how important liberty is in the teachings.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;How is the threat of eternal damnation for non-compliance with the religion not coercive?&#8221;</p>
<p>Ah, but Christianity does not threaten eternal damnation for lack of &#8220;compliance&#8221; of anything but faith (or lack of) in Christ&#8217;s redemptive gift. If you accept this, it&#8217;s a gift. If you don&#8217;t accept it, it&#8217;s not coercive.</p>
<p>Obviously there is potential for abuse, but as people have learned more about the true, whole content of the texts, the trend has been clearly towards the recognition of how important liberty is in the teachings.</p>
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		<title>By: hiernonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[hiernonymous]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2013 01:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Totalitarianism is about much more than the exercise of power and the limits - or lack of limits - on that exercise.  It also has to do with goals.  Traditional authoritarianism is satisfied with compliance; totalitarianism is not - it demands active buy-in, and actively seeks to detect and enforce that buy-in.  What would make Constantine totalitarian or not was not whether he was free to exercise authority, but the degree to which it was important to him to control the thoughts and actions of his subjects.  
 
&quot;The word itself is perhaps deceptive. Authoritarian might be more accurate but these are all relative terms.&quot;
 
The whole &lt;i&gt;point&lt;/i&gt; of coining the term &#039;totalitarian&#039; was to contrast the emerging fascist states with the simple authoritarianism of the past.  One might argue that the French Revolution was, for a time, totalitarian in its goals.
 
Be that as it may, the fascists, Nazis, and communists represented a wholly different phenomenon from the autocrats of the past - even those monarchs who claimed to rule by divine right.

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Totalitarianism is about much more than the exercise of power and the limits &#8211; or lack of limits &#8211; on that exercise.  It also has to do with goals.  Traditional authoritarianism is satisfied with compliance; totalitarianism is not &#8211; it demands active buy-in, and actively seeks to detect and enforce that buy-in.  What would make Constantine totalitarian or not was not whether he was free to exercise authority, but the degree to which it was important to him to control the thoughts and actions of his subjects.  </p>
<p>&#8220;The word itself is perhaps deceptive. Authoritarian might be more accurate but these are all relative terms.&#8221;</p>
<p>The whole <i>point</i> of coining the term &#8216;totalitarian&#8217; was to contrast the emerging fascist states with the simple authoritarianism of the past.  One might argue that the French Revolution was, for a time, totalitarian in its goals.</p>
<p>Be that as it may, the fascists, Nazis, and communists represented a wholly different phenomenon from the autocrats of the past &#8211; even those monarchs who claimed to rule by divine right.</p>
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		<title>By: hiernonymous</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[hiernonymous]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2013 01:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I suppose that depends on whether you actually believe in your religion.  How is the threat of eternal damnation for non-compliance with the religion not coercive?  ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I suppose that depends on whether you actually believe in your religion.  How is the threat of eternal damnation for non-compliance with the religion not coercive?  </p>
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		<title>By: objectivefactsmatter</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[objectivefactsmatter]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2013 01:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;Whatever that is supposed to mean, or justify.&quot;



It&#039;s a confession of my bias, that I think I support rationally. It&#039;s not like I haven&#039;t given a lot of supporting arguments already.


I&#039;m not dogmatic about it. I do have a lot of supporting arguments and as you can see already you&#039;re free to challenge them.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Whatever that is supposed to mean, or justify.&#8221;</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a confession of my bias, that I think I support rationally. It&#8217;s not like I haven&#8217;t given a lot of supporting arguments already.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not dogmatic about it. I do have a lot of supporting arguments and as you can see already you&#8217;re free to challenge them.</p>
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		<title>By: objectivefactsmatter</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[objectivefactsmatter]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2013 01:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your comments are not wrong, but not fully recognizing the underlying arguments, which are I admit more complex than we have articulated here. Let me think about the best way to summarize...


Let me start by saying that unless one gets excited about the actions of Mohamed, I don&#039;t think Islam is itself a root cause of rape. But unfortunately having stories where it goes unpunished, where men are never seemingly accountable for what we call rape, this goes against Western values.


I think the biggest area of concern is the examples in the Islamic texts where non-Muslim women are raped, taken as hostage and so forth without being condemned. And if you&#039;re a migrant that is told to reject the host culture, and all of your heroes have been involved in warfare and taking sex hostages, it seems logical that rape statistics among these migrants will be higher. And that happens to hold true a lot of the time.


The biggest problem here eventually goes to lack of assimilation. Not total &quot;Star Trek&quot; assimilation but reasonable assimilation as other migrants often do. You come here because you think it&#039;s superior.


If one comes here because one thinks we&#039;re inferior and in need of dramatic change, that&#039;s a hostile reason and one should therefore expect a hostile reply.


And when we notice crime statistics it&#039;s our orientation to examine causes. That&#039;s yet another reason why tolerance of the opinions of others is so crucial. Debate is healthy if we have healthy attitudes about debate.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Your comments are not wrong, but not fully recognizing the underlying arguments, which are I admit more complex than we have articulated here. Let me think about the best way to summarize&#8230;</p>
<p>Let me start by saying that unless one gets excited about the actions of Mohamed, I don&#8217;t think Islam is itself a root cause of rape. But unfortunately having stories where it goes unpunished, where men are never seemingly accountable for what we call rape, this goes against Western values.</p>
<p>I think the biggest area of concern is the examples in the Islamic texts where non-Muslim women are raped, taken as hostage and so forth without being condemned. And if you&#8217;re a migrant that is told to reject the host culture, and all of your heroes have been involved in warfare and taking sex hostages, it seems logical that rape statistics among these migrants will be higher. And that happens to hold true a lot of the time.</p>
<p>The biggest problem here eventually goes to lack of assimilation. Not total &#8220;Star Trek&#8221; assimilation but reasonable assimilation as other migrants often do. You come here because you think it&#8217;s superior.</p>
<p>If one comes here because one thinks we&#8217;re inferior and in need of dramatic change, that&#8217;s a hostile reason and one should therefore expect a hostile reply.</p>
<p>And when we notice crime statistics it&#8217;s our orientation to examine causes. That&#8217;s yet another reason why tolerance of the opinions of others is so crucial. Debate is healthy if we have healthy attitudes about debate.</p>
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		<title>By: objectivefactsmatter</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[objectivefactsmatter]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2013 01:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[He&#039;s probably referring to this example:


http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/new-fatwa-permits-rape-of-non-sunni-women-in-syria/]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>He&#8217;s probably referring to this example:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/new-fatwa-permits-rape-of-non-sunni-women-in-syria/" rel="nofollow">http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/new-fatwa-permits-rape-of-non-sunni-women-in-syria/</a></p>
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		<title>By: objectivefactsmatter</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2013 01:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;It would be difficult to justify describing any of the previous Muslim entities - the Ottoman Empire, or the various caliphates, as &#039;totalitarian.&#039;&quot;



Well, there was liberty in political power by using Islamic texts against the caliph. These regimes are totalitarian in many senses because nobody has any true liberty outside of their wits and personal power. They had no real guarantees of liberty.


There is no real world &quot;pure totalitarian&quot; civilization or sovereign. It&#039;s a classification or label that can be challenged by comparing to others. There&#039;s no real acid test for determining totalitarian. Perhaps any civilization that does not have a constitution and strong courts to guarantee individual rights could today be classified as totalitarian.


I guess you have to take it case. Even sovereigns with weak constitutions can easily be classified as authoritarian. I&#039;d say that if you have no constitution to guarantee liberty of subjects or citizens then you have an authoritarian sovereign. 


There&#039;s a degree of subjectivity in applying such labels.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;It would be difficult to justify describing any of the previous Muslim entities &#8211; the Ottoman Empire, or the various caliphates, as &#8216;totalitarian.&#8217;&#8221;</p>
<p>Well, there was liberty in political power by using Islamic texts against the caliph. These regimes are totalitarian in many senses because nobody has any true liberty outside of their wits and personal power. They had no real guarantees of liberty.</p>
<p>There is no real world &#8220;pure totalitarian&#8221; civilization or sovereign. It&#8217;s a classification or label that can be challenged by comparing to others. There&#8217;s no real acid test for determining totalitarian. Perhaps any civilization that does not have a constitution and strong courts to guarantee individual rights could today be classified as totalitarian.</p>
<p>I guess you have to take it case. Even sovereigns with weak constitutions can easily be classified as authoritarian. I&#8217;d say that if you have no constitution to guarantee liberty of subjects or citizens then you have an authoritarian sovereign. </p>
<p>There&#8217;s a degree of subjectivity in applying such labels.</p>
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		<title>By: objectivefactsmatter</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2013 01:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;Islam is more pragmatic in that respect, dealing with actions rather than thoughts, but it also incorporates elements of the state more directly into the religion.&quot;



It&#039;s also collectivist. Which is why they care more about acts than thoughts because they want to regulate your behavior at least as much as they want to regulate their own. They don&#039;t care about your thoughts because they don&#039;t care about you. They care about what you do.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Islam is more pragmatic in that respect, dealing with actions rather than thoughts, but it also incorporates elements of the state more directly into the religion.&#8221;</p>
<p>It&#8217;s also collectivist. Which is why they care more about acts than thoughts because they want to regulate your behavior at least as much as they want to regulate their own. They don&#8217;t care about your thoughts because they don&#8217;t care about you. They care about what you do.</p>
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		<title>By: objectivefactsmatter</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2013 01:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;Christianity bears similarity with totalitarianism in particular to the extent that it holds one accountable, not only for one&#039;s acts, but for one&#039;s private thoughts - that aspect is positively Orwellian.&quot;



Christianity is non-coercive. Classifying it as &quot;totalitarianism&quot; is a bogus attempt at false equivalence by playing word games.


Christianity teaches that you are to hold yourself accountable. How is that totalitarian in any sense? If it is, it&#039;s also extremely liberal at the same time. Huh.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Christianity bears similarity with totalitarianism in particular to the extent that it holds one accountable, not only for one&#8217;s acts, but for one&#8217;s private thoughts &#8211; that aspect is positively Orwellian.&#8221;</p>
<p>Christianity is non-coercive. Classifying it as &#8220;totalitarianism&#8221; is a bogus attempt at false equivalence by playing word games.</p>
<p>Christianity teaches that you are to hold yourself accountable. How is that totalitarian in any sense? If it is, it&#8217;s also extremely liberal at the same time. Huh.</p>
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		<title>By: objectivefactsmatter</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2013 01:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;As far as &quot;Islamism as totalitarianism&quot; goes, I try to keep an open mind. Certainly, the evangelical religions try to spread their doctrine, tolerate no other dogmas as legitimate, and find themselves inordinately concerned with heresy and apostasy.&quot;



It makes little difference if one religion calls for you to remain stubborn in the debate (intolerance) and the other will kill or jail you for dissent. It&#039;s purely about tolerance. Because &quot;tolerance&quot; in itself is a litmus test for civilization.


Where have I heard that before?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;As far as &#8220;Islamism as totalitarianism&#8221; goes, I try to keep an open mind. Certainly, the evangelical religions try to spread their doctrine, tolerate no other dogmas as legitimate, and find themselves inordinately concerned with heresy and apostasy.&#8221;</p>
<p>It makes little difference if one religion calls for you to remain stubborn in the debate (intolerance) and the other will kill or jail you for dissent. It&#8217;s purely about tolerance. Because &#8220;tolerance&#8221; in itself is a litmus test for civilization.</p>
<p>Where have I heard that before?</p>
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		<title>By: objectivefactsmatter</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2013 01:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;Well, really, we did invent totalitarianism.&quot;

BS.

&quot;The totalitarian concept of the state is in stark contrast with previous authoritarian approaches.&quot;

Our approach was and is a lot more sophisticated. Because our civilization is a lot more sophisticated than previous &quot;totalitarian&quot; civilizations.

Advances in technology only lead to more effective means of achieving sovereignty. Totalitarianism is in effect total sovereignty of the leadership.

There is no true totalitarian civilization. It&#039;s a term that helps us classify tendencies and even ideologies.

Constantine did not have a totalitarian regime only because it was not actually possible. He had to contend with other powerful forces. But he didn&#039;t give up power for the sake of a constitution or ideals of the state. In theory he was somewhat regulated by the senate. 

Constantine did have a totalitarian regime because he reserved the right to make any ruling as he saw fit. His power was not truly mitigated by any formal process. He could do what he wanted to do and most of the time he did.

He wasn&#039;t the first. However we do have better documentation of Western &quot;totalitarian&quot; regimes. This is probably again due to our early recognition of the importance of criticism.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/totalitarian



The word itself is perhaps deceptive. Authoritarian might be more accurate but these are all relative terms.


But advanced technologies make despotism more feasible. The more advanced the society is, the higher the potential for despotism.


That&#039;s why &quot;democracy&quot; without a strong constitution, especially these days, is risky. It&#039;s just too easy to manipulate people and then to abuse them.


Even today in America things are getting a bit more authoritarian than ever before.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Well, really, we did invent totalitarianism.&#8221;</p>
<p>BS.</p>
<p>&#8220;The totalitarian concept of the state is in stark contrast with previous authoritarian approaches.&#8221;</p>
<p>Our approach was and is a lot more sophisticated. Because our civilization is a lot more sophisticated than previous &#8220;totalitarian&#8221; civilizations.</p>
<p>Advances in technology only lead to more effective means of achieving sovereignty. Totalitarianism is in effect total sovereignty of the leadership.</p>
<p>There is no true totalitarian civilization. It&#8217;s a term that helps us classify tendencies and even ideologies.</p>
<p>Constantine did not have a totalitarian regime only because it was not actually possible. He had to contend with other powerful forces. But he didn&#8217;t give up power for the sake of a constitution or ideals of the state. In theory he was somewhat regulated by the senate. </p>
<p>Constantine did have a totalitarian regime because he reserved the right to make any ruling as he saw fit. His power was not truly mitigated by any formal process. He could do what he wanted to do and most of the time he did.</p>
<p>He wasn&#8217;t the first. However we do have better documentation of Western &#8220;totalitarian&#8221; regimes. This is probably again due to our early recognition of the importance of criticism.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/totalitarian" rel="nofollow">http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/totalitarian</a></p>
<p>The word itself is perhaps deceptive. Authoritarian might be more accurate but these are all relative terms.</p>
<p>But advanced technologies make despotism more feasible. The more advanced the society is, the higher the potential for despotism.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s why &#8220;democracy&#8221; without a strong constitution, especially these days, is risky. It&#8217;s just too easy to manipulate people and then to abuse them.</p>
<p>Even today in America things are getting a bit more authoritarian than ever before.</p>
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		<title>By: objectivefactsmatter</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2013 00:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;And they&#039;re Western!&quot;



Late breaking news....]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;And they&#8217;re Western!&#8221;</p>
<p>Late breaking news&#8230;.</p>
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