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Shouldn't the comma have been placed outside the quotes?

Meanwhile, back on earth...

Thanks Migl. Those explanations were very helpful.

I support the St. Vincent DePaul Society. They (the branch I support) only help in the short term; paying an electric bill, providing food for a few days, a hotel room for a couple of days till they can get back in their house, etc. These people need help. Now. They are not asking for long term help, and to suggest there is no need for exclusively short term needs is IMO short-sighted.

I didn't see anything in there that said I'm not a Christian if I don't believe everything in the Bible. I think you are applying what you believe to be the definition of Christianity onto others, when many leaders of Christianity don't even take as rigid a stand as you do. I don't know that I've ever met two individuals, much less everyone, who believes all the same things in the bible, and they were always considered Christians by the church leaders I knew. Some take the stories in the Bible literally, others treat them as stories. They both cannot be correct, yet both are accepted by their peers and their leaders as Christians.

Would you be so kind as to provide a citation? I was a Christian for years and no one ever told me that or insisted I believe everything in the bible. In fact, I knew priests who disagreed with various parts of Christian text.

Can you expand on that please? Your statement seems to be at odds with what a Google search finds in just about every article I find when I ask "is the universe expanding".

Don't be ridiculous. The racists weren't constrained by the Democratic party. Racists existed both before and after the inception of the Democratic party, and they exist everywhere. Laying racism in America on an organization rather than on people is pathetic.

That's always been clear; it was racists. Perhaps you should have pointed out that it was men who firmly ingrained racism into American culture and law. That would have been just as meaningful. What is much more important to note is who is firmly working to keep racism ingrained in American culture and law.

And I'd have to check to be certain, but I'm pretty sure none of them are still in office, so I'm unclear why the fact they were Democrats was brought up in the first place.

Does the fact that it was Democrats who enacted Jim Crow laws change the problem we are having in any way? Or was that just another opportunity to take a shot at Democrats?

I think a very straightforward method to minimize the impact of the alt-right is to keep opposing sides separate during demonstrations. As others have pointed out either directly or indirectly, we are losing the real message because people are equating the two groups, as both are guilty of violence. If we can keep the two sides separate then the only thing to talk about is the message the two sides represent, which is basically racism vs equality (or some version of that). Generally speaking, the alt-right will lose that battle in the minds of most people.

Welcome Blackflags! Glad to have you with us.

All I did was ask whether something asserted was actually said by a person or if it was inferred. In any other thread I would have received an answer and we would have moved on. In this thread it seems that if someone does not immediately get in line that they are suspect and their motives must be questioned.

Maybe in the Politics Forum. Usually you are a stickler for evidence. Yeah, any disagreements here seem to be on the fringes. It's more difficult to have conversations when the topic generates so much emotion.

Heh heh. No, it's a nice break.

Yes, I've since read the excerpt from Delta1212 and watched much of the video. They've made their position quite clear. I don't think they are open to or capable of reason.

I said nothing about 'intent'. I asked if Is there was a 'creed', or if we have interviews with any of those protesting saying that they believe things like "...all Jews, blacks and gays should be forcibly removed, subjugated or executed." Chanting Nazi slogans and giving the Sieg Heil salute are evidence of neither.

Sorry, I missed it. Thanks.

Several references in this and other posts to what they believe. Do we have any of this on record? Is there indeed a 'creed', or do we have interviews with any of those protesting that they believe things like "...all Jews, blacks and gays should be forcibly removed, subjugated or executed."? I am addressing a point you made. Just not the one you want me to address.

And you double down. Trump would be proud.

It was my down vote. MigL raised the issue of whether we were treating both sides in a fair manner, which in my mind is always a good check. To suggest he is 'dumb' for doing so is not acceptable, and an indication that perhaps you are indeed being biased. I was surprised someone voted it back up. I imagine there are monuments to Hirohito in Japan. You seem to be forgetting that the South was also part of the U.S. Should the 'South' accept monuments to Grant in the North? Certainly the behavior of many Northern soldiers left much to be desired.

This being a scientific forum you'll appreciate that precision is important. If you do insist that bacteria have 'desire', perhaps you can tell me where in bacteria desire originates. In humans that is in the brain. I'm unaware of a similarly functioning structure in bacteria.

Neither evolution nor bacteria have desires.

How exactly would you define "near infinite"? That sounds a lot like "a little bit pregnant".