If she has not been to say Dallas, Texas, let her visit, and see how her trip goes.  Then she can go to Iran or Afganistan and go w/o care or security planning, (like freely traveling in Texas) and let herself get captured.   We shall see how the Muslims treat her.  If she gets out, let us see what she writes then.  M-B

You might want to check a few facts before you toss out your pronouncements.  Outside of the 3 state universities of Iowa, Iowa State, & Northern Iowa we have 33 private colleges and universities.  Also, three Nobel laureates including the recently passed away, Norman Borlaug, were born and raised in Iowa. Yet, with all that education, in a 2001 survey, 75% of us are Christian (52% Protestant & 23% Catholic).  By your standards, that shouldn't be able to work.

The truth is, you're an elitest snob who thinks that only those who think like you are intelligent.

Go away.  You bore us.

"Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain." Official Motto of the State of Iowa

I've never know a Baptist Suicide bomber have you? I've never known a Catholic to fly a plane into a sky scraper. I've never known a Pentecostal to blow up an IED, have you? I know there are those notable misguided individuals that shoot an abortion clinic doctor. But you will never know us to be proud of these misguided individuals nor train our children to hate as Hezbollah does. No we are not terrorists. If we terrorize anyone I’d hope it would be Satan and his demonic minions, not our fellow humans.   

 "... Erbe's September 18 observation that Christianity and radical Islamic terrorism share distinct similarities."

Furthermore, let us not overlook these similarities:

2 arms AND 2 legs, hair, opposing thumbs, a need for daily sustenance, sleep, etc...

Good Orderly Direction

The next thing you know, they'll be measuring our noses and building us a few ghettos to live in.  

It's true.  If you rearrange the letters 'B-O-N-N-I-E-E-R-B-E' it spells out 'bigotedracist'.

 Not sure what that spells...but then, I'm from a 'red' state. 

Good Orderly Direction

I'd really like to know why my tax money is being used to pay religious bigots. She's a jackass.

"What a revoltin' development this is!"

Chester Riley

It's been widely reported that Middle Eastern terrorists talk suicide bombers into committing murder by explaining to them that they will be heroes in heaven, their after-life reward will be that they are treated like kings and have all the advantages that elude them here on earth. These promises are believed by people with no money, no education, and nothing to hold onto but their religious beliefs.

...on the otherhand Conservative Christians... Radical Terrorists talk their followers into committing good works by explaining to them that they will be heroes in heaven, their after-life reward will be that they are treated like kings and have all the advantages that elude them here on earth. These promises are believed by people with no money, no education, and nothing to hold onto but their religious beliefs.  (of course believing in Jesus is a requirement)

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This, she says, is not a bad thing.

Take the case of an impoverished young mother of three whose boyfriend has lost his job and who is pregnant again. Erbe writes:

[I]n the long run, can we not agree that an unwed couple's decision not to bring a fourth child into the world when they are having trouble feeding themselves and three children is no tragedy? It's actually a fact-based, rational decision that in the end benefits the three children they already have and society as well.

Feeding and raising children is expensive. Tuition may be free at public schools but there are still books, transportation, food, clothes, medical care and activities that add up--way up. ... Add one more child and those costs rise as income drops.

Under such circumstances, Erbe says, abortion is "no tragedy: it's a good decision."

Aaaaarrrghhhh! Not that Glamour Shots picture again!

Who wants to lay odds that this onion of a human being hasn't set foot in a church since she was a kid?

So my IQ being from the midwest, is somehow different than her IQ coming from loonie town, USA..Wow, who would have thunk that. Maybe everyone should ask that "our" funding of PBS and such would be better spent buying "redneck" programming, like "Buckmasters", or "How much beer can a redneck drink."

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Equating us as terrorists?

Picture if you will your typical Sunday morning Christian church service.
Mixed into the congregation you have old ladies, young families, teenagers,
children and the occasional "seeker". In the bulletin, you read about
the upcoming bake sale to help raise money for the youth to go on a mission’s
trip to Ecuador to help a resident missionary build a school and assist in
feeding the poor. You read about choir practice after church and an
announcement of an upcoming baby dedication. Then as you look up from your
bulletin you notice the choir director and worship leader ascend the steps as
the choirs rises and the music begins. You begin to sing along to words like
these: “My Jesus, My Savior, Lord, there is none like You; All of my days, I want to praise, The wonders of Your mighty love.” People all over begin worshipping God for His love and
mercy. Soon after the pastor brings a message of hope for the hurting and a
call to repentance to those who have strayed.

This is a typical service. No talk of bombs or terrorism or political
foolishness. Who needs it when you have the Creator of all things as your audience?

To hear Ms Erbe, paint the Church of Jesus Christ as a terrorist organization shows how absolutely out of touch with reality people of her persuasion really are and how far they are willing to sink to silence those who oppose their godless, immoral views.

We Christians hold to a moral absolute, yes,  that is inextinguishable. Though governments and armies have tried to destroy it, the Church has withstood the test of time, unshakable in its principles and determined in preaching the Truth. If this is a crime, then I dare anyone…ANYONE, to embrace the alternative to God. See where it gets you. In time when sin has run its course and everyone has had their fill of the debauchery God’s absence will produce, men will be on their faces begging God to return to our land. Look to Eastern Europe. The vacuum atheistic regimes have created is tragic.

"If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will
be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for
pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner."
— Malcolm Muggeridge

There's something wrong with people like this.

Is it forbidden fruit - the more kids are warned about premarital sex, the more they investigate it?  Or, could it be the demographics create a class of kids who share the same sense of values?  You really can't make any valid assumptions with this type of subject - it is so opinionated.

I like Bonnie but she is wrong in this case.

Only in social sciences can someone - the "expert"- take a few "facts" and create a report to be applied to us all.