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Phelps as a symptom
::^This. To be honest, this also goes for people like Hitler; people who are so left-wing they go off the edge and appear on the right, people who are neither left nor right but up or down. There's some people you can't classify other than 'insane'. [[User:ETrundel|ETrundel]] 13:24, 26 February 2009 (EST)
::^This. To be honest, this also goes for people like Hitler; people who are so left-wing they go off the edge and appear on the right, people who are neither left nor right but up or down. There's some people you can't classify other than 'insane'. [[User:ETrundel|ETrundel]] 13:24, 26 February 2009 (EST)
Careful, now. Whenever an online discussion starts to mention Hitler, that's like touching the third rail in the subway. The power of his shocking works overwhelm us, and we stop thinking clearly.
Phelps is only wrong in his idea that God "punishes" and "hates" homosexuals. This is not to say that he's wrong about homosexuality being a sin. A lot of support for Communism is based on a high ethical idea that no one should monopolize the nation's wealth at the expense of the poor. They only go wrong in the way they want to solve the [[unequal distribution]] problem: i.e., "kill the capitalists and steal their loot!" [http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:JwqaZFQvOtMJ:www.cusd.chico.k12.ca.us/~bsilva/projects/russia/Radzinsky%2520Stalin.doc+bolsheviks+steal+loot&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=5&gl=us&client=firefox-a]
We need to solve economic problems that Capitalism and Communism have not been able to eliminate. Ethical means, however, must be used. Likewise, we need to solve the problem of [[immorality]] (and not only [[homosexuality]: there's a lot of heterosexual sin, such as [[adultery]]); yet an attitude of hatred and hostility towards people is not likely to solve the [[free love]] problem. It could make it worse. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] <sup>[[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]]</sup> 15:40, 26 February 2009 (EST)