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    Quote Originally Posted by Banquo's Ghost View Post
    So your exemplar would be the Pope or Ahmedinejad? (Yes, I know they have different gods, but I understand that's a mere technicality).

    Anyway, you'll be EMFM's favourite contributor now, making his case for the Divine Right of Kings.
    Well, certainly not the Pope. I have got in trouble on this site before for articulating 'my thoughts' about the Pope so I guess I can't repeat them as frankly & honestly for the sake of this post. But he definitely doesn't fit into what I was talking about in my previous post at all.

    Your post is bringing up a sticky area. Some people in authority pay lip service to God's Will, but don't actually believe it or obey it. Persons such as this are not qualified for doing, and do not even do with the limited power they have now, what my previous post entails.

    I do respect Ahmadinejad. He seems to have a sincere belief in doing God's Will that he never compromises, no matter how unpopular that makes him amongst certain groups of people. That's the way to do it. I used to have an amazing quote from him in my sig on this site that I figured I'd better remove when the "no politics in sigs" rule came into place (I voted against that [very bad IMO] rule because I knew it would needlessly sabotage my amazing sig ).

    It was:

    "How can you justify seeing a mother away from her home, her children? Why don't they respect family values in the West?"

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    Why can't it do both?
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    Nothing established by violence and maintained by force, nothing that degrades humanity and is based on contempt for human personality, can endure.

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    to its people.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Navaros View Post
    "How can you justify seeing a mother away from her home, her children? Why don't they respect family values in the West?"
    Was that in reference to the female British sailor (and some others) they briefly captured?

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    The people it governs directly are not the primary but the only responsibility. Sometimes it involves others.

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