I have visited Red State on occasion and have left comments. I forget the issue, but I made some comment that was ill-received by the "clique" on one occasion and the response seemed a bit strange to me. That left a bad taste in my mouth for those folks over there. I remember being personally attacked for posting my opinion regarding some issue. On a Conservative Issue forum.
Strange.
I had the same thing happen to me. I forget what the issue was, too, but the some sycophants jumped on me like a couple 'a bums on a baloney sandwich.
Trap led me here, so I'm your statistic, Trap!
I stopped going over there when Ericson preemptively banned any talk about 9/11 or birth certificate issues.
I did recognize they had a good political commentary, but there's enough elsewhere. I don't think I even got the satisfaction of self-deleting! It wasn't an option.
As far as PdF...I, too, was puzzled by the contradiction between his profession of faith at every opportunity and his incredibly dark and irresponsible comments on certain subjects. I know I agreed w/ him on the impending need for taking up arms, but I don't think I really day-dreamed out loud.
But, damn, he didn't even last a week!
My views...my views...yeah, the planet's, like, really
really old.
I have seen too much scientific evidence and made too many observations, personally, to not believe evolution.
For the larger part of human history, religion
was science, as much as it was a means to order a society to best facilitate co-existence. It's difficult to be productive when your killing for greed or sleeping with somebody's wife. That stuff's detrimental to progress, to say the least.
I do recognize that the Judeo-Christian ethic, on which Western Civilization is largely founded, is clearly the most successful. I'm sure that separating the teachings from teh belief may lead some to say I'm trying to have my cake and eat it too, but I don't think it's a full-subscription-or-nothing kind of deal. I strictly adhere to the philosophy of "Do unto others...", but don't ever waste my time on petty revenge.
My $.02!