Discussion: O'Reilly: 'Rap Industry' Contributed To Decline In Christians In US (VIDEO)

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How does Bill Orally explain the highly successful economies of the Scandinavian nations and The Netherlands?

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Any student of history knows from whence O’Reilly speaks. The mix tapes of DJ Heroditus took down Constantinople, and Dizzy G Aquitaintis didn’t help matters.

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If Christianity is unable to compete with rap music (a few decades ago it was rock n’ roll) that is their fault, not the music’s. It’s like blaming Apple for IBM’s problems.

PS-Based on the number of failed rappers in places like the UK and France who have gone over to ISIS and AQAP, Islam seems to have better marketers.

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The secularization of America is the best defense against Sharia Law. Bill should be hugging atheists.

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And televangelical cashing in on religion had nothing to do with people seeing it as a superstitious scam.

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Tammy Faye smites you!!! No soup for you!!! Arrrggh!!!

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Okay, second best defense. The best defense is that fears of Sharia Law in America are nonsense.

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You know, he’s right. This society did once talk more about giving everyone a better standard of living, better opportunities, a decent shot at contributing the most they could. And that seems less possible now. But it wasn’t because of rap. Or rock. Or jazz. Or waltzing, for Christ’s sake. It’s because of you, Bill. You and people like you. It isn’t, and never is, because of passing fads in entertainment. Bluenosed idiots always panic over stuff like that. Any competent student of history knows that much.

Bill.

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He doesn’t. And don’t get him started about the Founding Fathers’ deistic streak. And @phlebas , Bill shouldn’t be hugging it out with anyone. The last time he did it was kinda expensive :dollar:

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I thought it was the gays.

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HA! Fair enough.

Restraining order comes in, restraining order goes out. You can’t explain that!

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What an ignorant fool. Any sentence that starts out “The founding fathers didn’t want a secular nation because” is automatically BS, because that’s exactly what they did want.

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Something must have given Christianity a bad name…

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To specifically comment about what O’Reilly said. As a teen in the 50s, I first heard about the decline of organized religion then in the 60s and 70s we had articles like Time’s “Is God Dead” cover in 66 and books “Without Marx or Jesus” in 71. All before Rap Musics first recording in 79 with Rapper’s Delight.

But then in the 50s it was “Preachers” talking about the demon Rock&Roll, before that how evil Jazz was, etc, etc, etc lastly don’t forget the criticism of flappers in the 20s destroying society.

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So in other words black people are at fault. Thanks black people!
But I know why I hate religion. When your religion is represented by people such as Ann Coulter (note the cross around her throat), Franklin Graham, Fox News (war on Christmas, white Santa and white jesus), Bill Donahue, Evangelicals, Michelle Bachmann, the republican party, boy diddling priests, and a whole host of worthless, wretched, specimens of humanity, the only thing I can think of is to run in the opposite direction. One pope Francis cannot make up for this heinous bunch. The same goes for Islam. You can call it a religion of peace all day long, but its extremists have destroyed its positive image for a long time to come. There is supposed to be a loving God somewhere in these religions, but I’ve never seen any signs of love or compassion in anything that ever comes out of the aforementioned Christian mouths.

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It was “JAZZ” in the 1920s.
It was “THE BLUES” in the 1930s.
It was “SWING” in the 1940s.
It was “ROCK ‘N’ ROLL” in the 1950s.
It was “PSYCHEDELIC ROCK” in the 1960s.
It was “DISCO” in the 1970s.
It was “HEAVY METAL” in the 1980s.
It was “GRUNGE” in the 1990s.
It was “RAP” in the 2000s.
There is ALWAYS SOMETHING for the moralists who sit on high and condemn whatever it is that they think keeps the rubes from sending them money.

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I believe it’s “Christians” like O’Reilly.

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What a hypocrite. Is rap music the reason this nutjob got “divorced” and asked the Catholic Church for an annulment? Is rap music the reason he’s engaged in a custody battle with his “ex-wife”? I’d love to know whether he’s taking confession on Saturday and sitting in the pew on Sunday. When’s the last time you took communion, Bill?

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the pursuit of individual gratification

I blame loofahs and deflated footballs…

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