1. President Bush » Down From The Tower - Bush in Africa wrote:

[...] Dr. Marc Lamont Hill wrote an interesting post today on Down From The Tower – Bush in AfricaHere’s a quick excerptDown From The Tower – Bush in Africa Marc Lamont Hill @ 1:57 pm Marc Lamont Hill Down from the Tower This week, George W. Bush continues his final major trip to Africa. Unlike the United States, where his status varies from irrelevant to anathema, President Bush is a rock star in many parts of the Motherland. Why? Because he’s donated record amounts of money to AIDS relief. This week, Bush pledged an additional $30 billion in funds. Like all things Bush, however, his philanthropy has [...]

2. Neil wrote:

John, try looking a little deeper into what you said. The act of donating doesn’t really mean much if you conditionally tell people how to live their lives. I could donate all the money in the world, but if I give it on the condition that people look in the mirror everyday and tell themselves that their life is wrong, it’s not exactly philanthropy.
No matter how you look at it, imperialism is evil. It’s oppressive, destructive, and EVIL.

3. Rayne wrote:

Abstinence-until-marriage is absolutely a possibility as proven by several now-married people who I know closely… and still under successful attempt by several not-yet-married people who I know. I realize the greater point of this article is not narrowly about the topic of abstinence; but, I threw this statement in just for clarities’ sake.

4. John wrote:

The act of donating doesn’t really mean much if you conditionally tell people how to live their lives.

That is ridiculous.

5. T.M. Abbott wrote:

Those believing abstinence before marriage is an impossibility do so because they’ve failed or refuse to embrace the idea. This is not proof enough, nor is the evidence of even a societal majority unable to accomplish abstinance proof that it cannot be done.

The concept itself is proof of it’s possibility. There are no original thoughts with man. Every idea is based on something that already exists. No truly original idea has ever been inspired apart from what is already here.

For example counterfeit money. You have to have the genuine article on which to base the counterfeit or there would be no true on which to claim what is false. The idea could not exist otherwise.

Another example is the alien. Aliens are either humanoid, vegetative, mineral, liquid, gas, dark, light or some combination. There is nothing outside of these elements that man has been able to conceived any extraterrestrial form.

We can only know based on what is already known.

And so the idea of promiscuity is evident against the possibility of abstinance and celebacy or we would call it something else, nor would there be any conceived opposition to the behaviour as a normal part of human existance.

6. DCI74 wrote:

TMA thanks for the breakdown but damn I wasn’t coming that deep at all. I was just recently doing some SAT prep with one of my kids and it based on my research with analogies yours was just a little off.