MARILYN MONROE Vs. CONSERVATIVE IDEA OF RELIGION?
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Marilyn Monroe personified Hollywood glamour with an unparalleled glow and energy that enamored the world. Although she was an alluring beauty with voluptuous curves and a generous pout, Marilyn was more than a '50s sex goddess. Her apparent vulnerability and innocence, in combination with an innate sensuality, has endeared her to the global consciousness. She dominated the age of movie stars to become, without question, the most famous woman of the 20th Century.\n\nShe was born Norma Jeane Mortenson on June 1, 1926 in Los Angeles, California, to Gladys Baker. As the identity of her father is undetermined, she was later baptized Norma Jeane Baker. Gladys had been a film cutter at RKO studios, but psychological problems prevented her from keeping the job and she was eventually committed to a mental institution. \n\nNorma Jeane spent most of her childhood in foster homes and orphanages until 1937, when she moved in with family friend Grace McKee Goddard. Unfortunately, when Grace's husband was transferred to the East Coast in 1942, the couple couldn't afford to take 16-year-old Norma Jeane with them. Norma Jeane had two options: return to the orphanage or get married. \n\nOn June 19, 1942 she wed her 21-year-old neighbor Jimmy Dougherty, whom she had been dating for six months. "She was a sweet, generous and religious girl," Jimmy said. "She liked to be cuddled." By all accounts Norma Jeane loved Jimmy, and they were happy together until he joined the Merchant Marines and was sent to the South Pacific in 1944.
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Sorry, there are no authorities about this.\nThere are only opinions based on religion.\nAnd oddly, the religious differ a great deal.\nI've seen hard line conservative Christians say that it was OK, and I've seen very liberal Christians say no way.\nSame with Jews.\nFor me, I have some gay friends, some lesbian friends, and what \nwhat they do has no effect on me.\nLive and let live, as it should say in the Bible.
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I'm a practicing Christian, and a conservative one at that, but I'll agree with you: there's a LOT of anti-atheist prejudice in the United States. \n\nHere's the problem: many Christians, especially evangelicals, have a strong fear that atheists are out to completely secularize this country. You said you are from France, and I realize that secularism is the norm there, but please understand that the U.S. is different. The great majority of the population is believing (if not always practicing), and most of us actually want the concept of God involved in our lives and politics.\n\nI realize that many atheists have no agenda; they simply want to express their opinion that "there is no such person/thing as God." You seem to be one such atheist. Try to make this clear when the issue comes up, and I guarantee your standpoint will get a much warmer reception. As for those who seemed shocked and angry that you "dare" be an atheist, remember that there are two motives for this reaction. One is that they think ALL atheists are out to erase the world's religions. The rest of us are simply concerned about your eternal well-being. Do your best to explain things to the former, and accept the concern of the latter as a sort of compliment. \n\nI hope this answers your question, and God be with you, brutha (whether you believe in Him or not). :)
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that probably depends on how much both of you care about your political and religious beliefs.  i would say it is much easier to reconcile different religions than politics, as long as neither of you is a 'hellfire fundamentalist' religious fanatic.  plenty of christians and jews marry, for example.\n\nas for politics, i can't even stand to talk to most conservatives for more than half an hour, and i definitely wouldn't have sex with one.  then again... usually what i hate about them is their lack of logic, and the occasional reasonable conservative is fine, as far as friendship goes.  but i wouldn't advise mixing politics in a relationship, unless you both share the same basic values and principles.
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conservative, cause it is deepr thinking
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I'm a conservative who is for stem cell research.  There is a big distinction between the "smaller government, more personal responsibility" right wing, and the "Religious" right wing.
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I'd like to know the answer too. It's a phenomena that links Christians to the political right and thus to gas-guzzling, Bush-supporting SUV's. My vote for a church that believes that "a man's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions?"...Try United Church of Christ. Its a socially progressive denomenation that truly looks at the words of Christ and tries to make a difference in the community. Good question.
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In response to your additional comments.....amen.  I prefer to read informative, educated anwers based on fact, not fiction.  And most people who try to push their fiction are not that educated, are busy trying to bring others along in their fairy tale journey through life. EYE LOVE JESUS is an overweight undereducated bore.  She does not want to walk the fairyland path alone.  I prefer to use my brain to make decisions, and if a bus hits me it is not because I was too busy praying to look both ways (song playing in background, amen, amen, amen amen amen).  I bet she doesn't like to have xxx with her husband.
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The death of Marilyn Monroe has some conspiracy theories. There is the OJ Simpson case.  And there is the Fatty Arbuckle case.
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Me. It does work. We are totally compatible politically - he's a liberal democrat Christian, I'm a slightly conservative democrat atheist. (Blows the lid off the 'only republicans are Christians' argument!) We love the same movies, books, TV shows... What amazes me is the sheer number of people who answered your last question that simply have no idea what they're talking about. We have a Christmas tree - in fact, I decorate it. With angels and all kinds of things. I incorporate all our beliefs into the holidays. His mom is against the wedding (which we agreed to have done by a justice of the peace) and, although she likes me, she doesn't like the idea of her son being "unequally yolked". He himself has said to me that he's unsure about where I'll "end up", but he doesn't dwell on it. As for kids - we agree the best thing is to let them find out what they want to believe on their own. To keep this from getting too long, you can email me with any specific questions you might have. I write a bit myself, and would be more than happy to help you!
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What are you referring to?  Are you referring to a set of morals or ideology, or different religious sects?  Please be more specific.\n\n"Conservative Christianity" is not a sect per se.  It is a term that is used to characterised the beliefs of Christians who have a strict interpretation of some of the "rules" set out in their religion.  While many of the people who are commonly referred to in the media as "conservative christians" belong to the Evangelical (or "born again") sect, they can just as easily be Catholic, Orthodox, etc.\n\nConservative christians are usually quite pious and traditional when it comes to values pertaining to the role of men vs. women, reproductive rights, and sexual rights, as can be seen in high-profile media coverage of such contentious topics as gay marriage and abortion in the U.S.\n\nThis is not to say that all conservative christians are anti-gay or anti-abortion.  Some may have tolerant beliefs in this regard, but may be conservative in other areas.
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This may shock you, but Thomas Jefferson  (yes... Thomas Jefferson) said:  "I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature."  That really shocked me!  I just looked it up on BrainyQuotes.com\n\nActually, the quote I was looking for was something akin to: "if god cannot regulate morality, no government should try".\n\nEurope is decidedly non-religious.  Somehow, most Europeans seem to have fewer sexually-related problems than Americans.  I don't pretend to know the answers, but I believe that old fashioned morality is not going to make a comeback any time soon.\n\nIn most parts of the world, sex is just cheap recreation.  They don't associate sexual activity with any moral taboos.  Now, I'm not saying that's a good thing.  That is exactly how AIDS spread through Africa.  Truckers would get a prostitute at every truck stop.  Now the entire continent is paying the price.
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Audrey Hepburn or Marilyn Monroe?
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It is my belief that Marilyn's death was covered up because of the Kennendy's (Both John and Robert )desires to keep their grasp on the political power that they had mantained here in America since the 1930's.When both John and Robert Kennendy had sexual relations with Marilyn,they unwittedly devulged some state secerts that could have been damaging to America,as well as the Kennendy administration.When they broke off the relationship,Marilyn felt betrayed and threaten to go public with this information (she kept a little red diary of the Kennendy's conversations they had with her).When Hoover found out,it was decided that was a threat to the national security of the United States of America, so she have to go,but since the American government DON'T go around killing it's own citizen like Nazi Germany did, or like the Communist Nation did at that time, and since Marilyn was an big star,an American icon,her demise was faked as a sucicide...this was the only way to despose of her with out the American public asking to many Questions.
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I find you make a very good point.  I find it quite amusing to hear of people denouncing the idea of a God, yet get married or hold their loved ones funeral  in a church.  Politicians fall to the pressure of a society that want to take Christ out of Christmas yet plan elaborate weddings for their children whom they insist get married by a priest or minister.  Funny how it works isn't it!!
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Read the book "Letter to a Christian Nation" - it deals in depth with the problem of religious "moderates."\n\nThe gist is that it's really not possible to be a "moderate" member of a dogmatic religion.  You're only moderate insofar as you've "fallen away."  The lunatics, the avowedly frightening fundie freaks, those are the ones who are really in the main line of tradition, as you can see from a glance at history.  If you're really a Catholic, for example, you're required to believe all sorts of things that a nonpartisan 10-year-old would laugh at for their sheer idiocy; the degree to which you don't is just the degree to which you've "lapsed."  What happens, of course, is that most "religious" people quite unconsciously pick and choose which aspects of their religion they pay attention to.  Not to say they only pick the "pleasant" aspects; but they simply refrain from considering (e.g.) that being Catholic means that they have to reject every major advance in science.\n\nAs we've seen with "Unity" type churches, though, it's possible to lift a terminology and apply it to a fundamentally different set of ideas; and maybe that IS the best thing to do after all with the problem of "christianity."  People have been brainwashed from birth to automatically associate the name of Jesus with all that is good; but our definitions of "good" have changed - or SHOULD have changed - over the millenia of the religion's existence.  So maybe the best we can hope for, if the ignorant peasant masses can't be trusted to give up their own self-destructive superstitions, is to change the meaning of the symbols to reflect truth as we know it today.  This IS, after all, how christianity itself began - all its legends and rituals having been hijacked from earlier pagan cults to create a composite Roman state religion.\n\nTo answer the question...LOL...no, a "christian" can't really believe in evolution, if definitions as they stand really count for anything.  To accomodate such a belief, we have to change the definition of christian - which may not be such a bad idea.
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I would say this depends on what you are conservative about.  The issues that conservatives used to identify with the GOP are no longer fundamental to that party especially as concerns fiscal responsibility.  Civil liberty protection, refrain from nation-building, separation of church and state and a well-defined balance of power within the branches of government all USED to be core conservative positions.  Conservatism above all used to be about CIVIL BEHAVIOR (Rush!) HONESTY (W!) and COMMON SENSE (Rummy!)  Neo-conservatives have surrendered moderates to the RELIGIOUS conservatives and THEY now define YOU.  Even Nixon was more honest than this bunch.