Comments by edrule3
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Posted on July 2 at 2:27 p.m.
Hometown;
I don't 'hate' anything, but I despise how easily people are led like sheep to believe they are doing good things 'in the name of God' by those with agendas. I despise the Iraq war and how these sheep came to be led like cows with nose rings to elect Bush. I despise that the religions are operating from foreign shores and invoking their policies in our nation in the name of religion. I despise that the sheep 'just don't get it'. And I do believe there is a higher power, just not the ones found in churches that were contrived by rich elitists for their own purposes. If you're really interested in what I think then click on my username and read my past posts.
From your post addressing me above it sounds as though you're saying it's O.K. to not believe in a higher power (God), but church is great bacause of its social value and humanitarian agenda. That sounds hypocritical, no?
Are you saying that, without religion (Christianity in particular), there would be no humanity? Pray tell how the human race existed all those eons without the Holy Roman Empire forcing it upon all of Europe using the most horrific forms of terrorism imaginable. This horror may have been what your and my ancestors had to live with for centuries, but we wouldn't know it because it was not allowed to be spoken of. In fact, during the rise of Christianity under the Holy Roman Empire, everyone had to abandon their heritage, their religion, their culture. . . everything that was 'them', their true identity, was abandoned in order that they not be killed as their neighbors, friends and family members already were. It was a time when everyone was afraid of everyone else because anyone could cast dispersions upon anyone and the church would simply put them to death . . . no trial, just death. Neighbor feared neighbor, family member feard family member, it was a nightmare of constant paranoia and dread. Imagine the horror our ancestors had to go through.
But the Empire didn't leave a void . . . they gave our ancestors a surrogate heritage of another people, the Jews, in the form of the bible, and a new religion, Roman Catholicism, to live with. So, as a survival tactic, everyone raised their babies to believe the lie, generation after generation, until it became the norm, and everything of the past was gone forever. Can you recall anything about your heritage from the Old World (if you're of European ancestry)? Probably not. Is that fair? Is that a value America is based on? Some will have you believe it is a good thing, but why would they tell you that?
Posted on June 27 at 2:47 p.m.
If you're suggesting McCain is civil in his campaigning then I might be inclined to agree. But it's what we know about him when he's not in the spotlight that concerns me. He once hit a woman so hard she flew across his office and into a wall. She was pestering him regarding her loved one who was MIA/POW in Viet Nam. Apparently, McMain was trying to keep the resurrection of the search for them from happening. Many say he's got a lot to hide from the years he spent as a POW. Many incidents of his collaborating with the enemy are documented.
Posted on June 27 at 2 p.m.
I like your 8:58 a.m. argument, ANonnyMoose. And for those of you whom believe this country was founded upon Christian principles - think again. The church's doctrine states that 'it' is the only power on Earth and the only power above it is God. Look up 'Unam Sanctam' or ' Asculta filii'.
In America, as many of you are aware, we have a democracy and everyone has rights . . . including the right to vote for our representatives. This would not be possible with the church's system. Who gets to vote for the pope, or any other of its clergy? The church is the offspring of the monarchial system of government. Look at the language: our lord, the king, the kingdom of . . ., etc.
The only difference between the church and the monarchial system it was borne of is the church doesn't have legions of soldiers to enforce the pope's desires, as do monarchs and emperors. The pope doesn't need soldiers to enforce doctrine because it uses the psychology of terror to control its sheep. The terror is the fear of an eternal hell. But it did take many, many centuries of actual terroristic carnage and bloodshed to convert all of Europe to Christianity during the church's infancy under The Holy Roman Empire. Oh, and there was a time when the Italian people revolted against the Vatican and the pope hired the Austrian army to fight its battles. They say money can buy anything, and the Vatican is the wealthiest bank in the world, after all.
One might wonder 'why the need for hiring an army when the pope claims to be BFF with the one and only omnipotent being in the universe'. It's laughable! So is the bulletproof popemobile. Our country is full of suckers. It's why I keep getting email from Mr. Mybooty and his clan in Nigeria telling me to send a few thousand and he'll send me a share in tens of millions. They all know we have a huge number of dolts who'll fall for that BS. It's also why U.S. churches have historically been the target of con artists. Take, for instance, Ted Haggard. He was one of the greatest leaders of the modern Christian movement in the U.S. What a con artist he turned out to be. It's a good thing Bush didn't get to push his 'Faith-Based Initiatives' plan on us (you know, the one where government would allocate trillions of dollars to the Ted Haggards of our country).
Separation of church and state was the greatest definer of this country and I'm glad for it and the rest of the constitution and its bill of rights.
Posted on June 26 at 10:40 p.m.
You betchya and I'm shootin for 100 just to see if it can be done. LOL! BTW What's with the title of this article, Luke Friedrich? I don't recall Norm Coleman ever giving cudos to Al.
Posted on June 26 at 1:59 p.m.
Mel says,
"Bush should have fired all the people that were left over from Clinton, (as Clinton did when he got in), and then had the guts to stand up to the Dems instead of the so called 'new tone'. No wonder he got in trouble."
How many in Bush's cabinet have reigned or got booted? I've lost count. Apparently, the ones that left couldn't stomach what he was doing. His press secretary wrote a tell-all book about it already. There will be more. Everone will be trying to cut deals and they'll be ratting each other out once the indictment process begins, after his term. How do you equate Bush's troubles with the leftovers from the Clinton Administration? Does not compute!!!
Posted on June 26 at 1:35 p.m.
Bush created the false need for us to urgently invade Iraq because they had WMDs and that we were all in danger. That, among the dozens of his other well-documented lies, along with his attempt to create more powers with less oversight for his executive branch, along with his tight relationship with the likes of the Ted Haggards of our nation and his attempt to push legislation for billions of dollars going to their faith-based outlets, along with the billions of dollars unaccounted for by Haliburton and its subsidiaries in Iraq, along with all the other corruption Bush is reponsible for, should be reason enough for everyone to seriously question anything else he's done. Most especially, whom he appoints to our Supreme Court, whom will hold those positions for life terms.
Posted on June 26 at 1:04 p.m.
Uh-Oh! The man talks of enticing little girls to come to his house with the promise of $5 (in his June 18, 2008 at 7:35 a.m. post, above), then talks of little girls' panties in his latest post . . .uh-oh! Wonder where he spends his time on his PC. What's this thing he has with little girls . . .why the recurring references to them?
"Hello Pbag, I'm Chris Hanson with Daline NBC and we're doing a story on . . . ." Uh-Oh. Word!
Posted on June 26 at 1:42 a.m.
Bush and Cheney should go before a world court for war crimes. What the hell, the whole Bush cabinet should go as well!
Posted on June 26 at 1:31 a.m.
WTF?!? Is he drunk at 1 in the afternoon? This time I'm ROTFLMAO! . . . Word!
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Posted on July 2 at 2:28 p.m.
Understand, Christianity is an evolved religion. It is a mixture from many that preceeded it. If you can get this link to play you can learn a lot form it (you may have to keep trying. It is either busy or YouTube removes it and someone then puts it back). But, you have to have an open mind (an American value), to do that. But the fact is: The lower a person's IQ - the less they are capable of having an open mind. You sound intelligent enough though:
http://ftp.youtube.com/watch?v=2aW2N46vf...
Religion is nothing more than a way to control people. The Roman aristocracy saw the Jews controlling their masses without the need for legions of expensive soldiers and decided to do the same. Except the Empire was in a hurry and there was resistance, hence the centuries of the church's brutal terrorist rampage known as: The Dark Ages.
All religions begin as nothing more than an attempt to explain the unexplainable. They are attempts to answer the eternal questions: 'Why mam I here' and 'Is there something after this life?'. More than that, they evolve into businesses. And they are in eternal competition with each other for territory and the minds of the multitudes. Do you really believe our God wants us killing each other in his name? Now that's hypocrisy to the hilt.
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