Smelling The Coffee: 2010

When questions like this come up, I always like to urge people to go to the scriptures for your answer rather than relying on mere opinions. Of course, it's considered bad form to build a doctrine on just one passage. You have to really search the scriptures, and get all angles on the subject.

I'm not the one missing the point. The Bible supports your theory that God is a lying bastard. Telling different people different things to foment strife and kill off redundant leadership is his frigging SOP, man.Here and here and this resulting in this note also and thusly and so and this one ought to be on bumper stickers and t-shirts everywhere and so on, it gets to the point that when he tells someone to say something, they tend to run away to try to avoid the inevitable stoning to come. What do I think? LOL, I think sending our fundies to fight theirs to the death isn't a totally bad idea.Edited by Iblis, : more verses, demonstrates the lack of water-boarding

It's all part of the Big Plan. When the last two "real" Christians kill one another in a thumping contest over whether "love thy enemy" means we should take out the Moslems first or the Jews, then Jesus will come out of his hole in the ground, and not see his shadow, and summer will begin.

Hi Buz! Let's debate this, please. First let's compare this, though. Message 132As I understand it, during the time that the Bible and prayer were in every school, America was a highly literate nation. Virtually no one was a fundamentalist, though the politics were highly conservative the intellectual climate was profoundly enlightened and even most church-goers were functionally atheist. Having access to the Book in every school meant that it was well-known, widely discussed, and every man was wise enough to see how it worked and distinguish out the kinds of literature and metaphor involved.Then, as the preachers tried to make their comeback to power by means of media scams like the Scopes trial, their courting of martrydom provoked an inevitable backlash. The foundational book of the modern English language, the covenant principles of constitutional law, and the practice of public leadership in group devotionals all had to be removed from the public square because they had been contaminated by sectarian strife. Over the same time period, the hysterical wing of protestantism swelled in its ranks, and we eventually got results like the Moral Majority and the lying cheating neo-cons, who prey on the sheep that have been mustered to the giant polling slaughterhouse.The Pledge is next. Is this what you wanted? The definition of "insanity" is when you keep doing the same things and expect different results. Stop pissing into the wind ...

I'm not sure, but it sounds like you are trying to make government work better.If so, that's a terrible idea! That government is best which governs the least-- JeffersonThe purpose of this huge bureacratic monstrosity we keep growing, is to take the people who want to rule us and act like busybodies running other people's lives, and tie them up in red tape so it takes them the most effort to get things done with a good long amount of leeway to step up and stop them if we need to.The reason we don't go with plain anarchy is because, if we did, those people would still be around doing the same stuff only without rules to bind them with. The sort of people who become policemen need more regulation that the rest of us, not less. The sort of people who sit on councils can't be trusted to get real jobs done. Stop them, don't help them. Please. I am not an Anarchist in your sense of the word: your brain is too dense for any known explosive to affect it.

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I am not an Anarchist in your sense of the word: fancy a Policeman let loose on Society!

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While there exists the burgess, the hunting man, or any man with ideals less than Shelley's and self-discipline less than Loyola's -- in short, any man who falls far short of MYSELF -- I am against Anarchy, and for Feudalism.

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Every "emancipator" has enslaved the free.-- Perdurabo