Letters to the Editor
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@ Rosenkavalier
chill! Slow down. So many errors; so little time.
1) you are correct in saying my money is not mine but God's. IT does NOT belong to the government. That is the logical leap that the Christian left wants us to make. Caring for my brothers is my personal responsibility, and it is not the government's job to usurp it for me (us).
2) Jesus most decidedly did NOT hang out with sinners. He hung out with middle class white guys (the Apostles) and with the upper class folks who funded him. And we both know (you might be confusing this a bit) that He confronted sinners of all types and 'healed' them and forgave them. Then he told them SIN NO MORE. (forgot that part, didn't you?)
3) God does not, in my view, support the government's social programs as being as arm of His????? A Christian can oppose them because he knows they merely make people dependent pawns of the government and perpetuate the problems that make the social ills happen.
4) Government is responsible for keeping its citizens safe and that is why having a military, a police department, fire dept etc are entirely moral uses of governement power.
5) As for homosexuals.....God certainly does delight in their existence. But He also intends for them to live chastely, bearing the cross of their disorder for His sake by not acting on their perverted desires. But He does love them. That is for sure! Praise Jesus!
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Pappy Dearest
I just realized who you are. This explains so much! We've been around this burning bush before. I know, now, that there is absolutely no hope and all who enter here should abandon it (hope, I mean). That's what I'm gonna do, because I know you to be "refractory as mountain gorillas" to quote that great part-time homo William S. Burroughs.
I would just add this before I say adieu: if, as you stated earlier, you don't have all the answers, how then do you manage to speak so absolutely for the deity? If him don't have all the answers and isn't feeding them to you, then how...why...oh yeah, I almost forgot who I'm dealing with here.
And now I'm not! Magic! Happy Kristallnacht.
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And to Most of the Rest of You:
Isn't it strange how something awful (or someone) can bring out the brilliant best in people and create some strange but ultimately pretty cool bedfellows?
And especially for fightthetheocracy: thank you. We do what we can. I'm working on the civility part. :)
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So let me see if I understand this correctly...
Gay people should stay alone and unloved for the rest of their lives to appease a God who made them the way he supposedly doesn't really want them to be in the first place? Wouldn't the more logical conclusion be that your religion is wrong?
And AJ, your welcome, and thank you as well!:)
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These people SCARE me!! - Mike Gravel
Although Mike Gravel was referring to the "other" Democratic candidates (except Dennis Kucinich), after reading this article that was the thought that came to my mind...Mike Huckabee and people like him really do SCARE me.
He began scaring me when I happened to hear an interview on NPR a few months ago with a reporter at the Arkansas Gazette. He mentioned Huckabee paroling the rapist/murderer who murdered again and he also said people outside Arkansas don't realize that Huckabee has a terrible temper. Plus didn't he have all the computer hard drives in the Governor's office destroyed when he left office??? Jesus! (You can say that again.) Jesus!
Then I read the article about his jackass, cold-blooded shithead of a son hanging the dog and Mike Huckabee using his authority to have the charges dropped. The thought of Mike Huckabee or the son encamped at The White House for four years gives me the chilblains.
Next I came upon an article about the fact that he signed a full page religious ad in a newspaper calling for women to not "stand BY there man, but to stand BEHIND him". Good God.
The one that got to me lately was the one about him having no foreign policy experience so what was his brilliant idea? To get top people from The Council on Foreign Relations to advise him. "New World Order!" "New World Order!" "New World Order!" Holy Moley!
http://www.nationalexpositor.com/News/840.html
Be afraid....be VERY afraid....
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xychro
The fear of God is similar to the reverence one has for regarding traffic laws while driving across town. You obey the laws, but at the same time you literally fear breaking them. You would be horrified to run red lights or fail to signal when turning.
Try driving the speed limit where I live and you will be passed by innumerable expensive vehicles with fish symbols on the back, the vast majority of which might as well not have any turn signals at all for all the use they get.
Did I mention I live in a very red portion of a very red state?
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Religious Right Irrelevant
Pat Robertson's early endorsement of Rudy Giuliani was a message that the religious right wanted to maintain its relevance, access to power, and role as "kingmaker" that it gave it such a euphoric high in 2000 and 2004. Many in the movement like Robertson were willing to shoot up again, even if it meant selling out the soul of the movement to a cross-dressing, twice divorced and pro-choice New Yorker. That's some powerful drug to work on the self-righteous.
That Huckabee thinks that this group will forgive him for enabling rapists and murderers to "pray" again is probably right. That he thinks that this voting group remains the kingmaker it was for the last eight years is entirely wrong. This group is just another power-drunk special interest like the rest of them, now unkempt and stumbling for attention.
Jerry Falwell is dead... and I'm hopeful the next four years are spent purging those that remain alive from any relevancy in our government... for all eternity.
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National Sales Tax the Un-Fair Tax
One needs a great leap of faith to endorse a national sales tax. Huckabee backs this nonsense. The mother of all taxes.
If you use reason and logic you will want to flush the sales tax. Not Huckabee.
I await any Fair Tax advocate to come forward and give a realistic prediction of how much enforcement will be required to make this nonsense work.
With the internet in an embryonic stage, here comes the pied piper from Hope, Ark. to abort it. What a great mind. Then again, you got ta have faith.
If a sales tax appeals to you please give this link a read.
Scroll down to National Sales Tax:
http://savingcommunities.org/issues/taxes/sales/destroyscommerce.html
Happy New Year