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It's lost its savor. You're now seasoning with crap swept up off the floor. As in:
And if the so called Messiah ends up being a Marxist then the fall of American liberalism and its media will be even worse because the fact is that Marxism has not worked anywhere.
Hah? Huh? Yes, I hear you. I get your logic. One of my closest Republican friends of 40 years (who, as it turns out, has gone underground to escape having to discuss 30 years of mistakes) once said, in trying to explain the relative strength of insects, that "If a man was strong enough, he could push over a house." Another friend, a Democrat but an engineer, and so unfitted for conversation, once told me, during a game of billiards, after I'd missed an easy shot, that "If you'd done that exactly right it would have gone in." This is, for you, and for me, a "No Shit!" moment. Yes, if Obama were to wind up being a Marxist I'm sure there would be a spot of bother. And if a meteor suddenly struck the earth we'd all be in a huge pile of shit, one even a professing Christian conservative wingnut couldn't do much about. And if pigs could fly we'd be up to our eyes in pig shit.
None of those things have happened, and there is no immediate reason to believe any of them will. To speculate wildly about what could happen given some unlikely turn of events and the discovery of "facts" not currently in evidence is patently insane. It's not stupid. It's insane. It may even be evil, or at least a lame attempt at evil. Dressing it up with Bible quotes doesn't make it look any less crazy.
"Follow the commandments, sell all your possessions and give your profit to the poor, and follow me."
The above words were allegedly issued by the late J. Christ of biblical fame. He was known to be a troublemaker, a dangerous radical who encouraged free thought and action, was accused of sedition and pretending to be a "messiah" (although his own people, who for the most part rejected him and his odd new ways of thinking, are still waiting for said messiah), and was even put to death, after being tortured, for having spread these "crazy" ideas of his. I guess if he'd done it exactly right he'd have survived the experience and we'd be living in a heaven on earth now. But no, that's not what happened. He rejected the opportunity to claim the messiahood and took his lumps and yet somehow this commie-pinko-hippie-socialist-freakazoid is still quoted daily by more people than almost any other philospher who ever lived, you included. Unfortunately, as with many politicians, he is quoted out of context or frankly misquoted. You included.
So much for your biblical justifications for making "if" statements such as "If my hair caught on fire it would be really painful." I'm sure it would, but it hasn't happened and there's no reason to expect it will, even though you've demonstrated an inability to think critically which puts you at greater than average risk of actually having something like that happen to you (and I pray it does not).
The nice Jewish boy from Nazareth who came to such a sticky end also said, regarding taxes (and thus the "redistribution of wealth") "Render unto Ceasar what is Ceasar's...", etc.
Calm down. Maybe Obama won't turn out to be the antiChrist. You've been getting too many crazy emails from the Edge. Not everything one finds on the internet is, in fact, true. Sorry to break that to you so abruptly, but my hair just caught on fire.
