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POPSReligion, Morality and Evil, Oh My! Thanking clipmarks' member tabsey for the post on how religion is losing it's power grab on America. There’s a new power in America – atheism At this link: http://www.clipmarks.com/clipmark/5C8C6D1A-B58D-4B2D-9BB2-ABFEE500CC7E/ Article here: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/andrew_sullivan/article5907453.ece
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POPSAnother Stark Raving Lunatic Fringe Religion
"Mary and Gus sitting in a tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G... First came love, second came marriage, third came babies in the carriage. HOW MANY BABIES DID THEY RECEIVE? 1, 2, 3, etc." This is what the religion called Quiferfull, reminds me of. The kid Jumping Rope game of skipping rope until it tangles around your ankles... Well, to these Quiverfull females its NO GAME, they do it for real. I have always wondered why religion doesn't seem to make any sense at all. In fact it encourages people not to use their brain and curiosity to gain knowledge. Just accept, no matter how miserable it makes you. Well, if any follower would open their eyes for just one moment, they would see that behind the nonsensical dogma there stands a MAN. A misogynous male who preys upon masochistic females. My god, if there was a God, would such a being promote this kind of behavior...:-? I THINK NOT! :mad: lunatic fringe n. The fanatical, extremist, or irrational members of a society or group.
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POPSSC Priest, just one more Kook from the Religious Right More evidence that leaders of the RR (Religious Right) are stark raving mad. Anyone who willingly chooses one of these quacks as a spiritual guide through their life, needs to see a REAL HONEST TO GOODNESS guidance counselor... like maybe a psychiatrist! How sad it is to hand over a potentially viable thinking mind to one of these charlatans who will wrap the chains of irrationality and foolishness around the minds of the weak and padlock them so securely that no reality based info can get in or out. What's even more depressing is when an adult can easily hand over their young to be pummeled with shame, guilt and fear for the rest of their lives. Who does this priest think he is anyway to hold part of this religion's ritual, as hostage to get his own delusional way. People should run as far as they can from this kook! I'm with Bill Maher on this one...(Bill Maher on Religion - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IcUumWzue4 )
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POPSIs Proposition 8 Behind the 8 Ball? It should be! When I read the questions on my Fl. ballot, I thought, “Why is Prop 8 there in all it's intolerance?” This election should be about issues not the same old worn out divisions, propagandized by the religious right for far too long. The GUNS, GAYS AND GOD mantra Karl Rove and his like, peddled, until the United States did not resemble anything UNITED, more like The Divided States of Amer. How naive of me, believing their divisive plan didn’t work and was therefore, over. With Separation of church & state a survivor. But here it was a religious question written into a civil ballot. Then, I thought, PROP 8 WILL SURELY BE DEFEATED... Wrong again. What will it take to keep religion out of the lives of people who do not wish to buy into it? What will it take to keep the prying eyes of the law out of our sexual orientation? It probably will never end but when the blind faith of religion wishes to erase that separation, we who are in possession of common sense must always fight back.
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POPSTHE TRUTH! If you dare. I can't believe this guy... Pat Condell... If you want to hear or are able to stand the truth about the absurdity of organized religion.... You will want to hear his HUMBLE opinion. A few moments of enlightenment if you can handle it. Thank goodness for me, I can.
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POPSA truth article about this election - BITTER POLITICS A truth article about politics... But it wasn't just the media. In a recent Sunday talk-show appearance, McCain was eager to delve--unprompted--into yet another discussion about Bill Ayers, while Clinton invoked her affinity for her small-town brethren by recounting her girlhood shooting lessons. In other words, multimillionaire McCain, the millionaire pundit class and the millionaire Clintons all spent the last weeks waging a culture war against a man who spent most of his career organizing in or representing the South Side of Chicago. It was enough to make one cling to religion. What was so dispiriting about this spectacle wasn't its nastiness. Politics in a democracy will always be rancorous; it's the nonviolent means we've established to referee conflicting interests. No, it was the sheer staleness: the run-up to Pennsylvania was dominated by the umpteenth iteration of a clash of fabricated caricatures. More below:
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POPSNo God For Me Thanks! A recently discovered letter written by Albert Einstein, has once and for all ended the debate on whether this wise man of science relied on religion to get him through this life. "No God for Me, Thanks" says it all! To hear another intellectual on the subject follow this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD0B-X9LJjs
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POPSScience Searches For Answers Can you say that about your religion. I think not! Please watch the Klugman video... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ccysj3So0s A friend of mine has jumped the liberal fence and went over to the Ron Paul Republican side. I was a bit taken back by this because she and I were always on the same page when it came to religion, science and politics. We all change our minds BUT WHAT A LEAP. I sent her this little tidbit the other day... I was never smitten by Paul, but when I heard he believes life begins at conception and his totally insane quote that evolution is just a theory That's enough to convince me that he is just another religious nut. Anyone with religious based notions, floating in their conditioned minds should not be our leader. I found this statement on a blog: What has happened in our society when some of the most well educated people in our country, who are running for one of the most powerful political positions in the world, do not understand or accept the most b
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POPSWhy I’m proud to be a progressive liberal Every thought that polarizedpolitics.blogspot.com/ had written so eloquently on this post is my thought. We have been through so much, it is hard not to become cynical about anything government. They have let us down greatly in the past years of Republican rule. The saddest circumstance of their cunning is that so many have believed their distortions. Even when it is blatantly before them, a lie, they rationalize it into something innocent. If we were a people of enlightenment, none of the events we've experienced could have taken place. Unfortunately, so many people act like frightened little children and instead of choosing strong leadership they rather have a Big Daddy, supposedly looking out for them. Thanks for the post. I will blog it on my http://thinkingblue.blogspot.com.
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POPSIS MODERN LIFE, ONE BIG SWINDLE? It seems EVERYTHING in our lives spell SWINDLE. From food, to medical care, charities, housing, religion, anything that affects our existence is somehow wrapped or sprinkled with chicanery. I have always believed, when a buck is to be made we all should display caution. Whether it be the tests doctors send you on or the imports coming in from merciless countries, we should all feel apprehension and not just blindly do what the so called benevolent powers tell us to do. In a profit driven society $$$ reins supreme. But it seems of all the ideologies the human race has come up with, capitalism appears to be the only one that can somewhat work with the (although high) lowest of suffering for the people held to such an ideology. Nevertheless, that doesn't mean we should all turn into sheep, following and doing exactly what we are told, without question. Go into this site http://www.whale.to/ for some incite, gaining a little bit of knowledge so you can stave off being someone's pigeon!
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POPSReligion promises, YOUR OWN PLANET? Lil' beyond social security. Bill Maher, does it again, on Larry King... Do I ever LUV THIS GUY. He speaks, with humor, how RELICULOUS (ridiculous) the over the top religious nuts are. I believe everyone should be allowed to believe anything they want as long as their beliefs don't get them HOODWINKED by the conniving nutcases in charge of any particular religion... who try to spread their GOD like HE/SHE is a butter knife full of LARD... I use "lard" but I mean another 4 letter word. Life is one BIG mystery and anyone who tells you they know exactly what is going on in HEAVEN or the interstellar space full of interstellar medium is also full of that other 4 letter word. Bill Maher's states:: "I DON'T KNOW AND NEITHER DOES ANYONE ELSE!" Right on, Bill! ~~~~~~ The interstellar medium is the name astronomers give to the gas and dust that pervade interstellar space. While the interstellar medium refers to the matter that exists between the stars within a galaxy... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_medium
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POPSTO BELIEVE OR NOT TO BELIEVE SHOULD BE THE QUESTION. The phrase "TO BE OR NOT TO BE" comes from Shakespeare's Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, This verse sums up the debate over RELIGION, GOD, AND THE POLITICS OF RELIGION to a T... To a T to me anyway... I believe (yes I do) the whole debate is anchored in the fear of dying or the fear of not existing but whether you believe or not believe, CAN'T WE ALL JUST GET ALONG? To be or not to be, that is the question; Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing, end them. To die, to sleep; No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to — 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep, perchance to dream. Ay, there's the rub, For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause. There's the respect That makes calamity of so long life, MORE AT: ht
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POPSFalwell may be gone, but "We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." ~ John Adams October 11, 1798 "In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own. It is easier to acquire wealth and power by this combination than by deserving them, and to effect this, they have perverted the purest religion ever preached to man into mystery and jargon, unintelligible to all mankind, and therefore the safer engine for their purposes." ~ Thomas Jefferson, letter to Horatio G Spafford March 17, 1814
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