The biggest reason Atheists have for degrading religion is their false assumption that religion is responsible for the "torture and death of millions." They then cite the Inquisition and the Crusades as examples. But that is where they show their utter ignorance.
People do not kill for religion - that is only the excuse they use for doing what they would have done, anyway. People need excuses for the killing they do - some such excuses are "self defense", "Glory of God" or even "The Devil Made Me Do It." People kill and torture for reasons of their own, and in EVERY case it is because of one or more of the "7 Cardinal Sins", which are...
Pride - excessive belief in one's own abilities, that interferes with the individual's recognition of the grace of God. It has been called the sin from which all others arise. Pride is also known as Vanity. (Bill Maher?)
Envy - the desire for others' traits, status, abilities, or situation. (Occupy Wall Streeters?)
Gluttony - an inordinate desire to consume more than that which one requires. (Imelda Marcos?)
Lust - an inordinate craving for the pleasures of the body. (John Edwards, Bill Clinton?)
Anger - manifested in the individual who spurns love and opts instead for fury. It is also known as Wrath. (Terrorists, idealogues)
Greed - the desire for material wealth or gain, ignoring the realm of the spiritual. It is also called Avarice or Covetousness. (Madoff?)
Sloth - the avoidance of physical or spiritual work. (perpetual welfare people)
Certainly, people may be killed or wars started in the NAME of religion (excuse), but never for the SAKE of religion (reason). Religion is not to blame for things that mere mortals choose to do.
So, Bill Maher et all, if you decide to stop flaunting your absolute ignorance, try facing the truth for a change. You do not hate religion because of any deaths. You hate religion because it holds people accountable for their actions, and imposes moral values you would rather ignore. Like most atheists, you are like the ostrich that hides its head in the sand - you think if you cannot see the danger then it cannot harm you.
Wrong.
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Sunday, January 8, 2012
Friday, January 6, 2012
Remember The Ant & The Grasshopper? Have You Heard The New Version?
The ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER
OLD VERSION: The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
MORAL OF THE OLD STORY: Be responsible for yourself!
MODERN VERSION: The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving. CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.
America is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper allowed to suffer so?
Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green...'
ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the SEIU group singing, “We Shall Overcome".
Then Rev. Jeremiah Wright has the group kneel down to pray for the grasshopper's sake, while he damns ants.
President Obama condemns the ant and blames President Bush 43, President Bush 41, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper's plight.
Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.
Finally, the EEOC drafts the “Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act” retroactive to the beginning of the summer. The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the Government Green Czar and given to the grasshopper.
The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around them because the grasshopper doesn't maintain it.
The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again. The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the ramshackle, once prosperous and peaceful, neighborhood.
The entire Nation collapses, bringing the rest of the free world with it.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2012.
Make sure that you share this with other ants. Don't bother sending it on to any grasshoppers because they wouldn't understand it anyway !
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OLD VERSION: The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
MORAL OF THE OLD STORY: Be responsible for yourself!
MODERN VERSION: The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving. CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.
America is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper allowed to suffer so?
Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green...'
ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the SEIU group singing, “We Shall Overcome".
Then Rev. Jeremiah Wright has the group kneel down to pray for the grasshopper's sake, while he damns ants.
President Obama condemns the ant and blames President Bush 43, President Bush 41, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper's plight.
Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.
Finally, the EEOC drafts the “Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act” retroactive to the beginning of the summer. The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the Government Green Czar and given to the grasshopper.
The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around them because the grasshopper doesn't maintain it.
The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again. The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the ramshackle, once prosperous and peaceful, neighborhood.
The entire Nation collapses, bringing the rest of the free world with it.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2012.
Make sure that you share this with other ants. Don't bother sending it on to any grasshoppers because they wouldn't understand it anyway !
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Recess Appointments - Why The Constitution Should Be Amended...
Lately, Presidents of both parties have abused the "recess appointments" clause in Article 2 of the Constitution, which states, "The President shall have power to fill up all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Senate..." President Obama does more that abuse it - he perverts it.
Here is why this particular clause needs to be amended. First, it clearly states "vacancies that may happen during the recess...". In almost every case, the recess appointments being made are not for vacancies that occur DURING the recess, but have occured long before the recess. But aside from that overlooked technicality, there is a more important aspect to consider.
At the time the Constitution was written and ratified, it took most Senators days, even weeks to get to Congress. They traveled by horseback or carriage. No planes. No highways. So the clause was necessary for national security, as an "emergency session" of congress could take a long time to arrange, leaving America without the necessary leadership.
Today, that just cannot happen. In an emergency, Congress can be called into session within hours if necessary. And if it is not an emergency, then there is no legitimate need for recess appointments.
So, I would suggest that clause be reworded to state something like, "In the event of a national emergency or for purposes of national security, the President may fill up all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Senate, provided the Senate cannot be convened within three days."
This would stop the abuse - and the perversion - of recess appointments.
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Here is why this particular clause needs to be amended. First, it clearly states "vacancies that may happen during the recess...". In almost every case, the recess appointments being made are not for vacancies that occur DURING the recess, but have occured long before the recess. But aside from that overlooked technicality, there is a more important aspect to consider.
At the time the Constitution was written and ratified, it took most Senators days, even weeks to get to Congress. They traveled by horseback or carriage. No planes. No highways. So the clause was necessary for national security, as an "emergency session" of congress could take a long time to arrange, leaving America without the necessary leadership.
Today, that just cannot happen. In an emergency, Congress can be called into session within hours if necessary. And if it is not an emergency, then there is no legitimate need for recess appointments.
So, I would suggest that clause be reworded to state something like, "In the event of a national emergency or for purposes of national security, the President may fill up all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Senate, provided the Senate cannot be convened within three days."
This would stop the abuse - and the perversion - of recess appointments.
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Thursday, January 5, 2012
Now The Liberal Media Is Making Fun Of Romney's Real Name...
It's Willard.
Big deal.
I am not a Romney fan by any means. But it galls me that the very same liberal media (like the Huffington Post and AOL, to name just two) who castigated people for calling Obama by HIS real name - Barack Hussein Obama - are now trying to make a big deal out of Romney's real name. Such hypocrisy is expected from the left, but it only proves how desperate - and dumb - they are, and to what lengths they will go to change the subject from the abysmal economy and the over-regulation and high unemployment for which Barack Hussein Obama is responsible - he is, after all, the Captain of the ship.
A note to the libs who think it somehow lifts them to a higher level in the conversation to make fun of anyone's name - it doesn't. It only makes you look even more foolish than we already know you are. You do not need to keep proving it over and over again.
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Big deal.
I am not a Romney fan by any means. But it galls me that the very same liberal media (like the Huffington Post and AOL, to name just two) who castigated people for calling Obama by HIS real name - Barack Hussein Obama - are now trying to make a big deal out of Romney's real name. Such hypocrisy is expected from the left, but it only proves how desperate - and dumb - they are, and to what lengths they will go to change the subject from the abysmal economy and the over-regulation and high unemployment for which Barack Hussein Obama is responsible - he is, after all, the Captain of the ship.
A note to the libs who think it somehow lifts them to a higher level in the conversation to make fun of anyone's name - it doesn't. It only makes you look even more foolish than we already know you are. You do not need to keep proving it over and over again.
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Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Who Will Be The Non-Romney?...
At the moment, it looks like the top 4 in Iowa are Paul, Romney, Santorum and Gingrich. But I believe there will be a surprise.
Paul will go nowhere after Iowa because the Republican Party will not nominate someone who would abandon Israel and ignore Iran. So the real top 4 are Romney, Santorun, Gingrich and Perry.
Romney will take New Hampshire - that's a given. Santorum does not have a strong organization, nor the financing to go much further. So, going into the all-important South Carolina, we'll have Romney, Gingrich and Perry.
Perry has the money. But Gingrich has the popularity in SC, so it's a toss-up right now. But I am predicting that the nomination will be between Romney and either Gingrich or Perry, depending upon which one has the strongest showing in South Carolina.
My bet is on Gingrich, because between now and SC, there will be debates. And Gingrich will clean Perry's clock in those. And he'll probably beat up Romney, too.
I think it will shake out as Romney vs Gingrich, unless a powerhouse Dark Horse like Palin enters. Then all bets are off.
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Paul will go nowhere after Iowa because the Republican Party will not nominate someone who would abandon Israel and ignore Iran. So the real top 4 are Romney, Santorun, Gingrich and Perry.
Romney will take New Hampshire - that's a given. Santorum does not have a strong organization, nor the financing to go much further. So, going into the all-important South Carolina, we'll have Romney, Gingrich and Perry.
Perry has the money. But Gingrich has the popularity in SC, so it's a toss-up right now. But I am predicting that the nomination will be between Romney and either Gingrich or Perry, depending upon which one has the strongest showing in South Carolina.
My bet is on Gingrich, because between now and SC, there will be debates. And Gingrich will clean Perry's clock in those. And he'll probably beat up Romney, too.
I think it will shake out as Romney vs Gingrich, unless a powerhouse Dark Horse like Palin enters. Then all bets are off.
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Sunday, January 1, 2012
Things That Need To Happen In 2012 Hollywood ...
This was a statement made by Huffington Post. Of course, THEIR idea of needed changes have to do with the making of more left-leaning movies. I have a different take (who would have guessed?)
Some changes I would like to see in Hollywood this year:
1) Talent
2) Script writers who really are script writers. You know, with a little imagination, and some old-fashioned class
3) Movies and shows that entertain, instead of brainwash with a liberal agenda
4) Movies that teach solid values - and maybe even have a PLOT.
Most of all I would like to see fewer brain-dead celebrities spouting off on topics they know nothing about.
And for cryin' out loud, Hollywood needs to stop patting themselves on the back. I'm rather tired of hearing about the "upcoming blockbuster" )"Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" - how ridiculous is that?) or the "Award Nominee" for movies that have not even hit the theaters yet ("War Horse"). Hey, HuffPost, for the record - a blockbuster is a movie that has already performed exceedingly well, and has brought in many millions. So, there is no such thing as an "upcoming blockbuster."
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Some changes I would like to see in Hollywood this year:
1) Talent
2) Script writers who really are script writers. You know, with a little imagination, and some old-fashioned class
3) Movies and shows that entertain, instead of brainwash with a liberal agenda
4) Movies that teach solid values - and maybe even have a PLOT.
Most of all I would like to see fewer brain-dead celebrities spouting off on topics they know nothing about.
And for cryin' out loud, Hollywood needs to stop patting themselves on the back. I'm rather tired of hearing about the "upcoming blockbuster" )"Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" - how ridiculous is that?) or the "Award Nominee" for movies that have not even hit the theaters yet ("War Horse"). Hey, HuffPost, for the record - a blockbuster is a movie that has already performed exceedingly well, and has brought in many millions. So, there is no such thing as an "upcoming blockbuster."
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