I love to watch Christians debate Religion... They get all offended when one Christian has a slightly different belief than their own. Even though most Christian religions are 99% alike, they will fight to the death about the 1% that differs.' (Very Christlike!)
As we approach the dreaded Christmas season, the Right Wing Christmas Police will once again, dust off their pistols and threaten to shoot (in a very Christlike manner) any poor citizen who happens to wish them a "happy holidays". The Right Wing Christian Christmas Police will be out in force, DEMANDING that you wish them a "Merry CHRISTMAS", and will threaten your life if you opt for any other greeting.
I don't think I ever wished any one a "happy holidays" until the God Patrol started their religious war on Santa. Now I almost never say "Merry Christmas" and when in public I always wish any one who'll listen an Extra Loud
"Happy F'n Holidays!"
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
I love to watch Christians debate Religion... They get all offended when one Christian has a slightly different belief than their own. Even though most Christian religions are 99% alike, they will fight to the death about the 1% that differs.' (Very Christlike!)
it is funny aye box see how religion is politics and politics is religion. Every one wants to enforce theirs on others. It aint no different. I love to watch when central government citizens argue about which party is the best. It is all the same people want to rule over others because they can not rule themselves. Much easier to make laws and rules than take personal resposibility for you and yours. central government, central religon same evil... We will come to a day when God and man will be back on the same page. He has given man a space in time to try out his governmental ideas. We are getting close to realizing that central government does not work. Local people living together with a change of heart where I love my neighbor and care about his rights. The ruling class are the ones behind the division of the people into camps. The ones who create money from nothing are the ones who stir up people to devour one and eachother.
We didnt come this far to get this far. random 12 year old
A slave is someone that waits for someone else to free him. Ezra Pound
Catholic leaders raise phony issue in opposing contraception rule
The June 25 article in the Gazette regarding Catholics praying for religious freedom should have been titled, “Catholic bishops instruct adherents to pray for more tax dollars to support their antiquated dogma.” The idea that the religious freedom of Catholics has been infringed is absurd. Catholic universities and hospitals garner millions of federal tax dollars every year. Catholic Charities alone was paid a quarter of a billion (yes, billion) tax dollars in 2011. Accepting tax money should mean that religious organizations follow the same rules as everyone else. The point of this letter is not to denigrate good works by faith-based organizations, but to point out that these hospitals, universities, etc., serve a public purpose, not a religious one. Catholic hospitals and universities hire people of all religions (or no religion), not just Catholics, and serve and educate men and women who may or may not belong to their church. This is not so with churches, seminaries, convents, parochial schools, etc., which do have a religious purpose. Bishop Howard Hubbard stated in a January letter to area Catholics that specifically Amish, Christian Scientists and Quakers aren’t under the same dictates as the Catholic Church. It should be patently obvious to Hubbard and any thinking individual that the above-mentioned groups are not attempting to impose their religious theology on the rest of us, unlike the Catholic hierarchy. This is about a group of men trying to wield power over not only the rest of us; it’s about influencing the U.S. government to conform to their particular theology, and that is unacceptable. It boils down to religious establishment, which is strictly forbidden by the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment. I’m old enough to remember when the Catholic Church told its adherents what movies they could or couldn’t see, and what books they could or couldn’t read. With the advent of the pill (developed by a Catholic!), more education, and a whole host of outside infl uences, an overwhelming majority of American Catholics have decided for themselves that contraception and family planning is a much wiser course than playing Vatican roulette. Being able to plan one’s family and/or limit its size makes plain economic sense, and has nothing to do with religion. The bishops’ idea of religious freedom extends only to them, not anyone else, and it certainly doesn’t mean imposing it on everyone else. It’s all about power and money, certainly not about religion. It takes an enormous amount of arrogance on the part of these men who have never been married, never raised families, and are supposedly celibate to insist that employees in their hospitals, universities and other entities cannot be covered in their insurance plans with contraception.
John Mertz (Bumblethru) must be an anti-Catholic bigot ... a throw back to the 19th century .. when men gathered in the woods at night and wore white sheets and pointy hats .. and who used fear and death threats to attack Catholics, Jews, Immigrants and racial minorities. Thank God such gutter trash (John Mertz) is no longer in public office.
Anti Catholic Bigots?
That's hilarious.
Fear and death threats?
You are insane.
Pointing out the hypocritical/abusive nature of Catholicism isn't an attack.
I believe Mertz is a Roman Catholic from my recollection. Not that Mertz is Bumblethru. However, anyone who doesn't go out to dinner with the priests on Friday nights is not in the same heirarchy of the Church as the Hallowed One whom we speak of.
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
The idea that the religious freedom of Catholics has been infringed is absurd. Catholic universities and hospitals garner millions of federal tax dollars every year. Catholic Charities alone was paid a quarter of a billion (yes, billion) tax dollars in 2011. Accepting tax money should mean that religious organizations follow the same rules as everyone else.
The catholic church sold it's soul the day it started taking taxpayer money in this country!!! The government can tell them what, when and howto do anything.........OR.........the catholic church can simply refuse government hand outs!!
I guess like the saying goes.........'when in Rome....'.........
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
The catholic church sold it's soul the day it started taking taxpayer money in this country!!! The government can tell them what, when and howto do anything.........OR.........the catholic church can simply refuse government hand outs!!
I guess like the saying goes.........'when in Rome....'.........
Amen. They thought they could feed the monster that is big government and sit down and eat with it forever, never thinking it would become GODzilla and eat THEM. Now they wake up too late as does everyone in history that believes that giving up freedom to an all powerful centralized government (now the largest government ever in Earth's history) is a wise thing.
They often find themselves in the belly being digested by such a goliath but then it is a tad irreversible. One day soon the Church will be an outlaw hate group here in America as per the "government" choosing which Americans are 'correct' and which are "terrorists" based on our beliefs. I would say that a few more strokes of the pen at the UN, and then here in the Oval Office and in about 20 years, to dissent against politically correct othodoxy will be met with imprisonment. Tolerant liberals on the left running everything. How wonderful.
Coming to a gulag near you.
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
Amen. They thought they could feed the monster that is big government and sit down and eat with it forever, never thinking it would become GODzilla and eat THEM. Now they wake up too late as does everyone in history that believes that giving up freedom to an all powerful centralized government (now the largest government ever in Earth's history) is a wise thing.
They often find themselves in the belly being digested by such a goliath but then it is a tad irreversible. One day soon the Church will be an outlaw hate group here in America as per the "government" choosing which Americans are 'correct' and which are "terrorists" based on our beliefs. I would say that a few more strokes of the pen at the UN, and then here in the Oval Office and in about 20 years, to dissent against politically correct othodoxy will be met with imprisonment. Tolerant liberals on the left running everything. How wonderful.
Coming to a gulag near you.
hence The Church of England......hand in hand with national healthcare
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
Religious freedom means only the freedom to 'practice' religion.There are many churches that don't take federal funds. Why? Because they understand that you can't take people's tax dollars and then use those dollars to help practice your denomination's doctrines that may go against other people's religious doctrines. It's their money and you don't get to use it to promote and insist on your own religious practices.
So in a nut shell here....federal funding comes with strings. If you don't like the strings, don't take the funds.....and go raise your own funds!
And let me be clear here.....I'm not bashing everyday, faithful catholics...HONEST!!! I am however questioning how the certain catholic elites can graciously accept taxpayer's money and not think it doesn't come with government strings!
Like I said before............the catholic church sold it's soul the day it accepted government hand outs!!! Certain catholic elites appear to have the same 'power problem' as certain government elites. imho
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
Louisiana Republican Supports State Funds For Religious Schools, As Long As They’re Not Islamic
Louisiana Republicans supported Gov. Bobby Jindal’s overhaul of the state’s education system, which includes a voucher program that allows state funds to be used to send students to religiously-affiliated schools — until they began to realize that Islamic schools could also be among the institutions supported by taxpayer funds.
Rep. Valarie Hodges (R-Watson): I actually support funding for teaching the fundamentals of America’s Founding Fathers’ religion, which is Christianity, in public schools or private schools…Unfortunately it will not be limited to the Founders’ religion. We need to insure that it does not open the door to fund radical Islam schools. There are a thousand Muslim schools that have sprung up recently. I do not support using public funds for teaching Islam anywhere here in Louisiana.
I guess Louisiana Republicans believe in Separation of Church and State... Except for Christian Churches. Freedom of Religion??? Not in Louisiana! What hypocrites!
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
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money from nothing are the ones who stir up people to devour one and eachother.
