RICKAMAVEN wrote:i love to listen to people talk about religion .everyone wants to go to heaven but
no one wants to die, for whst dreams may come when we have shuffled off this mortal coil.
most of these folks can't balance a check book or if asked why a heavy metal boat floats,
or what 7 X 3equals, but they can quote passages from a book of myths to explain why god
lets some animals grow new parts, but a human loses an arm, we don't. too bad. is this the
same god that wanted adam to kill one of his kids
what is this original sin, that jesus forced his own torture and died for ,and that gave
everyone a pass. it's nonsense and ego.
you and i are nothing more then a piece of protoplasm with some electrical charge, capable of
feeling good or bad, not physical, but emotionally and how or why usually remains a mystery.
but lets get back to the glory of god and explaining that god changed his mind and decided to
mess up mrs santorum's system and kill the little potential person growing in her body.
god does not have to explain whv he changed his mind. this is all nonsense.
life is what happens to people between the time they are born and the time they die and
because we like answers we invent answerslike god, and angels and demons instead of
accepting that things just happen.
It's 3 am...the phone rings. Who do you want answering that phone? Does it even matter? I'm sure the White House has an answering machine...maybe even a operator. I'm willing to bet that there's prolly a math tutor in there for hard to answer questions and who has time to take off their socks?
Pride precedes a fall and that's all anyone really needs to know.
This is a cigar board not a theologian conference or some huckster cash grab. You're angry that you're not God's right hand man we all get it. Ripping on religion or those that practice it is akin to picking on retarded children. It looks bad and everyone gets this notion that you're a terrible person for doing it and that perhaps you're just not wired right and you're ready to blow like the guy in "Falling Down"...oh wait you've done that too?! Poor Trig.
Life is what happens. What you decide to do molds you into the person you are. The way you're seen by others and sometimes having a moral compass based on a religious background can ground oneself. I think of it as a baseline. I'm not practicing...I'm seeking. I have questions and want answers. The baseline is there whether you choose to believe in it or not. It's a foundation for courtesy, etiquette and a basis to enhance oneself. Even the Old Testament is chock full of life lessons. The New Testament is more in tune with faith. What you do with it is your own accord. You live in America. A nation that used to pride itself in Freedom. We're not that free anymore. Rights are eroding faster than paint can flake off a house. Almost like Germany in 1939. We all know how that turned out.
You don't want to practice a religious belief and that's fine too. I just don't know people that do practice that go out of their way in public to bash on atheists and agnostics. It seems its a one way street with them. They want freedom FROM religion and that isn't written anywhere. Oh sure theres evangelicals that go door to door wanting you to receive THE Word, but I'm positive that you treat them like a Fuller Brush Salesman and tell them to get the **** off your property and never grace your porch again. That's fine too. Remember we do live in America.
So, we get to the meat and potatoes of your post...Rick Santorum. I really don't know a thing about this guy. I don't care too either. From what I have seen of him, he's polite, articulate and loves his family. Don't follow his political career so I can't tell you how many bills he's written or how high he pushed the debt ceiling with another entitlement program for this debt slaved nation. One thing for certain is that he's this week's Sarah Palin. You've sunk your teeth into him like a rabid dog. You're infatuated with the feti and his family story. Do you wish he would've knocked on your door and shared it with you instead? Do you feel like he swindled you on that? I dunno...seems like just maybe he got more out of a sermon than 15 years of "God Damned America" and other Black Liberation statements than Obama, but he got a pass from you. That's a bit of hypocrisy that needs to be explained. Why did you give Obama a pass? Why haven't you railed on his religious beliefs like any other political standout you rant about? Why? I will say this about Santorum...he's not pushing a Big Government agenda like Obama, Mitt or Newt. He does want to balance the budget and that's more than I can say about this administration and the crimes they're committing in the name of "Serving".
Today's the day I get to vote for a candidate that best represents me. That person isn't Santorum. Today, I'm going to cast a vote and like so many candidates that I choose to study and have voted for, he won't win. Its those that have the winning ideas that never win. It's the puppet that wins. They all read from the same playbook. No deviation from the plan. Puny humans aren't allowed to see the plan. It would probably turn people into pillars of salt if they were to read from it. So, today while I exercise my God given right to vote I ask you while you feign your indignation who made you so important? Is anyone voting for you? No. Stick with your day job.
