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The defense has filed a Libby motion in the penalty phase of the BALCO steroids case. Everyone in the legal field knew this was coming.
Pope Benedict is The Decider on who is a Christian and what is a Christian church. I seem to remember a few wars on this issue…okay, so the Swiss root on my family tree fought as mercenaries in the wars over this, and the Dutch and Palatine German roots transplanted themselves to the Mohawk Valley of what is now New York because of it. I guess we don’t have enough religious hard-feelings at the moment.
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My latest and favorite bumper sticker siting – “The last time religion and politics mixed, people were burned at the stake”.
I say we throw fundamentalist of all stripes on an island and let them persecute each other.
Well it’s about time someone told Dobson he’s going to hell.
Given that every church feels that it is the sole possessor of the truth, this is a battle that will never end.
Actually, Andante, that was the condition in some of the early colonies that led to the First Amendment. The absurd thing today is that some of the groups in this country who are arguing for the return of that system were among the victims of that practice.
You know, Alice, it has always bothered me that Heaven gets a choice, but Hell doesn’t. Heaven get to select people, but Hell has to accept anyone who shows up on the threshold.
LOL, Bryan, I never thought of it that way. But since Hell does accept anyone who shows up, one could interpret that to mean that Hell isn’t judgmental. (damn, maybe I should have gone after that marketing degree after all)
Actually, anywhere that Dobson goes would be Hell for me, no matter what it said on the entrance. It’s a problem ensuring that you have done enough bad things in your life so you don’t get stuck with evangelicals for eternity.
“I say we throw fundamentalist of all stripes on an island and let them persecute each other.” – andante
I was about to say that that’s been tried, and it’s known as “the American experiment,” but I see Bryan has beaten me to it upstream.
Speaking of religion, I just read part of The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, thanks to Stella, who checked it out of the public library. Honestly, don’t bother: the idea is clever, but the execution is pretty weak. And I say that as one who is pretty tolerant of mediocre books. I did not finish reading it.
You really need to be a divinity student to do justice to that sort of thing.
Philosophy major become the best satirists. I think it’s Kant that bends them that way.
Principia Discordia is quite an enjoyable read, I think.
After spending my 20s reading Soviet socialist realism, I’ll stay with fantasy.