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Progressives Reveal, Once Again, Their Complete Contempt for the Religious, Religion, Religiosity, and God
He made fun of prayer qua prayer -- just the whole idea of prayer was silly to him. Well, yes. You're a progressive. Like most progressives, you are an atheist, or you offer up blather about some vague pseudo-religion blending Buddhism, yoga, the Thoreauean "oversoul" and Pilates. Sort of like Obama, actually. A guy on twitter named @johnriverstoo pointed out that Obama just spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast and Political Wire didn't make fun of prayer then. Why? Because this guy believes what we all pretty much know to be true-- that Obama's protestations of being a Christian are a sham intended only to maintain his political viability, just like his lies about being in favor of traditional marriage ("God's in the mix" in marriage, Obama said, hilariously) and that business about keeping your doctor. We all know this, and the left demonstrates it every day with their open contempt of the Christian God while simultaneously finding nothing mock-worthy in Obama's very rare allusions to the Christian God; and Bill Maher, a million dollar donor to Obama, openly proclaims Obama to be an atheist, like himself, just pretending to be a Christian For The Rubes. By the way: I don't remember the media getting huffy about Maher's statement. I also don't remember Obama denying it. You know, if I believed that Christ had saved me through nothing but my belief in Him and someone said publicly that I did not believe in him, I would go on TV to publicly state "yes, Mr. Maher, I appreciate your support, but in fact I do recognize Christ as my Lord and Savior." Obama didn't say that though. Here's what Obama said: Nothing. And of course the Super-Christian Obama never bothered to get a new church in DC, or go to church ever, or even mention Jesus on Easter, but whatever, sure, it's a terrible thing for Scott Walker to say "I don't know if he's a Christian or not."Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: NCKate at February 24, 2015 03:29 PM (RNq50)
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at February 24, 2015 03:30 PM (4+IgA)
Posted by: E at February 24, 2015 03:30 PM (evdj2)
Posted by: President Obama at February 24, 2015 03:31 PM (i55o+)
Posted by: dogfish at February 24, 2015 03:31 PM (1vYi0)
Posted by: HoboJerk, The State Loves You at February 24, 2015 03:31 PM (FA3Z7)
Posted by: F at February 24, 2015 03:31 PM (evdj2)
Posted by: redsweater at February 24, 2015 03:32 PM (q5JWV)
Posted by: NCKate at February 24, 2015 03:32 PM (RNq50)
Watching Zumba can be a religious experience, or at least result in some moaning of Oh, God!
Posted by: DaveA at February 24, 2015 03:32 PM (DL2i+)
Posted by: Garrett at February 24, 2015 03:32 PM (bHra+)
You have to identify who is in your tribe and who is not. Professing a faith in Christianity is a shibboleth for one particular tribe. Add in professing a love for your country, well now we know what tribe you are in and we can chase you with sticks.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet requests that whoever ticked off Elsa go and apologize right now! at February 24, 2015 03:33 PM (hLRSq)
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at February 24, 2015 03:33 PM (kdS6q)
Posted by: DM at February 24, 2015 03:33 PM (j/tOh)
IIRC, Ear Leader's exact quote was: "God's in the mix"
Posted by: Citizen X at February 24, 2015 03:33 PM (7ObY1)
Church bells sounding the call to services is the prettiest sound in the world.
-Not said by Obama
Posted by: Meremortal at February 24, 2015 03:33 PM (1Y+hH)
Posted by: --- God at February 24, 2015 03:33 PM (IDj42)
Posted by: Stateless Infidel at February 24, 2015 03:34 PM (AC0lD)
http://tinyurl.com/o7f6jp6
Posted by: Hal at February 24, 2015 03:34 PM (hmPdt)
Posted by: Barky the Terminator at February 24, 2015 03:34 PM (P330y)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at February 24, 2015 03:34 PM (W5DcG)
Posted by: Dr Spank at February 24, 2015 03:35 PM (i55o+)
How much clearer do I have to make it for you plebes?
Posted by: Your President at February 24, 2015 03:35 PM (7ObY1)
But I'm usually wrong about these things...
Posted by: some guy at February 24, 2015 03:36 PM (q177U)
BTW, I recall a fucking lefty taking a Bush W. throwaway line about "jesus, I hope we're doing the right thing" (we hope that our way is guided by God's hand) or whatever and ran with that sucker about Republican Theocracy leading to the Handmaiden's Tale and maybe Blacks better start locking their doors etc etc.
no wonder the left wanted to replace all you voters.
Posted by: joe-impeachin44 at February 24, 2015 03:36 PM (wlWrh)
Yes, but he's capitalizing "God" now and not just capitalizing The Prophet (of Islam) like before.
So, baby steps.
Posted by: Citizen X at February 24, 2015 03:36 PM (7ObY1)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at February 24, 2015 03:36 PM (W5DcG)
Posted by: Insomniac at February 24, 2015 03:36 PM (2Ojst)
Posted by: Gmac- Pulling in feelers in preperation... at February 24, 2015 03:36 PM (74McK)
Posted by: gp at February 24, 2015 03:36 PM (+Jpqc)
Posted by: Dr Spank at February 24, 2015 03:37 PM (i55o+)
Posted by: Meremortal at February 24, 2015 03:37 PM (1Y+hH)
Posted by: Insomniac at February 24, 2015 03:37 PM (2Ojst)
Willowed. But the heated apologia for Joe Paterno was just getting interesting!
Posted by: Insomniac
PSU - Pedophile State University - for very obvious reasons.
Posted by: Gmac- Pulling in feelers in preperation... at February 24, 2015 03:37 PM (74McK)
Posted by: Navycopjoe (thugging through the doghouse) at February 24, 2015 03:37 PM (gRS/u)
Posted by: Moki at February 24, 2015 03:38 PM (bAB8f)
But I'm usually wrong about these things...
As long as the leeches keep getting that sweet, sweet Free Shit, they will care not a whit how nasty their benevolent benefactors are to others.
Posted by: Citizen X at February 24, 2015 03:38 PM (7ObY1)
Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at February 24, 2015 03:38 PM (M1uf/)
Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at February 24, 2015 03:38 PM (BZAd3)
Posted by: G at February 24, 2015 03:38 PM (evdj2)
Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at February 24, 2015 03:38 PM (M1uf/)
Posted by: eleven at February 24, 2015 03:38 PM (ykfyK)
No. He's praying like a nun while figuring out what to do with the Thai ladyboy hooker's remains.
And from the time he gets the blood test until he gets the results.
And any time he's in public.
So, he's an atheist about twenty minutes a month.
Posted by: --- God at February 24, 2015 03:38 PM (IDj42)
Posted by: gp at February 24, 2015 03:38 PM (+Jpqc)
Nothing.
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Sometimes, ace... just sometimes........
Posted by: Mega at February 24, 2015 03:38 PM (hHFOx)
Posted by: Your President at February 24, 2015 03:39 PM (7ObY1)
Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at February 24, 2015 03:39 PM (M1uf/)
But I'm usually wrong about these things...
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It's more evident, but it still requires work to run down. It won't really have percolated until we see stuff like "As fake as a promise from Obama" start to become an accepted part of the lingo of the general population.
Posted by: junior at February 24, 2015 03:39 PM (UWFpX)
Posted by: some guy at February 24, 2015 03:39 PM (q177U)
I don't doubt he does, I'd just love to see how he'd mangle his answer, because you know he would blabber on about it for several minutes and say something stupid.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 24, 2015 03:39 PM (lHHyw)
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at February 24, 2015 03:40 PM (Y92Nd)
Posted by: H at February 24, 2015 03:40 PM (evdj2)
Oh I don't know about that, progs seem to believe in a lot of crazy gods.
Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at February 24, 2015 03:40 PM (wMP+e)
Posted by: puddleglum not at work at February 24, 2015 03:40 PM (SV3i4)
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There's a 'Bann Teagan' (Bann is a title of nobility) in Bioware's first Dragon Age game.
Posted by: junior at February 24, 2015 03:40 PM (UWFpX)
Posted by: The roost aint what it used to be at February 24, 2015 03:41 PM (7GI9v)
why yes....lets talk about Cain lying to God about just having murdered his own brother and his lame excuse meant to imply "I haven't seen his freshly murdered corpse anywhere...what am I..."my brothers keeper?"
And....in before AllenG:
Obama has been, is now, and will forever be...a SCOAMF. Amen
Posted by: King Ding Dong at February 24, 2015 03:41 PM (hgso/)
Posted by: Ezra Klein at February 24, 2015 03:41 PM (DLu2s)
Posted by: Barack trying to get in 72 holes at February 24, 2015 03:41 PM (1vYi0)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at February 24, 2015 03:41 PM (W5DcG)
Posted by: I at February 24, 2015 03:41 PM (evdj2)
Posted by: SH at February 24, 2015 03:41 PM (gmeXX)
Posted by: Lizzy at February 24, 2015 03:41 PM (lHHyw)
Progressive atheists aren't.
Progressives believe in a collective god just like all other Leftists: NAZIs had the "volk", Communists have "the proletariat:, and the Jacobins had "Volonté générale"
The Progressive god is "the will of the people".
The Progressives have their own holy trinity: The "people," the state, and the Prog elite - standing in for the father the holy ghost and son.
Alternatively, for them there is no got but the state (or the people, with the state being but the Kabbalah), and the Prog elite are its prophet.
Posted by: The Political Hat at February 24, 2015 03:42 PM (0Ew3K)
Obama has been, is now, and will forever be...a SCOAMF. Amen
Posted by: King Ding Dong at February 24, 2015 03:41 PM (hgso/)
Ha!
Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at February 24, 2015 03:42 PM (M1uf/)
Mike Huckabee, please stop. I think he was looking directly at you when he said that.
Scott Walker, you may continue forward.
Posted by: Furious George at February 24, 2015 03:42 PM (UlJ3l)
Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at February 24, 2015 03:42 PM (Y92Nd)
Posted by: J at February 24, 2015 03:42 PM (evdj2)
**pokes head in**
Hey all you Bitter Clingers!!!
**flashes the shahadda salute**
Hahahahahaha
**runs away**
Posted by: President Obama at February 24, 2015 03:42 PM (NaV4z)
Posted by: Roy at February 24, 2015 03:42 PM (VndSC)
Posted by: dogfish at February 24, 2015 03:42 PM (1vYi0)
If you talk about how wonderful visiting St. Peter's Square is, you're a whackjob. If you declare how enlightening your yoga retreat in Indonesia was, you're "spiritual".
If you announce that you keep kosher, you're a whackjob. If you talk incessently about your new gluten-free diet or that time you took a tour of European restraunts then you are "enlightened".
If you fast or abstain from sex during Lent, you're a whackjob. If you only use one square of toilet paper or only shower once a week, you're "in touch with the earth".
Posted by: Colorado Alex at February 24, 2015 03:42 PM (OiH3z)
I don't doubt he does, I'd just love to see how he'd mangle his answer, because you know he would blabber on about it for several minutes and say something stupid.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 24, 2015 03:39 PM (lHHyw)
No, the question to Obama should be "There have been many questions regarding evolution lately? Do believe God is our creator?"
Flip the question. I'd love to see his response or more accurately the presses reaction to his response.
Posted by: WisRich at February 24, 2015 03:43 PM (hdpay)
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 24, 2015 03:43 PM (LA7Cm)
Obama needed to put away Hillary in SC.
To win a strongly contested Democratic primary in SC, the black church vote is crucial.
The black church in SC is amazingly homophobic, as it is pretty much everywhere in the country. (For example, here in Commiefornia, the black churches pulled like Clydesdales to pass the Proposition 8 anti-gay-marriage ballot initiative.) Few things galvanize them more than hating them some fags.
So, Obama at a campaign rally in SC put on stage a black guy who purports to be an "ex-gay", cured of what he called the "illness" of homosexuality via "reparative therapy" and by "the love of Christ".
That worked quite well with the target audience, and the black church vote in SC put Obama over the top and into the nomination.
But I would like all of you to imagine for just half a second the exploding galactic core of identity-politics rage which would have resulted if such a figure had ever been prominently put on stage at a Republican political rally. There would have been hysterical screams about "bigoted theocracy" and "fundamentalist fascism" for months on end at top volume.
Since Obama was the political figure who did it?
::: crickets :::
Crickets everywhere on the left and from the snooze media.
Posted by: torquewrench at February 24, 2015 03:43 PM (noWW6)
And less loyal.
Posted by: Costanza Defense at February 24, 2015 03:43 PM (ZPrif)
Posted by: DaveA at February 24, 2015 03:32 PM (DL2i+)
You watching that video of Moochie in the yoga pants again?
Posted by: wrg500 at February 24, 2015 03:43 PM (S+el1)
Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein from Brattleboro, VT at February 24, 2015 03:44 PM (C1H3H)
No.
Just go ahead and spit it out.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 24, 2015 03:44 PM (LA7Cm)
Ugh, I *hate* how he uses "brother's keeper* as justification for every dang entitlement, new tax, amnesty, etc. He even named his at-risk black youth program Brothers Keepers.
And then there's Pelosi and her calling abortion "a sacrament." WTF, lady?
Posted by: Lizzy at February 24, 2015 03:44 PM (lHHyw)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at February 24, 2015 03:45 PM (1Jaio)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at February 24, 2015 03:45 PM (W5DcG)
Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein from Brattleboro, VT at February 24, 2015 03:45 PM (C1H3H)
I have long maintained that any doubts about Barky's faith were confirmed, as a True Christian (TM) would have not quietly stood by and allowed themselves to be given the Messiah treatment like BO was when the Democrat primaries and convention were happening in '08. No believer would allow themselves to be deified like President JEF did.
Posted by: Miller at February 24, 2015 03:45 PM (+S8Tj)
What else is there to know about him?
Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at February 24, 2015 03:45 PM (cZOkr)
Posted by: King Ding Dong at February 24, 2015 03:45 PM (hgso/)
Nothing
To be entirely fair, we never let him be clear.
Posted by: Bigby's Fisticuffs at February 24, 2015 03:46 PM (3ZtZW)
I most definitively do believe that there is a god.
And for the record, you are looking at him.
Posted by: President Precedent at February 24, 2015 03:46 PM (78TbK)
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Correct me if I'm wrong Mr President..... but your brother lives in a 5x8 mud floored hut in Kenya. Right??
Posted by: fixerupper at February 24, 2015 03:46 PM (NaV4z)
NTTIAWWT
Posted by: GnuBreed at February 24, 2015 03:46 PM (Sgf5Q)
Did you never read Aquinas? The Bible? C.S. Lewis?
For pity's sake, have you never read Mitch Freaking Albom?
It's not so much being ignorant (in the sense of not knowing) of the role of prayer in a Christian's life that is insulting. It's the being proudly unwilling to even bother to learn the most basic elements of faith that is.
Hell, I've read all kinds of books on all kinds of religions in which I do not believe because, get this, I am interested in the world around me and want to know what it is that people think. Funny that.
Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hiding from the elements at February 24, 2015 03:46 PM (IrByp)
Accepting The entire notion of our founding , that man has certain unalienable rights endowed by our creator would put a stop to their authoritarian march immediately. So like other things they use religion as a subterfuge.
Posted by: Marcus T at February 24, 2015 03:46 PM (9b4SD)
Posted by: DocJ at February 24, 2015 03:46 PM (0RQVM)
regarding evolution lately? Do believe God is our creator?"
Oh, that's an excellent question!
Ask every Democrat presidential candidate, too.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 24, 2015 03:46 PM (lHHyw)
Reminds me of the film actors guild awards show.
You can look at how the marxist elite judge a product, or you can look at how the market judges the product, by revenue.
I'll go with the latter's judgement any day.
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at February 24, 2015 03:46 PM (YgotP)
Flip the question. I'd love to see his response or more accurately the presses reaction to his response.
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He wouldn't answer. And I don't mean he'd blather a non-answer. He quite literally would not answer. At most, he'd say something that implied the questioner was an idiot.
iirc, Pelosi did something similar when asked a much more relevant question that would have made her look bad. And the press didn't call her on it.
Posted by: junior at February 24, 2015 03:46 PM (UWFpX)
Similarly:
If you hold to an eschatological narrative of sin and redemption based on Christian theology, you're a backward "bitter clinger".
If you hold to an eschatological narrative of sin and redemption involving the emission of carbon dioxide, you're a forward-looking steward of the planet.
Posted by: torquewrench at February 24, 2015 03:47 PM (noWW6)
Posted by: Mega at February 24, 2015 03:47 PM (hHFOx)
Posted by: Buzzsaw at February 24, 2015 03:47 PM (tf9Ne)
Flip the question. I'd love to see his response or more accurately the presses reaction to his response.
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I'd prefer something more specific. I think a lot on the left probably believe in a God the creator. But I think it ends there. He created us and moved on.
I'd rather it be asked - do you believe that Jesus Christ existed, that Jesus was God, that Jesus died for our sins, and that Jesus resurrected three days later.
If you cannot affirmatively answer those questions, then you may believe in God, but you are not a Christian. That certainly doesn't make you a bad person, but you should not be saying something you are not.
Honestly, I think a lot of people identify as Christians but are very uncomfortable with those questions to the point of being unwilling to declare them to be true.
Posted by: SH at February 24, 2015 03:47 PM (gmeXX)
Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein from Brattleboro, VT at February 24, 2015 03:47 PM (C1H3H)
Posted by: Zap Rowsdower at February 24, 2015 03:47 PM (MMC8r)
Man, everybody's talking in code today.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 24, 2015 03:47 PM (LA7Cm)
I don't think he's even a "secular humanist."
I think he's just a malignant narcissist. Philosophically/Culturally he's probably Mohammedan (it was the culture in which he was reared and spent his formative years), but as far as actual religion goes? I suspect he doesn't believe that anyone but him is "real."
Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at February 24, 2015 03:47 PM (M1uf/)
He said "I have an ongoing conversation with God. I think throughout the day, I'm constantly asking myself questions about what I'm doing, why am I doing it."
Obama has an ongoing conversation with God, in which he asks *himself* questions and also says that sin is "being out of alignment with my values."
He's his own God.
Posted by: Laura at February 24, 2015 03:47 PM (ew9ys)
Posted by: Bigby's Fisticuffs at February 24, 2015 03:47 PM (3ZtZW)
Posted by: Dang at February 24, 2015 03:48 PM (MNq6o)
Posted by: President Obama at February 24, 2015 03:48 PM (i55o+)
It doesn't matter. They get to lie about what they think and it magically doesn't hurt them. See: current occupant
Posted by: Mega at February 24, 2015 03:48 PM (hHFOx)
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And as I recall, they put it back in despite the fact that the repeated votes to get it back in lost *every single time*.
Posted by: junior at February 24, 2015 03:48 PM (UWFpX)
Posted by: Soothsayer, Lambda Lambda Lambda at February 24, 2015 03:48 PM (Z92n0)
I will stand with SEAL Team 6 if the situation warrants my service.
Posted by: Barky the Terminator at February 24, 2015 03:34 PM (P330y)
Don't worry Mr. President, I got this.
Posted by: Brian Williams at February 24, 2015 03:49 PM (2Ojst)
Posted by: The Great White Snark at February 24, 2015 03:49 PM (j6e8f)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at February 24, 2015 03:49 PM (W5DcG)
Posted by: SH at February 24, 2015 03:49 PM (gmeXX)
>>>>"God's in the mix"
Mine haz buttermilk
Posted by: Bigby's Fisticuffs at February 24, 2015 03:47 PM (3ZtZW)
Yeast is right out. Is baking powder OK?
Posted by: Insomniac at February 24, 2015 03:50 PM (2Ojst)
do not believe because, get this, I am interested in the world around me
and want to know what it is that people think. Funny that.
And that, according to leftists, makes you a knuckle-dragging mouth-breather.
For all their self-professed open-mindedness I have never in my life met anyone more close-minded and lemming-like than your average, garden-variety, run-of-the-mill Democrat Primary Voter.
Posted by: DocJ at February 24, 2015 03:50 PM (0RQVM)
And less loyal.
Posted by: Costanza Defense
_____________________________
Muldoon lived alone in the Irish countryside with only a pet dog for company. One day the dog died, and Muldoon went to the parish priest and asked, "Father, my dog is dead. Could ya' be saying' a mass for the poor creature?"
Fr. Patrick replied, "I'm afraid not; we cannot have services for an animal in the church. But there are some Baptists down the road, and there's no tellin' what they believe. Maybe they'll do something for the creature."
Muldoon said, "I'll go right away Father. Do ya' think $5,000 is enough to donate to them for the service?"
Fr. Patrick exclaimed, "Sweet Mary, Mother of Jesus! Why didn't ya tell me the dog was Catholic?"
Posted by: Furious George at February 24, 2015 03:50 PM (UlJ3l)
Seriously, any one remember the days when women wore pants?
It must be nice to just wake up and pull on lycra tights and bam! you're dressed for the public.
Posted by: Soothsayer, Lambda Lambda Lambda at February 24, 2015 03:50 PM (Z92n0)
C.S. Lewis said something to the effect that he didn't care for
"Christian politicians", preferring instead "politicians who are
Christians".
Mike Huckabee, please stop. I think he was looking directly at you when he said that.
Scott Walker, you may continue forward.
Posted by: Furious George at February 24, 2015 03:42 PM
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This.
Posted by: irright at February 24, 2015 03:50 PM (8GKDa)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 24, 2015 03:50 PM (FMbng)
Posted by: Lizzy at February 24, 2015 03:44 PM (lHHyw)
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To the left, abortion is the sacrement. Rush has referred to it thusly for many years. And he's right.
Posted by: Soona at February 24, 2015 03:51 PM (/HX7u)
Posted by: Dr Spank at February 24, 2015 03:51 PM (i55o+)
Posted by: That atheist who despises Christians and loves Obama at February 24, 2015 03:51 PM (MbqmP)
Posted by: K at February 24, 2015 03:51 PM (evdj2)
Thanks for the link. Here's the most fascinating part, his answer to a question about whether he prays:
"It's not formal, me getting on my knees. I think I have an ongoing conversation with God. I think throughout the day, I'm constantly asking myself questions about what I'm doing, why am I doing it."
So Obama has "an ongoing conversation with God" in which he talks to himself.
Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at February 24, 2015 03:51 PM (xN1DB)
Posted by: lurkingestlurker at February 24, 2015 03:51 PM (k8xvx)
If I'm wrong, dirt nap.
IF I'm right, doom on you.
Your choice.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 24, 2015 03:51 PM (LVXFh)
Posted by: Zap Rowsdower at February 24, 2015 03:51 PM (MMC8r)
Posted by: DocJ at February 24, 2015 03:51 PM (0RQVM)
Posted by: L at February 24, 2015 03:52 PM (evdj2)
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He wouldn't answer. And I don't mean he'd blather a non-answer. He quite literally would not answer. At most, he'd say something that implied the questioner was an idiot.
iirc, Pelosi did something similar when asked a much more relevant question that would have made her look bad. And the press didn't call her on it.
Posted by: junior at February 24, 2015 03:46 PM (UWFpX)
Maybe, maybe not. That's why I wanted to see what the presses reaction to his response would be.
Posted by: WisRich at February 24, 2015 03:52 PM (hdpay)
"Christian politicians", preferring instead "politicians who are
Christians".
That is a very fair assessment.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 24, 2015 03:52 PM (LA7Cm)
Posted by: RoyalOil at February 24, 2015 03:52 PM (ZvKdv)
Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein from Brattleboro, VT at February 24, 2015 03:45 PM (C1H3H)
So your 6000 demons? Sounds about right.
Posted by: wrg500 at February 24, 2015 03:52 PM (S+el1)
Posted by: eleven at February 24, 2015 03:53 PM (ykfyK)
POC's get quite the latitude.
Posted by: joe-impeachin44 at February 24, 2015 03:53 PM (wlWrh)
Posted by: Garrett at February 24, 2015 03:54 PM (bHra+)
Posted by: Soothsayer, Lambda Lambda Lambda at February 24, 2015 03:54 PM (Z92n0)
Because the chair is against the wall.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 24, 2015 03:54 PM (LVXFh)
Posted by: FireHorse at February 24, 2015 03:54 PM (Jerto)
-Were raised without religion
-Lived in Muslim countries
-Were raised by a Muslim step-parent
-Never got involved with a church until it was necessary for political advancement
-Are law professors
-And are Democrats?
Name one.
Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at February 24, 2015 03:54 PM (xN1DB)
Posted by: Buzzsaw at February 24, 2015 03:47 PM
Dionysius' less-hard-drinking brother. God of wine coolers.
Posted by: Bullfinch at February 24, 2015 03:55 PM (h4vJk)
Name one instance when the above is not true.
Posted by: Soothsayer, Lambda Lambda Lambda at February 24, 2015 03:54 PM (Z92n0)
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Actually Sooth, its both at the same time more times than not.
Posted by: fixerupper at February 24, 2015 03:55 PM (NaV4z)
Posted by: SH at February 24, 2015 03:47 PM (gmeXX)
If you look at Pew Research's data, you get ~70% of Americans who identify as Christian of some stripe or another. Once you start asking them specific doctrinal questions, such as you specify, the numbers start wheedling down significantly; you get similar effects if you look at the frequency of church attendance (weekly vs. monthly or less.)
My own interpretation of Pew's data puts the number of "actual" American Christians, not just "identifying" Christians, at ~30%, give or take.*
* Large margin of error. Regional differences notwithstanding. Your mileage may vary.
Posted by: Hal at February 24, 2015 03:55 PM (hmPdt)
Posted by: Furious George
I laughed.
Posted by: papist bograt at February 24, 2015 03:55 PM (Spluw)
The "future" does not belong to the dead.
They--the Islamists-- took it as a signal to kill.
Posted by: Joe F. at February 24, 2015 03:55 PM (+GwBU)
you only use one square of toilet paper or only shower once a week,
you're "in touch with the earth".
See also Meatless Mondays vs. people who don't eat meat on Fridays.
(Although I see my local Chick-Fil-A is getting ecumenical this year and offering fish on Fridays. I might check it out.)
Posted by: HR needs cheeseburgers at February 24, 2015 03:55 PM (/kI1Q)
Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at February 24, 2015 03:56 PM (xN1DB)
Posted by: Eromero at February 24, 2015 03:56 PM (go5uR)
Posted by: lurkingestlurker at February 24, 2015 03:56 PM (k8xvx)
Posted by: Penfold at February 24, 2015 03:56 PM (Fbt5B)
Posted by: eleven at February 24, 2015 03:56 PM (ykfyK)
And then there's Pelosi and her calling abortion "a sacrament." WTF, lady?
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I'm going to have to agree with her on this one.
Speaking of which, anyone have a lighter I can borrow?
Posted by: Baal at February 24, 2015 03:56 PM (78TbK)
Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hiding from the elements at February 24, 2015 03:56 PM (IrByp)
So.... and Im asking cause I do not know..... but..... has he ever claimed to be baptized??
Posted by: fixerupper at February 24, 2015 03:56 PM (NaV4z)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 24, 2015 03:57 PM (g1DWB)
Posted by: FireHorse at February 24, 2015 03:57 PM (wdXFj)
Posted by: SH at February 24, 2015 03:57 PM (gmeXX)
I think they did that in some stores last year. Must have passed the $$$ test.
Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at February 24, 2015 03:57 PM (M1uf/)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 24, 2015 03:57 PM (rDqRv)
Posted by: Joe F. at February 24, 2015 03:57 PM (+GwBU)
By a factor of two and carry the snobbery.
Posted by: Ricardo Kill at February 24, 2015 03:58 PM (LA7Cm)
Posted by: SGT Dan's Cat at February 24, 2015 03:58 PM (Y2VBD)
The problem is deeper than just this rube.
Posted by: dogfish at February 24, 2015 03:58 PM (1vYi0)
Posted by: Zap Rowsdower at February 24, 2015 03:58 PM (MMC8r)
One of my favorite scenes from Corner Gas.
Davis: "I don't go to church every Sunday, but that would be weird..."
Lacey: "Yeah..."
Davis: "Designing an exercise routine after the guy that sentenced Jesus to death. That wouldn't sit well with me.."
http://tinyurl.com/kefn96v
Posted by: Stateless Infidel at February 24, 2015 03:58 PM (AC0lD)
shower once a week, you're "in touch with the earth".
If you only use one square, you'll be in touch with yourself.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 24, 2015 03:58 PM (LVXFh)
Posted by: lurkingestlurker at February 24, 2015 03:58 PM (k8xvx)
Pilates, god of yoga pants, white wine, and middle-aged divorcees.
Posted by: Colorado Alex at February 24, 2015 03:58 PM (OiH3z)
ACE, ARE YOU GONNA MENTION ANYTHING ABOUT ADAM BALDWIN BEING BLACKBALLED AT SOME STUPID COMIC CON?
Posted by: Soothsayer is MR. MICROPHONE at February 24, 2015 03:59 PM (Z92n0)
NOT LIKE THAT YOU PERVS.
Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hiding from the elements at February 24, 2015 03:56 PM (IrByp)
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Lemme guess.....
A short stack.?
Posted by: fixerupper at February 24, 2015 03:59 PM (NaV4z)
NOT LIKE THAT YOU PERVS.
Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hiding from the elements at February 24, 2015 03:56 PM
Don't knock it til you've tried it.
Posted by: Rachel "St. Pancake" Corrie at February 24, 2015 03:59 PM (h4vJk)
Posted by: Soothsayer is MR. MICROPHONE at February 24, 2015 04:00 PM (Z92n0)
Next the squirrel will look into the Obama birth certificate while Iran gets nukes and delivers them to Israel.
Posted by: the squirrel at February 24, 2015 04:00 PM (vqsBK)
Posted by: Bullfinch at February 24, 2015 03:55 PM (h4vJk)
Please have a seat. I'd like to talk to you for a minute.
Posted by: Chris Hansen at February 24, 2015 04:00 PM (2Ojst)
Liberation Theology, which if you look at as Liberation from Theology begins to finally make sense.
Posted by: Anderson Cooper's Rascal Scooter Brigade at February 24, 2015 04:00 PM (MbqmP)
Posted by: SH
___________
This!
Posted by: Furious George at February 24, 2015 04:00 PM (UlJ3l)
Posted by: rickb223 at February 24, 2015 04:00 PM (LVXFh)
Yeah, the Moabites thought sacrificing their children to Molech was a great idea. Like, 4500-years ago.
Behold, modern progressive belief in a nutshell. As old as dirt but as "hip" as the 60's.
Posted by: DocJ at February 24, 2015 04:00 PM (0RQVM)
Posted by: zombie Rachel corrie at February 24, 2015 04:00 PM (Spluw)
"The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing 'God Bless America.' No, no, no, God damn America, that's in the Bible for killing innocent people," he said in a 2003 sermon. "God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme."
http://tinyurl.com/6lpbed
Posted by: mallfly at February 24, 2015 04:01 PM (bJm7W)
Posted by: wrg500 at February 24, 2015 04:01 PM (S+el1)
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Well.... that fell a little flat.
Posted by: fixerupper at February 24, 2015 04:02 PM (NaV4z)
Posted by: Badda Bing 'now with Badda Boom' at February 24, 2015 04:03 PM (JgQLj)
Posted by: Garrett at February 24, 2015 04:03 PM (bHra+)
Of course, there has been very little media coverage of this fact, because you knuckle-dragging bitter clingers just wouldn't understand.
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at February 24, 2015 04:03 PM (Fnyc2)
The problem is deeper than just this rube.
Posted by: dogfish at February 24, 2015 03:58 PM (1vYi0)
He is the worm king.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 24, 2015 04:03 PM (FMbng)
Posted by: rickb223 at February 24, 2015 04:03 PM (LVXFh)
Posted by: Garrett at February 24, 2015 04:03 PM (bHra+)
But no sausage.
Posted by: wrg500 at February 24, 2015 04:04 PM (S+el1)
So, according to that logic, since there are 2.2 billionChristians in the world, Christians are allowed to have 97.7 million Christian terrorists and it still won't be a problem.
Great news!
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 24, 2015 04:04 PM (iAUf+)
Eid is big in the Church of Christ.
Posted by: M at February 24, 2015 04:04 PM (evdj2)
That he could spend one day, much less decades, in a nutcase racist whacko "church" like he did in Chicago - and still be viable as a national candidate ..... well, pretty much sums up the (unalterable) state of the nation and electorate.
But at least Americans (the minority with a clue), if they are younger especially, get to feel what it was like for poor citizens of Soviet-bloc nations, or North Korea, or your wackier Third World dictatorships (Central African Empire/Bokasa I, Cuba, Uganda/Amin). To have such an artless, transparent, crudely mendacious "leader" who is virtually worshipped by the secular institutions - hell, whose wife is treated like Madame Ceaucescu. The debasement. The degradation of the hapless citizen, who must simply trudge on while these ridiculously unfit, alien, often stupid people complicate or ruin their lives or loot or damage the country and stain its honor.
And in polite company (for the coastal and urban people) - smile and say little or nothing. In Mandelstham's "Stalin Epigram" there is an appropriate line - "we live, not feeling the country beneath us, our words cannot be heard ten paces away".
Those familiar with the oppression of totalitarian systems (esp. in modern societies) should recognize traces of this humiliation. Our vast, vast, vast lessers now (increasingly) rule over us - and there's nothing you can do.
Posted by: rhomboid at February 24, 2015 04:05 PM (afQnV)
That's above my pay grade...
Asked at what point a baby gets "human rights," Obama, who strongly supports abortion rights, said: "... whether you're looking at it from a theological perspective or a scientific perspective, answering that question with specificity ... is above my pay grade."
http://tinyurl.com/n5cqa55
Posted by: mallfly at February 24, 2015 04:05 PM (bJm7W)
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Unrepresented Christian Objectivist at February 24, 2015 04:05 PM (DT3rQ)
Who knew?
Posted by: rickb223 at February 24, 2015 04:03 PM
Wait...is whipped cream involved here?
Brb...bunk.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 24, 2015 04:05 PM (h4vJk)
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Unrepresented Christian Objectivist at February 24, 2015 04:05 PM (DT3rQ)
Your just egging people on now.
Posted by: wrg500 at February 24, 2015 04:06 PM (S+el1)
Jehova's Witnesses are Christians!
Posted by: Your Betters who know more about religion than you do at February 24, 2015 04:06 PM (MbqmP)
Posted by: Garrett at February 24, 2015 04:06 PM (bHra+)
A short stack.?
Silver dollars. The small ones.
Naa, she'll just waffle.
Posted by: wrg500 at February 24, 2015 04:01 PM (S+el1)
Quit talkin' all this crepe.
Posted by: Insomniac at February 24, 2015 04:07 PM (2Ojst)
No one who is a Christian would have answered the way he did.
Perhaps someone upthread mentioned it already. If so, a link would be helpful.
Thanks.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 24, 2015 04:07 PM (TOk1P)
Pilates, god of yoga pants
I hereby renounce my previous agnosticism.
What time's the next service?
Posted by: Bandersnatch, let all the children boogie at February 24, 2015 04:07 PM (JtwS4)
Posted by: rhomboid at February 24, 2015 04:07 PM (afQnV)
Posted by: wrg500 at February 24, 2015 04:06 PM (S+el1)
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OK...... omlette'ing the silly puns continue.... for a while.
Posted by: fixerupper at February 24, 2015 04:07 PM (NaV4z)
I expect Obama to use his post-Presidency to put his boot on the neck of Christianity in the America.
Posted by: Costanza Defense at February 24, 2015 04:07 PM (ZPrif)
Did you never read Aquinas? The Bible? C.S. Lewis?
For pity's sake, have you never read Mitch Freaking Albom?
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I've read 2 of those.
Posted by: Bigby's Fisticuffs at February 24, 2015 04:07 PM (3ZtZW)
Posted by: Marcus T at February 24, 2015 04:07 PM (9b4SD)
Posted by: Brother Cavil
Your just egging people on now.
This line is toast, oui?
Posted by: rickb223 at February 24, 2015 04:07 PM (LVXFh)
Posted by: small town girl, crusader at February 24, 2015 04:08 PM (ZjHNW)
Posted by: Joe F. at February 24, 2015 04:08 PM (+GwBU)
Posted by: Costanza Defense
It's on our throats right now.
Posted by: dear leader took the Little Sisters of the Poor to court at February 24, 2015 04:08 PM (Spluw)
Posted by: Costanza Defense at February 24, 2015 04:08 PM (ZPrif)
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Why would you want to be part of something that demands nothing of you?
Posted by: SH at February 24, 2015 04:09 PM (gmeXX)
I'm also still kind of bemused by this.
Why would even an atheist care? Obviously, an atheistic politician wouldn't "wait for God's guidance" but he'd probably "consult with friends and family."
Other religious (or claiming-to-be-religious) politicians have said they were "waiting for God's guidance" and/or "talking with spiritual advisers..."
Why is it suddenly kooky for Walker to say the same thing?
Methinks they doth protest too much.
Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at February 24, 2015 04:09 PM (M1uf/)
Posted by: Mary Clogginstien from Brattleboro,VT at February 24, 2015 04:09 PM (Sd++4)
By the way. Among the Islamic states in the world, how many are consumed with war and pointless killing?
Umm, all of them?
And how many Judeo-Christian nations have intervened to feed and cloth the victims of the Islamic wars?
Umm, all of them
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 24, 2015 04:09 PM (iAUf+)
Posted by: Zap Rowsdower at February 24, 2015 04:09 PM (MMC8r)
187 Why pancake when you can French toast?
Posted by: Garrett at February 24, 2015 04:03 PM (bHra+)
But no sausage.
Posted by: wrg500 at February 24, 2015 04:04 PM (S+el1)
I thought Her Heartlessness was a fan of both sausage and pressed ham?
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 24, 2015 04:09 PM (TIIx5)
in..."after all...aren't we called to be our brothers keepers?"...I
think in some context of talking about Obamacare..."
I always think of it as Cain saying to God "It's not my turn to watch him" as some high school kid would say when asked where is your brother. I'm not even particularly religious and it is obvious to me what is meant. Of course, libs everywhere don't get any of this. They think Cains sarcastic response is a coomand to take care of others with more govt. and raise taxes.
Posted by: George Orwell de Leon at February 24, 2015 04:09 PM (1BQGO)
Posted by: Joe F. at February 24, 2015 04:10 PM (+GwBU)
"We got a real clear picture of what they all value," Biden said. "Every Republican's voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they're proposing. Romney wants to let the - he said in the first hundred days he's going to let the big banks once again write their own rules, 'unchain Wall Street.' They're going to put y'all back in chains."
http://tinyurl.com/dy37x7a
Posted by: mallfly at February 24, 2015 04:10 PM (bJm7W)
Posted by: HR needs cheeseburgers at February 24, 2015 04:10 PM (/kI1Q)
We will be fortunate to end up 20-30 years from now only as messed-up and dysfunctional as the UK. Given our demographics we could be in far, far worse shape and they're a total cluster-fvck
Posted by: DocJ at February 24, 2015 04:10 PM (0RQVM)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 24, 2015 04:09 PM (TIIx5)
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**slams a dollar on the coffee table**
"I'm OUT....!!"
Posted by: fixerupper at February 24, 2015 04:10 PM (NaV4z)
Posted by: Null at February 24, 2015 04:10 PM (xjpRj)
Eh. Folks are just scrambling to poach new lines now. I guess we could get all hard-boilded about it, but I prefer to keep the sunny side up on the matter!
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Unrepresented Christian Objectivist at February 24, 2015 04:11 PM (DT3rQ)
Posted by: wrg500 at February 24, 2015 04:11 PM (S+el1)
Posted by: TrivialPursuer at February 24, 2015 04:03 PM (Fnyc2)
To be fair, a quick googling tells me they attended Easter services this past year.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/lm3gt34
Posted by: Hal at February 24, 2015 04:11 PM (hmPdt)
Posted by: Insomniac at February 24, 2015 04:11 PM (2Ojst)
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Unrepresented Christian Objectivist at February 24, 2015 04:11 PM (DT3rQ)
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.......well...... eggscuuuuuuuuuuse me.......
Posted by: fixerupper at February 24, 2015 04:12 PM (NaV4z)
Posted by: Joe F. at February 24, 2015 04:08 PM (+GwBU)
& only 143996 other people get into heaven. Win:win!
Posted by: Anderson Cooper's Rascal Scooter Brigade at February 24, 2015 04:12 PM (MbqmP)
"And as I recall, they put it back in despite the fact that the repeated votes to get it back in lost *every single time*."
Yep, that's how it worked.
I thought I was pretty cynical before that.
But watching the Democrats' convention chairman turn up the volume to eleven on the PA system to loudly declare that "The resolution passes!" while delegates all over the hall were visibly screaming "NO!!!!!!!!" and shaking their heads negatively and waving their clenched fists?
That was something.
Posted by: torquewrench at February 24, 2015 04:12 PM (noWW6)
http://tinyurl.com/mnq8pex
Posted by: wrg500 at February 24, 2015 04:11 PM (S+el1)
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Fcuk.You.
Seriously..... that was ..... heartless.
Posted by: fixerupper at February 24, 2015 04:13 PM (NaV4z)
Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at February 24, 2015 04:13 PM (BZAd3)
This breakfast nonsense could be over easy, or over hard. Your choice.
Posted by: Insomniac at February 24, 2015 04:11 PM (2Ojst)
Teh Horde being Teh Horde, I expect they'll make a hash of it.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 24, 2015 04:13 PM (TIIx5)
Posted by: M at February 24, 2015 04:13 PM (evdj2)
http://tinyurl.com/pdkbdlf
'I don't know.'
Thus proclaimed Scott Walker, the Wisconsin governor and Republican presidential hopeful, when asked by The Post's Dan Balz and Robert Costa on Saturday whether President Obama is a Christian.
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at February 24, 2015 04:13 PM (fWAjv)
ACE, ARE YOU GONNA MENTION ANYTHING ABOUT ADAM BALDWIN BEING BLACKBALLED AT SOME STUPID COMIC CON?
Posted by: Soothsayer is MR. MICROPHONE at February 24, 2015 03:59 PM (Z92n0)
Last I heard, the convention committee had announced that Adam Baldwin's appearance would remain on the event schedule. Have you heard otherwise?
This presuming that you take the subject seriously.
Posted by: Hawkins1701 at February 24, 2015 04:13 PM (FpvLM)
Posted by: eleven at February 24, 2015 04:13 PM (ykfyK)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur
With a side of scrapple.
Posted by: Blue Hen at February 24, 2015 04:14 PM (Spluw)
Posted by: wrg500 at February 24, 2015 04:14 PM (S+el1)
Posted by: Lauren at February 24, 2015 04:14 PM (MYCIw)
OK I have this hobby horse and I'm gonna ride it, dammit.
Forget the "LIV" and "FSA" voters. Remember the "educated" part of the 52%.
My favorite/most demoralizing example, my sister and her husband. Goo-goo bleeding heart libs who've lived their entire lives in beautiful coastal areas (they actually were going on and on about "Selma" recently ..... I pretended to care or agree, sort of, but could barely manage the poker face when they cretinously opined that Hispanic domestics waiting at bus stops were the new oppressed, as blacks at Selma ...... this is their level of life experience and cluelessness).
At gunpoint they'd never vote for anyone but whatever face the party of abortion and teacher's unions puts up, at any level. Oh - they're active, devout Catholics. Oh - and at least she is pretty alienated from teacher's unions based on (ta dah!) actual parental experience with her two kids. So, naturally - it's part of abortion/party of teacher's unions, all the way baby.
Not an iota of tension or introspection or anything. Yet of course they can recite the idiotic "news" of the day as mangled by NPR or some MSM outlet (and make sneering remarks - still, FFS! - about Palin).
These people, not the LIV/FSA, have doomed us.
Posted by: rhomboid at February 24, 2015 04:14 PM (afQnV)
Obama just declared several new Holy Sites Of the Tree and Water Spirits -- I mean national parks.
Posted by: Costanza Defense at February 24, 2015 04:14 PM (ZPrif)
"I came to see faith as more than just a comfort to the weary or a hedge against death, but rather as an active, palpable agent in the world and in my own life. It was because of these newfound understandings that I was finally able to walk down the aisle of [church name] one day and affirm my Christian faith. It came about as a choice, and not an epiphany. I didn't fall out in church, as folks sometimes do. The questions I had didn't magically disappear. The skeptical bent of my mind didn't suddenly vanish. But kneeling beneath that cross on the South Side, I felt I heard God's spirit beckoning me. I submitted myself to His will, and dedicated myself to discovering His truth and carrying out His works."
Posted by: mallfly at February 24, 2015 04:14 PM (bJm7W)
No one who is a Christian would have answered the way he did.
Perhaps someone upthread mentioned it already. If so, a link would be helpful.
Thanks.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 24, 2015 04:07 PM (TOk1P)
That link is here:
http://tinyurl.com/o7f6jp6
That quote:
FALSANI:
Who's Jesus to you?
(He laughs nervously)
OBAMA:
Right.
Jesus is an historical figure for me, and he's also a bridge between God and man, in the Christian faith, and one that I think is powerful precisely because he serves as that means of us reaching something higher.
And he's also a wonderful teacher. I think it's important for all of us, of whatever faith, to have teachers in the flesh and also teachers in history.
Posted by: Hal at February 24, 2015 04:14 PM (hmPdt)
#131- DocJ, it would be way worse this time. How many Southern cities have huge swaths of electoral blue in them for ethnic or cultural reasons? Whole neighborhoods in Nashville are small-batch artisanal locally raised sustainable bullshit hipsterism with Obama stickers the same way Seattle is. Atlanta is worse. So a second Confederate States Army would not only have to defeat a Federal army, but also fight some internal pacification campaigns around the cities.
Just because I was curious, I used some Bosnian War material and drew up a fairly detailed operations order for doing a detailed cleanse on a simulated Atlanta. Involved a mechanized infantry brigade on 285 (the Perimeter) to throw a ring of steel around it and choke it, escalating to three, with air assault operations and SOF to establish footprints. Ended with offering the unwanted rail and bus service north of the international border.
I did throw in a turn-in provision for household pets in exchange for MREs at the Perimeter. Didn't want the Obama voters eating their dogs or cats to lengthen the siege.
Posted by: SGT Dan's Cat at February 24, 2015 04:14 PM (Y2VBD)
#131- DocJ, it would be way worse this time. How many Southern cities have huge swaths of electoral blue in them for ethnic or cultural reasons? Whole neighborhoods in Nashville are small-batch artisanal locally raised sustainable bullshit hipsterism with Obama stickers the same way Seattle is. Atlanta is worse. So a second Confederate States Army would not only have to defeat a Federal army, but also fight some internal pacification campaigns around the cities.
Just because I was curious, I used some Bosnian War material and drew up a fairly detailed operations order for doing a detailed cleanse on a simulated Atlanta. Involved a mechanized infantry brigade on 285 (the Perimeter) to throw a ring of steel around it and choke it, escalating to three, with air assault operations and SOF to establish footprints. Ended with offering the unwanted rail and bus service north of the international border.
I did throw in a turn-in provision for household pets in exchange for MREs at the Perimeter. Didn't want the Obama voters eating their dogs or cats to lengthen the siege.
Posted by: SGT Dan's Cat at February 24, 2015 04:14 PM (Y2VBD)
Fcuk.You.
Seriously..... that was ..... heartless.
Posted by: fixerupper at February 24, 2015 04:13 PM
Look on the bright side...it could have been Mooch in yoga pants.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 24, 2015 04:15 PM (h4vJk)
Posted by: M at February 24, 2015 04:04 PM (evdj2)
As a life-long member of the Church of Christ- only 5 generations removed from the founder of the Church of Christ in Ranger, TX I must ask:
Whachu talkin' about Willis?
C of C celebrates Easter with the rest of the Christian world (some specific congregations celebrate Orthodox Easter), and what we say about Christmas is on par with the rest of the Christian world as well- we don't have a specific date on which Jesus was born, and we choose to celebrate it on December 25.
Again, there are specific congregations and specific members of the church who do not celebrate Christmas, but they do so from personal conviction, not from any Church of Christ specific teaching.
Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at February 24, 2015 04:15 PM (M1uf/)
Posted by: New Phone at February 24, 2015 04:15 PM (zfxmv)
No need for Government Radio in a free country.
Posted by: Costanza Defense at February 24, 2015 04:16 PM (ZPrif)
Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hiding from the elements at February 24, 2015 04:16 PM (IrByp)
F U C K H I M.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 24, 2015 04:17 PM (iAUf+)
What's being done to Adam Baldwin is a form of blacklisting. He's not banned from any event, but he is being targeted as some sort of enemy.
The point of other "celebrities" getting together to boycott an event in which Adam Baldwin will be present is to let fans know that Adam Baldwin is a bad guy.
Posted by: Soothsayer is MR. MICROPHONE at February 24, 2015 04:17 PM (Z92n0)
They've been teaching it in public schools for decades.
Posted by: HR needs cheeseburgers at February 24, 2015 04:17 PM (/kI1Q)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 24, 2015 04:09 PM (TIIx5)
'Her Heartlessness'...I guffawed...wait, no I did not.
Posted by: Badda Bing 'now with Badda Boom' at February 24, 2015 04:17 PM (JgQLj)
Prog Ruling Class has largely converted to Environmentalism.
Obama just declared several new Holy Sites Of the Tree and Water Spirits -- I mean national parks.
Posted by: Costanza Defense at February 24, 2015 04:14 PM (ZPrif)
Actually, National Monuments, which can be created by EO. Parks require an act of Congress.
So as usual, JugEars takes the non-Constitutional route.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 24, 2015 04:17 PM (TIIx5)
Then your father would just be a mystery. Angels of Death, that would be more visceral. Of course, that would bend politics and history into myth. Not many stick around to comment, before or after.
Posted by: first and last at February 24, 2015 04:17 PM (xrURQ)
Posted by: N at February 24, 2015 04:17 PM (evdj2)
What in Hell does this even mean? The words of a pompous ass trying to seem profound.
Posted by: Blue Hen at February 24, 2015 04:18 PM (Spluw)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 24, 2015 04:18 PM (FMbng)
Just got a call from my dad.
Apparently my Brother's articles on my Universities "Clocktower Accords" have angered someone who thinks there's a big brouhaha and a need to shut people up (even though the only ones talking about it still are me, my brother and some leftovers from a drudge link.)
FFS, the academy still knows how to enforce the "Shut up, the explained" apparently.
Of course by doing something stupid, they'll take what was a non-issue and force me to Streisand the hell out of it.
Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) and his daughter at February 24, 2015 04:19 PM (HDwDg)
Posted by: N at February 24, 2015 04:17 PM (evdj2)
Err...
Umm...
No? Yes? No? Maybe?
I'll... just be over here...
Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - TrueCon at February 24, 2015 04:19 PM (M1uf/)
Posted by: O at February 24, 2015 04:19 PM (evdj2)
Now it's swamps are Holy Wetlands of the Nature Gods or something.
It's a swamp. Drain the bastard, build a parking lot.
Posted by: Costanza Defense at February 24, 2015 04:19 PM (ZPrif)
Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at February 24, 2015 04:13 PM (BZAd3)
It's obvious that in every sphere of human endeavor that they worship incompetence, so, yeah. TFG is GOOD at incompetence.
Posted by: filbert at February 24, 2015 04:19 PM (h6Mpm)
Posted by: Wax the Gunter Flog at February 24, 2015 04:19 PM (lqeGC)
Posted by: DocJ at February 24, 2015 04:20 PM (0RQVM)
But the state long ago took over as the central focus of citizen's lives.
When The DaVinci Code came out, and the bad guys were obsessed Catholics from France, I thought, well that's not very believable.
Posted by: Boots at February 24, 2015 04:20 PM (l9mF2)
@214. Depends on what form of Christianity is being taught. The weak form of the emergent church really demands little at all. The standard, orthodoxform properly taught (protestant or catholic) actually asks a lot, but that's another thing altogether.
You are transformed by the gift of Christ to walk in the good works that He's set out for you to do, and if you love God you keep His commandments and at the end of your life you are saved but your work is evaluated and that does impact how you experience salvation in the next life. Those who escape as one who escapes a fire have a different experience from those whose work is pure gold. That's a world of difference fromtheget out of hell free card that bad churches teach. It's also a lot harder than what bad churches teach, which also drives people away. "This is a hard thing to hear".
Posted by: lurkingestlurker at February 24, 2015 04:20 PM (k8xvx)
what's Ace's next post gonna be?
Posted by: Soothsayer is MR. MICROPHONE at February 24, 2015 04:20 PM (Z92n0)
Ace, you sounded just like Glenn Beck just then.
Actually, he was saying that Bill Maher says exactly this about the President. And he says it in an approving way. Because progs prefer their candidates to lie. Like on the gay marriage thing. They all knew that the President was fluffing the nutters skirts when he said "God is in hte mix."
Stu also pointed out that no way was Obama a Muslim, as he could not imagine him undertaking something that required him to pray five times each day.
Posted by: blaster at February 24, 2015 04:21 PM (Rx8ML)
Posted by: M at February 24, 2015 04:13 PM (evdj2)
Does it really count as a holiday if you just golf & get BJs from a "body man" seven days a week?
Posted by: Anderson Cooper's Rascal Scooter Brigade at February 24, 2015 04:21 PM (MbqmP)
Posted by: The Great White Snark at February 24, 2015 04:21 PM (j6e8f)
So every Dem prez steals millions of acres and bars in American from buying or using it or doing anything productive so the Eco-Cultist Ruling Class can appease their Nature Spirits of their new Eco-Paganism.
Posted by: Costanza Defense at February 24, 2015 04:22 PM (ZPrif)
Posted by: P at February 24, 2015 04:22 PM (evdj2)
I thought Her Heartlessness was a fan of both sausage and pressed ham?
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 24, 2015 04:09 PM (TIIx5)
'Her Heartlessness'...I guffawed...wait, no I did not.
Posted by: Badda Bing 'now with Badda Boom' at February 24, 2015 04:17 PM (JgQLj)
I fully expect to see a UPS box full of raptors or annoyed emus show up on the dock any minute now....
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 24, 2015 04:23 PM (TIIx5)
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Exactly - why be part of something that demands little of you? You can claim to be it, but really you are not. The weak form churches will not last because there is no attachment to such churches. Those that demand something of you will stand.
Posted by: SH at February 24, 2015 04:23 PM (gmeXX)
It was also well documented that Wight welcomed Black Muslim members into his church who were not expected to convert but simply to learn about his revolutionary theology.
Posted by: New Phone at February 24, 2015 04:23 PM (KJ13x)
Posted by: Boots
Ah yes, that POS. How deep and clever; the "From Venice Code". But Sarah Palin is an idiot.
Only a leftist idiot who hates Christianity in general and Catholicism in particular could churn out such shit.
Posted by: Blue Hen at February 24, 2015 04:24 PM (Spluw)
Why would God lie to us?
Posted by: Righter at February 24, 2015 04:24 PM (0kPjF)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 24, 2015 04:23 PM (TIIx5)
Oh please, calling me heartless means you are merely minimally observant.
Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hiding from the elements at February 24, 2015 04:24 PM (IrByp)
Republican-run Congress, President Barack Obama rejected a bill Tuesday
to approve construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline,...
from Drudge.
So the GOP Congress just appeared. Voters didn't vote them in. No mention in the long article that a majority of polls show support for the pipeline and that is it Obama, pandering to a tiny, but vocal minority of earth-firsters and anti-oil activists, and of course, padding the pockets of Warren Buffet, who's trains are carrying the oil instead.
Hmmm.Nothing in the article on how Obama punted over and over on this, dragging it out. Maddening, these MSM memes...
Posted by: Yip at February 24, 2015 04:24 PM (84SRe)
Posted by: jmel at February 24, 2015 04:25 PM (cfFqn)
Posted by: Fritz at February 24, 2015 04:25 PM (UzPAd)
Posted by: rhomboid at February 24, 2015 04:14 PM (afQnV)"I know the feeling. I have two sisters that fall exactly in that category. While they do some complaining about generalities that never effect them because they aren't happening (example: Big Oil is killing us) any specific complaints they have like lousy schools, high taxes, nanny state regulations, too freebies for the FSA, are all directly linked to Democrats, which they unwaveringly support. They are both pretty well off and if/when their retirement accounts are seized they will manage to ignore who is behind it. It will be because Bush invaded Iraq or some such BS.
Posted by: George Orwell de Leon at February 24, 2015 04:25 PM (1BQGO)
Posted by: Reggie at February 24, 2015 04:25 PM (MMC8r)
Prolonged sieges are bad for the infrastructure a newly independent CSA will need to make a clean break of it.
Posted by: SGT Dan's Cat at February 24, 2015 04:25 PM (Y2VBD)
I miss Sambos.
Posted by: O at February 24, 2015 04:19 PM (evdj2)
The original is still open, here in sunny, irredeemably lefty, snooty Leningrad-on-the-Pacific (also known as Santa Barbara).
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 24, 2015 04:26 PM (TIIx5)
Environmentalism is a religion
GlowBull Worming is a religion
And none of them require you to follow the Ten Commandments
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 24, 2015 04:26 PM (YrXgo)
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Charlie Christian?
Posted by: The Great White Snark at February 24, 2015 04:21 PM (j6e8f)
Oops, forgot about him.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 24, 2015 04:27 PM (FMbng)
I've heard it both ways.
Posted by: Shawn Spencer at February 24, 2015 04:27 PM (/kI1Q)
Prolonged sieges are bad for the infrastructure a newly independent CSA will need to make a clean break of it.
Posted by: SGT Dan's Cat at February 24, 2015 04:25 PM
Cut. Jib. Travel visa?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 24, 2015 04:27 PM (h4vJk)
I fully expect to see a UPS box full of raptors or annoyed emus show up on the dock any minute now....
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 24, 2015 04:23 PM (TIIx5)
Oh please, calling me heartless means you are merely minimally observant.
Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hiding from the elements at February 24, 2015 04:24 PM (IrByp)
Oh, I know. I'm expecting them to be sent just for GP, not for any specific transgression.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 24, 2015 04:28 PM (TIIx5)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 24, 2015 04:28 PM (YrXgo)
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That's OK. If Obama is going to rule in Heaven, I don't want to go.
Posted by: The Great White Snark at February 24, 2015 04:28 PM (j6e8f)
Shit Midas killed a tree in New Delhi just by touching it.
Posted by: Fritz at February 24, 2015 04:28 PM (UzPAd)
Posted by: Righter at February 24, 2015 04:28 PM (MbqmP)
Posted by: O at February 24, 2015 04:19 PM (evdj2)
Racist dog whistle. I bet you want Aunt Jemima or Mrs. Butterworth's too.
Posted by: wrg500 at February 24, 2015 04:29 PM (S+el1)
Posted by: SGT Dan's Cat at February 24, 2015 04:25 PM (Y2VBD)
Save Gibson at all costs!!
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 24, 2015 04:29 PM (FMbng)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 24, 2015 04:28 PM (TIIx5)
Ahhhh that's okay then.
Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hiding from the elements at February 24, 2015 04:29 PM (IrByp)
Posted by: P at February 24, 2015 04:29 PM (evdj2)
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So did the Cartheginians. Though their "god" seems to have been an evolution of Ba'al.
I hadn't much cared about the Punic Wars up until I found out about that. Then I suddenly became a Roman fanboy. From what I've heard, the Romans found the practice of human sacrifice to be just as repugnant as we do.
Posted by: junior at February 24, 2015 04:30 PM (UWFpX)
"He says he is, you should ask him."
Clearly he's not, but that's between him and God.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at February 24, 2015 04:30 PM (39g3+)
Atlanta and as an adopted Tennessean I want
Nashville intact.
Posted by: SGT Dan's Cat
Save Gibson at all costs!!
Charlie? Never heard of him.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 24, 2015 04:31 PM (LVXFh)
Posted by: DocJ at February 24, 2015 04:31 PM (0RQVM)
For the record, the UCC is for the most part a very liberal denomination although it is a congregational system so individuals churches may be more conservative. Rev Wrights's church was not.
Finally, these things stand out for me. I know a lot of liberal Christian-pastors and laypeople, but none of them would refer to "bitter Bible clingers" They might have a problem with some stands of evangelical Christians but they would refer to them as "Conservative Christians" "Bitter Bible clingers" is prejoartive. The others two things are his saying to Stepanopolos "My Muslim faith". Someone doesn't make "mistake" like that. Also, his comments about "The Future does not belong to those that slander the Prophet of Islam." I don't know any practicing Christians who consider Mohamnmed a prophet. They might have read the Koran and some of the Hadith and think Mohammed had some valuable stuff to say before he went completely off the rails because Jews and Christians didn't accept his revelation, but no, they would not consider him a prophet.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 24, 2015 04:32 PM (DXzRD)
Posted by: rickb223 at February 24, 2015 04:33 PM (LVXFh)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 24, 2015 04:33 PM (FMbng)
A man whose administration refuses to name martyred Christians as Christians has -IMO- some serious issues.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 24, 2015 04:35 PM (DXzRD)
Link in nick
Posted by: SGT Dan's Cat at February 24, 2015 04:36 PM (Y2VBD)
ago, I'm not sure exactly where. The question was answered by Obama,
where he danced around the divinity of Jesus.
No one who is a Christian would have answered the way he did.
Perhaps someone upthread mentioned it already. If so, a link would be helpful.
Thanks.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 24, 2015 04:07 PM (TOk1P)
That link is here:
http://tinyurl.com/o7f6jp6
That quote:
FALSANI:
Who's Jesus to you?
(He laughs nervously)
OBAMA:
Right.
Jesus is an historical figure for me, and he's also a bridge between
God and man, in the Christian faith, and one that I think is powerful
precisely because he serves as that means of us reaching something
higher.
And he's also a wonderful teacher. I think it's important for all of
us, of whatever faith, to have teachers in the flesh and also teachers
in history.
Posted by: Hal at February 24, 2015 04:14 PM (hmPdt)
Thanks! Obviously not as recent as I thought, but pretty telling. Further down is a comment about whether he believes in heaven, and after being coy he says something about if he lives his life the right way he'll be rewarded... whether in this world or not.
Really?
And you claim to be a Christian? Eh, that's pretty basic right there.
He's a fraud. Plain and simple.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 24, 2015 04:38 PM (TOk1P)
I second Moki. Thanks, Ace for standing up for the Christian faith.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 24, 2015 04:41 PM (DXzRD)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 24, 2015 04:45 PM (DXzRD)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 24, 2015 04:52 PM (DXzRD)
@316, nope, though as Lewis said, it's hard to honestly believe it even if you confine yourself to the Synoptic Gospels and leave John right out. Some of the stuff Jesus said was frankly bizarre.
"Hey, thatcode you people struggle with? I'm gonna make it harder on you to follow it and sometime later say 'come to Me all you who are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest' and then also say 'deny yourself, take up your cross, and follow Me.'"
Very little of what Jesus says we should dois even remotelypossible until really the post-crucifixion, and then it just takes it from impossible to doable though not easy.
TL
R; if you leave out the cross and atonement and the resurrection,then all you can reasonably conclude about Jesus is that he wasan angry, crazy manand not even close to being a "good teacher". Posted by: lurkingestlurker at February 24, 2015 04:59 PM (k8xvx)
Rhomboid, thanks for the lift! I'm think I better get back to work...
Posted by: JohnnyBoy at February 24, 2015 04:59 PM (TPjwz)
Posted by: JohnnyBoy at February 24, 2015 05:00 PM (TPjwz)
Posted by: UncleScreech at February 24, 2015 05:17 PM (jJAHN)
Just sayin.
Posted by: Jukin at February 24, 2015 05:19 PM (WGm5T)
When their assets are siezed and it's time to choose sides, will they fight for freedom? Or will they stick to the left? I am seriously worried about relatives who are misguided. I have some too. I don't really care about people I don't know. They can be stupid about government all day. But there will come a day when this government has destroyed as much of America as they can and either left for elsewheres or been punished. The fate of people I don't know doesn't matter to me. Relatives do. What will happen to them?
Posted by: Eromero at February 24, 2015 05:27 PM (go5uR)
God and man, in the Christian faith, and one that I think is powerful
precisely because he serves as that means of us reaching something
higher."
Posted by: Hal at February 24, 2015 04:14 PM (hmPdt)
Notice how he pivots from "for me" to "in the Christian faith" in one sentence of masterful changing horses mid-stream. Obama's a muzzie.
Posted by: Dang at February 24, 2015 05:27 PM (MNq6o)
Posted by: Eromero at February 24, 2015 05:28 PM (go5uR)
Posted by: Cackfinger at February 24, 2015 05:39 PM (53TqR)
Posted by: TANSTAAFL at February 24, 2015 06:26 PM (tDEkf)
According to the Left, it's the only religion that's wrong.
Just the fact that it's the only religion that will get you in trouble if you use it as your basis to disagree with homosexuality, sort of makes me see it in a light of fascinated respect.
Posted by: RKae at February 24, 2015 06:38 PM (05yXI)
The best way to understand Obama is to watch the documentary on Jimi Hendrix. Jimi hung out exclusively with white people. Every now and then he would run into a black person and ask "what are the brothers saying about me?" Jimi was consumed with the fear that he wasn't "black" enough.
That's Obama. He stopped hanging out with the Pakistanis. He stopped seeing himself as white. He joined the Black Liberation Theology church. He embraced his father's African/Muslim heritage and had Bill Aires write two autobiographies for him.
Give the man his due; he may be a fraud, but he believes every word of it.
Posted by: Great Reagan's Ghost at February 24, 2015 07:59 PM (kfoLf)
Did this proggie make fun of Islam? wut? no?
I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!
Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie at February 25, 2015 09:30 AM (1hM1d)
Posted by: simplemind at February 25, 2015 01:42 PM (w1Nd8)
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