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- bwjacket, on 06/21/2008, -4/+25I love Saturday mornings. It's like Digg is asleep at the wheel.
- inactive, on 06/21/2008, -8/+19One day the controversial thing will be for candidates to claim to be Christian at all.
- bwjacket, on 06/21/2008, -1/+10I'm thinking you used that hyphen incorrectly.
- mecharabbit, on 06/21/2008, -2/+9"...bask in the light of a middle-of-the-road God..." nice
- Coffeedemon, on 06/21/2008, -3/+9It also brought us renaissance art but who's counting? Is it really necessary to start this ***** early on a Saturday morning? The catalyst is an Onion clip FFS.
- 3lijah, on 06/21/2008, -1/+6I want to hear what the candidates are planning to do with Murphy's Law before I vote. That is one of the most retarded laws I've ever heard of.
- inactive, on 06/21/2008, -0/+5Do much for freedom, ehh?
- ccxftw, on 06/21/2008, -0/+4http://www.xkcd.com/37/
- Mordisquitos, on 06/21/2008, -2/+6You should probably listen to the audio clip before asking people to read it.
- pintomp3, on 06/21/2008, -0/+4ball in ass party? yuck.
- inactive, on 06/21/2008, -1/+5Intolerance brought by *drum roll* religion!
- facelesscoward, on 06/21/2008, -2/+6Or drunk. That was a ballin' ass-party last night.
- inactive, on 06/21/2008, -1/+4It's amazing how many stupid people are repeating that line just because Ron Paul said it...
- gbjxc, on 06/21/2008, -3/+6Wait, so doesn't that just mean they're Unitarian?
- Risingashes, on 06/21/2008, -8/+11Should have happened as soon as we crawled out of the dark ages.
- inactive, on 06/21/2008, -0/+3I vote sarcastic
/And so should you. It's Digg for Christ's sake, we all know what Murphy's Law is about - Technohamster, on 06/21/2008, -2/+5Don't hold your breath.
- JQP123, on 06/21/2008, -0/+3"Lack of religion doesn't precisely equate to lack of crazy."
No it doesn't. Insanity exists ... but religion is probably the most popular, institutionalized form of it.
“Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you’d have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion.” ~ Steven Weinberg, Nobel Laureate in physics. - Ebonsteel, on 06/21/2008, -2/+5*****, Techno. The first rule of most religions may be "don't kill people," but the subtext that all of these religious lunatics seem to read into that is "unless they are different than us."
JQP123 is right. Religion has caused more death and started more wars than any other single thing in history. I'm not saying that without religion there would be no war, but I am saying that there would be a hell of a lot less. - Technohamster, on 06/21/2008, -1/+4The first part of most religions is don't kill people. The real reason you get violence is INTOLERANCE, not religion.
- Aidje, on 06/22/2008, -0/+2"Has their ever been a religion where the practioners didn't make themselves out to be special?"
You're obviously not getting this, so let me say it another way: Moses was not the reason God chose Moses. God chose Moses despite Moses. Not because Moses was special, but rather *despite* the fact that he was flawed. Again, big theme in the Bible. - Aidje, on 06/21/2008, -0/+2You missed the part where Moses was raised as a prince, and then had to flee for his life. He lost his position and had to run to a foreign land, where he was lowered to being a shepherd. Years later, he was very reluctant to respond to God's call because he thought that he was such a poor choice for the job. But it's a pretty common theme in the Bible for God to choose messed up people.
- JQP123, on 06/22/2008, -0/+2"God chose Moses despite Moses. Not because Moses was special, but rather *despite* the fact that he was flawed."
Moses was Jewish,one of God's chosen people. According to the Bible, that made him "special", And murdering a "non-special" person (i.e. an Egyptian) obviously isn't a flaw. - inactive, on 06/21/2008, -1/+3Your scope is too narrow.
It's bad sure, but Communism/Fascism killed and enslaved a good amount of people too (not to mention governments in general).
I'm a big fan of collectivism and force as a bigger blanket; i.e. you're supposed to do what we say/feel as we feel, you've demonstrated that you do not, you must therefore be punished. - Aidje, on 06/22/2008, -0/+2I fixed it for you: Politics brought you 9/11 and Afghanistan and Iraq ... and soon Iran.
- inactive, on 06/21/2008, -2/+4Really? because that's not what the founding fathers thought:
Read the Jefferson-Danbury letters.
http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9806/danbury.html - finscoe, on 06/21/2008, -0/+2First stop, middle-of-the-road religious services...next stop, rescinding all the "blue laws" that deny me the right to buy alcohol on a Sunday. I envision a day when I'll be able to crack open a cold one during a politically-correct sermon..kind of like going to a football game, only without the whole God-thing.
- PALMARY, on 06/21/2008, -0/+2Well alright fellow fascists, now politicians WILL wear their state sponsored flag lapel pins, just as they will worship under the watchful eye of media/ state watch dogs. With the marriage of state and media interests, we should see more efficient fascist supervision of the "sheople" of the United States.
- ciaran036, on 06/22/2008, -0/+2JimmySpaza, how does God address the issue to people who have never been told about the Bible? If I had not have went to school to be told a heck of lies, then I would not know of God, heard of God and God would certainly not have appeared to me in any form, as you have suggested.
I got a little sceptical after realising that this one badly translated book is the only evidence of a God. Problem is, it's thousands of years old and contradicts itself so many times. And apart from this single book, there is not a single shred of evidence to prove that the Bible is right.
I prayed to God for something once, and I got it. And I believed in God. But then I wised up and considered the hundreds of times I've prayed for something and NOT got it.
Thank heck (was gonna say thank god...) I stopped believing.
I'd hate to waste any more time on such a ridiculous religion. - pintomp3, on 06/21/2008, -2/+4Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion
- inactive, on 06/21/2008, -0/+2Well it's exactly because it's digg that I'm not sure.
I've read the most insane ***** on here. See any thread about religion. - Lenoxus, on 06/21/2008, -0/+1"I don't know; satire is a pretty advanced concept. You're probably the only person here who would understand."
LOL; I'm going to paraphrase that every time I see someone on a comment board say something along the lines of "you dummies". - Aidje, on 06/22/2008, -0/+1Wow… this somehow ended up posted totally outside of the comment thread for which I intended it. Drat.
edit: I re-posted it in the relevant thread, so, uh… pretend this doesn't exist. Please. - inactive, on 06/21/2008, -0/+1Yeah, the onion is just bad reporting.
- Aidje, on 06/21/2008, -0/+1I fixed it for you: Politics brought you 9/11 and Afghanistan and Iraq ... and soon Iran.
- sl9sl9, on 06/21/2008, -1/+2That day is almost here in the UK. Us Brits tend to view prime ministers talking about god as "nutters", as Tony Blair (most recent ex. PM) famously said: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politic ...
And he is right, we have a vastly smaller contingent of evangelical Christians over here in the general population (which is great!), most tend to be either atheist, agnostic, or non-practicing Christians. If Tony Blair had said something like Bush did, ie. "god told me to do it [invade iraq]", then there would have probably been riots. - JQP123, on 06/21/2008, -1/+2Here's another attempt at the link that digg broke:
http://goldenrule.notlong.com - Tebixan, on 06/23/2008, -0/+1You should read my post before you tell me to read other posts.
charm803 told maltaethiron to read the article, I was telling charm803 that there was no article, because the link was to a fake radio broadcast. - inactive, on 06/21/2008, -0/+1Not for religious reasons.
- spudfrog, on 06/21/2008, -0/+1The Onion! It burns my eyes!
- JQP123, on 06/23/2008, -0/+1"All I ask from religion is to stay the ***** out of the legislative sphere."
So you think simply asking will make it so? You're content to passively watch (for fear of offending anyone) while religious idiots like Bush tear this country apart?
Confrontation is required to bring about change. Religion has gone unchallenged for far too long.
- zoom1928, on 06/21/2008, -0/+1You really should read the posts before responding. The grandfather post said the great-grandfater post should "read the article first." There was no article.
- 30Seconds, on 06/22/2008, -0/+1" only using very poetic language like...only using very poetic language like "I and the father are one" and "Before Abraham was, I am" "
God identified himself to Abraham as "I am", Jesus was saying he had seen Abraham, while a normal person would have died of old age if that were true, ergo, he was saying he was God. - DavidGX, on 06/22/2008, -0/+1Your mother said I have a fine sense of humor and I respect her opinion, maybe you should too.
- inactive, on 06/21/2008, -0/+1I don't think anyone can be completely unbiased.
However, I will not vote for anyone unless they are, and I don't think anyone else should either. - Coffeedemon, on 06/22/2008, -0/+1No numbnuts. Religion did not invent art... but they did have the money and for better or worse funded a ton of those great works that we now see as classic renaissance art.
As for JQPwhatever .... this is tired. Why don't you ignore it rather than being antagonistic and trying to start a flame war? All I ask from religion is to stay the ***** out of the legislative sphere. Study it as a cultural thing if you will or something that can inform us of our differences/similarities as people but don't base the laws of the land on it anymore ... all it does is divide at this point. Broad attacks on anything religious do the same thing and this is from an atheist too (one that pays consideration to his targets rather than branding every religious thing to be evil). - blackturtleus, on 06/21/2008, -0/+1Middle-of-the-Road might work, but it might also work to go green. There are a lot of green churches sprouting up all over the place. It's kind of a trend I hear. Either candidate might benefit from joining one of these churches since they blend traditional religious values with concern about the environment.
- Aidje, on 06/21/2008, -0/+1@charm 803 I don't know; satire is a pretty advanced concept. You're probably the only person here who would understand.
- Aidje, on 06/23/2008, -0/+142. 42 roads.
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