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Post by KTJ on Jan 30, 2019 12:30:54 GMT 10
The bible is so farcical it is comedy of the ninth degree.
As is the koran.
And the book of mormon.
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Post by Occam's Spork on Jan 31, 2019 2:13:35 GMT 10
The bible is so farcical it is comedy of the ninth degree. As is the koran. And the book of mormon. Everything you post is comedy. Maybe you should post some more masterbating emojis, they are more meaningful than this drivel.
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Post by Occam's Spork on Jan 31, 2019 7:41:02 GMT 10
Once a RC theist, always a RC theist. If you really believe that, then your godless proselytizing makes even less sense than your usual posts.
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Post by pim on Jan 31, 2019 9:05:28 GMT 10
Lapsed Catholics make for the best communists, is what we used to say.
Occam you've doubtless heard of the writer Thomas Keneally. To jog your memory he's the author of "Schindler's List". Actually it was originally published in Australia and the UK as "Schindler's Ark" which is a better title - but I digress! Kenneally is a very well known Australian novelist who could retire comfortably on the royalties from the movie Schindler's List but he keeps on writing prolifically churning out novel after novel. One of his better known Australian novels was "The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith" a powerful indictment of the racism dished out to Australia's First People. I taught it as a set text to senior secondary students as part of a literature course. That was a while ago.
Anyhow! Kenneally doesn't lack for creative juices. His literary output is prodigious. He's also a US civil war buff and has written extensively on the topic so his interests range far and wide. He's no "one trick pony".
So what's his muse? What powers his creative juices? Keneally has admitted it himself: he's a tortured ex-Catholic! He needs his Catholicism! Try telling Keneally he's "delusional"!
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Post by KTJ on Feb 2, 2019 15:07:00 GMT 10
Hilariously funny religious comedy: Sarah Sanders; the god delusion; and Donald J. Trump… from The Washington Post…Trump is on a mission from GodWhat else explains his unchecked behavior?By DANA MILBANK | 6:24PM EST — Friday, February 01, 2019President Donald J. Trump in the oval office. — Photograph: Carlos Barria/Reuters.PRESIDENT TRUMP is on a mission from God. Thus spake the White House press secretary, at any rate.
Sarah Sanders, asked by the Christian Broadcasting Network this week about Trump being the right man for the moment, replied: “I think God calls all of us to fill different roles at different times, and I think that he wanted Donald Trump to become president, and that's why he's there.”
This makes sense, because Trump has of late been acting as if he draws his authority from the divine right of kings. He's asserting his absolute power to act without — and often in contravention of — the Democratic House, the Republican Senate, his own intelligence agencies, law enforcement authorities and diplomats, and the will of the American public.
Presidential defenders say the Sanders claim is simply a repetition of the biblical admonition that all temporal leaders are established by God. And conservative evangelicals have reason to be pleased with Trump's judicial picks and other policies.
But Sanders appeared to go further in suggesting that God, much like Russian President Vladimir Putin, played an active role in installing Trump (“that's why he's there”). For the president's principal spokeswoman, during a West Wing interview, to claim God is for Trump — and, by extension, God is against Democrats (she also ridiculed the idea that Democrats have any moral authority) — goes beyond an expression of personal belief.
It contradicts an American creed, embraced by many believers in this nation under God, best captured by John F. Kennedy at the close of his inaugural address: “Let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own.”
Now we hear from the White House that God's work is … Trump.
If so, His choice of a thrice-married, foul-mouthed, untruthful casino mogul as His vessel raises thorny theological questions, not least: Why did God award Hillary Clinton the popular vote? And why, given all the Christian conservatives of high character running for president, did God go with a man who boasted about grabbing women by the [expletive], who paid hush money to a porn star, and who derided the “interesting” tendency of Vice President Pence to pray?
Perhaps it was Trump's boast that “nobody reads the Bible more than me.” Or his National Prayer Breakfast call to pray for Arnold Schwarzenegger's ratings on “The Apprentice”. Or his sermon to Liberty University students about the “two Corinthians.” Or his vow to keep “Merry Christmas in department stores, believe me.”White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told Christian Broadcasting Network that she believes God “wanted Donald Trump to become president”.We can't be certain that God didn't approach Donald, son of Fred, from a burning bush, and that Donald didn't tell God that in Finland “they spend a lot of time on raking … and they don't have any problem” with forest fires. Or that God didn't speak to Donald, as to Joshua outside Jericho, telling him the wall would fall, to which Donald replied, “Mexico is going to pay.”
God works in mysterious ways. But this much isn't at all mysterious: The president is acting as if he answers to nobody here in the mortal realm.
He isn't bound by the will of the Democratic House, saying he will build a wall regardless of what Congress wants: “Wall is already being built, I don't expect much help!”He isn't bound by the expertise of intelligence officials, even his own appointees, publicly calling them “extremely passive and naive” and saying they “should go back to school!”
He isn't bound by the actions of law enforcement, calling the actions of the FBI in arresting his friend Roger Stone “very, very disappointing” and worthy of investigation.
He isn't bound by national-security considerations; the Financial Times reported this week that he again met secretly with Putin in November, without staff or note-taker.
He isn't bound by the pretense of representing all Americans. His trade adviser, Peter Navarro, said this week that Trump's policies benefit “Trump people” (Navarro later tried to retreat).
And Trump isn't even bound by the wishes of fellow Republicans running the Senate. The Senate this week passed a measure by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (Republican-Kentucky) objecting to hasty withdrawals from Syria and Afghanistan, and only three Republicans sided with Trump's position.
It's encouraging to see McConnell take even a symbolic stand for democratic institutions, but he has been one of the biggest contributors to their destruction. This week he derided as a “power grab” a sweeping Democratic voting-rights and campaign-finance bill, ridiculing the idea of making Election Day a national holiday to boost voter participation.
In a democracy, the idea of people voting is not a power grab. A power grab is a president ignoring democratic checks, while his chief mouthpiece asserts that God is on his side.__________________________________________________________________________ • Dana Milbank is a nationally syndicated op-ed columnist. He also provides political commentary for various TV outlets, and he is the author of three books on politics: “Smashmouth: Two Years in the Gutter with Al Gore and George W. Bush” (Basic Books, 2001), the national bestseller “Homo Politicus: The Strange and Scary Tribes that Run Our Government” (Doubleday, 2008) and “Tears of a Clown: Glenn Beck and the Tea Bagging of America” (Doubleday, 2010). Milbank joined The Washington Post in 2000 as a Style political writer, then covered the presidency of George W. Bush as a White House correspondent before starting his column in 2005. Before joining The Post, Milbank spent two years as a senior editor at The New Republic, where he covered the Clinton White House, and eight years as a reporter with The Wall Street Journal, where he covered Congress and was a London-based correspondent. He has been honoured with the White House Correspodent Association's Beckman Award and the National Press Club's Gingras Prize. __________________________________________________________________________ Related to this topic: • VIDEO: Sarah Sanders: God wanted Trump to be president • Sarah Sanders tells Christian Broadcasting Network: God wanted Trump to be presidentwww.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-is-on-a-mission-from-god/2019/02/01/dc3a535a-2643-11e9-90cd-dedb0c92dc17_story.html
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Post by Occam's Spork on Feb 6, 2019 23:14:39 GMT 10
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Post by pim on Feb 8, 2019 15:20:59 GMT 10
And that's just for starters ...
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Post by Occam's Spork on Mar 10, 2019 0:02:11 GMT 10
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Post by Occam's Spork on Mar 29, 2019 23:14:43 GMT 10
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Post by KTJ on Mar 30, 2019 3:45:48 GMT 10
No he isn't.
He karked it more than two thousand years ago.
IDIOT!!
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Post by Occam's Spork on Mar 30, 2019 4:27:26 GMT 10
No he isn't. He karked it more than two thousand years ago. IDIOT!! Do you think you can bully me out of my beliefs by open displays of ignorance and name calling?
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Post by KTJ on Mar 30, 2019 4:34:38 GMT 10
Can you prove your god delusion is a real god?
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Post by pim on Mar 30, 2019 7:49:07 GMT 10
Ho hum. This guy is beyond boring.
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Post by KTJ on Mar 30, 2019 15:30:29 GMT 10
What's boring is religionists claiming their god is real over and over and over and over again just because some book written by savages says so, yet without any proof whatsoever.
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Post by pim on Mar 30, 2019 16:13:24 GMT 10
What is way way beyond boring and off into the nether world of Tedium Unlimited is dorks who waddle like atheists and quack like atheists but lack the integrity even to acknowledge that that’s what they are (and piss poor atheists at that) who come onto the Religion Board to spam the same old boring repetitive mantra. You have it word perfect Kay Tee Jay. Tell us do you have it pre-set so you just press a key and out it comes?
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Post by Occam's Spork on Mar 30, 2019 22:49:15 GMT 10
Can you prove your god delusion is a real god?
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Post by Occam's Spork on Apr 2, 2019 10:25:16 GMT 10
Quite right, Ktj. Your article didn't belong in the religious funnies board, so I removed it.
You are welcome.
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Post by Occam's Spork on Apr 4, 2019 3:44:31 GMT 10
Sorry Ktj, I just don't find anything funny about paedophilia. If you think putting it in the "religious funnies" thread is appropriate, you ought to be ashamed of yourself.
And yes, I don't agree with making light of such abuse, and I will do my do diligence by removing it from threads intended for levity.
Feel free to post it elsewhere. Post it here again, and I'll remove you, and it.
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Post by pim on Apr 4, 2019 5:57:26 GMT 10
KTJ is one of those children-in-an-adult’s-body who never gained or developed the adult insight that there are certain topics that you just don’t joke about.
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Post by Occam's Spork on Apr 4, 2019 9:37:18 GMT 10
I'm taking him to task. If he wants to kick dust at this ref, he's going to find himself booted from the game.
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Post by KTJ on Apr 4, 2019 9:52:00 GMT 10
You always KNOW a moderator has lost the plot when they use censorship to get their own way.
Basically, you are a typical example of why religionists are stupid morons.
You prefer to remove EVIDENCE of how religionists get off on sexually abusing kids rather than take responsibility for the sick minds of religionists.
The fact you do this causes me to wonder what you are hiding about yourself. Perhaps that article has pricked your conscience?
The sooner clowns like you stop stealing the oxygen breathed by worthy human beings, the better it will be for mankind.
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Post by pim on Apr 4, 2019 11:11:05 GMT 10
Don't tell me you're going to try on the discredited "freedom of speech" argument! Strewth mate get with the program! The Parliaments of both NZ and Australia have just been consumed with debate about this very topic in the aftermath of the disgraceful and shameful remarks by that racist Australian Senator Fraser Anning about the Christchurch massacre and mass murder. Have a look at the report of the debate in the Australian Senate and watch the short video clip of (Labor) Senator Penny Wong's remarks. Penny Wong is currently the Leader of the Opposition in the Australian Senate and I'm confident that by the end of May she'll be Leader of the Government in the Senate and Australian Foreign Minister in a Shorten Labor Government. Listen to the distinction Wong draws between "free" speech and "hate" speech. www.theguardian.com/global/video/2019/apr/03/penny-wong-condemns-fraser-anning-over-shameful-and-pathetic-christchurch-comments-video
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Post by pim on Apr 4, 2019 22:21:51 GMT 10
If you think freedom of speech includes the right to troll the board forever looking for something insulting to say about other members, or something destructive and nihilistic to say about a topical item of news, then you have completely missed, or failed miserably to understand what the prime minister of your country has been saying about hate speech and social media and the reaction of the parliaments of both your country and mine to the Christchurch massacre and its aftermath.
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Post by Occam's Spork on Apr 5, 2019 1:36:44 GMT 10
You always KNOW a moderator has lost the plot when they use censorship to get their own way. I wish my reality were as interesting as your false accusations imply. Do keep on, though-- I am finding it mildly amusing. A lion doesn't lose sleep over the opinions of sheep.
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