'The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'-Ronald Reagan
'The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.' Ronald Reagan
'Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.'- Ronald Reagan
'I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress.' - Ronald Reagan
'The taxpayer: That's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.' - Ronald Reagan
'Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.' - Ronald Reagan
'The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program.' Ronald Reagan
'It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.' - Ronald Reagan
'Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it' - Ronald Reagan
'Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed, there are many rewards; if you disgrace yourself, you can always write a book.' - Ronald Reagan
'No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is as formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.'- Ronald Reagan
'If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under.'- Ronald Reagan
"One can not convert a man who is unwilling to be converted. For religion is a business, you can no more make a man enjoy xtiananity over atheism than make a Chevrolet driver like a ford..."
"True wisdom comes by choosing a wise battle, If ones strategy is to continue to run head first into a stone wall, it is a foregone conclusion you will not win the war!"
I said unto the Atheists about waging war with xtians,
"The atheist general uses stratagem to lure the enemy force into a canyon and strikes with a few men from above, this is how to defeat superstition."
I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees, Christmas trees. I don't feel threatened. I don't feel discriminated against. That's what they are, Christmas trees.
It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry Christmas' to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it.It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year. It doesn't bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu . If people want a creche, it's just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hun dred yards away.
I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don't think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no idea where the concept came from, that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution and I don't like it being shoved down my throat.
Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship celebrities and we aren't allowed to worship God as we understand Him? I guess that's a sign that I'm getting old, too. But there are a lot of us who are wondering where these celebrities came from and where the America we knew went to.
In light of the many jokes we send to one another for a laugh, this is a little different: This is not intended to be a joke; it's not funny, it's intended to get you thinking.
Billy Graham's daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her 'How could God let something like this happen?' (regarding Hurricane Katrina). Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response. She said, 'I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives. And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to g ive us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?'
In light of recent events... terrorists attack, school shootings, etc. I think it started when Madeleine Murray O'Hare (she was murdered, her body found a few years ago) complained she didn't want prayer in our schools, and we said OK. Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school. The Bible says thou shalt not kill; thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself. And we said OK.
Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our children when they misbehave, because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem. We said an expert should know what he's talking about. And we said okay. (Dr. Spock's son committed suicide)
Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.
Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out. I think it has a great deal to do with 'WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.'
Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world's going to hell. Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says. Funny how you can send 'jokes' through e-mail and they spread like wildfire, but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing. Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace.
Are you laughing yet?
Funny how when you forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you're not sure what they believe, or what they will think of you for sending it.
Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of us than what God thinks of us.
Pass it on if you think it has merit.
If not, then just discard it... no one will know you did. But, if you discard this thought process, don't sit back and complain about what bad shape the world is in..
If you're a prude and like a boring life then heaven is the place for you
if you like adventure, excitement, pleasure and anything the heart desires (greed a sin) Then come join us here in hell, where the real party is.... Wooo Hooo Beer and Sluts don't go to heaven! Yeah rock n' roll
Another question you can't answer, so if you think that's the most amazing book ever written, would a Mormon think that?
NO.
Would a Muslim think so? NO
Does a Mormon or Muslim as an example pray to the same god as you? You still can't answer that one question of why do other religions practice differently (sometimes RADICALLY different) and are they praying to the same god as you pray?
A fifth grader could probably tell me...... same god, different god?? I would like to know. lol
Sorry, getting off track.... K back to the story.... So the ALL KNOWING GOD see's that the ONE SINGLE MAN he created was lonely in his paradise right?
K hold on for one sec..... I have a question!!!!
If God was all knowing why didn't he just make 2 people from the beginning like he made the 2 of each animal? I mean God should've known Adam was going to be lonely before he was actually lonely right???..... Okay nevermind, moving along in the story...........
Okay so anyways God took 1 or 2 of Adam's ribs and creates Eve..... Then he tell's them both they can live forever in paradise as long as they don't partake in a forbidden fruit....
So anyways God leave's them alone for awhile right? But apparently from what I've heard Eve wandered off, and somehow started talking to a SNAKE??? K I won't even ask.........
Anyways somehow this woman is convinced to eat from the tree that God told her not too right? Again I have to ask he is an ALL KNOWING GOD RIGHT???? So why did he create this tree and temptation and give a choice to them, if he is ALL KNOWING and already KNEW the outcome.... Hmmm strange, but I'll still buy it..........
Anyways Eve convinces Adam to eat from the tree too right? And then God get's pissed and throws them out of the garden, makes them wear clothes and takes away their eternal life, right? And from this we get what "us" Christians call ORIGINAL SIN..... FROM THE ALL KNOWING GOD.......
Okay so that's way at the beginning of the bable let's skip ahead to the new testament where this cool hippy named Jesus shows up....
Okay so from what I've been told and read in the bable, it says apparently this liberal hippy was born of a virgin mother and God was his father..... But also him.......... ???????.........
Anyways in the bable we hear about the first part of this liberal tree hugger's life....... But then for some reason 13-18 years of this guy's life is missing from the bable......... Wow he must've been smokin that killah marijuana and getting down with some crazy persian girlies..... Wait sorry I forgot he lived his life with 12 guys and 1 hooker whom none of them thought of or had any attraction too............. Let me rephrase that.... He must've been smoking the killah marijuana and getting down with 12 crazy Jewish men.....
Anyways let's go back to THE ORIGINAL SIN FROM THE ALL KNOWING GOD, WHO'S ALSO HIS OWN SON.......... So anyways when finally hear back in the bable from this crazy liberal tree hugging socialist hippy apparently he performs a few magic tricks and David Blane style illusions and gain quite the fan base.... But for some reason no one documents it for at least 60 years after he died............
Anyways for some reason one of his 12 boyfriends get's jealous and tells the Jewish high priest, who tells Augustus Ceaser.... The Ceaser gives the commands to have him executed right???
Okay Am I pretty accurate so far? Thanks! I thought so!
So some guards come and take the hippy away..... They lock him up blah blah blah..... They torture him blah blah blah..... Then he has a last meal or something, and tells his followers that he will come back and it's his choice to sacrifice himself to wash away THE ORIGINAL SIN FROM THE ALL KNOWING GOD WHO"S ALSO HIS OWN SON(even the Ceaser the one who gave the word to execute him hmmm)
Anyways they pin his ass on a cross....... And he dies...... And comes back to life 3 days later and rises in to heaven BLAH BLAH BLAH............ Okay, so he has to die for me? Because of sin, that his father (who's also himself) created from a tree that he didn't want the first 2 people to eat from, even though he knew they were going to eat from it anyways...... And to know this saves peoples souls.... So we can live forever in heaven.......... And if not we'll go to hell as a gift from the ALL KNOWING, ALL MIGHTY, ALL POWERFUL, ALL LOVING GOD????
Okay Christians, lets hear how the science of heaven and hell works.......
What do you need to see? That's right! You need eyes! What do you need to translate what your EYES see into logic, knowledge and understanding? Right again you need a Brain.... What else does the brain do?....... Take your time with this one because it's a multi-answer question......... You got it my smart friend, the brain takes in and controls information from the rest of the body consciously and unconsciously (breathing, heart function, neurological activity, ect)
Okay so my question to you guys to really test your faith, is how is it possible to see or feel heaven without a brain, eyes, nerves, and a body..... All neurological pain and pleasure are completely derived from the brain...... So how are you to feel the happiness of heaven, and SEE God, or feel the fire and torture of hell without these functions?
I've heard the explanation... "When you die your soul becomes a conscious cloud or form of energy"....WTF????
How can you become a conscious form of energy? Consciousness is a very complicated process of hormones, chemical balances and embalences, as well as neurological and electrical activity that takes place where????? THAT'S RIGHT MY BUDDY! In the BRAIN!!!!!
No one knows what day Jesus
Christ was born on. From the biblical description, most historians believe that his birth probably occurred in September, approximately six months after Passover. One thing they agree on is that it is very unlikely that Jesus was born in December, since the bible records shepherds tending their sheep in the fields on that night. This is quite unlikely to have happened during a cold Judean winter. So why do we celebrate Christ’s birthday as Christmas, on December the 25th?
The answer lies in the pagan origins of Christmas. In ancient Babylon, the feast of the Son of Isis (Goddess of Nature) was celebrated on December 25. Raucous partying, gluttonous eating and drinking, and gift-giving were traditions of this feast.
In Rome, the Winter Solstice
was celebrated many years before the birth of Christ. The Romans called their winter holiday Saturnalia, honoring Saturn, the God of Agriculture. In January, they observed the Kalends of January, which represented the triumph of life over death. This whole season was called Dies Natalis Invicti Solis, the Birthday of the Unconquered Sun. The festival season was marked by much merrymaking. It is in ancient Rome that the tradition of the Mummers was born. The Mummers were groups of costumed singers and dancers who traveled from house to house entertaining their neighbors. From this, the Christmas tradition of caroling was born
In northern Europe, many other traditions that we now consider part of Christian
worship were begun long before the participants had ever heard of Christ. The pagans of northern Europe celebrated the their own winter solstice, known as Yule. Yule was symbolic of the pagan Sun God, Mithras, being born, and was observed on the shortest day of the year. As the Sun God grew and matured, the days became longer and warmer. It was customary to light a candle to encourage Mithras, and the sun, to reappear next year.
Huge Yule logs were burned in honor of the sun. The word Yule itself means “wheel,” the wheel being a pagan symbol for the sun. Mistletoe was considered a sacred plant, and the custom of kissing under the mistletoe began as a fertility ritual. Hollyberries were thought to be a food of the gods.
The tree is the one symbol that unites almost all the northern European winter solstices. Live evergreen trees were often brought into homes during the harsh winters as a reminder to inhabitants that soon their crops would grow again. Evergreen boughs were sometimes carried as totems of good luck and were often present at weddings, representing fertility. The Druids used the tree as a religious symbol, holding their sacred ceremonies while surrounding and worshipping huge trees.
In 350, Pope Julius I declared that Christ’s birth would be celebrated on December 25. There is little doubt that he was trying to make it as painless as possible for pagan Romans (who remained a majority at that time) to convert to Christianity
. The new religion went down a bit easier, knowing that their feasts would not be taken away from them.
Christmas (Christ-Mass) as we know it today, most historians agree, began in Germany, though Catholics and Lutherans still disagree about which church celebrated it first. The earliest record of an evergreen being decorated in a Christian celebration was in 1521 in the Alsace region of Germany. A prominent Lutheran minister of the day cried blasphemy: “Better that they should look to the true tree of life, Christ.”
I have realized in my 20+ years of freedom from the tyranny of religion that you can't save those who are unwilling to be saved! Lets use that free spirit and keen intellect to do something good and throw the xtian bums out of government!
All it takes is supporting H.R 450 first... That is a bill that requires a comparison to the constitution before a bill can go to vote. This would kill every religious based bill out there!
'To defeat ones foe, one must know the doctrine of the foe, one must know the rules of engagement before engaging in war, only then can one be victorious!"
To the "context" of the bible... If the "context" has remained the same for the ages; how do you explain the fact that the catholic bible and the protestant bible do not have the same number of chapters?