They certainly DID NOT build a country arround religious beliefs. "In god we trust" only got onto currency and buildings in the 1950s, after a bunch of religious retards decided they needed teh Jeebus to help fight against the 'evil god-less' Communist threat.
The US Christians aren't happy with allowing all religions the same treatment...witness the nutjobs braying about 'the war on christmas'. Oh now, the store wants to use a generic greeting to reach all shoppers...that's not OK, the USA is an Xian country and Xianity should be front and center.
Then I as a god-less person have the moral obligation to denonce any Religious crusade of force. Like the Iraq Occupation, perhaps? Or the atrocities committed in South America in the name of 'regional stability'? The USA is, after all, a 'Christian Nation' as I keep hearing despite the Founding Fathers being deists.
Or maybe the attempts to ensconce Christianity in United States law....yeah...that's definately a Christian crusade of force.
This time the 'others' are brown people who have a different, younger religion. The Christians got the murder out of their systems by the end of the crusades...but the Muslims are still taking part in their crusades. How can you denounce them, when the Christian Crusades are partially why Christianity is so wide-spread? Ah the hypocracy of religion.
Ah yes, the Republicans vote as they do because they suck at society. They can barely hang on as it is, but when changes keep happening the republican/conservatives find that their control slips...so they seek to prevent change.
Oh, and even if Republicans give 'more to charity', Democrats give more to the State. Democrats earn higher incomes, don't you know? I consider the state more worthy of my money than some biased charity anyway. The state funds the military which protects everyone, the state grants everyone equal rights.
I bet your Puritan ancestors loved bashing the papist English back in the day before they got kicked the fuck out of the country! Hell, even the DUTCH wouldn't take the Christers because those Christers didn't just want to worship in their own way...they wanted EVERYONE to worship in the that way.
So yeah, it's been cool to Bash Xians since 2000+ years ago. Fucking asshole cultists, the lot of you.
Why not just pull out the wheat-rules and discard the chaff? The Bible says that homosexuality is wrong. The Bible says to kill those who would attempt to convert you. I disagree with both these assertations, which is part of why I reject Christianity. I agree with you that most religions are simply old old old social rules codified. I just feel that one can extract the good ideas and leave the bad ones. There is too much bad baggage mixed in with the religions.
You're paying for the repositories of ignorance whether you believe or not: tax exemptions for religious organizations. The rest of us pick up the slack when a church doesn't pay property tax, or income tax.
We have LAWS to enforce order, are you proposing a return to the dark-ages? Take away religion and the laws kick in. Plus, laws can be modified in the case of new knowledge. Jeebus is Jeebus is Jeebus, which is why most religious people are also 'conservative'...they dislike change which exposes the flaws in their belief system.
Looks like I'll be nursing W2k for a while longer. Absolutely no interest in giving Microsoft money for this latest piece of shit. I'll buy a student OEM copy of the OS for likw $20 in a year anyway, just so I can have it.
(buy a gun for protection, 'martial arts' is a bunch of bullshit when I can knock you down with my car, pin you under the tire, and crush every joint in your body with a hammer.
The fat tubs of shit who voted for a war-mongering drunkard started the ball rolling. Many intelligent people were warning about Bush, his ties to industry, and his political ties to freaks who want to re-make the USA as an Imperial power of sorts.
Bush voters were swayed by fears of gays marrying and of terrorists blowing up some red-necks dirt-farm in ass-rape Nebraska. They failed to use their intelligence, and used their emotions. They should pay for these poor decisions.
Well that just goes to my theory that people like to feel 'special' and that they have common link with others...so they pick out a religion and you get instant friends who believe along with you that:
1) All other religions are lies, and the practicioners will be punished 2) You get to live on even if your body dies 3) There is a magical man who sees and knows all, can do anything, and loves you...but statistically won't do shit to help you out. 4) You get to look down on and 'feel sorry for' those who don't share your particular delusion about the universe. 5) You get a 'meaning for life', as if just existing and experiencing this crazy universe wasn't enough!
Selling something 'different', but not really any better? Appealing to vapid, a-technical 'artists' who want to feel different because of the material goods they own?
...as well as other ethnic minorities Saddam didn't like. Too bad they didn't find any WMDs that hadn't degraded to uselessness.
Don't forget the threat of 'yellow cake from Africa'! The Germans told us the informant was un-reliable but Bush took it to the State of the Union and told the country it was true.
Or the Al-Quieda ties...
I can only hope that every Bush voter has a friend or loved one maimed, murdered, or mutilated by the violence Bush stirred up in the Middle East with this unneeded war.
If your pussy race got kicked out or conquored by a stronger foe, you just deal with it. If the world starting carving out new countries for races of whiney people...who knows what kind of ugly conflict such arbitrary nation-building might initiate. The displaced people would probably hate the citizens of the 'new nation' and dedicate their lives to exterminating the assholes who took over THEIR LAND!
When the Federal Gov't re-distributes wealth from the richer liberal states to the poorer conservative states....it makes me sad. Aren't these 'rugged individualists' down in the violence and divorce centers of the nation supposed to be getting by 'on their own'? They demand that welfare be stripped back so they won't pay for lazy minorities...but there they are. My state only gets 63 cents per dollar contributed...some of these midwest and southern states get 1.20 or more for every buck contributed.
I think if the USA wants the world to accept it's demands, it had damn well better allow UN inspections of it's own nuclear doings.
But it doesn't.
This breeds discontent by other nations who feel they are being taken advantage, and red-neck white-trash fly-over fuck-wits who think 'might makes right' in internation politics (but, beat them down and take their cash and watch them cry to the police) support this arrogant and ill-fated foreign policy.
Simply put: If you believed Bush Jr. in 2003, you're a fucking idiot.
You'd risk the destruction of the only habitat that can sustain human life over the out-side chance that a measly Trillion Dollars could cure all the ills you listed?
We've already spent more than a Trillion Dollars (worldwide) fighting cancer, and so far, we've got nothin' Clean water for everyone sounds nice...where do all the removed toxins go? Somewhere else on earth so they eventually get into the water again?
Shit, even if we had that much money it'd be spent on a war or something instead. By the time the US is 'done' with Iraq, the bill will be about One Trillion Dollars. Which we don't have. Which (according to you) could have cured cancer and given everyone on earth clean water and linux. Even though the people might value clean water over a war of lies...their leaders won't.
"Opportunity costs"...pffft...who's being simplistic?
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They certainly DID NOT build a country arround religious beliefs. "In god we trust" only got onto currency and buildings in the 1950s, after a bunch of religious retards decided they needed teh Jeebus to help fight against the 'evil god-less' Communist threat.
The US Christians aren't happy with allowing all religions the same treatment...witness the nutjobs braying about 'the war on christmas'. Oh now, the store wants to use a generic greeting to reach all shoppers...that's not OK, the USA is an Xian country and Xianity should be front and center.
That's what I'm hearing.
They need to pay for blocking my line of sight.
When an SUV cuts me off, I call in the plate as a drunk driver. You should do the same!
SQL server has always been a second-rater in the big DB wars. DB2 and Oracle being the best. They should have stuck DB2 in there too...
A mature and amazingly extendable system that puts simple 'source code control' systems to shame.
;)
I love the plugin for Eclipse...I can do everything from within one IDE!
I wonder how IBMs development system compares to MS
Then I as a god-less person have the moral obligation to denonce any Religious crusade of force. Like the Iraq Occupation, perhaps? Or the atrocities committed in South America in the name of 'regional stability'? The USA is, after all, a 'Christian Nation' as I keep hearing despite the Founding Fathers being deists.
Or maybe the attempts to ensconce Christianity in United States law....yeah...that's definately a Christian crusade of force.
This time the 'others' are brown people who have a different, younger religion. The Christians got the murder out of their systems by the end of the crusades...but the Muslims are still taking part in their crusades. How can you denounce them, when the Christian Crusades are partially why Christianity is so wide-spread? Ah the hypocracy of religion.
Ah yes, the Republicans vote as they do because they suck at society. They can barely hang on as it is, but when changes keep happening the republican/conservatives find that their control slips...so they seek to prevent change.
Oh, and even if Republicans give 'more to charity', Democrats give more to the State. Democrats earn higher incomes, don't you know? I consider the state more worthy of my money than some biased charity anyway. The state funds the military which protects everyone, the state grants everyone equal rights.
I bet your Puritan ancestors loved bashing the papist English back in the day before they got kicked the fuck out of the country! Hell, even the DUTCH wouldn't take the Christers because those Christers didn't just want to worship in their own way...they wanted EVERYONE to worship in the that way.
So yeah, it's been cool to Bash Xians since 2000+ years ago. Fucking asshole cultists, the lot of you.
Why not just pull out the wheat-rules and discard the chaff? The Bible says that homosexuality is wrong. The Bible says to kill those who would attempt to convert you. I disagree with both these assertations, which is part of why I reject Christianity. I agree with you that most religions are simply old old old social rules codified. I just feel that one can extract the good ideas and leave the bad ones. There is too much bad baggage mixed in with the religions.
It's just low-class. Like that jack-ass who puts signs for his MLM 'home business' all over his car and house.
You're paying for the repositories of ignorance whether you believe or not: tax exemptions for religious organizations. The rest of us pick up the slack when a church doesn't pay property tax, or income tax.
We have LAWS to enforce order, are you proposing a return to the dark-ages? Take away religion and the laws kick in. Plus, laws can be modified in the case of new knowledge. Jeebus is Jeebus is Jeebus, which is why most religious people are also 'conservative'...they dislike change which exposes the flaws in their belief system.
Looks like I'll be nursing W2k for a while longer. Absolutely no interest in giving Microsoft money for this latest piece of shit. I'll buy a student OEM copy of the OS for likw $20 in a year anyway, just so I can have it.
Divine Inspiration doesn't exist. Never has been proven by the people who claim it exists.
Next.
You're dead.
(buy a gun for protection, 'martial arts' is a bunch of bullshit when I can knock you down with my car, pin you under the tire, and crush every joint in your body with a hammer.
The fat tubs of shit who voted for a war-mongering drunkard started the ball rolling. Many intelligent people were warning about Bush, his ties to industry, and his political ties to freaks who want to re-make the USA as an Imperial power of sorts.
Bush voters were swayed by fears of gays marrying and of terrorists blowing up some red-necks dirt-farm in ass-rape Nebraska. They failed to use their intelligence, and used their emotions. They should pay for these poor decisions.
Well that just goes to my theory that people like to feel 'special' and that they have common link with others...so they pick out a religion and you get instant friends who believe along with you that:
1) All other religions are lies, and the practicioners will be punished
2) You get to live on even if your body dies
3) There is a magical man who sees and knows all, can do anything, and loves you...but statistically won't do shit to help you out.
4) You get to look down on and 'feel sorry for' those who don't share your particular delusion about the universe.
5) You get a 'meaning for life', as if just existing and experiencing this crazy universe wasn't enough!
Selling something 'different', but not really any better? Appealing to vapid, a-technical 'artists' who want to feel different because of the material goods they own?
...as well as other ethnic minorities Saddam didn't like. Too bad they didn't find any WMDs that hadn't degraded to uselessness.
Don't forget the threat of 'yellow cake from Africa'! The Germans told us the informant was un-reliable but Bush took it to the State of the Union and told the country it was true.
Or the Al-Quieda ties...
I can only hope that every Bush voter has a friend or loved one maimed, murdered, or mutilated by the violence Bush stirred up in the Middle East with this unneeded war.
Many of the condemnations thrown against NK and Iran apply also to China. Yet we gladly trade with China, and impose economic snactions on the others.
These two nations don't seem all that different to me.
If your pussy race got kicked out or conquored by a stronger foe, you just deal with it. If the world starting carving out new countries for races of whiney people...who knows what kind of ugly conflict such arbitrary nation-building might initiate. The displaced people would probably hate the citizens of the 'new nation' and dedicate their lives to exterminating the assholes who took over THEIR LAND!
When the Federal Gov't re-distributes wealth from the richer liberal states to the poorer conservative states....it makes me sad. Aren't these 'rugged individualists' down in the violence and divorce centers of the nation supposed to be getting by 'on their own'? They demand that welfare be stripped back so they won't pay for lazy minorities...but there they are. My state only gets 63 cents per dollar contributed...some of these midwest and southern states get 1.20 or more for every buck contributed.
I think if the USA wants the world to accept it's demands, it had damn well better allow UN inspections of it's own nuclear doings.
But it doesn't.
This breeds discontent by other nations who feel they are being taken advantage, and red-neck white-trash fly-over fuck-wits who think 'might makes right' in internation politics (but, beat them down and take their cash and watch them cry to the police) support this arrogant and ill-fated foreign policy.
Simply put: If you believed Bush Jr. in 2003, you're a fucking idiot.
You'd risk the destruction of the only habitat that can sustain human life over the out-side chance that a measly Trillion Dollars could cure all the ills you listed?
We've already spent more than a Trillion Dollars (worldwide) fighting cancer, and so far, we've got nothin'
Clean water for everyone sounds nice...where do all the removed toxins go? Somewhere else on earth so they eventually get into the water again?
Shit, even if we had that much money it'd be spent on a war or something instead. By the time the US is 'done' with Iraq, the bill will be about One Trillion Dollars. Which we don't have. Which (according to you) could have cured cancer and given everyone on earth clean water and linux. Even though the people might value clean water over a war of lies...their leaders won't.
"Opportunity costs"...pffft...who's being simplistic?
Exploits from 2003 and 2004? You've had 2 years to patch your systems. Don't cry.