F*&%K your "religious freedom." Don't tell me that what you believe is "TRUE." It's just what you believe. And that's a FACT.

Someone with wisdom once said that the most important thing to know is the difference between what you KNOW and what you only THINK you know. (Many other people with just as much wisdom said the most important thing to know was something else. Another time for that.)

And it doesn't matter how many other people who also don't know anything also BELIEVE -- it's not only not necessarily so -- there's no way to know if it is or isn't.

First of all, people of all points of view -- including those very much aligned with mine -- seem to not have a clue that there's a difference between TRUTH and FACTS.

Every public babbler from the far Right side of Rush Limbaugh to the far Left of Ed Schultz, keeps insisting he or she speaks TRUTH.
(Limbaugh doesn't even speak FACTS -- he makes them up to please his narrative and never changes his insistence that THEY'RE TRUE, regardless of other facts proving them incorrect. He's not the only one and they're not ALL on the Right.)

But TRUTH?

TRUTH, like GOD, is a concept no one can prove or disprove.

Atheist or Pope -- no one can prove that what he or she believes is actually true.They can line up a big load of facts -- real ones, spurious ones, factoids -- doesn't matter -- you can pile up facts as high as an eagle flies --- FACTS do not add up to TRUTH. They're different things.

Apples do not add up to Oranges no matter how many you pile up.

Wondering if there IS or ISN'T a GOD is philosophical gymnastics at best but usually just mental masturbation and a waste of time.

NO ONE can actually ever know that answer, regardless of what he or she BELIEVES.
No one can ever prove it one way or another, and it doesn't matter.

A person -- observing his or her own process of mind might come to actually know what he or she BELIEVES and that it IS a BELIEF but not what IS or ISN'T.

I've noticed most people don't even believe in what they think they believe. Certainly not the religions they profess. Otherwise they'd actually practice what they preach. At best, they THINK they believe in it.

More often, they just like to think they believe, because they THINK that would mean one is a GOOD person. I recognize them -- it's kind of like when I look at my bookshelf and realize -- after a seriously intellectual book has sat there untouched for 5 years or more -- I just want to think I'm the sort of person who would read that of book, but I finally realized I'm not -- one more meaningless bit of pretense I can drop.

(There's something to be learned there, so it's not a total waste. For example, it makes me recognize Newt Gingrich for the intellectual-manque poseur he is and to recognize all the people who remark on how smart he is for the gullible schmucks they are. This year, that's a valuable thing to be able to see. Because I pretended to be the person I wanted to think I am long enough to read some of those books and recognized that he not only takes the quote out of context and THEN misquotes it, he didn't understand what was being said to start with. This is something I first noticed he was doing way back when he was misquoting and misunderstanding Alvin Toffler. And as I freely admit, I may be clever from time to time, but I'm not all that intelligent and certainly nothing like an actual intellectual.)

Back to the God-floggers.*

I don't know whether or not I believe in a God or a Not-God. NOT whether or not there is one -- just whether or not I believe in such a thing.
(My wife tagged this as being a "self-agnostic," and that's as useful a label as any.)
And, like computer solitaire or, even better, Freecell, it is interesting to me to notice, as time goes on, clues to how I think.

It's no use to ask those people -- those absolutely positively no doubt at all people
"Do you actually KNOW that?"
"Of course I know it.""How?"
"Because it's true."
"How do you know it's true?"
"Because I know it."

--At which point it's best to stop, because after that, they get violent.

Hell, I flunked Logic in college, and the fallacy in that little feedback loop is even obvious to me.
(I prefer to think my F was because it was an 8AM class and I just stopped going.)

So I beseech you all -- from Melissa Harris-Perry who is newly-added to Rachel Maddow in my pantheon of those I worship as Goddesses of Facts, History, Social Philosophy and Cultural Anthropology and all the way to Glenn Beck who is .. well, I have no idea what he is --- all of you -- PLEASE PLEASE learn and respect the difference between FACTS and TRUTH.

Journalists -- from the best to the worst, do FACTS.
(The best know this. It's the WORST who insist they're doing TRUTH.)

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*God-floggers, as distinct from those my wife refers to as "God-grifters.' The floggers sell what they believe or think they believe. The grifters sell what they want YOU to believe and pay them for the privilege.)

Catholic Bishops complain their "religious liberty" is harmed by their need to obey the laws of the land

Yeah, well as long as that liberty includes raping small children and then blaming the uproar on the Jews (see below) -- as long as it includes paying NO taxes thereby making the rest of us pay for their buildings and costumes and jewelry,  as long as it includes a total lack of respect for other people's beliefs and the arrogance to assume they have the right to point fingers and threaten their hell --- F$%K 'em.

The constitution allow them to PRACTICE their religion. It DOES NOT say they can do a psychic assault on people who are practicing THEIR OWN .. or NONE AT ALL.

 It ALSO doesn't say that congress CAN MAKE LAWS respecting establishment of religion -- and these days, a lot of us are thinking -- "HEY DOESN'T THAT MEAN YOU CAN"T HAVE LAWS EXEMPTING THEM FROM PAYING TAXES. 

TAX THE CHURCHES!!!

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Bishop Giacomo Babini blames Jews for attacks on Pope

A retired Italian bishop has provoked fury by reportedly suggesting that “Zionists” are behind the current storm of accusations over clerical sex abuse shaking the Vatican and the Catholic Church. Monsignor Giacomo Babini, the Bishop Emeritus of Grossetto, was quoted by the Italian Roman Catholic website Pontifex as saying he believed a “Zionist attack” was behind the criticism of the Pope, given that it was “powerful and refined” in nature.
Bishop Babini denied he had made any anti-Semitic remarks. He was backed by the Italian Bishops Conference (CEI), which issued a declaration by Bishop Babini in which he said: “Statements I have never made about our Jewish brothers have been attributed to me.”
However, Bruno Volpe, who interviewed Monsignor Babini for Pontifex, confirmed that the bishop had made the statement, which was reported widely in the Italian press today. Pontifex threatened to release the audio tape of the interview as proof.

Monsignor Babini’s reported comments follow a series of statements from senior Vatican cardinals blaming a “concerted campaign” by “powerful lobbies” for accusations that Pope Benedict XVI was involved in covering up cases of clerical abuse both as Archbishop of Munich from 1977 to 1982 and subsequently as head of doctrine at the Vatican.
None has explicitly blamed Jews or any other group. However Bishop Babini, 81, said Jews “do not want the Church, they are its natural enemies”. He added: “Deep down, historically speaking, the Jews are deicides [God killers].”
He was quoted as saying that Hitler was “not just mad” but had exploited German anger over the excesses of German Jews who in the 1930s had throttled the German economy.

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So does stealing the dead souls of others qualify as theft? Is that a Mormon tradition, theft?

They posthumously converted Elie Wiesel and now beheaded journalist Daniel Pearl.

These people have no decency at all ... no respect for other people's sensibilities or beliefs. 

So they stole the land from the Native Americans -- the Utes, but wottehell -- that's just good old American tradition, right?

Then they set up a way station around the Salt Lake taking what they wanted from pioneers on their way to California. Mostly scavenging what they travelers had dropped as too cumbersome to carry any farther. 

Nothing wrong with that, right? 

Just good old American entrepreneurship, right?

And they sold those things to others on their way -- mercantile tradition, right?

Or sometimes, if the travelers didn't care to dump their goods, they would steal them outright, even to the point of mass murder (as in the Mountain Meadow Massacre).

And now we see Mitt Romney, who made his fortune stealing jobs from workers and pension funds from their companies.

And then, of course, the whole godforsaken church stole the civil liberties from an entire class of Californians, overturning the legal right of same-sex marriage with their odious Proposition 8 -- using a campaign so filled with lies ("Elementary school children will be forced to study gay life styes..") that a full 22% of the people who voted FOR Prop 8 -- waay more than the winning margin -- said that had they known the actual facts, they never would have voted for it.

And now we get super thief Mitt Romney, a candidate who is unwilling to address questions about the "White Horse" ideal -- that it is their destiny to "save" the USA as intended by Joe Smith  ("...when the constitution is hanging by a thread..." SUPER MORMON will ride in on a White Horse and save America... as a Mormon-controlled theocracy.)

And stealing non-Mormon souls for posthumous baptism gets them Brownie points to enrich their own afterlife. Of course, the zombie converts will always be second-class spirits and only get a second-rate heaven -- those who "followed the law of Moses" go to the Terrestrial (Middle) Kingdom. So it's the usually-skipped verse in When the Saints Go Marching in --- "When the last Jew's converted..." (That's when they get the goodie bags.)

(The Highest Heaven -- the Celestial Kingdom is for God and those who followed his -- Mormon -- law. Kind of like afterlife Hamptons. The children of Moses get something like Levittown.)

I don't know if the lynch mob knew this sort of thing as part of what prompted them to come after Joe Smith. I don't know if this was what he had in mind, because -- to be fair -- it's important to note that NONE of Smith's descendants are part of the Salt Lake City mob that call themselves Mormon. Maybe they feel as much antipathy to them as I do -- or more, since it defames them directly.

But it's enough for me when I see the young cult-kids at my front door with their white shirts and black name tags, stealing my time, presumptuously following orders by assuming the person behind the doorbell has never thought about spiritual matters and has been waiting all his life for some pimply-faced adolescents to feed him a line of sadistic science fiction.

It's enough for me to open the door with a smile and greet the young god-mongers saying:

"Get the fuck off my porch. Your people have already caused enough pain to my neighbors."  

(Although sometimes I remember Sweet Billy, a stage-hand I used to work with, how he would have said, chiding me quietly for getting too far into the Big Bad Stage Manager Role: "Oh, be KIND -- they're so young ... and they're such a CUTE couple."  And if I'm in a good enough mood, I might add an observation from someone they probably never heard of -- Oscar Wilde):

"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking others to live as one wishes to live. So now -- PLEASE get the fuck off my porch."
                                               
 

Brokered Republican convention? They select Chris Christie as Candidate?

 

A friend predicted this possibility today, the morning of the Michigan and Arizona State Republican Presidential primaries ... and ...

 

Well, yeah, but I think Christie won't do it, even aside from the fact that he can't get elected since he's even fatter than I am and gets short of breath just wiping his butt -- it's gonna be some 10-20 years till our obesiate electorate would vote for a fat guy ---  aside from that, he's smart enough to know what Romulus and Re-bop don't -- no one is going to beat Obama this year.

 

They (R's) keep looking back at 2008 to fantasize how an extended debate season between two candidates is a good thing -- overlooking the fact that in 2008, either of the two would have made a very good president, and all the Dems understood that, which was why the indecision. 

 

The R's don't seem to understand that the debates are dragging on because they don't have ANYONE who could actually be a president (except maybe Jon Huntsman whom they disposed of immediately, since this was going to be a masturbatory death match suicide pact). What they have is fantasists and lynch-mob exhorters.

 

They also seem to be thinking of 1992 when all the hot prospect Dems -- Sam Nunn, etc -- backed off from running because NO ONE could beat old Number 92% approval rating, not after he buried 100,000 Iraqi soldiers alive in only 100 hours even tho it was a completely jive setup where he faked Saddam Hussein into attacking Kuwait by (1) telling Saddam we "have no interest in arab-vs-arab conflict," i,e we have nothing to say if you go into Kuwait because (2) "they are stealing my oil" using slant drilling equipment sold to them (Kuwait) by Stansfield Turner's Santa Fe Oil Company and then (3) convincing the Saudi princes of the total bullshit prospect that Saddam was planning to invade them (anyone with a smidgeon more military knowledge than watching Rambo movies or playing Risk had to realize no way, no how, wasn't going to happen...

 

BUT it allowed President 41 to do what the whole charade was about -- put an American military base in the Middle East, on what Osama Ben Ladn -- returning home to get finance to invade Iraq because he despised Saddam as a disgrace to Islam who let women drive cars and wear dresses --  Ben Ladn saw as an outrage, defiling "OUR SACRED SOIL!" thereby leading to his promise of jihad (literally "drive out the invaders").

 

And we know how THAT turned out -- saw it on TV on September 11, 2001.Thank you, Bush pere et fils (Because they thought it was pere with a facelift.)

 

Which is why Bill Clinton ran and won, cuz the dem biggies believed no one could overcome that 92% and now the Republicans keep thinking they can do the same, not realizing that they don't have anyone who is a political genius like Bill Clinton EITHER running or not running. 

And even then -- Obama's 4 years are not total bullshit do-nothing but sit in the big chair like Poppy Bush did. (0h right -- he DID introduce an anti-flag burning amendment, my mistake.) 

 

The R's seem to have set a new standard in self-deception. 

 

Even the political press -- the towel-boys of the No-Tell Motel Rave that is this endless repub primary season -- even they can't keep a straight face -- CNN, MSNBC, FOX, ABC, etc -- have been willing to let the laugh come through at the prospect that there's anyone in playground fight that can be seen as vaguely presidential, even squinting and covering one eye. Even admitting that they hope the cage death match these guys are doing goes on because it's good for their ratings.

 

The smarter, more realistic Repubs (if that's not a contradiction in terms) are hoping Santorum wins it because they realize the only way for them to have an actual political party again -- as distinct from this Kindergarten free-for-all  ("He apologized to the Arabs for burning their holy books! Ha Ha -- they made him flinch! He's a traitor!") --is for them to go down in monstrous defeat (thereby allowing our President to have a kick ass majority in both houses) and to stop jerking themselves off with the Tea Party.

 

Of course, I can only hope, by that time, we will have actual single payer and a WPA/CCC style infrastructure repair situation -- roads, bridges, schools, national parks, etc -- with 10 -20 million people on the job to stop the physical USA from doing a total Gormenghast.

 

But that's just a thought....

 

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AND so -- after going for my morning rant (above) -- some people go to the gym, or run, or jog.. I rant -- gets the blood flowing...

 

I turn on the news to see all the pretty horses vying for votes (MSNBC, favorite of nasty leftists, anarcho-syndicalists, and such like me) and what do I get?

 

Coverage of a skinny little Timothy McVeigh wannabe who shot a couple people (schoolkids)  in Ohio. 

 

They, the "OMG -- I'm on NETWORK, not just local news WOHO! Big Break!" journalists keep asking each other "Why did he do it?" 

 

For the love of Christ, Moses, Buddha, and Krishna -- do these people ever come up with new questions? 

 

I've BEEN in Ohio.*

 

I don't have to ask why someone who's stuck there would be getting a homicidal itch.

 

I don't want to see some smalltime midwest gunslinger... I want to see BIGTIME homicidal maniacs -- total psychos who are deep into acting out Lenny Bruce's defined "flop sweat" -- fear-gripped losers pulling out every desperate trick in the book -- who actually would rather have some other guys invade Iran and kill MILLIONS, rather than lose the job interview.

 

I want  to see BIGTIME sociopaths like Newt Gingrich publicly taunt Afghanis who are protesting the American military burning their holy book.

 

"Stop yelling and go back to your pathetic lives."

 

Now THERE'S a man who knows how to stir up a lynch mob.

 

(Ahh, what a wonderful thing religion is. Even when the books are burned accidentally. Right. accidentally and if you believe that...)

 

So I say "I don't want to see this creepy little pezzonovante." (the Ohio shooter, not Newt Gingrich, another one who imagines himself to be something big time).

 

But, they say, "He killed schoolchildren."

 And I can only paraphrase Wm Goldman's wonderful Princess Bride -- a line delivered by Vizzini (played by Wallace Shawn in the movie but not delivered there -- only appears in the book) when Fezzick objects to an order ("I don't like killing a woman.")

 

In this case, the networks say: "But he killed schoolchidren"

and I can only paraphrase Vizzini's retort:

 "So what. God kills thousands of them every day. I want to see the REAL demons -- the ones who crawled out of the 9th circle of hell."

 

I want to see Mitt cry and Santorum run screaming through the streets of Hamtramck screaming "I'M NOT A SNOB. ELECT ME!." 

(A snob? Has anyone used that term in the last 50 years?).

I want to see Newt search is memory for a tired old plagiarized quotes to explain this.

And Ron Paul just being whatever it is he might be.

 

I want to see Mitt pretend he knows who Kid Rock is, when he introduces him.

(Ahh, ok, they just ran that tape.)

 

And for dredging up a quote to pretend I'm really smart, here's one from Charles Bukowski, someone who was:

 

"Wars, politics, causes --  for thousands of years, we've wound up with a sack of shit. It's time we learned to think."                                  

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*As my wife reminded me, it's February in Ohio, and the observation made many years ago by Mike Robbins, originally said about Philadelphia in February, is applicable to Ohio in February as well:

 

"It has that certain nothing."

 

Things That Make me Wonder About Mitt Romney's Fitness as President #4,374

He's severely COVERT about his religion and how much of a role it would play.
Why won't he speak openly about it?
Is he ashamed of being LDS?
Is he hiding an agenda?
Why won't he repudiate the Mormon invasion of California to take away legal rights from gay people with their $20 million financing and army of 10,000 young mission robots?
 
This quote gives me pause:

"Any people attempting to govern themselves

 by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God"

   Orson Pratt, 19th Century Mormon Theologian, stating a Principle

    the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints has never repudiated

His complete refusal to address any of the questions being asked (such as the White Horse story, etc) is really really worrisome.

So Darrell Issa, semi-successful car thief, tells a woman she can't testify before a congressional panel on women's health -- only men -- no girls allowed.

ISSA -- total scumbag --- three strikes on Grand Theft Auto and he should be out, but instead, he's out here,  having finagled his way out of felony prosecution -- one of them one of them federal, when he was in the Army and stole a car from an Army base. Add to that, an unregistered gun, and blah blah blah.

And then he used his intimate family knowledge of car theft (he and his brother -- both GTA veterans) to get amazingly rich by inventing a car alarm, so loud and obnoxious that, even though it was legal, he should have been tarred and feathered for it -- that was HIS voice, the one we could hear 9 blocks away at 4AM sternly shouting "STEP AWAY FROM THE CAR!"  

A crook. A small-time crook who graduated to become a BIG TIME crook --- so good at getting away as a thief, even when he's caught, now he's a congressman (BIG TIME theft).

To be fair, he's very smart, smart enough to blind 'em with bullshit when he gets caught.

Today, he chaired a panel on women's health as it concerns contraception.

All men.

And then refused to allow a woman who was present to testify about women's health effects, including women who need to use the contraception, not to prevent pregnancy, but to keep their reproductive system from disease.

Oh he was fair -- one of the men on the all-male panel was a rabbi.
But no women allowed to testify about what such things mean to a woman's health.

He's always been a nasty vicious low level subhuman scumbag, but today, he set a new low, even for him.

He's a congressman, meaning up for election every 2 years, like this year -- California's 49th District -- northern San Diego County, Southern Riverside County -- includes Temecula, Perris, Fallbrook, andf the US Marine bases at Oceanside and Camp Pendleton, etc.

Women Marines, take note and vote.
Male Marines -- not like you don't have an interest in this, too.

Rick Santorum is worried about emotional stuff if women are in combat...

To be fair, he wasn't saying or even implying that "Women are too emotional."

He was talking about men's emotions leading to sexual assault -- rape.

He even mentioned that some of them thar bad things are already happening.

It was just his inability to talk about things involving sex that made it so murky.

BUT -- a solution is at hand!

Allow women to serve in combat, but only in all-gay battalions.

(All-male ones, of course. That way, sexually, the women will be safer from male soldiers than if they're serving on a base back home.)

Of course, Santorum will have to do something about the all-gay platoons.

He knows what can happen (so he says) --
Gotta protect the puppy dogs or the SPCA will be on his case.

Glenn Greenwald -- totally misses the point

Progressive Hypocrisy


Glenn Greenwald

A new poll shows deep support among liberals for the very Bush/Cheney policies they once pretended to despise

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Sorry Glenn -- your total inability to see what's actually going on is the kind of lack of understanding what's happening that ALLOWED the Bush and Cheney sociopaths to run amok and plunder the treasury.

In Salon, he's as head-up-his-ass theoretically dogmatic looking at the wrong facts and missing the point as Ron Santorum or the late unlamented Meier Kahane.

It's like someone said when Obama first came in -- the white boys party party party party and trash the frat house and in the morning, they pay some black guy to come in and clean up their mess.


Here's the response I made to the Greenwald article:


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It wasn't the Bush/Cheney POLICIES we despised so much as the Bush/Cheney contempt for the public, the law, and any sense of decency. Their policies were purely based on tough-guy posturing and plundering of the US Treasury to give BILLIONS to their pals, especially the Halliburton people who were STILL paying off Cheney. We realized that his sock puppet, Bush, didn't even understand the words provided for him -- just mouthed the script.

The difference is the fact that we can feel relatively confident that Obama and his administration have actually THOUGHT ABOUT taking actions appropriate to getting a desired result rather than actions appropriate to only enrich their buddies or convince people of monumental dick-size. 

We all screamed at Bush/Cheney to stop digging that hole. There were other options then. Obama had to start at the bottom of that hole and his options are much more limited. 

And even starting from down in the hole, Obama STILL finds it possible to use the diplomacy that was too hard (or too girlie) for Bush and Cheney to understand.

I still find it ruefully hilarious when a Republican candidate attacks Obama for non-action regarding Iran and says that what Obama SHOULD be doing is secret ops inside Iran and really doesn't seem to understand AT ALL that IF Obama was doing them and doing them right, he and we wouldn't know about it.

BUSH-CHENEY -- they wanted to be Rambo, never understanding there's a difference between a guard dog and a mad dog. Stallone played the latter. Bush and Cheney WERE the latter (mad dogs), even though both were really nothing more than Country Club patriots, talking tough at the bar, but too goddamn precious to actually serve, even though Bush wore the uniform for a little while before deserting rather than sticking around for the drug tests.

Obama -- more like Henry Fonda in 12 Angry Men having the intelligence and inclination to try to find the best possible solution to problems.

The problem with Bush and Cheney wasn't JUST that they were semi-psycho -- but that they were too dumb to do the job. With Obama we can feel some relief that we know the decisions we don't like are being made by someone with a brain.

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The Mormon Church feels discriminated against. Oh boo-hoo. How about the Golden Rule, fellows?

They think that people don't understand them (true) and that people view them with suspicion (true) and discriminate against them (also true).

I don't know how "Christian" the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day saints is -- I mean they've even got the old Jewish carpenter/philosopher in their name, so I'm hoping their dogma includes the Golden Rule -- "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you."

Most religions of the world include that.
Not such an exotic concept.
Tibetan Buddhism includes that and -- in the American religious community, they're pretty exotic ["Any way is a way as long as it includes 'Do as you would have done to you.' "]

And yet they cranked out $20 million to take away the legal rights of a group of people who are (1) largely misunderstood [why do they do what they do?], (2) viewed by many with suspicion [that insidious 'gay agenda'], and (3) are very much discriminated against [ Proposition 8 which took away from gay people in California the legal right to marry each other, financed with $20 million that came straight from the Church HQ in Utah, and driven by thousands of Mormon political volunteers]

So all I have to say to that is

"You feel discriminated against? Boo-fucking-hoo."

Just for the record, you also did the same to dark-skinned people until 1978 when the US Government threatened to take away your tax-exempt status unless you obeyed the law and allowed them into the church.

(I guess Money talks and Theological bullshit walks, eh?)

I'm not gay and I vote.
I was a registered Libertarian for more than 20 years -- and I vote.
 
So maybe y'all should decide whether or not you're actually Christians and then tell us about it.

Until then, I will agree -- which for me is the first time ever -- with the rabid Evangelical and Fundamentalist Christians and say "I will do whatever I can to keep any Mormon from EVER getting elected to ANYTHING"
(UNLESS, as y'all said about Muslims after 9-11, that person is willing to denounce such anti-Christian mean-spirited behavior by their church, openly and completely without excuses, conditions or reservations. Do that, and I'll consider that person "a GOOD Mormon.")

I stand with the great American writer, Herman Melville in this matter:

"I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody's religious obligations, never mind how comical,
and could not find it in my heart to undervalue even a congregation of ants worshipping a toad-stool...
"... I have no objection to any person's religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any other person, because that other person doesn't believe it also...
"But when a man's religion becomes really frantic; when it is a positive torment to him; and, in fine,
makes this earth of ours an uncomfortable inn to lodge in; then I think it high time to take that individual aside
and argue the point with him."

I respectfully suggest that point is now argued.

I posted this in 2007 about Mitt Romney's repulsive monster peeking out from behind his smile-mask, but I need to post it again.

12/10/07

Deists, Secularists, Agnostics and Atheists will be "taken care of" when Willard's in the Oval Office. Taoists and Buddhists and Muslims too!

In response to the wretchedly intolerant statement made by Willard "Mitt" Romney in the speech when he straight-faced the pretense that there was no difference in beliefs between the Mormons and the Christian Evangelicals (gee, Willard, tell us about the magic underwear). I present this.


(Romney decided that people who don't believe as he does are "secularists" AND that Secularism is a religion.

Maybe.

But when he declared that such a religion "IS WRONG," he went from weird to unacceptable and disqualified from being an elected official.

This is a man whose faith holds that he will become one of many gods in the next life, that he's a saint in this one, and that the Garden of Eden was in Missouri. I will not criticize that belief. I'm just pointing out that it's far enough out of the mainstream for any sensible follower to hold his tongue about denouncing someone else's beliefs.)


IF, as you said, SECULARISM is a religion, then who the fuck are you to say "It's wrong?"


You've gotten most of the cracks in your protective covering spackled this time around, Willard, but you seem to believe that just because YOU forgot a nasty comment you made, the rest of us have also.


All I can do is shout out -- like a true American -- your choice:

(1) A Constitutionally-based, hearty "FUCK YOU," and/or

(2) a classical "EAT SHIT AND DIE YOU HYPOCRITICAL MEALY-MOUTHED MENTALLY DISABLED INTOLERANT NAZI."


Or as the late John Lennon put it:


"One thing you can't hide
 Is when you're crippled inside."