Is God a Republican?
source: http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/undergod/2010/07/is_god_a_republican.html
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It seems that God has been speaking mostly to Republicans when it comes to the call to serve in public office.
In an interview posted at the Faith & Freedom coalition website, former Christian Coalition leader Ralph Reed asked Sharron Angle, who won Nevada's Republican Senate primary, about her rapid rise. Angle gave a spiritual answer to a political question:
Reed: Sharron, you really came, you know, maybe not out of nowhere, but from the back of the back of the pack to win the Republican primary here in Nevada. There's a new poll out this week that shows you leading Harry Reid by seven or eight points. How do you explain all of this? You're now a national story. Are you kind of overwhelmed by it all?
Sharon Angle: "Not really. I believe that God has been in this from the beginning and because of that, when he has a plan and purpose for your life and you fit into that what he calls you to, he's always equipped people."
God, if you believe His messengers, also spoke to Sarah Palin, George Bush and Norm Coleman, calling them to public office.
Should we take them at their word?
Like many religious people, some politicians view their vocations through a spiritual lens. But in a pluralistic society, how should we interpret these claims?
What other politicians or leaders have you seen claim divine endorsement? How do you interpret their beliefs? Is God a Republican after all?"
http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/undergod/2010/07/is_god_a_republican....
I once saw a bumper sticker that said "God is a conservative, Jesus is a liberal." How do people's religious views line up with their politics?
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letsliveinpeace
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Republican, think so.
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letsliveinpeace
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EmileZ [removed]
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I dunno, I like Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, there are many others. I would look at how the individual reconciles spiritual belief with service to humanity. Personally, I wish Dr. King and Malcolm X had taken more proactive steps to protect themselves for the long haul. I don't know if their faith had anything to do with their decisions not to be more careful.
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EmileZ [removed]
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kennymotown
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I believe they are mistaken, it's really Satan!
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kennymotown
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Haley35
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according to Fox news He is republican LOL
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Haley35
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Blkwdw
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No God is an Atheist who voted for the green party.
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Blkwdw
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BRAVATRAVELS
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If there was a God.. definitely a Republican close minded bigot with the believe of immortality and selfish, racist, judgmental, bias, homophobic,and full of hate...:D
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BRAVATRAVELS
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Haley35
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BRAVATRAVELS:
Just like Fox news!
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Haley35
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Ryuu88
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Goodness to think that cancer such as this can be voted up this much
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Ryuu88
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Nephwrack
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nope!
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Nephwrack
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bailey78
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Nephwrack:
Ah come on man put a little effort into it..
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bailey78
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bailey78
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We should all knell down an pray to the little black baby Jesus and ask for his forgivness.
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bailey78
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bailey78
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pertinacious:
RACIST? Aha haha ha ha ha ha aha
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BRAVATRAVELS
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bailey78:
Amen!!! wait but Jesus is white with blue eyes and pearl skin,,,Sorry! wrong God or something -_-
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BRAVATRAVELS
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bailey78
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BRAVATRAVELS:
No such thing as the wrong god.
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bailey78
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TomTucker
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If God were real he would not associate with any party, I would think he would be smarter then that.
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bike10
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To hear the late Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, James Dobson and compay only true Christians vote Republican. This is why I left the GOP in the 1970's when the GOP became God's Only Party.
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LIBERALCONJOB:
Yes that is a little odd considering I can't think of any atheist democrats in congress or the presidency yet they are always knocking christians.
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DeliaTheArtist
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TomTucker:
People are less likely to vote for atheists than any other "religious" type of affiliation:
http://atheism.about.com/od/atheistbigotryprejudice/a/AtheistSurveys.htm
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DeliaTheArtist
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bailey78
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So who all wants to get naked and go for a walk on the Beach?
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bailey78
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remanns
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bailey78:
Galveston ? Nah,....BLACK is beautiful and everything,......but I am staying away from the gulf for a while,....not a healthy relationship.
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remanns
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remanns:
Naa man I live further south by port aransas . the wife and i are going to walk the dogs when she gets home from work.
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bailey78
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bailey78
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If there is a GOD it is a sadist.
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bailey78
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bailey78:
nah,..........distracted. ( or an "absentee" parent ) or dislexic. or rude.
hmmmmm..........I think I would go with "IRONIC". Kurt Vonnegut is GOD.
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remanns
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bailey78
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remanns:
Well I know you would never lie to me so it must be true Kurt Vonnegut is God Then. So be it.
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bailey78
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remanns
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IDEA------ ( in the "current" uni verse )
unimatrix0 is god,...and jj is the anti-christ. This eternal opposition explains ALL the "current" problems. God doesnt believe in itself,.....but is pretty sure it wants to crucify the "false prophet" in any and all of its manifestation. jj just thinks EVERYTHING is wrong. Its a veritable maelstrom of dis and disbelief that will drag us all down,.....a 0-sumatrix game,...if you will. REPENT ! The end is near !p.s. Delia is always in D-cups,.........The goddes could save us all from this damn patriarchal binary opposition,.................... if she could just get sober.
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remanns
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remanns:
hahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!! Total WIN +^d
Definitely a yin yang yikes!
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bailey78
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remanns:
damn you always seem to be right. ^+1
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thedirtman
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remanns:
I know it's a big role, but can I be John the Baptist? As you can see by my avatar my head doesn't have a body anyway....
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thedirtman
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thedirtman:
Sounds like a good "salt-o-the earth" soil scientist sort of thing; SOLD ! BIG JOHN it IS !
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remanns
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thedirtman
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remanns:
Hey, this is great. Okay. Listen everybody. EthicalVegan is coming!
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remanns:
So I'm like some big breasted maenad in the Current mythologies? I can dig it!
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DeliaTheArtist
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ampersand
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DeliaTheArtist:
Nice image. You could use this for your new icon.
(Not that there's anything less than perfect about your current icon, of course, but you know humans are often into change and new colors, just for the fun of it.) - 2 years ago
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ampersand
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DeliaTheArtist:
Well,........try not digitally to tear anyone apart and devour them in the midst of some form of exstatic revelry! ( Other than that..... ) +^d !
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remanns
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bailey78
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DeliaTheArtist:
You have BIG Breast ?
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bailey78
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bailey78:
2 actually.
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DeliaTheArtist:
I like your image, except that the breasts just don't get the emphasis that they truly deserve. Moreover, she's not bearing multiple frosty beer steins like the St. Pauli Girl. Otherwise, I have to vote your goddess image up.
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ScottyT:
This is why I love the internet, because you start one place and end up in another: http://www.matrifocus.com/SAM06/spotlight.htm
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DeliaTheArtist:
Thats what happens when I drive.
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DeliaTheArtist:
Not that I'm the most religious of people, but I'm pretty sure that God is one happy gal...passin' the brew, the hookah as well as lots of munchies around. Woohoo!!!!!
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remanns:
Hahahahah ! Remanns in the holy ghost . The keeper of wisdom ; )
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thedirtman:
I pronounce you John the Baptist!!! I can do it I am the virgin Mary-_-
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DeliaTheArtist:
Wow God has kinky hair and big breast.... Maybe she is a;;;;;;
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Armageddon_Now
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I always thought God would be in the Labour Party.
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Armageddon_Now:
Vote for the man who has worked with a hammer in the family business since he was a teen ! Whatever those damn giants may say about broken contracts is a LIE !
Asgard is a BIG TENT,......help build that RAINBOW bridge ! - 2 years ago
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remanns
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remanns
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GOD is THOR ! ( and any other celestial punks who want to contest that are in for a VERY serious beat-down ! )
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remanns:
pffft God is Athena.
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Almibry:
pffffffffft. Rationalist ! ( Hell,............you might even be a communist !!! )
----------with overtones of a femanazzzzzzzzi POLICE STATE ! " To protect and to serve,..... n arts n crafts n stuff " sheesh.Every man for himself! ( thats what I always say ) Break things/slam dance !
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remanns:
Cute, but you need to brush up on your mythology. Athena is the Goddess of wisdom, the PRACTICAL arts (meaning metal work, weaving, pottery, martial arts, hardly "arts n crafts"), and heroic endeavors. If she were a femanazi, she wouldn't have taken Ares out with a boulder to the skull, but would have insisted on using her words, and she never would have touched Aphrodite instead she knocked her out by slapping her across the tits. The day I see a feminist do that, I'll eat my panties. On top of that, she was the perfect daughter, and a virgin.... Doesn't sound like the feminist ideal to me.
And it's moshing jackass. - 2 years ago
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Almibry
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Almibry:
I was simply being humorous. I am well aware of Athena's portfolio and she is actually my favorite goddess,...primarily due to association with Athens. I have run a science-fictionalized Hellenic campaign for years and greek, as well as Norse mythology is a long standing hobby of mine. I dont know what brought the "jackass" comment of yours out, but you obviously are more passionate about somethig here than I am.
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remanns:
Bantering theology about seems a bit like shooting smack---harmless fun at first, but hey, someone gonna get hurt, you kids, you just watch out..
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remanns:
"Slam-dance"? *mocking laughter*
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Almibry:
Once upon a time the "Mosh pit" had not been formally invented,....but folks were thrashing about to the Sex Pistols in a recognizable way in '81.
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remanns
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ampersand:
Really,....I just dont HAVE a theology. Its ALL mythology, plotstructure, and a bunch of kewl character concepts to me. ( This shit isnt Plato,.....uhm, more like MARVEL comics or Battlestar G.....to me. ) I do love the stuff though,...and am certainly not dissing the archetypal/collective unconscious elements from which it is derived.
p.s. I would say I think somewhat less highly of the "Monotheistic" myths that metastasize into existance in the damn deserts next door to the Greeks,......those heat-stroked fasters were some CRAZY wombats!
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remanns:
I wasn't even a gleam in my parents eye in '81. I thought "slam dance" was just a term the old people came up with to express contempt. haha you're oooolllld. *pokes*
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remanns:
I thought you should know that calling you a jackass wasn't a sign of me being passionate, (although I do love to mosh) it's just how I am. Think of it as a term of endearment, if it helps. Now if I start being nice, and call you dear, darling, love, or sir, that's typically a sign that I'm getting annoyed, unless I want to sleep with you, which you shouldn't have to worry about considering the fact that I have no idea where you are.
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Almibry
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Almibry:
Oh,...well,....o.k. then !
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remanns
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remanns
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Almibry:
MORE o.k. even ! ( Address is in the mail ! )
p.s. ---- unfortunately, it IS an old address,....nothing I can think of to do about that,....but hmmmmmmm,.....perhaps a bright red new expensive sportscar would help to compensate....silk shirts,....thats it ! silk shirts...
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remanns
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remanns:
Ahh, well, I can't yousee... I married God so he would protect me from the zombies... *shuffles feet* It was nice talkin to ya tho.. *runs away*
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when i was 5 i used to believe there was a monster in my closet, and when i wet my bed i would blame the monster rofl...
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No. God doesn't give a fuck about politics. God is a metalhead.
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ScottyT:
I believe ! +^d
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pertinacious:
Under God was added in the fiftys. The original pledge was to bring the southern army and politicians into the union again. Eisenhower was the one to add the term,"under god"
but then eisenhower was a general who really did not like to go thru any beurocracy to get things done that he wanted. - 2 years ago
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pertinacious:
But it would be soooooooo difficult to say "One nation under the Flying Spaghetti Monster...."
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No, it's not. Separation of church and state means that nothing that has to do with our nation's government should have anything to do with religious preference. By not acknowledging God, or any other religious figure, we are not admitting that they do not exist or that people are silly for believing in them. We are simply not having people conform to a belief structure that they do not conform to.
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This will become a burning question that must be answered. Since mankind invented God we will have to assign a party affiliation for him. But if you look at the faces on Mount Rushmore these were not always major party candidates. Certainly, Washington did not have a major party affiliation as none were established. Jefferson was the first Democratic-Republican (what kind of party was that?) Lincoln became President during a major Party split. Even Theodore Roosevelt last ran as a Bull Moose Party candidate.
In keeping with the trend I suggest God be assigned to one of the minor parties. I might prefer to think of God as a Libertarian, but I just cannot seem to resolve the issue that God gave us a very long outdated book full of instructions and would also happen to an anarchist. Therefore, by process of elimination, I suggest that I have proven that God truly is a member of the Green Party.
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thedirtman:
I could go with that. She constantly models inclusion, diversity, and patience.
But how do you account for her amazingly wicked sense of humor?
Well, she's an older Green at that.
I suppose you do, after a few million eons, develop a dark strain of humor listening to all the clowns in the group prattle on and on. - 2 years ago
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ampersand:
Good insights. As for Her sense of humor, well, I am reminded how Salieri claimed to have killed Mozart fictitiously. Maybe She only claimed to wiped out Sodom and Gomorrah in an effort to make her book more popular?
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thedirtman:
The Green Lady .
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When Westboro learned Jesus was a liberal.
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pjacobs51:
With that long hippy hair and a message of peace, love, and forgiveness... Jesus just had to be a fag in their mind.
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Maybe in the minds of the feeble , this seems so . I have not met god , so I cannot be sure , but neither can another living person . Unless the cosmos is god , then god is everything . That would allow for free choice . You would then behave like the god you serve . If that god is life affirming or warlike and thoughtless of life , is a personal choice . Perhaps , we seek the god that lives within us already .
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People from both parties invoke God. Obama does it all of the time in order to try to impress those who he wants to vote for Democrats. Bush did it all of the time, many Republicans do it , and Democrats as well. They all use God for their own means, and actually in the abstract "God" would not even recognize such an insignificant thing as political parties. So it's a a dumb question simply invoked for political purposes as well.
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Almibry
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I couldn't care less. A more pressing question is: Is god a zombie? I'd like to know the answer to that.
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Almibry:
God is not a zombie, but rumor has it his son is.
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unimatrix0:
God, I love that!
Bless you, my child. - 2 years ago
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Almibry:
In some MARVEL comics featuers,....where all the super heroes have been zombied,....and THOR is still around,.....GOD is a zombie. A kick ass zombie ! Kewl.
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remanns:
Marvel Zombies is awesome!!!
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unimatrix0:
GAAHH!!! So he supports zombies?!? *falls out of chair* *crawls into closet*
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The article says:
"God, if you believe His messengers, also spoke to Sarah Palin, George Bush and Norm Coleman, calling them to public office."That proof enough for me.
God HATES America. - 2 years ago
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I don't know but I could guess, with relative certainty, that the difference between God and any given politician on the Hill and the White House is that God does not think he is a politician.
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It's interesting that all the Republicans say they're speaking to God, does that mean that God feels the need to 'intervene' more because he sees a problem in their decisions making?
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My man George lays it all out.
Just a buncha stupid shit someone just made up.
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Saladin:
That man was a genius...
I think the man had no fears.
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Saladin:
I wonder what would happen if I asked to be sworn in on The Lord of the Rings...
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Saladin:
Voted up. Just a buncha stupid shit someone just made up.
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Almibry:
I would insist that you can only be sworn in on the Lord of the Rings.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igg8NYlZZJ8
"God Bless America, and EVERYWHERE ELSE!"
- Head Of State (2003)
- Starring: Chris Rock as a black man running for the position of President Of The United States of America.
- Scene: Final Debate with Republican Nominee and Vice President May Gilliam. - 2 years ago
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http://www.venganza.org/images/spreadword/obey1.jpg
Meet the one true God! - 2 years ago
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toyotabedzrock:
and you shall be touched by his noodly appendage
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Hey i'm just glad that this article assumes that God is real.
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ibrake4rappers13:
It does?
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