Quote# 119237

These liberal, Democrat, judges, lawyers, politicians, and activists need to learn that if they continue on their path of destruction there will be physical consequences. Yes, you read that correctly. I am all for vigilante justice. Destroy my country, destroy my culture, destroy my history and heritage, destroy my religion and my beliefs, force me and my family to participate in that which I believe to be vulgar and perverse, endanger my children and you will find me to be a formidable adversary.

Bob G, Barbwire 29 Comments [5/26/2016 3:04:57 AM]
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Quote# 119236

"Men never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it for religious convictions." Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal was a Christian. He knew that idolatry (making up false gods--a violation of the First and the Second of the Ten Commandments) has historically been the basis for great evils.

Evils such as the Spanish Inquisition--Roman Catholics killing Christians for their faith in Jesus, rather than in the Roman Catholic Church.

And Adolf Hitler--committing atrocities in the name of God. But both fall way short of atheism, which (through atheistic communism) resulted in the slaughter of 110,000,000 human beings.

Ray Comfort, Atheist Central 47 Comments [5/26/2016 3:02:36 AM]
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Submitted By: Chris

Quote# 119234

The article was on the difficulty Muslim entrepreneurs face when finding investors for their businesses.

Muslims have proved they're good at one thing and one thing only--killing. That's not a very desirable commodity in these parts. How does anybody lending a Muslim money know that the Muslim won't wake up one day and decide that 72 virginal shrews are pretty companions for a corpse? They don't really protest the extremists in their midst.

Sheila McRae, Mashable 11 Comments [5/26/2016 3:00:24 AM]
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Quote# 119233

The article was a silly piece of low-grade, easily-recognized propaganda. In case Brian Hook is retarded and cannot make the jump from millions of voters (NOTE: The VOTERS are the Republican Party, not the few party leaders) agree, at least in part with The Donald, and could care less what cushy government jobs Brian Hook has held in the past or, more importantly, which ones he may or may not hold in the future. Those who have been feeding at the government trough, and actually believe what they think, believe or feel matters one iota to those of us who are the Republican Party are sadly mistaken. Let me add, I read only the first paragraph or two because I have read this article fifty times before, only the names are different. Please stop making your writers waste their time and ours by producing meaningless crap such as this tale of woe. Really. Please, just stop. Trump is the nominee and he will be the President and changes you do not like are going to be made. Grow up! The child-like antics are sickening.

Bennie Smith, Politico 13 Comments [5/26/2016 3:00:13 AM]
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Quote# 119232

Holy crap! Disagree with everyone of his positions????? Since when has putting Americans first not been conservative? Since when has securing our border making for a safer America not be conservative? Since when has being truthful calling Islamic extremists exactly that not been conservative???? Since when undoing liberal policies of the previous president not been conservative???? Since when has supporting the military, law enforcement and especially our vets not been conservative??????? Since when has actually FIGHTING for these positions not been conservative????

Clearly, this person has quite the warped view of what conservatism is to them. Opposing all of those positions Trump stands for is liberalism and I've been screaming for years that the GOP should change their name to Democrat-lite because they don't stop the liberal creep, they just may slow it down.
way to completely miss rebutting any of the points I made. For that "swing and a miss," you get one of those vaunted (by libtards at least) Participation Trophies. Keep trying little guy. Maybe some day you'll get better to the point where you MIGHT be able to participate in a meaningful adult discussion.

Robert Blackmer, Politico 9 Comments [5/26/2016 2:58:45 AM]
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Quote# 119227

Preface

By chance I stumbled upon the Skeptics Annotated Bible. Obviously a lot of work has gone into this. And the website is done quite well. But I have to disagree with the premises as expounded in the preface. The first is:

Yet few of those who believe in the Bible have actually read it.

As no proof is cited of this, and the author only quotes from his personal experience, I feel free to do the same. I grew up in a Dutch Christian family, where we actually read through the Bible year after year. Every time after a meal, three times a day, we would read a portion of the Bible, continuing where we had left before. And now, in my family, I do the same. Everyone in my church did this, as did everyone at the Christian school I attended. Currently I'm living in New Zealand and at the Church we attend people read through the entire Bible as well. My denomination is Scottish, and everyone from our churches in Scotland does the same. So it's actually not uncommon among Christians to read through the entire Bible.

The author makes another claim, namely that the clergy quote very selectively. My experience absolutely cannot support that claim, as many Bible passages the author finds troublesome in one way or another, are quoted or refered to at various times. I have to admit that this is in Churches were people are expected to know the Bible very well. In Churches where that isn't the case, quoting might be more selective, and that is quite understandable. If you are curious to know William Shakespeare, are you going to read his all his works? Or just the most well-known?

But to support my case even further consider these three things:
1. Many commentaries have been produced in the past, some especially targeted at laymen.

2. In the churches I know, pastors frequently use the Wednesday evening service to preach from a single book or a prolonged story in its entirety. They usually treat more popular items like Jacob or Joseph, Ruth or Esther, Elia or Elias, but they don't skip. They treat every single detail.

3. Some preachers are known for preaching through the entire Bible, every Sunday continuing where they left off. Their main reason was just to avoid being selective about the Bible, the very thing the author accuses them of. Take Luther and Calvin:

The Reformation: A Return to the Primacy of Preaching:
For 36 years then, Luther expounded the Bible in Wittenburg, first in the little chapel, and then in the great city church. He preached often: at least two times on Sunday, and usually three times a week, in the morning. And his method was to preach systematically through the Bible.

Calvin Courier Newsletter Fall 1997, Number 20:
He followed lectio continuo, preaching from the Bible one book after another, chapter by chapter, verse by verse.

Given the limited time and attention span it is understandable that most pastors don't preach through the entire Bible anymore. But I still find it regrettable. Pastors should do this more, just to avoid bias. The entire Bible is the Word of God, not just the parts that happen to be the most well-known. There might also be another reason why pastors avoid certain parts: new translations are so vivid and written in such plain newspaper-like language, that they are no longer suitable to be read in Churches where children are present. This is unlike the original Hebrew and translations like the King James, where restraint is always exercised in describing horrid situations.

The second premise I disagree with is:

But if so little of the Bible is actually used, then why isn't the rest deleted? Why aren't the repetitious passages -- which are often contradictory as well -- combined into single, consistent ones?

We currently have had two thousands years of the Bible as it is accepted by Christians. The author probably realises he isn't the first to see "contradictions". In my possession is a Dutch book, written by Johannes Polyander. I'm not aware of any English translation, but translated the title is "Apparent contradictions in the Bible explained" and was written in 1621. No doubt it is easy to find such books in the entire 2000 year history of the New Testament Church. A recent list of books that treat apparent contradictions can be found at Bible Contradictions and Other Bible difficulties

The author's `solution', deleting parts of the Bible, is wrong. As the author notes a few paragraphs below:

But to the Bible-believer the entire Bible is inspired, and has God as its author. To him each passage contains a message from God that must not be altered or deleted.
He has at least read those portions of the bible correctly! Let me quote this passage (Rev. 22:19):

And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.


So I agree with him that this is not the solution. And I will set out to show that it is not a necessary solution.

Having said this, I do not believe the approach of the SAB author to reading the Bible is a-priori invalid. As a protestant I firmly believe that everyone is allowed to read the Bible. One is encouraged to examine the Bible (Acts 17:11):

These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

And you certainly don't have to be an expert in Hebrew or Greek as some people seem to have said. That's why a reliable translation has been valued always so much by protestants, up to this day. I even urge Christians to study contradictions raised by the SAB, for example at school. It might be very good for them to encounter things they cannot (easily) refute. Humility is good!

I intent to discuss all issues raised by the SAB. The SAB even encourages this ‘dialogue’ (asking for reciprocal links). I will do this by study each book in the Bible, picking a random one each time and going over the things SAB comments upon. As I'm embarking on this quest, I expect to be able to refute many of them. The ones I can't I leave to God. Faith in the Bible doesn't stand or fall with me being able to refute every apparent contradiction. As the apostle said (2 Peter 3:16):

As also in all his (Saint Paul's) epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

I just don't believe that what I don't understand is not true. I don't understand Quantum Gravity, is it therefore untrue?

It's not my goal to convince SAB followers or other atheists. It doesn't work that way. But my goal is to help those who sincerely study the Bible, and have questions about issues raised by the SAB. It's my prayer that God will bless my endeavours.

Berend Deboer, SAB Answered 27 Comments [5/25/2016 2:38:30 AM]
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Submitted By: TASOfficial

Quote# 119226

We look at Abraham sacrificing Isaac and struggle to imagine ourselves being willing to do the same with our own kids no matter how adamantly God commands us. Yet all the superstars in the Bible had an internal advantage we can’t see: they had reached a point in their walks where their desire to please God far outweighed their desire to please themselves. We can get there as well, one step at a time, by choosing to follow the Holy Spirit’s convictions. We won’t be perfect at it, we’ll have weak moments and make wrong choices, but the more we practice obedience, the easier it will seem, and the more addicted we will become to pleasing God.

Anna Diehl, The Pursuit of God 21 Comments [5/25/2016 2:38:13 AM]
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Quote# 119225

To serve God well, we must not try to corral Him in anyway—He’s a wild and unpredictable Being, full of unexpected twists. We must keep our focus on Him, and not on our circumstances. Success is defined only by God’s pleasure with us, not by how things worked out on earth. There will be times when we will crawl away feeling totally humiliated and convinced that we botched our assignment, only to have God assure us it all went just fine. God has a different set of values and goals than we do. We think it’s extremely important to look polished and confident when carrying out our assignments, whereas God often prefers that we look unrehearsed and fumbling in front of others. As long as He gets His way, nothing else matters.

Anna Diehl, The Pursuit of God 20 Comments [5/25/2016 2:37:59 AM]
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Quote# 119224

This is where we really have to say goodbye to the crocodile theory. God is describing an animal with fire coming out of its mouth. Why are our Bible translators trying to shuffle the crocodile off on us when it’s so obviously not a fit. Because no one wants to use the word “dragon”. Well, this is silly. God has made all kinds of fantastic creatures since the beginning of this world. Just because there are no dragons around today doesn’t mean they never existed. It’s quite clear from Scripture that dragons once roamed the earth with man. Perhaps there is more truth to the stories of medieval knights battling dragons than we realize. Who knows how long dragons were around before God finally drove them into extinction?

Anna Diehl, The Pursuit of God 13 Comments [5/25/2016 2:33:40 AM]
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Quote# 119217

The soul also houses sin and demons. So, through fornication, you’re more inclined to commit the same sins, and contract the same demons your partners have. This is why God commanded Israel not to join with the foreign women. All the surrounding nations served false gods. With all false gods, there are demons behind them.

Those foreign women had joined their souls to these unclean spirits through worship. Therefore, to get involved with those foreign women would lead to the same. If you read any part of the old testament, you’ll see the results of the Israel’s rebellion. Demons are whole beings (corrupted personalities), not fragments of a soul. It’s enough to deal with your own demons, but to deal with someone else’s, along with their fragmented soul, becomes a huge problem.

So you can see why fornication is detrimental and why marrying the right person is so important. You can also understand why God says not to have sex with animals. Who wants to have a portion of the mind, will, and emotions of a beast in them? We should only join ourselves to that one person God has for us, and be joined with Jesus Christ through obedience. To join with any other group of people, outside of the Holy God, will bring serious consequences.

The physical side of sex.

We all know what goes on here: body fluids are exchanged and semen is transferred. The problem with fornication is that every person’s body is different, and through sexual contact, unique organisms meet. The body has to handle this encounter and adapt and/or destroy these different organisms.

Too many encounters with too many different people, and the body gets overwhelmed and infected. This is where STDs come from, and especially AIDS. A man’s semen shouldn’t be in another man’s body and a human shouldn’t have intercourse with an animal. The body’s response to this is, “Woe, what the hell is going on!” Therefore, HIV is born.

Nealreal, Let's Please God 25 Comments [5/24/2016 3:39:00 AM]
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Submitted By: TimeToTurn

Quote# 119216

Fragmenting the soul

I don’t know how much of a person’s soul is actually exchanged through sex, I’m just using fractions to illustrate the reality of sex and fornication as it was revealed to me.

As a virgin, let’s say I’m 100% me. If I have sex with Keisha, now I’ve given her 10% of me. I’m still a whole human being, physically, but my soul is made up of 10% Keisha and 90% me. My soul isn’t whole. So, I have 10% of Keisha’s mind, will and emotions (in whatever condition they may be in). The more I have sex with Keisha, the more of her emotions, will and mind I’ll get and vice versa. Old married couples think alike for this reason.

So now, I’m 90% me and 10% Keisha – assuming Keisha was a virgin too. If Keisha wasn’t a virgin, I would get a portion of Keisha and a portion of Cortes (Keisha’s other “boyfriend”). Now I’ve got 5% Keisha and 5% Cortes in me. Now, if I have sex with more women – you do the math. Can you see the problem with fornication?

Nealreal, Let's Please God 42 Comments [5/24/2016 3:38:54 AM]
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Submitted By: TimeToTurn

Quote# 119215

Lust is like a dog, if you feed it, it will stay alive, if you don’t, it won’t. So here are some ways to kill lust. In my own experience, these have worked for me and I know they can work for you.

1. Make the decision to overcome lust and fornication.
2. Confess you have a problem.
3. Acknowledge and agree with God that this is wrong and repent
4. Pray to God for his power, through the holy spirit, to overcome this sin. You cannot overcome sin without God (John 15:5)
5. Cut off all sensual and sexual media out of your life: movies, comic books, novels, articles, blogs, jokes, TV shows, especially porn (duh), sensual poetry, and music.
6. Stay away from fornicators, whether they be men or women, Christian or not. Don’t even eat with them (1 Cor 5:11,13 CEV). Break off all sexual relationships with people you’re not married to, including “cyber relationships”.
7. When you go out in public, rather than staring at a woman’s body, look at her face, or keep your eyes on something else. If you need to, for a season, don’t go to the mall, or those places that cause your mind to wander.
8. Fast from food for a period of time to starve the flesh’s ability to lust.
9. Rebuke the spirit (demon) of lust in the fasting period, telling it to “Get out and return no more, in the name of Jesus!”
10. If you know this is a season where you are to be single, stop thinking about a wife. Don’t fantasize and daydream about your future spouse, if it leads you to lust.
11. Meditate on the scriptures throughout this article series instead of thinking about women.

I say that lust is part of the problem because there are often other issues like loneliness, discontentment, generational curses, depression, emptiness, no purpose, no identity and abuse that lead men to use sex, porn or masturbation as a way of dealing with their deeper issues. As you overcome fornication, ask the Lord what the root issue is, and he will work it out. Only with the Lord’s help can you be entirely free. Also know that he was also tempted in these areas, so he understands us

Nealreal, Let's Please God 34 Comments [5/24/2016 3:38:45 AM]
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Submitted By: TimeToTurn

Quote# 119214

When you search out who runs and/or owns these corporations, you’ll find more men of so called Jewish descent. So what’s my point here? Well, Jews claim to be the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. American Christians are encouraged to send money and bless the people of Israel. But being Israelites, the chosen people of the most high God, there are consequences for such sins against humanity.

To destroy multiple countries with fornication, lies, abortion, violence, witchcraft, murder, drug abuse and homosexuality (with Tel Aviv, Israel being named the gayest city in the world)—don’t you think a holy God has a problem with that? Especially with a people he supposedly chose as his own? Don’t we read in the bible of multiple times where he sent his people into captivity for these sins against him?

The world’s media is immoral and they control it. If these were righteous men, they wouldn’t allow that kind of content. Yet sin prevails through their media. The bible says there are immediate consequences for such actions for the people of God, but nothing seems to be happening to these men or their people; and they continue to prosper. Where are the curses God said would be laid on their people for this kind of disobedience (Deut chapter 28)? There are none because these are not the real Jews. As expressed in my article about who the real Jews are, these people are imposters. The bible calls them out:

I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan. (Rev 2:9)

Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee (Rev 3:9).

Now of course, not all the people who claim Jewish descent serve Satan, but from the content of the worldly media, it’s clear that these Jewish owners are of the synagogue of Satan. That’s just something to think about. Research Khazarian Jews and you’ll discover their true origins.

So next time, you wanna blame rap music and black people for their condition, don’t forget to point out the fake Jews behind it all. These powerful men could change the content of most of the world’s media tomorrow, but they won’t because they work for Satan while maintaining racism/white supremacy.

Who are the real Israelites? The so called black men and women suffering in the ghettos for their sins against the all mighty God; the ones racism/white supremacy/zionism hits the hardest, that’s who. Pray that they wake up; pray for their collective repentance and bless them if you can.

And please stop sending money to Israel.

Nealreal, Let's Please God 13 Comments [5/24/2016 3:16:30 AM]
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Submitted By: TimeToTurn

Quote# 119212

And the reason homosexuality is being pushed so hard in the Black Diaspora is again, Black men have the most genetic power to breed whites out of existence. So white fascists either want Black men to be gay or if we’re straight, they want us to marry and mate with white women so our offspring will have less of the genetic power we do to bring about the demise of their people.

Now, what I’m not saying is that gay men are intrinsically evil or morally obtuse because of their sexual victimization or orientation. What I am saying is when you come across one of these ‘good-looking’ gay men, you should feel more empathy than anger towards them. Cause you now know he was NOT BORN THAT WAY! AND NO ONE IS! He was victimized into that sexual orientation, and more than likely, he’ll never know what it’s like to operate in his natural sexuality.

Like I’ve said in the past, homosexuality is a ‘death-style’ not a lifestyle. But there is a cure for this ‘death-style’ if anyone reading this is interested in correcting and getting back to their natural sexuality.

And fortunately, the cure is the same for dealing with any other mental trauma. Anyone wanting to rid their psyche of a trauma must first consciously recognize the event that is causing some kind of character defect, and then subconsciously, they must recondition themselves out of that pain.

[...]

But for anyone reading this who’s struggling with any kind of trauma, understand living with its effects is not an inevitability. We have psychic tools to help us master our minds and conquer these demons.

But again, it takes work to be victorious over these psychic maladies. And in the case of mainstreamed homosexuality, its victims are duped into believing that their sexual orientation is a life sentence.

So for anyone reading this, regardless of your sexual orientation, understand there’s no mental oppression that can’t be overcome by working it out in the subconscious. But you have to choose to do the hard work associated with winning out over whatever trauma ails you.

And this is your life we’re talking about people…so for your own future’s sake, make sure you choose wisely.

MontUHURU Mimia, The Cinematic Symbolism Blog 18 Comments [5/24/2016 3:04:51 AM]
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Submitted By: TimeToTurn

Quote# 119207

I think you are misrepresenting what you believe about Muslim with what Christ actually says:

There is no connection and it cannot be deemed the same thing.

Christ says " If you obey my commandments and keep my words you will know the truth and if the words he speaks comes from himself or God. In fact God will with Christ reveal themselves to the individual.
Islam makes NO SUCH PROMISE.

So you are deliberately misrepresenting something else to mean the same as Christ and God revealing themselves.
NOT THE SAME THING AT ALL. So you cannot use what you have said as any kind of comparison.


Sassy, Religion and Ethics 11 Comments [5/24/2016 3:03:09 AM]
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Submitted By: Nearly Sane

Quote# 119206

The Texas Rebel Knights of the Ku Klux Klan is an organization that stands for the preservation, protection and advancement of the white christian race.

" O God, bless the Klansman that he may fight to keep America free from ungodly things forever more, and their race as pure as the lily of the valley. God bless the Klansman, his home, his family, and his country. Above all, God, bless those who hate the Klan, for they know not what they do with their brainwashed minds, Amen."

Texas Rebel Knights, Texas Rebel Knights of the Invisible Empire 20 Comments [5/24/2016 3:00:43 AM]
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Submitted By: TimeToTurn

Quote# 119202

you know what? When I’m in Heaven, in my off-duty, leisure time, I’m gotta do some mapping. For what? I wanna map out all the possible in and out exits and entrances of those banking cartels’ lovely bunkers. And then, I’m gotta transmit all the details into my immortally brilliant brain and fully grasp the whereabouts of the exits and entrances. This is a must, because once I get the divine order from Lord Jesus Christ, the first thing I must do to successfully achieve my “scheme” is to collapse all the possible exits and entrances. This is a must. I wanna cage all of them, bosses and servants, in their lovely deep underground bunkers, NO WAY OUT, and in panic.

And, I must be very fast. I wanna make it less than 30 minutes, finishing collapsing all the exits and entrances, the shorter the better, before they figure out what’s going on. And, I must learn how to slash and strike with my own heavenly sword at a lightning speed. And, I must master how to use my sword with my own immortal force, fully grasping how to use my sword at combat. And, of course, with my immortally brilliant brain and mind, I believe I can learn how to use my sword and achieve mastery. Oh, yes. And, of course, I must get the divine order from Lord Jesus Christ, and that’s my honor to do this execution for Lord Jesus Christ and my own kind, both Chinese and Taiwanese, completely obliterated at the most despicable nuclear racial war genocide at WW3, imminent in days, and so does the Church Rapture, set before WW3. At the end of the End Times, I will fly back to the earth with my Emperor, Lord Jesus Christ. The End Times is just a 7-year-long period of time. Not very long, but I will already have very much sufficient time for my own preparations, mapping and mastering using sword and slashing at a lightning speed. So lovey.


usachinanukewar, usachinanukewar 31 Comments [5/23/2016 2:25:27 PM]
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Submitted By: Denizen

Quote# 119200

If it weren't for liberals like you the NRA could get back to the basics, but as long as you idiots keep attacking gun owners with reckless abandon and false numbers they must stand against you and that hurts all of us!
And just because I might choose guns that differ from the ones you like doesn't mean my choice is any more dangerous than yours!
As a matter of fact I seriously doubt that you ,coeumo or Jeff Hall even own a gun at all but if you do California is waiting to welcome you with open arms and plenty of restrictions!
An Abrams tank from 300 miles away!
You fail to accept the limitations of our military equipment and you underestimate the number of gun owners in America!
You also assume that our enlisted men and women will take up arms against their own family and friends, you also forget about our National Guard that is controlled by the individual states and posses far more arms than what the military does within the continental United States!
The number of gun owners in Texas alone would probably outnumber all of out military combined, and then you have 48 other states that could provide reinforcements as needed, or if needed!
The NRA leads the conversation, they call for enforcement of the gun laws that are already on the books,(something over a thousand I believe), but it falls on deaf ears!
Liberals are not interested in curbing so called gun violence, (which is actually criminal violence), they are all about control of the population which requires us to be disarmed!
You people fall for all the statistics that the liberal media choose to throw out without checking to see if it is accurate, and most of it is misleading at best!
One of their favorite lines is that America has the highest number of crimes committed with guns in the free world, although this is true in part it doesn't reflect reality in that we are not all in such danger!
If you simply remove all the large Democratic controlled cities from that equation America falls down below #40!
If you remove all the crimes committed by black men we also drop way down the list!
You see what we really need new laws to address are Democrats, black men and illegal aliens! Then we could go back the way it was when I was a child and know one even locked their doors at night!

fornra, NPR 22 Comments [5/23/2016 2:24:43 PM]
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Quote# 119199

What in the world is happening to America? Recently, I was asked to describe what we are watching happen to our nation. After thinking about it, I have come to the conclusion that it is almost as if a "cloud of insanity" has descended upon the United States and much of the rest of the Western world.

From our top leaders on down, people are engaged in incredibly self-destructive behavior and are making extremely irrational decisions. Some would describe it as being given over to a depraved mind, and I would have to agree. It is almost as if some sort of severe form of mental illness were rapidly spreading through the air and infecting everyone. Virtually every day I am immersed in news and current events, and it can be difficult to shock me after all this time. But lately, there have been quite a few stories that have stunned even me. The following are a few of those stories:

1. A 27-year-old woman in Maryland is hoping to "normalize naked breasts" by running around in public without any clothing on the upper half of her body. So far, she says that she has not been arrested and no men have tried to touch her inappropriately.

2. It is being reported that "sex roulette parties" are becoming increasingly popular in the Western world. The concept behind these parties is that there is someone in attendance who is secretly HIV positive, and everyone engages in unprotected sex with others in the room without knowing who that particular individual is.

3. The obsession with body art in the Western world is officially getting out of control. A couple of the hottest trends right now among those that are into "body modification" are to tattoo your eyeballs and split your tongue.

4. A Catholic archbishop from St. Louis recently testified in court that he "wasn't sure whether he knew it was illegal for priests to have sex with children."

5. All over the nation, colleges and universities are holding workshops and events to promote "polyamory" as "an acceptable lifestyle choice" to our young people. According to Wikipedia, polyamory is "the practice of, or desire for, intimate relationships involving more than two people, with the knowledge and consent of everyone involved."

6. With each passing year, the level of debt slavery in this country gets even worse. The average American household with debt now owes approximately $131,000 and is paying out about $6,000 a year in interest.

7. A dangerous form of synthetic marijuana is popping up in many American cities these days, and it sends many of the users into zombie-like states.

Investigators in Clearwater described a scene out of The Walking Dead; people slumped over in such a stupefied state they could hardly move or speak. It was a patrol becoming too routine in Crest Lake Park as officers respond to a growing number of Spice, or synthetic marijuana, overdose calls.

Police say dozens of calls have come in for people who have had to be rushed to the hospital because of suspected Spice use. Tampa medical and law enforcement professionals warned last week about a dangerous uptick in overdoses possibly linked to a bad batch of the drug. Clearwater investigators aren't ruling out a connection to the Tampa cases.

8. According to some progressives, identifying yourself as an "American" is now considered to be a "microaggression" and should be avoided because it might offend minority groups.

9. Even though we can see what socialism has done to Venezuela, North Korea and dozens of other failed regimes throughout history, young Americans are embracing it with gusto. In fact, one survey recently found that a majority of American young adults under the age of 30 say that they completely reject capitalism.

10. The Obama administration has just issued new "guidelines" that require public schools all across America "to allow transgender students to use the restroom and locker rooms that correspond to their chosen gender." So 55 years after President John F. Kennedy declared that we would put men on the moon, Barack Obama is declaring that we will put men somewhere else where they have never been before.

11. One anonymous member of Congress identified only as "Congressman X" is making waves by putting out a new book that explains what really goes on behind the scenes in Washington. The New York Post has published some new quotes from this book, and a couple of them are quite stunning.

Congress is too polarized and partisan to get anything done, by the congressman's account.

"There seems to be a complete disintegration of confidence in government. A fear that government is its own special interest," he says.

"America's on an irreversible decline and no one in Washington seems to care ... ."

When even members of the U.S. Congress start admitting that our nation is in "an irreversible decline," you know that the party is just about over.

12. When you look up the term "corrupt politician" in the dictionary, photographs of Bill and Hillary Clinton should be right there. Bill has a history of well-documented sexual escapades that goes back for decades, and both of them should be serving long prison sentences for a shocking series of horrible crimes that goes all the way back to the 1970s. But the American people are willingly ignoring all of this, and if the election were to be held today, it is almost certain that Hillary Clinton would be the next president of the United States.

Ultimately, we get the leaders we deserve, and I am not just talking about the White House.

If you look at Congress today, they very much reflect who we are as a nation, and it isn't a pretty picture.

One of the big reasons why there is so much craziness in America today is because there is no longer a shared set of values or morals that unites us. You would like to think that we should all be able to at least agree on the U.S. Constitution, but in law school I learned that courts routinely ignore the Constitution whenever it suits them. In fact, we might as well not even have a Constitution anymore because hardly anyone in the legal community takes it seriously these days.

Without any foundation to stand on, it is inevitable that our nation will crumble. The widespread insanity that we are witnessing is simply the acceleration of a process of decay that has been in motion for decades.

I would like to think that we could turn things around, but at this point, I am not very optimistic.

What about you?

Michael Snyder, Charisma News 29 Comments [5/23/2016 2:24:38 PM]
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Quote# 119195

[ What is your opinion on torturing non american noncombatants? ]



(Man with a rocket launcher, a fox for a hat and a t-shirt reading "I [heart] waterboarding children")

bill-11b, tumblr 35 Comments [5/23/2016 2:23:44 PM]
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Quote# 119186

...oh the tortured connection to Trump...the reality is that he and his supporters are NOT the fascists...it is in fact the Bernie group..witness the chaos they bring - violence, and very un-PC language aimed at those whom they dislike. The GOP is the party of sanity.

Brian Tuttle, The Washington Post 20 Comments [5/23/2016 2:59:29 AM]
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Quote# 119184

The slogan, "Make America Great Again" is brilliant. Many of us have watched in disgust as Obama has led a fight against every American value conservatives hold dear. Obama has advanced LGBT rights, illegal alien rights, secularism, and Islam. He has encouraged discord among the races, defiance of police authority, and disregard for the separation of powers.

Many of us see Donald as a leader who will reverse the decline of western civilization and restore America to its rightful place in the world through truth, justice and the American way. This is reality. We need a superman to lead us, and that man is Donald Trump.

Enough of the Obama weakling and his sob sisters.

Pubbie, The Washington Post 43 Comments [5/23/2016 2:57:36 AM]
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Quote# 119180

If you want a useful prayer to pray, here it is:

“God, help me to get over myself and fully submit to You. I hate what You’ve done to me, I’m scared of You, and I can’t even picture liking or trusting You. But regardless of how I feel, You’re God Almighty, so what the heck am I doing trying to fight You? This is a war that I cannot win, and I own that I was a fool to even try. Please help me come up with the soul attitudes that You want from me. Make my submission to You real this time, and not a game. I don’t want to keep going through this. Maybe my circumstances will remain lousy, but I want to be able to know that I am in a good place with You. I’m not telling You what to do—instead, help me get better at having You tell me. Help me to accept what You give me, and fully release what You take away. You’re God, I’m not. Help me to embrace my proper place as Your creature who depends on You for all things.”

Anna Diehl, The Pursuit of God 21 Comments [5/23/2016 2:56:14 AM]
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Quote# 119178

Oklahoma lawmakers passed a bill on Thursday rejecting the federal government’s directive on trans-inclusive restroom access, going so far as to declare a state of emergency over the matter, KTUL-TV reported.

“It being immediately necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health and safety, an emergency is hereby
declared to exist, by reason whereof this act shall take effect and be in full force from and after its passage and approval,” Senate Bill 1619 stated in part.

The measure, sponsored by state Sen. Brian Bingman and state House Speaker Jeff Hickman, restricts students around the state from using restrooms according to their gender identity, in direct opposition to the White House’s stance, announced earlier this month in response to similar legislation in North Carolina.

“This directive to schools is not only unlawful, but the breadth of overreach in this instance by the Obama Administration is shocking,” said state Rep. John Bennett (R). Bennett co-sponsored a concurrent resolution calling for the federal House of Representatives to impeach President Barack Obama regarding the issue.

Oklahoma Congress, Raw Story 19 Comments [5/23/2016 2:55:39 AM]
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Submitted By: Demon Duck of Doom

Quote# 119177

White people sometimes complain that derogatory words like honky, cracker and whitey are equivalent to the N-word — but there’s actually another, more widely used term that hurts their feelings even worse.

William Johnson, a former Donald Trump delegate and head of the white nationalist American Freedom Party, explained how he feels the word “racist” strips racists of their value as a human being — just as the notorious racial slur has been used for centuries to strip black people of their individual identities.

“Nowadays, no one would call a black man the N-word,” Johnson said during a lengthy interview with Fusion. “That is a slur that is not accepted. But they can call me a racist, or a white supremacist, or a KKK person. These are worse slur words than the N-word, because those slur words pit the whole world against me.”

Johnson, who has proposed a constitutional amendment revoking U.S. citizenship for all non-white Americans, complained that media depictions of him and his views as “white supremacist” automatically turned people against him.

“Everybody who reads that hates me because of that slur,” he said. “Society, particularly the media, needs to stop using those slur words towards us, just as you would never the N-word toward a black man. Just because what happened in the past doesn’t give people the right to use slur words against anybody. Whether the blacks have had a harder time or whites have a better time, using hateful slur words towards everybody is not all right.”

The distinction Johnson fails to make, of course, is that the N-word — which is so reviled that it’s not usually spoken aloud or even typed out — is used against black people simply on the basis of their skin color, while terms like racist — or more specific variants such as white nationalist, white supremacist or neo-Nazi — are used to describe a person’s own deeds or stated viewpoints.

The 62-year-old Johnson’s views on race are preposterously retrograde — but he’s somewhat progressive on economic and environmental issues, which partially explains how Trump has managed to exploit an ideological tilt within the conservative spectrum.

“The epic battle from here on out is not the battle between progressives and conservatives, which has occupied the media and the politicians for the last 40 years,” Johnson said. “From here on out, the battle is between the globalists and the nationalists.”

He categorized Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential frontrunner, and Mitt Romney, the failed 2012 Republican presidential candidate, as globalists and praised Trump as “the herald, the leader (and) the founder of the resurgence of the nationalist platform.”

“They promote open borders. That’s wrong. They promote consumerism. That’s wrong,” Johnson said. “Consumerism is destroying the environment, because it’s just, ‘Make make make, buy buy buy. Grow the NDP, make a lot of money for shareholders.’ That’s wrong.”

However, even Johnson’s environmental concerns are inherently racist.

“Globalists promote multiculturalism and diversity, and that is killing the white race,” he told Fusion. “Nationalism promotes a homogenous population. Globalism is empire-building by corporations. We’re past the colonial stage of empire building by governments, so we need to get past the empire-building by big business.”

Johnson ridiculed the “touchy-feely, feminist” leadership of Clinton and German Chancellor Angela Merkel and longed for the days when women typically stayed home to raise children — even as he expressed support for equal pay for women.

“People are yearning for a strong, male figure,” Johnson said. “White males have been beaten down for a long time in this country, and Donald Trump is the resurgence of the strong male leader. How many times have you heard about the Philippines president? Not very often, but you’ve been hearing about all the time recently because he’s a strong leader. In other countries, you’re seeing strong leaders also, and that’s a hallmark of a nationalist.”

The white nationalist then decoded the campaign slogan Trump wears on those goofy red hats.

“We need to move beyond feminism and support the traditional family, where the husband works and the wife raises the family, and they can afford to live in their own home on a single workers’ income and raise their children,” Johnson said. “That’s the ideal solution. That’s the solution in the ’50s, and when Trump says ‘Make America Great Again,’ that’s what we think it means.”

William Johnson, Raw Story 20 Comments [5/23/2016 2:54:10 AM]
Fundie Index: 11
Submitted By: Demon Duck of Doom