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Pray for the poor
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 RE: Pray for the poor
December 6, 2011 at 10:10 pm
(This post was last modified: December 6, 2011 at 10:26 pm by TheDarkestOfAngels.)
I suppose it's better than the republican stratagy for the poor.
"Hey, you know what'll help the poor? Increasing the tax base to include all those non-americans who aren't paying taxes, giving tax cuts to the 'job creators,' and allowing poor kids to work menial jobs for less than minimum wage." - My summation of Congress' goals and ideals of the current Republican Candidates for Prez Also, overwhelmingly voting to transform this nation into a police state. This is an actual thing.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925 Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan  (December 6, 2011 at 10:10 pm)TheDarkestOfAngels Wrote: Also, overwhelmingly voting to transform this nation into a police state. This is an actual thing.I like how almost all the urls have a summary of their article in them, so I didn't have to read them. 
"Sisters, you know only the north; I have traveled in the south lands. There are churches there, believe me, that cut their children too, as the people of Bolvangar did--not in the same way, but just as horribly. They cut their sexual organs, yes, both boys and girls; they cut them with knives so that they shan't feel. That is what the Church does, and every church is the same: control, destroy, obliterate every good feeling. So if a war comes, and the Church is on one side of it, we must be on the other, no matter what strange allies we find ourselves bound to."
-Ruta Skadi, The Subtle Knife 
At least their faith in the goodness of their omnipotent god is true enough not to require their fancy ride to be clearly bullet proof, unlike god's vicar on earth, one Josef Ratzinger, who either doesn't believe god has the power to protect his vicar from bullets, or that he could thwart god's intention to allow bullets to reach him through the artifice of a bullet proof Mercedes.
 Quote:one Josef Ratzinger, who either doesn't believe god has the power to protect his vicar from bullets To be fair, god fucked up real bad when John Paul II caught 4 bullets. If he wasn't going to save his favorite pollack pope why would he protect an ex Hitler Youth member? JP2, btw, claimed that the intercession of the "virgin" mary was what saved him....even though every doctor in Italy busted their butts to put his sorry ass back together. 
Lol makes me think of this one:
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~*~Live a good life. If there are Gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are Gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no Gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones - Marcus Aurelius~*~ |
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