Political Suicide for May 31, 2006

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How many times will the President raise taxes after saying he wouldn’t? Hard to say with Retroactive Certainty.

As an aside, I don’t think that I made this clear before, my posts on Suicide Girls are available to non-members and I’m pretty sure appear free of any boobies. If JimC can take a walk on the wild side, you can too.

Comments

  1. sarabeth says:
    June 2, 2006 at 6:32 pm

    Husbands should not know words like hokum. They should have to go look them up.

    (Wives too, of course.)

  2. JimC says:
    June 2, 2006 at 9:17 pm

    Sarabeth, I have heard your frustration over the way organized religion has acted in the past and even today. My response is that even though one group says this or that, don’t take the actions of men and project them onto the Bible they claim to follow. Basically, don’t judge Christianity by the actions of Christians. I know that sounds odd, but Christians are not perfect people, far from it. I’m not perfect either, far far far from it. It does break my heart to hear someone who has been soured on the Word of God because of actions of men. You don’t have to be a part of the “religion” to see the truth in the Bible. I believe that the many failings in churches is due to a falling away from the teachings of the Bible truths. Reading the Old Testament or the New Testament does not mean you have to join any club. I totally believe that even if only one person in all of history were to actually read the Bible and see its full truth, then God would have still had written that Bible just for them alone…

    I think it is good you see the problems but I think it would be fruitful to see why these groups failed to follow the teachings they claim to follow…

    Jamie Beth,

    What I meant by the one man (and actually I think I got his name wrong, I think it is Joseph Smith) is that he alone wrote this suppsoedly new revelation but it totally is out of alignment with historical facts (such as a lost tribe of Israel coming to America in ancient times). His account is at odds with the rest of the Bible, meaning it does not present a single accord, not in harmony with the other 66 books. So, yes I do believe the Mormons to be a “cult” twisted and wrong but that’s my belief based on research I’ve done comparing their teachings with the teachings of the New Testament.

    What’s amazing is that the Bible warns of many who would come to frustrate the Gospel and present errant doctrines. I believe this is why we see power hungary churches in history, persecution by the church, even the anti-semitism found in some churches in history, all of which are errant churches who fell away from the teachings of the Bible.

    I know you ladies don’t want to discuss religion with someone like me, but I think it is good to do so, in order to find some common understanding because like you have stated, I also do not like a lot of the stuff that so called Christians are doing, for example, the absolutely heinous group whose website is “God Hates Fags”. This group is completely twisted. They are why people like you have such a stinging view of Chrisitans. They have clearly lost their way and what’s more they are a “Baptist” church, the same label which is on my church.

    Anyway, if you wish to end this discussion, please lets do…

  3. sarabeth says:
    June 3, 2006 at 7:25 am

    Sarabeth, I have heard your frustration over the way organized religion has acted in the past and even today. My response is that even though one group says this or that, don’t take the actions of men and project them onto the Bible they claim to follow. Basically, don’t judge Christianity by the actions of Christians.

    Evidently not. I was not talking about the people who follow a given religion, I’m talking about the organized religion itself. For example, not any given group of Christians but the Church itself. As a whole.

    I have not been soured on the Word of God, thank you very much, so you can unbreak your heart.

    I don’t think you don’t understand at all. I don’t think you can.

    I read and celebrate the Word of God every day. The Bible has no monopoly on the Word of God. It’s there in Jane Austen as much as it is in the Bible. It’s there in the rose I smelled this morning more than it is in any book.

    I know you ladies don’t want to discuss religion with someone like me, but I think it is good to do so, in order to find some common understanding

    I think finding common understanding is highly over-rated in many cases.

    This group is completely twisted. They are why people like you have such a stinging view of Chrisitans.

    No, they’re not (not for me; I don’t know about “people like me”, or who you think they are). You don’t have a clue what I feel or why. And you don’t have a clue that you don’t have a clue.