Recent content by DeistPaladin

I think it's my duty not just to my country but to the entire world to stay and do what I can to keep the Tea Fascists from taking over. After all, we're talking about the world's largest nuclear arsenal. No sane person wants Michelle Bachmann to be in control of it. *shudder* I studied the...

Dear House Republicans, I regret to inform you that our household will be unable to pay anymore in taxes this year. This is because we've hit our arbitrarily set number that we call our "debt ceiling". This completely made up number sets the maximum amount of cash that we allow ourselves to...

If Jesus wasn't the "Son of God", or God-incarnate, or an angel sent by God, or any other sort of miracle-working supernatural being, if he was just another doomcrier of the time or some mortal leader of a Jewish splinter faction, then he wasn't "JESUS". Take away all the miracles and the...

Sounds like an excerpt from what will soon be released Bachmann American History textbook. :lol: Yes. WWII was the last great battle of WWI. I'd heard that a French ambassador at Versailles after the treaty had been signed had predicted, "This is not a peace treaty. It's a 20 year...

Scene opens with me at a pulpit reading from scripture. "Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren; (pause) And Judas begat Phares and Zara of Thamar; and Phares begat Esrom; and Esrom begat Aram; (pause) Oh it's no good. I never wanted to do this...

Obama 2012: He's as good as it gets. Learn to settle. Obama 2012: Did we mention he's not Bush?

Obama 2012: Just hold your nose and vote for me. The Republican will be much worse.

W Bush: "I'm snubbing your invitation to come to Ground Zero because you hurt my feelings! Waaaaahhhhhh" http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/201...ugh-credit Fuck you, George! After running our economy into the ground, lying us into your private little war, rolling back the Constitution...

Last time I had a conversation with someone who said Obama was a "Marxist" I replied, "Oh please, he's not even a liberal". And that conversation was over.

Re: (americans) would you like a pol party founded on sci/re This is often the reason cited to keep the EC around. The big problem with this argument is the only thing it changes is instead of "New York, Chicago and LA" (assuming that such places could even conceivably be a monolithic voting...

Re: (americans) would you like a pol party founded on sci/re I like the idea of a "Reason Party" but unfortunately our system has grown to become rigged against 3rd parties. We badly need an amendment to our Constitution that abolishes the Electoral College and reforms the voting process.

Obama 2012: At least he pretends to care

Since I live in a solidly red state, that gives me one advantage. For those who aren't Americans, let me explain we have a byzantine election system where the candidate who wins in a state takes all of its "electoral votes" whether the victory was 51/49 or 99/1. This is why Bush "won" in...

The President announced his re-election bid yesterday and suddenly cares about progressives again, wanting us to sign up, donate and volunteer to get him re-elected (evidently, the Republicans and conserva-dems he's been wooing for the last two years don't want to return the affection). In that...

OK, I'm having trouble nailing you down here. Can you please select from one of the three options: 1. Marcion had no idea what Paul wrote, but still picked him as the primary prophet of his brand of Christianity. 2. Marcion knew what Paul wrote, that it contradicted his assertions about...