You really have to hand it to Pat Robertson, et al. They are really illiterate when it comes to history. Here we are in Virginia about to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the first permanent European colony on the Native American’s land at Jamestown and the wacko nuts plan to make political hay out of the celebration by holding a prayer session and declaring that the fact that they brought a cross on shore shows that we are all meant to be Christians in a Christian nation. Under no circumstances are we to ever tolerate any other religion here. Kind of like the Englishmen who came here for profits and brought with them their Anglican religion and refused to tolerate any other religion.If we are to truly celebrate the religious significance of the 400th Anniversary of Jamestown, I say we take all non-Anglicans, such as, Catholics, Baptists, etc. and have them thrown in jail without charges, tortured for their heresy of not being a member of the Church of England and maybe release them next year after the anniversary is over and see if they maybe can’t learn a little humility, a little human understanding, and just a little toleration for their fellow humans. Nahhhhhh, just kidding. No way. They have demonstrated their ignorance is too powerful to ever learn any lesson.Peter Nuhn
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Amen to that brother! That freedom of religion crap is for the political correctness crowd.
hahaha, I love pat robertson. He makes it so easy to bash religion it’s not fair.
OH, F***. Will these people EVER just STFU? I think they MUST be afraid that if they don’t push this shit at people whenever given the chance, it will be discovered as the bullshit, money making scam that it is? The audacity of these little men simply amazes me. The gullibility of the freaking press in america keeps assholes such as these going!
I’m not a history major, nor a constitutional scholar. However, I’m guessing there might have been a reason that this virginia document wasn’t adopted as the UNITED STATES constitution?
BTW, I’m thinking of embracing the scam.
I’ve just discovered (my father just came down and told me) that I am Jesusita, the immaculately concepted daughter of the not-so-virgin Barbara and the Lord our God. Daddy wants me to spread the word, and let you know if you don’t repent for your sins and come to the fold of the LORD, you will burn in the fires of Earth forever. He also passed along these little tidbits:
1. he made gay people gay, and he’s ok with it. lay off them
2. he has a special place reserved for the likes of Robertson, Dobson, and those others who have used him only to enrich themselves
3. he wants everyone to stop reading the bible. he says its been translated so much that there is virtually nothing in there of his anymore. I will soon be coming out with the new “WORD”, called the BauBle. It’ll be available on amazon.com and JesusitaLovesYou.com at the super low price of $24.95 plus shipping
So, how do I get the word out that JESUSITA is alive and well, and willing to help the children of the earth?
This is totally getting out of hand. We’re gonna have to call out the marines to hand out “JESUSITA” proslytizin’ action figures to all the kids this christmas!
Man oh man Pat is a bastard.
Isn’t that what it’s all about anyway? Religion takes in billions of tax free dollars each year & they always need more money. god is all powerful, all perfect, all knowing and all wise, but he just can’t handle money (stolen from Carlin).
I went to the national cathedral in DC, which is actually very cool and you guys should all go, but I like going to cathedrals, I think they’re pretty cool. Anyways, when we went the nun-thingy tried to guilt trip us into donating to the church. To shut her up, my friends and I all put a single penny into the tray right in front of her, and the look on her face was priceless. Wish I would’ve taken a picture.
Dangerman,
Nice…that sounds like something I would do!
Must keep the Church in permanent debt so people keep donating! Spend spend spend!
Thank the deity that we have Ihofe to instruct us.
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/11/17/inhofe-hoax/
Fox and Inhofe on global warming, “The warming is due to the sun”. duh?
Another amusing little video on teaching jesus.
http://freethoughtweekly.blogspot.com/
bad news… this belongs on the last thread but Toys for Tots has changed its mind and will now accept the Talking Jesus dolls.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/11/17/jesus.doll.ap/index.html
says “Toys for Tots has found appropriate places for these items. We have notified the donor of our willingness to handle this transaction.” I wonder who will get them?
It is absolutely incredible how stupid people can be.
Whoops…the quote didn’t get posted with my comment.
I was commenting on the article about Inhofe by Bernada.
Jesusita
That is the best thing I’ve heard in years. If you had a blog site we could rally round and maybe sing some songs or some such thing. We want more.
We saw a small illuminated sign under the church sign in the front parking lot of a church in Haughton, Louisiana. This church is the size of two football fields combined. The smaller sign reads, “ATM Machine inside.” Tax free money does not help build schools, repair roads, nor does it help the state funding for legitimate reasons. There is also a church in Ruston, Louisiana that covers about five football fields. “Visa, Mastercard, Discover cards accepted” is unfortunately becoming the norm for these greedy religious leaders. I will be very happy when Evolution is the norm and religion is proven to be scam that it is. In Bossier City, Louisiana there is a religious organization called, “The Knights of Columbus.” They advertise the bingo for their followers, which is one form of gambling, used to be gambling was a “sin.” Churches contradict themselves because of the preacher’ greed for money.
SunbeamAtheist
In my city, there are huge billboards every few blocks (and even attached to the sides of our water tower) which deliver golden messages such as:
“Help is only a prayer away” and “In your darkest night, Jesus is your light”
Sickening to have to see this EVERY day. And my city is predominantly mormon.
I’m old enough to remember when the only legal gambling establishments around here were church bingos. That was before the gov’t got in the act and started lotteries. Now the gov’t is addicted to the profits and we have casin0s and everything else.
Perhaps there wouldn’t be all these people with lives being ruined by gambling today if the churches hadn’t been bad examples in the beginning.
deadly:
although the election is over, we still have a billboard sign above interstate I-65 that reads, “baron hill (our newly elected house rep.) supports ABORTION.”
I love the bible belt.
The interesting thing about this is how Pat Robertson himself is not an Anglican; he is a Baptist. In fact, most of the people in the so-called “Bible Belt” are Baptist (either that or non-denominational Protestant), so it would be kind of a paradox to make the Church of England the state religion over there.
It is so obvious that these people are just using history to promote their own politics. They think everything has to go back to its “roots” or whatever. It drives me nuts.
robertson is a joke here in virginia.
even among many conservative christians.in terms of what kind of economic and political system we should have or basic moral values most atheists and christians in bible belt agree, in my view.i base that on the fact that most of us in the belt grew up in the same culture.
Regarding the fact that Robertson is not an Anglican, but a Baptist -
It is particularly ironic to note that the first time Jefferson used the term “a wall of separation” between church and state was when he was writing a letter to the BAPTISTS assuring them that the gov’t had no interest in the promotion of religion. The Baptists were worried that they wouldn’t enjoy the same rights as the Anglicans. Now, the Baptists are the loudest xians out there protesting against church/state separation!!
“Perhaps there wouldn’t be all these people with lives being ruined by gambling today if the churches hadn’t been bad examples in the beginning.” Exactly, and Shreveport, Louisiana is a perfect example of gambling and very large churches, one group enabling another. That’s true, the Baptists remained silent for many years. I had been wondering what Pat Robertson religion was, didn’t know he was a Baptist. My Grandmother took me to a Baptist church in north Georgia, the first words from that preachers mouth were, “You are all sinners, you sin everyday, you are sinning right now.” Duh? I was ten years old then and I never returned to any church. I am so happy now that I never believed that churches rhetoric. Jefferson didn’t promote religion like the president we have now, sometimes I wish I could’ve lived in those days. Although, it’s more fun to see religion exposed on the news for what it really is. Someday things will change when churches are exposed for their deception, probably about the same time when wars will stop. Where do these large churches obtain their money? The congregation they have does not appear to be very many people, yet these churches, I have heard cost 2 to 3 million dollars? Is the U.S. Government supporting these large churches or do these preachers have really good credit? The churches here in Louisiana are larger than the public schools here, this really bothers me, especially when we see homeless people walking past these atrocities called churches.
Although I am tired of fighting this battle, I do believe that we cannot take the angry, argumentative stand as many of the right do in tryin got shove the god concept down our throats…we have to calmly prove our point with evidence and stick by our guns without actually using them for harm.
It does get frustrating, though.