BS: What's Up With God These Days???

Subject: RE: BS: What's Up With God These Days???
From: Stringsinger
Date: 11 Apr 11 - 01:21 PM

It seems that Republicans are what's up with god these days. They want to use god to ruin women's health. (close down Planned Parenthood).

Senator Kyle is the new spokesperson for god these days. He never meant for his statements to be taken as the truth.

God seems to be fueling the Tea Party movement as well.

They're serving god up at the National Prayer Breakfast coming up soon.

Subject: RE: BS: What's Up With God These Days???
From: Little Hawk
Date: 11 Apr 11 - 06:13 PM

Canadians go to Cuba in droves, because there is no Canadian ban on Cuba. Our government may be just a tad less insane and reactionary and power-mad than the government of the USA is. (Did I say "may"? Ha!) That's the theory I'm going on, and I've seen more than a little evidence to support it...ever since I was 10 years old.

I wouldn't flee TO the USA, but I might very well flee FROM it...to a great variety of other places. This is not to criticize ordinary American citizens. They're the hapless victims of their government, and they should not be blamed for the crazy things it does in their name, supposedly on their behalf. All they have to vote for, after all, is 2 corrupt and phony political parties who were bought out a long time ago. Kind of like an electoral choice between Hitler and Mussolini. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Subject: RE: BS: What's Up With God These Days???
From: Stringsinger
Date: 12 Apr 11 - 03:44 PM

LH, mostly we agree but on the point that American citizens are hapless victims, I must vociferously protest. Americans are not hapless victims but many of them are asleep, they need to wake up and take control of their government, taking to the streets, shouting from the rooftops, sweeping the corrupt politicians out of office, informing their fellow Americans about how they are being duped by corporate lobbyists, apologetic and enabling members of congress, speaking out against Fox News and its lying agenda, an equivocating president, and a blanket of mis and dis information. Americans are not hapless victims. They are deliberately misinformed by the media, the corporate propagandists and lobbyists in the government, and the Republican attempt to destroy public education in this country.

Hapless victims they are not. Hoodwinked, some are.

Subject: RE: BS: What's Up With God These Days???
From: Stringsinger
Date: 12 Apr 11 - 03:51 PM

LH religion may have outlived its usefulness. I consider the devotion to a political system such as Stalinism, Pol Pot, Nazism, or any other mind-numbing overarching
mode of thinking or non-thinking a form of religion.

What's up with god these days is that the notion of god is becoming obsolete.
It requires an obedient suspension of inquiry, skepticism, or the ability to think outside of that box.

Subject: RE: BS: What's Up With God These Days???
From: Little Hawk
Date: 12 Apr 11 - 05:21 PM

Yeah, sure, Stringsiner, I think of all those political creeds as religions too. And I've said so many times.

As for the notion of "God" becoming obsolete...well, maybe it's a certain type of God you're objecting to. It depends, you see, on how you define "God"...whether you think of God as a separate being outside of you or as something entirely other than that.

But I'm growing absolutely weary of even attempting to talk to people on the Internet about such matters...or really about much of anything that is of any serious import, so think whatever you want to about it. It really makes no difference to me. I would prefer at this point to just walk away. If we were meeting in 3-D life, then it would be worth talking about at some length and I trust we could reach some level of mutual understanding.

Here, it's as useless as pounding sand.