Nick Anderson for February 10, 2015

In his dress black set of robes?

As a gay man who only recently gained legal rights that straight white Christians never had to fight for, I strongly disagree with your statement.

http://christiannews.net/2014/05/20/south-carolina-lieutenant-governor-candidate-warns-of-dangers-of-public-schools/

Oh, the judges are there to enforce christian morality. NOW I get it! Frank, you are a savior. Nope, whoops, my bad! ‘Cause we already HAVE one! I’m so excited I think I’ll go make a graven image to worship.

One can believe what they want, all the trouble happens when they try to impose their beliefs on everybody else.

problem is, we are NOT under the Mosaic Law

Thank you Masterkrain. While I do believe some of those laws are worthwhile as they pertain to incest or sex with minors, the vast majority are dogmatic. I have made a copy of your effort to share with some minds outside of this forum and am grateful for your tenacity in providing it. I’ve often thought of doing this, but did not have your tenacity.Again, thank you.Sincerely,C.

This country was NOT built on Biblical principles. It was, if anything, utterly rejecting those principles.The government was based on ideals of Greece and Rome. The Founders, many of whom were Deists or agnostics (Jefferson was borderline atheist) knew full well that many of them were there because their families had fled religious restrictions in England, so they knew the dangers of the State and Religion joining forces — hence the separation of Church and State.You are welcome to believe what you like, but you are NOT entitled to enforce it on others on this country. And neither is Roy Moore.

Interesting list. I like 19; not much chance of seeing a 4-legged insect.

twclix GoComics PRO Member said, about 3 hours ago @Frank “Oh, the judges are there to enforce christian morality.” (sneer)…-1. Judge Moore has never used a Cross as a gavel. 2. Our Founders and many presidents said the framework for our justice system was from the principles found in the Bible, summarized in the OT “Ten Commandments”….God’s Law is from Eden, it is eternal, and the Mosaic Law was for an earthly theocracy of Israel ONLY. 3. A system of law such as ours cannot work in a Pagan nation. Examples are numerous, history and archaeology give us the evidence. 4. The US system is being eroded year by year and decision after decision. Legalizing sins will destroy the USA. 5. The basis of human government is taught in the NT, Romans chapter 13, which God authorizes for our leaders.(The only “morality” that is just and wise and good is Judeo-Christian)……. -Our problem is that our ungodly Judges have turned this nation into practicing Paganism, sacrificing babies. Abortion is as evil as placing the children in a statues’ arms and setting it on fire and burning it alive while the “government bands” play louder and louder for the audience! -The only godly citizens have been those in the Pro-Life Movements…who oppose abortion and have worked to set up and fund private organizations to help pregnant mothers to birth and to either keep or give the baby to married couples who want to raise and educate those children.

Well stated, Prfesser. It should also be noted Jesus had to live within the confines of the Old Testament/Talmud. He did not carry a bible, nor was he a “Christian” and if the red letters are accurate, spoke only of love except when admonishing the Pharisees and the Rich. It is strange how so many want to live by the Bible, yet do not even know that the New Testament wasn’t even begun to be assembled until eighty years after the death of the last disciple, Thomas. I believe Jesus would agree with you in your assertion of Christianity as a false religion and would be more likely to remind us “To love each other as we love ourselves.” Perhaps the problem is the number of ‘Christians’ who, for whatever reason, are too full of anger to love themselves, much less anyone else.Thank you for an interesting and well presented comment.Sincerely,C.

So you modern christians have completely $h!t canned the old book?

@SizeofaPea @Respectful TrollThat means a lot coming from two fellow posters whom I respect greatly. Thank you.

“I am a very cynical person. I just can’t find an argument against Christ’s teachings. I have never come across another teaching or philosophy or any kind of book or political thought that I can say that about. If you have one of His teachings/sayings you know of, that you disagree with, please let me know.”You’re missing what I read to be Martens’ point. The Bible is an edited compilation of stories that were told and retold for hundreds of years after Christ’s death. When the Christian Church formalized into an official hierarchical entity, a commission was formed that gathered the stories and gospels being retold and edited them. That which didn’t make the cut was branded as heresy and forbidden. The rest was edited and (ahem) “adjusted” to fit their desired narrative. Short of a time machine, we will never really know as fact just how much that was attributed to Jesus was actually taught by him. That said, I have great respect for the teachings attributed to Jesus.

Masterskrain; I believe you missed having sex with your right, or left, hand as well.

Multiple of the “founding fathers” made it abundantly clear, including in article VI and the first amendment that the United States was clearly founded on SECULAR principles, yet did not DENY folks freedom to practice ANY religion or NONE as they saw fit, but could not impose those beliefs on the nation as a government edict, period. No relgious test for any position in the government further proves those fundamentalists seeking theocracy (Christian only please, note their fear of Islam- which honors the words of Jesus in the Quran better than they do in practice.) are totally WRONG in their beleagered and error-filled assessment of history.

Buddhism honors my beliefs closer than any other “relgion”, and that includes honoring science and evidence of the total power of nature and the universe, not some bearded psychopath/sociopath seeking to punish everyone, or his “son”. That something more powerful than human comprehension can define what is resonsible for creation, does NOT mean it is the creation of those men who created their “God” in THEIR OWN IMAGE!

And that is where “Laws of NATURE and Nature’s god”, not MAN’s “God” enters even into the Declaration of Independence by Jefferson, and why the Constitution NOWHERE mentions “God”. These dudes were closer to animists than “Christians” and Jefferson was a deist.

People who practice a peaceful religion, and leave all, including the planet, in peace and love, I have no problem with, but that is NOT where 99% of the “religious” in this country seem to fall in. I see a difference between Buddhist monks burning themselves to protest and STOP wars, and those good “bible thumpers” of ALL strains and sects, who seek their religions as justification for war and hate: “Gott mit Uns” was the motto of a nation of Roman Catholics (like Hitler) and Protestants who sent Jews, Roma, the disabled, the union workers and organizers, mental patients, homosexuals (yes, many of Hitler’s key staff were “closeted” gays). WE, the United States have also claimed “God is on our side” when we commtted mass murders in Japan, Germany (Like Dresden), Korea, Viet Nam, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Panama, Grendada, Nicaragua, Cuba, the Philippines (Spanish American War), and in dozens of other nations, overtly or covertly.

IF you worship for peace, I can accept your religion, but it doesn’t mean I have to agree with all your tenets or beliefs.

Love it! Stealing it for Facebook. :)