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• Golden Globes Host Ends Show With ‘Thank God for Making Me an Atheist’

  January 18, 2011 at 5:26pm

  In reply to FoxholeAtheist.

  Richard Dawkins!! God help you. And I’m not being sarcastic, GOD HELP YOU!!

• Golden Globes Host Ends Show With ‘Thank God for Making Me an Atheist’

  January 18, 2011 at 5:24pm

  In reply to ChiefGeorge.

  He does have your back. All you have to do is look at His.

• Golden Globes Host Ends Show With ‘Thank God for Making Me an Atheist’

  January 18, 2011 at 5:20pm

  Oh why am I even here on this story!? I knew what I would see: the unforgiving one-liners, the poking and the insults from all sides, everyone positioning themselves to defend their beliefs.. the spewing.
  I believe debate is healthy, but that‘s not what I’m here to do. I have something to say and then I’m moving on. I know alot of people won’t even read this, but I choose to speak my mind. I am compelled.
  I will not sound professorial or intelligent. I am not a fanatic.
  Once agnostic and empty, a materialist, I called out God. I challenged him to show Himself to me. (He is God after all) and I even threw in my permission for Him to do so, as I’d heard He was into free will. I would go into my reversion story, but trust me, you’d be bored. I simply know what I know and it’s all because I asked. Took a while though. Our microwave society doesn’t lend itself to the still, small voice of God, that’s for sure.
  That was 20 years ago and this is what I’ve learned:
  Each person has the opportunity to know and love the Creator, period. It is encoded within us and an individual’s choice to do so. Whether there was a big bang when God created the universe or not, I don’t know. Is it God’s perogative to utilize evolution? Of course it is, He’s God. (Yes, “He”- I’m going out on a limb here for alot of people, but what the hey: God is pure spirit with no physical body, so neither male or female as we know it, but “mother” nature cannot impregnate herself, hence, God is He. It’s a stretch for many, take it or leave it. One can just accept the fact it‘s how He’s referred to Himself Himself)

  People who have never heard of Jesus are not left out in the cold, just like those who were here before Jesus weren’t either. It becomes a matter of the heart and the goodness of the person, it’s between them and Him. People make their choices in how they live their lives. We have a moral code and we have the free will to follow or deter away from it. Many people choose to deter from what they know to be right and good.
  That‘s not to say that those who do know of Jesus are off the hook if they’re a “good” person. To not understand the amazing sacrifice of the Son of God is problematic.

  I used to wonder about famine and cancer, murders and even accidental deaths. I‘ve suffered some in my life and I didn’t like it then and still don’t now, but I understand that it has given me strength and power to grow and be compassionate. I know I am better for my struggles.
  I also understand that sin has corrupted the world and it’s inhabitants to the core and so we live in it. I still cry out to God and question it at times, but I know that we are not human beings having spiritual experiences, but spiritual beings living this human experience, and we have only one shot at it.

  When I quit whining and complaining I noticed my life change, took about a year. I stopped blaming God for the starving people while I stuffed my face, and chose instead to do what I could do, and then let the rest go.. “To care and not to care” is golden advice. I choose not to hate. I choose to love and serve. I cannot take the worries of the world and bog myself to the ground with them, but I can do ALL that I can to make the world a better place for those around me and trust for the rest.
  I trust God. I trust you.

  So this is why I come to this site. Look at all I’ve reflected upon by one comedic line from a guy who was in the museum movie- fantastic!

• Golden Globes Host Ends Show With ‘Thank God for Making Me an Atheist’

  January 18, 2011 at 3:55pm

  In reply to mingfurecon.

  Well said. Each individual has his mountain to climb..

• GOP Rep. Will Introduce New Strict Gun Law

  January 11, 2011 at 1:49pm

  In reply to AmericanLass.

  Here, here. I’m SO SICK OF THESE PEOPLE!!

• GOP Rep. Will Introduce New Strict Gun Law

  January 11, 2011 at 1:48pm

  I’m so sick of watching politicians take advantage of our tragedies for a photo-op. Why is it they always have to scramble and act like they’re doing something positive when really all they do is clog the system with their constant meddling?

  Too many of them think they can just produce bill after bill (like how they print money nowadays) and somehow they’ll come to our rescue through over-legislation..

  I still stand by the well-used adage:
  “Guns don’t kill people. People kill people.”

  They keep tying the hands of good Americans more and more and I’m sick of it.

• Activists Clash With Japanese Whalers in Antarctic Seas

  January 11, 2011 at 1:34pm

  In reply to RememberMe.

  Only in algebra do 2 wrongs make a right :)

• Activists Clash With Japanese Whalers in Antarctic Seas

  January 11, 2011 at 1:29pm

  In reply to ltb.

  I too have a soft spot for the majestic whale.. Two hundred years ago we needed them for our oil lamps, but no more. I’m torn on the issue of whaling. I don’t like it.

  I’m NOT a vegetarian though, and while I’m against hunting these whales for pure profit (and it is for pure profit, no doubt) I’m brought to the realization that I buy my poultry and beef at the store.
  I’m in a dilemma deciding where I stand between caring for Sister Earth and all her inhabitants and not entrenching on human rights..
  Whaling just seems wrong to me. Raising chickens and beef to feed people the protein we require doesn’t have the same emotional spin as killing a whale for profit.

  How we treat animals does say something about who we are.
  How we treat the unborn says alot too.

  I’m with the others who bring the killing of the helpless unborn to the discussion. Whether or not a child in the womb may become a shooting-spree killer is not the issue. (The same argument could go the other way: Gahndi II or MLK II has no doubt been destroyed a thousand times over by now.) When we as a society refuse to protect the weakest and most vulnerable of us all says something too.

  Their silent screams should be resonating in all hearts all over the earth..

• Vets Angry After Navy Sec. Names Warship After Former Dem Rep. Murtha

  January 11, 2011 at 12:47pm

  In reply to cromag11b.

  No hatred, just disappointment… and disgust.

• Beck Announces: Media Heavyweights Join Management Team at The Blaze

  January 7, 2011 at 2:38pm

  In reply to Margaret Thatcher.

  And I did engage in conversation, for those ready with the “head in the sand” speech.. Sometimes there were just too many of them to fight all at once