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• Environmentalists Deface Nearly 100 ATMs With Anti-Bank Messages

  January 16, 2012 at 3:37pm

  Who do these folks think use ATM machines? Middle class people and the 99%

  Vandalizing many of SF’s ATM machines is a thoughtless and foolish act.

• ‘Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus’: Controversial Viral Video Logs 10 Million Hits in Four Days

  January 15, 2012 at 7:04pm

  In reply to ShawnB.

  Macpappy, if Hitch weren’t already dead, I’d suspect you were him. I would like to believe there is some kind of a higher spiritual authority and that we all have a clear reason for being which we can discover.

  But I have seen no evidence of any of this. And when I look a the obvious human construct that is religion, it seems to have been more of a cause of hatred and separation between people than a comfort to them. I like your comment about Jesus being a great rabbi. I’d like to believe that we can behave in a positive, spiritual way with neither the carrot of Heaven or the stick of Hell.

  If religion comforts some people, that’s fine. But giving up our reason, which is the very source of our human nature, in order to find some form of redemption is not something that works for me. Just let people decide for themselves what is the right answer, and don’t try to force your beliefs upon others.

• ‘Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus’: Controversial Viral Video Logs 10 Million Hits in Four Days

  January 15, 2012 at 6:56pm

  In reply to Diane TX.

  I agree that one can be spiritual without an organized Church. The Church is a creation of man, not of God. Jesus doesn’t need people to speak for him. It‘s whenever men presume to speak he word of God that most of the World’s problems happen, because apparently some people hear different messages and that causes them to hate and kill each other. Certainly not what Jesus would want done in His name.

• Firefighters Rescue Mother & Daughters From Smashed Car Dangling Perilously Over Bridge

  January 15, 2012 at 6:43pm

  In reply to janmil200.

  I am glad the people were helped and I’m sorry the truck driver died.

  My apologies to people who believe this, but if God put the Seabees and the forklift there, didn’t He also put the semi-trailer that crashed into them there? I don’t think people can attribute every aspect of what happens in life to God. It may be more comforting than to think that you were spared or not spared by random luck, but what about all of the people who are not spared terrible events each and every day. Does God hate them or ignore them? What about the truck driver, who burned alive, for instance.