Blogging Baby Talks: Five questions for co-author of The Mommy Chronicles When two different moms started chatting about their experiences through email, neither had any inkling that their ramblings would become fodder for a book about parenting. Hi, I was just surfing around and found your page! Very cool,I didn't know you could find all this interesting stuff. If you are interested, go see my sony digital video camera related site. It isnt anything special but you might still find something of interest.
If you stop and think you'll realize that being religious doesn't mean you believe in God. To the contrary, it's those whose faith in God is shaky who feel a need for the priestly class to tell them what they can and can't believe and do. If one is to believe the Gospel of Matthew, 6:15 "And when you pray do not imitate the hypocrites: they love to say their prayers standing up i the synagogues and at the street corners for people to see them. I tell you solemnly, they have had their reward. But when you pray, go to your private room and, when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in that secret place, and your father who sees all that is done in secret will reward you." one must conclude that Jesus frowned on going to temple. If you're familiar with Scriptures you know that the only time when Jesus lost his temper was when he went to the temple in Jerusalem and caused a scene because of the robbing and cheating that was going on, under the guise of religious piety. It's the bureaucrats who came after Jesus who degenerated a spiritual movement into the kind of religiosity that led to the inquisitions and the many bloody battles between Catholics and Protestants. It was the early Christian leaders who sent the Crusaders to start a so-called Holy War, ostensibly to bring the infidels to Christ - at the point of a sword. The truth is that the Pope coveted the wealth of Islam. History is replete with countless bloody examples of Charismatic leaders leading their gullible followers to do decidedly evil deeds. Religion is one of the factors that urges people not to think. Critical thinking is anathema to religious faith.
You reminded me of something I had started a couple of years ago. I'll post it on the blog. Your reply was duplicated, I tried to remove one of the copies but I'm afraid that both may have been deleted. I didn't erase it from the disc so I think I can get it back. I'm not trying to censor you.
You want to know what I mean by critical thinking being anathema, or loathed by religion. If you look to my post of the 24th in which I dissected an article on the CBN site you'll see an example of critical thinking, accepting nothing on faith. “many think he is going to make trouble for the United States” The operative word here is think; and just who are these many?
“Chavez believes he is in a fight with the devil. But the devil that Chavez fights does not reside in Hell. Chavez believes that the devil resides in Washington.” Just how did Mr. Dale Hurd acquire access to these facts? One has to assume that Hugo Chavez granted him an interview; only he is able to tell us what Hugo Chavez believes. Would you believe it if I reported that Dale Hurd believes that Pat Robertson is a lying cocksucker?
“and now a new Cuban-Venezuelan alliance, bankrolled by oil profits, threatens to create a block of anti-American states across Latin America” The fact that the U.S. maintains an embargo against Cuba while practicing preferential trading practices with China Has no bearing on how the U.S. is perceived in South and Central America? We’re the biggest bully on the block and we’re the victims of communist cliques? Such tripe would be funny if it weren’t for the fact that these fear mongers have hordes of the nation’s most gullible under their control.
“and now some fear that a new Cuban-Venezuelan alliance has a plan to create a new block of Leftist-run, anti-American states across Central and South America.” What other countries, beside Cuba and Venezuela, will make up this alliance? What Central American countries have had their sovereignty insulted and abused by Washington’s “gunship diplomacy?” And yet another vague allusion to nameless others whose fears are reported as if they were more than paranoid delusions designed to promote fear. The merchants of religiosity thrive on fear and the hatred it engenders.
“Meanwhile, Chavez laughs all the way to the bank. He sits atop one of the largest oil reserves in the world. Venezuela owns CITGO. And as America's fourth largest oil supplier, he believes he has the U.S. by the throat. And he just might.” You mean there’s oil involved? Oh my god! Now, is that coincidence or intelligent design? It seems to me that the fact that most of the world’s oil is under countries that hold some rancor towards us would give the religious right cause to question the validity of Intelligent Design.
"'This is a country where anyone who dares to think and speak differently from the government,' said Machado, 'is seen as an enemy.'" And that would never happen here in Amerikkka! From Dick Nixon through the Reagan Bush continuum Republicans have consistently tried to equate dissension with treason. And Pat Robertson AKA the devil’s advocate, has been in the forefront of those who are quick to question the patriotism and the morality of those who disagree with him.
Critical thinking leads us to question the veracity of unsourced assertions. It also leads me to question the sincerity of those who tell me that they get their talking points from an entity who may or may not exist.
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Blogging Baby Talks: Five questions for co-author of The Mommy Chronicles
When two different moms started chatting about their experiences through email, neither had any inkling that their ramblings would become fodder for a book about parenting.
Hi, I was just surfing around and found your page!
Very cool,I didn't know you could find all this interesting stuff.
If you are interested, go see my sony digital video camera related site.
It isnt anything special but you might still find something of interest.
have i mentioned that your site really pisses me off ???
what do you mean by saying "religion is at the root of all evil in the world today"?
have you ever thought that there is more out there that you dont know about? like a real living God?
Think about it. our nation has become the way it is today by people who dont stop and think.
dont become another person who lives by the moment.
If you stop and think you'll realize that being religious doesn't mean you believe in God. To the contrary, it's those whose faith in God is shaky who feel a need for the priestly class to tell them what they can and can't believe and do.
If one is to believe the Gospel of Matthew, 6:15 "And when you pray do not imitate the hypocrites: they love to say their prayers standing up i the synagogues and at the street corners for people to see them. I tell you solemnly, they have had their reward. But when you pray, go to your private room and, when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in that secret place, and your father who sees all that is done in secret will reward you." one must conclude that Jesus frowned on going to temple. If you're familiar with Scriptures you know that the only time when Jesus lost his temper was when he went to the temple in Jerusalem and caused a scene because of the robbing and cheating that was going on, under the guise of religious piety.
It's the bureaucrats who came after Jesus who degenerated a spiritual movement into the kind of religiosity that led to the inquisitions and the many bloody battles between Catholics and Protestants. It was the early Christian leaders who sent the Crusaders to start a so-called Holy War, ostensibly to bring the infidels to Christ - at the point of a sword. The truth is that the Pope coveted the wealth of Islam. History is replete with countless bloody examples of Charismatic leaders leading their gullible followers to do decidedly evil deeds. Religion is one of the factors that urges people not to think. Critical thinking is anathema to religious faith.
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You reminded me of something I had started a couple of years ago. I'll post it on the blog.
Your reply was duplicated, I tried to remove one of the copies but I'm afraid that both may have been deleted. I didn't erase it from the disc so I think I can get it back. I'm not trying to censor you.
You want to know what I mean by critical thinking being anathema, or loathed by religion. If you look to my post of the 24th in which I dissected an article on the CBN site you'll see an example of critical thinking, accepting nothing on faith.
“many think he is going to make trouble for the United States”
The operative word here is think; and just who are these many?
“Chavez believes he is in a fight with the devil. But the devil that Chavez fights does not reside in Hell. Chavez believes that the devil resides in Washington.”
Just how did Mr. Dale Hurd acquire access to these facts? One has to assume that Hugo Chavez granted him an interview; only he is able to tell us what Hugo Chavez believes. Would you believe it if I reported that Dale Hurd believes that Pat Robertson is a lying cocksucker?
“and now a new Cuban-Venezuelan alliance, bankrolled by oil profits, threatens to create a block of anti-American states across Latin America”
The fact that the U.S. maintains an embargo against Cuba while practicing preferential trading practices with China Has no bearing on how the U.S. is perceived in South and Central America? We’re the biggest bully on the block and we’re the victims of communist cliques? Such tripe would be funny if it weren’t for the fact that these fear mongers have hordes of the nation’s most gullible under their control.
“and now some fear that a new Cuban-Venezuelan alliance has a plan to create a new block of Leftist-run, anti-American states across Central and South America.”
What other countries, beside Cuba and Venezuela, will make up this alliance? What Central American countries have had their sovereignty insulted and abused by Washington’s “gunship diplomacy?” And yet another vague allusion to nameless others whose fears are reported as if they were more than paranoid delusions designed to promote fear. The merchants of religiosity thrive on fear and the hatred it engenders.
“Meanwhile, Chavez laughs all the way to the bank. He sits atop one of the largest oil reserves in the world. Venezuela owns CITGO. And as America's fourth largest oil supplier, he believes he has the U.S. by the throat. And he just might.”
You mean there’s oil involved? Oh my god! Now, is that coincidence or intelligent design? It seems to me that the fact that most of the world’s oil is under countries that hold some rancor towards us would give the religious right cause to question the validity of Intelligent Design.
"'This is a country where anyone who dares to think and speak differently from the government,' said Machado, 'is seen as an enemy.'"
And that would never happen here in Amerikkka! From Dick Nixon through the Reagan Bush continuum Republicans have consistently tried to equate dissension with treason. And Pat Robertson AKA the devil’s advocate, has been in the forefront of those who are quick to question the patriotism and the morality of those who disagree with him.
Critical thinking leads us to question the veracity of unsourced assertions. It also leads me to question the sincerity of those who tell me that they get their talking points from an entity who may or may not exist.
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