Political Hippo Circle Jerk - America, farg YEAH!

[MDS]

I spent half my day today in a church listening to some of the most retarded shtein ive ever heard in my life....they were talking about this dood who got creamated flying up to heaven after we all left

lol so he got cremated on his way to heaven? theres a cremation machine in the sky somewhere?

[ice grillin you]

ha

yeah my one gran ma was a zealot....I was probably her lifes biggest disappointment....luckily she never made it to see my brother (kinda) and sisters grow up without religion and god forbid my pops has no nuts and never told her he was godless

[MDS]

my grandma offered to pay for a temple membership down here. i politely declined.

id like to say the atheists are taking over but we know thats not the case. heck geo the morman is gonna read this soon and he will NOT be happy.

[ice grillin you]

I spent half my day today in a church listening to some of the most retarded shtein ive ever heard in my life....they were talking about this dood who got creamated flying up to heaven after we all left

lol so he got cremated on his way to heaven? theres a cremation machine in the sky somewhere?

haha....they spent like 10 minutes talking about how he was a pile of dust in this marble box that was going to be put in a wall but then out of nowhere the priest dood was like "hold up" before that he needs to fly away to cloud 9

[ice grillin you]

my grandma offered to pay for a temple membership down here. i politely declined.

id like to say the atheists are taking over but we know thats not the case. heck geo the morman is gonna read this soon and he will NOT be happy.

at least she just offered and that was it....despite the media and the christian nut johnsons spewage the jews are actually pretty reasonable

and wait a second is geo really mormon.....you always farg with him but I thought it was a joke

[MDS]

no but i think he might be a fundy....howEVA he did say the earth is not 2000 years old so maybe hes just a dude who likes jesus and thats it

[Rome]

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/30/us/new-gop-bid-to-limit-voting-in-swing-states.html?hp&_r=0

This is happening.  In 2014.  Rage-inducing.

[Diomedes]

my grandma offered to pay for a temple membership down here. i politely declined.

You have to pay to go to temple/be a member of one? 

[Diomedes]

despite the media and the christian nut johnsons spewage the jews are actually pretty reasonable

Let's not get carried away.  You don't want to be born a female to an orthodox family...pretty similar to being born female to some jihadist family in Pakistan, or to Mormons.

Come to think of it, it's not good to be born with two X chromosomes in most religions.

[Geowhizzer]

All this debate about my religious beliefs! 

For the record:  I belong to a United Methodist Church.  Far from fundamentalist.  And not part of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

Politically, I'd say I was center, trending left.  I don't really trust either political party.  They're both beholden to the billionaires and special interests.  I voted for Obama both times.

One thing that I love about my church is that it tries to be active in the community in positive ways.  We've been working with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, trying to get companies to agree to the "Fair Food Agreement" that gives the migrant workers basic necessities, like a bathroom near where they're working, a living salary.  McDonalds and Wal-Mart have actually signed on... we'll see if they follow through...

I'm also a firm believer in the First Amendment - which is meant as much to protect churches from undue influence from the government as to protect the government from undue influence from the church(es) - a response to the state-supported and dominated Church of England.  If you profess atheism, that is your natural right as an American citizen.

[Diomedes]

...trying to get companies to agree to the "Fair Food Agreement" that gives the migrant workers basic necessities, like a bathroom near where they're working...

We have two three clients who don't make bathrooms available for us when we work on their properties, combined about 30 days a year or so on average.  I literally have to wander off into the woods with a shovel and some TP.  The landscaping crews don't bother with the shovel.  It's amazing to me that these people can be so inconsiderate.

I round my bills way up for them because of it.

edit:  three, actually...now that I think of it maybe four...anyway, you get the point

[MDS]

my grandma offered to pay for a temple membership down here. i politely declined.

You have to pay to go to temple/be a member of one?

basically yes if you want to definitely have a seat for high holidays and get your kid bar mitzvahed, etc.

if you just generally want to go to a random service on a saturday they of course let anyone in. thats how the reform and conservative jews do it. the hippie jews (called reconstructionist) have their own style, generally one that's cost-efficient. that ortho's and hassids (the dudes with the hats and the curly sideburns) are subhuman and what they do is irrelevant.

[MDS]

All this debate about my religious beliefs! 

you seem close enough to being a godless liberal sodomite. go the full way and join the fun.

[ice grillin you]

despite the media and the christian nut johnsons spewage the jews are actually pretty reasonable

Let's not get carried away.  You don't want to be born a female to an orthodox family...pretty similar to being born female to some jihadist family in Pakistan, or to Mormons.

Come to think of it, it's not good to be born with two X chromosomes in most religions.

theres extremes in all religions of course...but in america over the past decade or so the fringe seems to be moving closer and closer to the center when it comes to christians

where as there hasnt been any noticable shift in american judaism

[MDS]

orthodox jews make up such a small percentage of jews. and they mostly keep to themselves. they arent politically active like fundy's are. part of that is because 35% of the time its some stupid holiday and they cant use electricity.

but really those people want to live in their own communities, disparage their own women and shut themselves off from the fact that its not the year 25 anymore. they arent going to congress demanding everyone worship jesus.