From Fox News:
HARTFORD, Conn. — Sen. Barack Obama told a church convention Saturday that some right-wing evangelical leaders have exploited and politicized religious beliefs in an effort to sow division.
“Somehow, somewhere along the way, fai…

I’m sorry…..but is there a Spanish Inquisition going on that I did not know about????

“NO ONE EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!!”

…Well, someone had to say it! =B

All kidding aside, I never cease to be amused by atheists/anti-theists who claim to be intellectually and morally superior to us braindead Godbags, then proceed to advocate blasphemy and, in the most extreme cases, murder. Hence the passage, “Thinking themselves wise, they became fools.”

Remember their god demands that they strap bombs on their Sons and they need to kill others to reach heaven…our God sent his Son to die for us and all we have to do is believe in his death on our behalf to have eternal life!

The Christian Right has ruined my personal relationship with God?

tomas on June 25, 2007 at 10:58 AM

He has made up his own god because he doesn’t like the God of the Bible. Sin, wrath, and one way to salvation get in the way.

Dark-Star on June 25, 2007 at 10:54 PM

I guess the Jewish people killed in the crusades were just collateral damage..

The Romans tried it out on us first when the church was young. Martin Luther and his followers were condemned for questioning the pope’s turning the church into a religious vending machine. We’re persecuted with great vigor -right now- in China, Cuba, Columbia, Cambodia, Egypt and India.

And let’s not forget the until-recently-communist Russia, where the red screwballs drove us underground or out into the brutal gulags.

One final bit on the crusades – if I may be totally blunt the Muslims started their mass conquering attempts (with appropriatly brutal tactics) LONG before we tried anything but desperate defense to stave them off.
If their inital attempts hadn’t been checked by military brillance and sheer bravery, Europe (and hence all of us today) would be reading the Koran and serving their bloodthirsty ‘prophet’ and his ‘god’.

I knew his ears weren’t the only thing goofy about him.

The Meccan Candidate?

Any HALFWIT with BASIC understanding of history knows full well that Christianity – FOR OVER 2000 YEARS – has been an historically STRONG religion, that produced STRONG families, STRONG nations, and STRONG civilizations.
thareb on June 25, 2007 at 9:50 PM

There was that pesky little thing called the crusades that ran for a couple of hundred years. Not quite sure how the killing of Jews and Arabs strengthened their families…..

Perhpas Warrens preaching has turned some to doing better but, will what he preaches get you past those pearly gates?

I also would like to know when Obama last sat down and actually studied his Bible to see what God does want.

Any HALFWIT with BASIC understanding of history knows full well that Christianity – FOR OVER 2000 YEARS – has been an historically STRONG religion, that produced STRONG families, STRONG nations, and STRONG civilizations.

Now Obama and his ilk are for Gay ministers, Gay marriage, abortion on demand, and bowing to islam in the name of cultural sensitivity and WE’RE the ones who’ve hijacked the religion?!

Big J please excuse my French but WHO THE F*&# DOES HE THINK HE’S FOOLING?!

There are. They are also known as trial lawyers.

Bradky on June 25, 2007 at 6:38 PM

Bwahahaha!

Obama’s formulation actually furthers the notion that Democrats like him disrespect conservative Christians. Look how he treats us. We’re not brethren in Christ who happen to disagree with liberalism, we’re zombies. His formulation makes mindless drones of conservative Christians, and puts liberal Christians in the role of being the only ones who can and do think for themselves. It’s elitist and typical of the liberal worldview. Obama is saying, in essence, that if you disagree with his liberal views on abortion, gays and the rest, that you’re not honestly disagreeing with him and you haven’t come to your conclusions by any real soul-searching. You’re under the control of cynical people who want to “divide” America. He doesn’t even think you’re capable of thinking, let alone coming to a different conclusion from his that might be valid.

Gee, why on earth would anyone hearing that think that liberals and Democrats don’t respect conservative Christians?

anyone notice this argument is almost exactly paralell to the reason that blacks don’t vote republican? Just thought it was odd.

I mean, why aren’t there half-evolved apes running around in various stages of humanness … troglodytes, cromagnon men, etc.?
Jaibones on June 25, 2007 at 2:43 PM

There are. They are also known as trial lawyers.

“Somehow, somewhere along the way, faith stopped being used to bring us together and faith started being used to drive us apart,” the Democratic presidential candidate said in a 30-minute speech before the national meeting of the United Church of Christ.

Isn’t that was faith is? Something that drives one apart from another? My faith in Christ pushes the Atheist’s beliefs from mine. The Atheist’s belief in Material Monism pushes away from my beliefs.

Obama’s racist bigoted faith pushes away from my faith of “…neither Jew nor Gentile…”

Basically it isn’t the right that hijacked Christianity, it’s the left that abandoned it. So badly in fact, that they call using faith in their campaigns an “injection,” like faith is just a booster shot for political points. That is why the left has lost values-voters: They lost values first.

Call them what you want, Mr. Obama, the Christian “right” is right. The godless left have “left” the traditional values that have united this nation.

In 1984, Jeremiah Wright traveled to Cuba to teach Christians about the value of nonviolent protest and to Libya to visit Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, along with the Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.

On the Sunday after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, Mr. Wright said the attacks were a consequence of violent American policies. Four years later he wrote that the attacks had proved that “people of color had not gone away, faded into the woodwork or just ‘disappeared’ as the Great White West went on its merry way of ignoring Black concerns.”

Yeah, it was when liberals began ignoring the Bible and started instituting their own doctrines.

Does Darwin’s theory explain why Natural Selection is somehow a finished process as it relates to apes and humans? I mean, why aren’t there half-evolved apes running around in various stages of humanness … troglodytes, cromagnon men, etc.?