Speaking in tongues
Does Sarah Palin “speak in tongues”? It’s a valid question. The churches Sarah Palin has attended are mostly of the Pentecostal, Assembly of God variety, and one of the hallmarks of those denominations is that they believe in the “baptism of the Holy Spirit,” which allegedly causes people to go batshit at church, flailing about and making all kinds of abnormal sounds. Most of Christendom, to its credit, considers it to be pretty much nuts. John Ashcroft is a Pentecostal. Some of his greatest hits include “us[ing] Crisco cooking oil to anoint himself before serving his two terms as Missouri governor” and spending taxpayer money to cover up an exposed booby on the Spirit of Justice statue in Washington. Sooo…does she? Does Sarah Palin get all gobble-gobble for Jesus? Inquiring minds want to know.
In case you’ve never seen “speaking in tongues” in action, this is the kind of thing that happens at Sarah Palin’s churches. Don’t you want this bullshit in the White House? Watch:
(h/t Jesus’ General)
September 9, 2008 at 8:34 pm
I don’t want a pentecostal anywhere near the White House, and I am a Christian and a conservative. It is a heretical and cultish movement of stupidity and emotionalism. Even if I liked mcCain (which I don’t) I wouldn’t vote for him because of this awful running mate. She should go back to Alaska and take care of her family.
September 9, 2008 at 11:05 pm
As I’ve said before, even among evangelical conservatives, Pentecostals are a breed all their own.
September 9, 2008 at 11:18 pm
There have been some “snake handling” crazy pentecostal churches out there, but this is NOT the case with most pentecostal churches (including apostolic and assembly of God). NEWS FLASH – pentecost, the baptism of the holy ghost, and speaking in tongues is in the bible. read the book of acts amongst other passages in the episitles.
September 9, 2008 at 11:21 pm
Um, yeah, Mandi, you’re out in the real world now.
Yes, it’s in the bible, and according to the bible, it happened once. If you believe the bible account. Which I don’t. I personally think it’s all batshit.
You have the right to your faith, and I have the right to think it’s batshit.
September 10, 2008 at 2:22 am
Evan,
I just want to say that I am truly sorry for whatever injustice caused you to reject God. All too often we use the Bible as a stick and try to beat people into accepting the Truth. I will say that you are incorrect, the baptism of the Holy Spirit happened more than once (a great deal more) and it is still happening today. I would encourage you to take a look at the Bible and see what it says about it however you probably won’t understand it fully until you experience it for yourself. I didn’t.
Passages to look at:
Matthew 3:11-12
1 Corinthians 12:13
Acts 2:1-41
Hebrews 6:2
September 10, 2008 at 2:28 am
Eric, it’s in the comment policy.
NO PROSELYTIZING.
September 10, 2008 at 2:29 am
And also, Eric?
Humans have an amazing ability, especially in collective groups, to convince themselves to believe all sorts of things are real.
September 10, 2008 at 6:07 am
http://anyonecare.wordpress.com/2008/09/10/the-witchhunt-against-the-pentecostals-backfired/
September 10, 2008 at 7:52 am
Loser.
September 10, 2008 at 4:40 pm
When I see the same amount of distain and contempt in your comments concerning “normal” actions by “normal” people, ie NFL fans that paint their bodies colors, scream until they have no voice, shout obsentities “as a collective group, pour beer on each other, leave stadiums and drive drunk and kill innocent people, then a small amount of credence might be given to your comments. But until then you are guilty of the same thing you accuse Pentecostal of. You have no personal knowlege you are just repeating the same old tired liberal response. You are so transparent.
September 10, 2008 at 5:32 pm
What did I possibly say that would lead you to believe I condoned drunk driving? My best friend’s brother was killed by a drunk driver.
You stupid worthless mistake.
September 10, 2008 at 6:53 pm
You missed the entire point. I will go real slow so maybe you can follow along. You take such pleasure in making fun of pentecostal people for “flailing about” and making “abnormal sounds” but nothing they do is more extreme than the everyday actions of “normal” people in their pursuit of pleasure. You are so obviously biased against Pentecostal people you would not reconize truth if it slapped you in the face.
September 10, 2008 at 7:57 pm
I have never been hated so much anywhere by any religious groups as I have been by Brethren and Baptist Christians, pastors when they find out I am a Pentecostal … their evident fruits of hatred alone shows how false they themselves now are too. they clearly had, do manifest the opposite of the fruit of the Holy Spirit which is love.
http://grafted.wordpress.com/2008/08/16/lakeland-outpouring-discernment/
September 10, 2008 at 8:18 pm
Yeah, well, I think the Baptists are just as batshit, does that make you feel better?
So no, Joel — I think ALL Fundamentalists, of EVERY religion, are idiots.
There is hope though. They have brains, and they are capable of using them, starting today!
But until they do, morons.
September 11, 2008 at 2:26 am
I think the recent large quantities of recent mud slinging abundant Pentecostal dirt digging by the Democrats. Liberals not only shows their clear fears and desperation of losing to a great republican woman Sarah Palin.. but shows how low they are too..
September 11, 2008 at 2:45 am
No, you idiot, it shows that liberals are the fucking adults in this country.
Considering the fact that there’s a decent chance McCain will die in his first term, if elected, liberals are the ones saying “oh my fucking god you have no respect for this country and the principles on which it was founded, nor have you any respect for her or her citizens today if you even entertain the thought for a half second of putting this dumb-ass woman with her philistine BABY religious beliefs and her lack of a record ANYWHERE near the nuclear codes.”
So stop all your fucking Christian martyr bullshit, and grow the fuck up!
September 11, 2008 at 9:46 am
>>No, you idiot, it shows that liberals are the fucking adults in this country.
that statement alone shows they are not to all..
September 11, 2008 at 9:58 am
United States Republican Sarah Palin vice president nominee is not spelled Plain at all
http://anyonecare.wordpress.com/2008/09/08/wonder-woman-sarah-palin/
http://anyonecare.wordpress.com/2008/09/07/prophetic-utterances-republican-sarah-palin/
Barack Obama suffered a case of foot-in-mouth disease when he seemed to attack Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin
“ANCHORAGE, Alaska– The biggest issue on the presidential campaign trail for the last news cycle has actually revolved around lipstick. The controversy revolves around a joke Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin told during her speech last week. Barack Obama made a comment about “lipstick” on Tuesday. The John McCain campaign quickly fired back with an advertisement . All of a sudden important issues involving the economy, education, and health care have become lost in the slop. The joke Palin told was perhaps most the memorable line in her speech: “You know the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? Lipstick.” While speaking in Virginia on Tuesday, Obama made reference to McCain’s economic plan.
“You can put lipstick on a pig. It’s still a pig,” said Obama. The McCain campaign saw the comment as directed at Palin and quickly rushed out an ad for the internet, alleging sexism by the Obama campaign. It turns out that McCain himself has used the same pig reference before talking about New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s economic policy. At a campaign stop on Wednesday, Obama lashed out at the McCain ad. “I don’t care what they say about me. I love this country too much to let them take over another election with lies and phony outrage and swift boat politics. Enough is enough,” he said.
With the lipstick diversion aside, it appears the Obama campaign is still trying to figure out how to respond to McCain’s wildcard pick from Alaska and regain lost momentum. “http://www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?S=8989255
so next the Democrat spin doctors will flub again?
September 11, 2008 at 3:20 pm
No, it doesn’t, you moron!
September 11, 2008 at 3:22 pm
You are so much dumber than I thought.
God!
This is what Fundamentalists do…they eschew education for “homeschooling” and then when a presidential candidate uses a well-known expression, they buy into the fake media outrage about it.
Stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid.
I wrote several times about this yesterday, too. If you would click the banner at the top instead of obsessively focusing on one thread like a goddamned Asperger’s child, you would know this.
September 11, 2008 at 3:41 pm
Verbal abuse is always unacceptable too. So are the Bullies now Even for Christians! verbal abuse by pastorS NOW ESPECIALLY TOO.
“This is from the book by Patricia Evans http://andthenshecried.wordpress.com/2008/02/05/the-verbally-abusive-relationship-how-to-recognize-it-and-how-to-respond
Verbal abuse is a kind of battering which doesn’t leave evidence like physical abuse does. However, it can be just as painful, and recovery can take much longer. The victim of abuse lives in a gradually more confusing realm. In public she is with one man, in private he becomes another. Often, for the verbally abused woman (man), there is no witness to her reality and no one to understand her experiences. Friends and family continue to see her ex, the abuser, as a really good guy and, certainly, he agrees with them. The verbal abuser, while maintaining his charm with others, always takes his abuse behind closed doors. It is a means of holding power over his wife( husband) /partner.. Many women and some men leave a marriage and come back into the singles’ world with the diminished self-esteem that comes from a verbally abusive relationship. The fact that many of these women (men) have never even realized that they were being abused, makes it easy for them to enter another abusive relationship. A verbal abuser is an insecure person and immature person who is looking for power and control over another.In order to help you recognize abuse, remember that all forms of verbal abuse are methods of manipulating you for the purpose of establishing power over you. The following are some of the forms of verbal abuse the author helps you recognize.
Withholding: a purposeful, silent treatment.
Countering: a countering of your ideas, feelings, and perceptions, even going so far as to refute what he misconstrues you to have said.
Discounting–a putdown of you or something you hold dear.
Blocking and diverting–this is a sneaky, covert way of violating your dignity.
Accusation and blame: generally involves lies about the partner’s intentions, attitudes, and motives. The author states that accusation and blame is present in all verbally abusive relationships.
Judging and criticizing: lies about your personal qualities and performance.
Trivializing and undermining: abusive behavior which makes light of your work, your efforts, your interests, or your concerns. The abuser attempts to dilute meaning and value in your life. Undermining might occur when your partner laughs at you, for example, when you burn yourself cooking. It is also jokes at your expense. Undermining is occurring when you feel a “so-called joke” is mean rather than funny.
Name calling: no one has a right to call you degrading names. Name calling is verbal abuse.
Ordering: Telling you to do something, rather than asking, or making decisions for you or for the two of you without your input.
Forgetting and denial: the trickiest form of denial is forgetting. Become aware that forgetting is a form of denial that shifts all responsibility from the abuser to some “weakness of mind.”
Abusive anger: this seems to be closely linked to the need to “blow up,” to dominate, to control, to go one up, and to put down. Any time you are snapped at or yelled at, you are being abused.
Threatening: Physical threats and sexual threats aside, verbal threats are an effort at manipulation. For example, a threat to leave, stay out all night, or take you home immediately is a manipulation for power. The threat of “pending disaster” is designed to shatter the partner’s serenity as well as her boundaries.
If you counter the abuser or attempt to explain yourself, you will probably be met with such statements as, “I don’t want to hear it, get out of my face” or “Woman you don’t have the brains“, “B” You shouldn’t have said that to me“.
f you are in a brand-new relationship and see warning signs of verbal abuse, the author suggests you might be wise to let the relationship go. It is not likely that a man (woman) who needs to dominate and control will change easily, if at all. It is also likely that when the newness of the relationship wears off, he will become more abusive. Verbal abuse can become physical in time and physical abuse is always preceded by verbal abuse, according to Evans.If you are in a long-term relationship, you can respond to the abuser as the book suggests and soon discover for yourself whether or not your mate is willing to change and stop his abusive behavior.
“If you have been verbally abused in your relationship, you may have discovered that explaining and trying to understand have not improved your relationship. Therefore, I recommend that you respond in a new way–a way that will make an emotional, psychological, and intellectual impact upon your mate.”
The abuser in your relationship may change when he finds that you do know when you are being abused, that you have set limits, that you mean what you say, and that you will not take behavior you don’t like.
If the man ( or sadly too often now a women) in your relationship remains abusive, it is not only not your fault,” but it is your responsibility to deal with it, make it public, call the police too.
Any person cannot still fight with you of you leave his or her presences, even forever.. and there is still a good life after a failed marriage now too. I practise what I preach and often now too.
SEE ALSO http://thefocusonthefamily.wordpress.com/2008/07/17/the-too-common-abusive-silent-treatment/
Hey if you read my many non conforming posts you will note that I definitely, and loudly, rightfully still do not conform to the false or immoral demands of others..
I was really now fortunate I had great teachers here in Canada, in my public school, in high School and in University in Montreal Quebec, and all of them now had treated me as a real person, respected me, and allowed me to speak. and to be heard as well.
Not one of them no one told me what I can talk about write about or what I cannot as well. At work as a Professional Engineer, or as a Professional Realtor with Re/Max I was allowed continually as a responsible, a mature adult to make my own decisions, and top also carry out my responsibilities in the manner I chose to do them as well.
So I have to admit it came to me as a shock firstly when I started to attend evangelical, Baptist Pentecostal churches in Canada now as an adult that that same right to be respect, top speak, and to be heard, not to be bullied, falsely oppressed. Legal and Human rights that I had before, often now did not exist in the churches surprisingly now of all places. Never saw so many control freaks, human rights abusers in my whole life next to the too often bad cops now too. And perversely many a despotic, crooked elder, pastor had wrongfully tried to shut me up, and even next had resorted next to slander me, to try to discredit me and what I had said, or whatever, now even both in Quebec and in Alberta.
But like I have often said elsewhere the Evangelical church was not the only place where they tried to deny me my right to speak and to be heard now, for too often too and unacceptable the Alberta bullies, rednecks now on the net had wrongfully tried often and falsely to suppress my right of free speech, but next so did not too many a Politician, particularly, ironically again both the professing Christian ones, and the definitely alcoholic ones now too.. what they were falsely deluded that only politicians had the right of free speech and the right to be heard it seems too .
Next too many bad police officers as well did not like me openly, publically complaining about the too often bad cops, bad RCMP had encountered in Alberta, Quebec, and not just the too many bad pastors, elders too, and in other provinces as well.. and what these bad cops, bad watchdogs, forget they are here to serve the good welfare of the citizens? for they are not our despotic slave drivers.. nor are their bosses for that matter now too.
Now what bothered them all now so much that they had tried to shut me up? my transparency, honesty, or it seems the mere exercise of case of my rights . For in reality it seems at least 10 percent of the persons even on the net seem to be control freaks, bullies, human rights abusers.
I often read complaints on the net from some child complaining that that one of their parents is verbally abusing them, or even a spouse complain that their spouse is abusing them. I have heard people tell me how pastors had abused them as well. Children and spouses sometimes are forced to put up with it?? But not me, for I am not a child, rather a matured adult, a retired senior in fact. And I can clearly, rightfully speak for myself and talk on any topic now as I so desire as well as we all can readily see and I do so now too. And for the good of us all now too.
Beware always of men and women, bullies, tormentors, control freaks, persons, civil and public servants, politicians, pastors, leaders, elders, who falsely do, will try to enslave you, oppress you, exploit you even while they claim they are proclaiming the truth, democracy, trying to help you, etc.,
Is 51:23 ..your tormentors {and} oppressors, those who said to you, Bow down, that we may ride {or} tread over you; and you have made your back like the ground and like the street for them to pass over.
Here also is what I know for sure, the older the person is the more extreme, more severe, the more difficult the punishment has to be on them to cause them to personally to change in their own negative ways, for they are too set in them now too.
http://thefocusonthefamily.wordpress.com/2008/07/03/verbal-abuse-is-always-unacceptable-too/
September 11, 2008 at 3:44 pm
Not reading that.
Are you serious?
One of the first rules of blogging is “get to the point.”
Great to find out that you’re another Canadian whose viewpoint on the American elections is absolutely irrelevant.
Let the record show, and let the record show that it’s not just the backwards flyover states in the US that have a “fundamentalist” problem, it’s also backwards uneducated Alabama, I mean Alberta, the “flyover” state of Canada.
Fuckin’ great.
September 22, 2008 at 11:50 am
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September 24, 2008 at 12:35 am
I think she should be in the white house.I`m a pentecostal too and I think it`s mean of you to say that stuff about us.Your religions are in the goverment all the time doyou think we don`t like it? At least we don`t say anything about you.
September 24, 2008 at 12:53 am
Due to which qualifications, Ash?
The fact that she’s a Pentecostal? Because, if so, I’d like you to read the Constitution.
And, “my religions”? You don’t know what “my religions” are. Believe me, I make fun of all religions on this blog at one time or another.
Join the club.
And believe me, your kind says LOTS about people like me. It’s written in your belief systems!
October 1, 2008 at 1:09 pm
Evan- you are ANGRY- lol.. sad.
October 1, 2008 at 1:14 pm
Are you kidding?
Whatev.
October 1, 2008 at 1:18 pm
lol.. see?
October 1, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Sorry you interpret that as anger.
Perhaps you should read my blog a little more to get a sense of how I say things.
October 1, 2008 at 1:36 pm
it’s not just anger. it’s overt attacking people’s different views. I dont think anynone, not even you could possible believe that they are correct in all their thoughts and creedos. You know, Judging by the quickness of your responses it seems like you “pounce” on everyone’s comments you judge dumb or stupid and that, my friend, seems like a whole lot of judging. The practice of judging someone comes from the inherent belief that we are better than that whom we judge. I dont think you believe you are better than all of us do you? There are things out there that neither you or I will ever understand or know and judging without an infinite factual knowledge specially of the spiritual which actually involves no facts at all is well.. rather human,uninspired and plainly wrong. About the only certain fact we humans can be sure of is that we suffer an extreme lack of knowledge which renders us unqualified to judge.
October 1, 2008 at 1:41 pm
I “pounced” because I happen to be here, updating.
However, I’m inclined to agree with Bill Maher when he says that the problem with Palin is that she believes all this shit literally and seems to, as evidenced by video footage that’s come out, believe that God is literally having a say in public policy.
That’s creepy. We’ve had a president like that for the last eight years, and he’s almost single-handedly scarred the reputation and health of this nation, with his ignorant ramblings about being able to “see into peoples’ souls” and his pathetic “good vs. evil” framing of foreign policy.
It’s precisely this certainty that I’m “judging.” You are correct that we don’t have an infinite factual knowledge, so it’s patently disturbing when people suggest that they do.
October 1, 2008 at 2:03 pm
i’ll grant you that last point. i did not agree with much of the Bush doctrine. i honestly believe he is a good man who made a horrendous amount of terrible mistakes that given his position affected the world. He suffered from the same thing all humans do: humanity. The only thing i am commenting on is the ability to witness and experience amazing spiritual things. Your human experience is different than my human experience and so on. I was once “regular” with lukewarm catholic views, modeling with the world at “her feet” as they say and now i am a church singer who has witnessed cancer disappear, a little brain dead boy come back after prayer, a mother cured from stomach cancer and i myself cured from early stage leukemia. Just because you dont see or experience something it does not mean it does not exists. The miracles in my home are palpable. If we have no food on a thursday my mother will ask the lord for it an hour or two later a random church goer will knock our door with bags full of groceries and say “God told me to bring you this, dont know why”… You cannot deny this happens or deem it crazy or unthruthful becasue it does not happen to you. It also does not make me a crazy person or incapable of holding office if i wanted to.
October 1, 2008 at 2:04 pm
i would make a great president :p
October 1, 2008 at 2:10 pm
Except here’s the problem:
Medical science cured those diseases. I’m quite aware that there are things that we don’t always understand, but it doesn’t mean it’s a “miracle.” I believe in God, or something, out there, but I come from the reverse situation: I used to be an evangelical, and I believed that God had ordained everything, but it’s been life experience that caused me to actually ask questions and think for myself.
What I object to, with Palin specifically, but more in general, with most religious forays into politics, is the belief that somehow this is a “Christian” nation, that the Bible should have any place in our public policy, that religion is anything but a private matter. I’m not objecting to people having religious beliefs. Unfortunately, in this country, we do indeed have a “religious test” for the presidency. I yearn for the day that an atheist could be elected president, or at least for the day when no candidate of either party would be forced to talk about their faith.
Why? Because it’s absolutely irrelevant to the governing of this country. So yeah, when I see video of a Kenyan witchhunter praying over Sarah Palin, or of Sarah Palin asking constituents to pray for a freakin’ oil pipeline because it’s “God’s will” or praying that “God’s will” be done in Iraq, as if God would ever advocate for unprovoked genocide and ethnic cleansing (state-sponsored terrorism with a bigger budget, if you will), then yes, that is a candidate I cannot, could not, and never would support.
October 1, 2008 at 2:19 pm
But I’m not going to give Bush the benefit of the doubt of being a “good person.”
I think Bush is a flawed man, like all of us, but George W. Bush is simple-minded, which is different from being stupid. Bush doesn’t see issues in terms of nuance or details, but rather as black & white. It’s a very primitive mindset: They bad, we good, etc. It’s a mindset that leads to a kind of tunnel-vision focus that tunes out voices of dissent. John McCain has a lot of that quality, and Sarah Palin, as per her record, does, too.
It’s a quality shared by many religious fundamentalists, and some who aren’t, but it’s dangerous.
So…Bush as a good man. Eh. I think Bush thinks he’s doing the right things, but his concept of right and wrong is really screwed up, and his mind is incapable of grasping issues from a nuanced, detailed perspective. Also, he has a lot of ulterior motives, I think, that have a lot to do with padding the pockets of his bid’ness buddies.
Here’s an example of what I’m talking about, though, with believing the religious stuff TOO literally: There’s a subset of Christians who talk a lot about how they “support Israel,” yet they couldn’t tell you who the prime minister of Israel is. Why do they “support Israel”? Well, because they believe one interpretation of Revelation just a little bit too literally, and that they have to let Israel do whatever it wants so Armageddon can happen and Jesus can come back. If you want to believe that privately, that’s fine, but it’s no excuse for advocating for shitty Zionist policies. As a result of some of that, we give Israel carte blanche as an occupying power with a history of genocidal offenses against the Palestinians.
“Because God says so.”
No, he doesn’t.
October 1, 2008 at 2:34 pm
i assure you these were not cured by medical science. Neither my mother or i had medical insurance so past the diagnostic tests there was no medical treatment whatsoever. One day the cancer was there, a few days later it was not, doctor baffled of course. It is impossible for any leader to remain neutral. What we believe colors our behavior, thoughts, actions, evrything. Regarding this country- America was built upon strong christian beliefs and it has been our foray out of a relationship with God that is leading to our downfall. It actually does not matter who has been or will be elected in the large scheme of things actually as the course of our demise and salvation has already been prophesied. This “socialist” bailout plan movement of the Fed govt essentially owning the last few remaining large banking institutions is not a coincidence just a mere stepping stone to the fall of the world. The “real id act” of 2005 which approved and passed by Bush is in essence a federal id as opposed to state regulated is another tidbit leading us to a vastly less independent world. The”chip” holding your medical, financial , personal records is part of this act- while not yet the mark of the beast it is certainly enough to keep you on the edge of your seat…
October 1, 2008 at 2:39 pm
I’ve got to go but this has been fun : )- have a fantastic day. Gold bless!
October 1, 2008 at 2:46 pm
Okay, but here’s the thing: People also die every day of cancer. Many of them prayed for miracles, too.
What’s more likely is that we don’t understand everything yet, but one day we will. Far too often people attribute to “miracles” things that are just lucky coincidences.
Now, here’s what I have to explain — it is your belief that our “demise and salvation” have been prophesied, but there is no factual proof of that. There is not one shred of evidence that it’s true. If it is your belief, that’s fine, but we have to have a line where we separate belief from verifiable facts. That’s what I’m talking about when I talk about choosing our leaders.
I often get into this argument with people who are fervent believers — that supporting a candidate or a policy merely because of one’s religious beliefs isn’t good enough. There have to be facts, as well. As in, “I believe in this program for impoverished mothers because the research shows that it would be effective, and also it falls in line with Jesus’s command to give to the poor.” That’s different from “We need to start lots of wars in the Middle East because Jesus is coming back, but he won’t come back until the shit really hits the fan over there.” The first is reasonable, the second is not.
Also? I’m sorry, but the idea of the United States being founded on Christian beliefs is simply not true. That’s revisionist history. Most of the Founding Fathers were Deists. Thomas Jefferson simultaneously considered Christianity to be the most flawed system known to man, and yet considered Jesus to be the greatest teacher who ever lived. He even went as far as to create a Jeffersonian version of the Gospels that literally cut out everything with supernatural implications, but left the teachings.
The idea that the country was founded as a “Christian” nation is nothing less than Fundamentalist propaganda and lies.
Also? This bailout doesn’t have supernatural implications. This bailout is the result of three decades of free-market fundamentalist policies and deregulation, supported by Republicans (the party of “faith”) and a few bad Democrats.
Here’s what funny: The people who support the bailout on the left, the ones who are supposed to be the “socialists,” myself included, are doing so not because we like it, but because, unfortunately, it’s necessary. If we “leftists” and “socialists” (such stupid terms) had had our way, good strong regulation on the markets would be the norm, a healthy middle ground if you will, and we wouldn’t be in this situation in the first place!
October 1, 2008 at 6:43 pm
I would rather have someone in the White House speaking in tongues than speaking Socialism and Black liberation theology.
October 1, 2008 at 10:00 pm
Define “socialism” and “black liberation theology” for me, and then use them in sentences you made up by yourself, please.
Dingbat.
October 2, 2008 at 8:56 pm
Evan, I couldn’t agree more. Speak out, you say it well.
October 4, 2008 at 1:33 am
I would Like to inform you that you have not read the
Bible. What you are clamming has no validity because you are sad to say,
With out God in your life. You will be held responsible, before God for your actions. I believe you have no convictions, and I feel sorry for you. May God speak to you and change your heart. Read Gods word for the answer to what happens to those who try to ruin someone’s reputation. I am not a Pentecostal. But I do know what they believe. Sorry you are so wrong!
Bob
October 4, 2008 at 4:58 am
Oh, God, do shut up.
I know the Bible.
You people all think you’re saying something unique when you leave comments like this, but you all repeat the same brainwashed mantras.
October 27, 2008 at 3:46 pm
“No, you idiot, it shows that liberals are the fucking adults in this country.”
Ruled.
But, the “Oh, God, do shut up” was a load full of awesome.
Translated for the weirdos: aboo-boo, doo-doo, poopy duh poopy, da, da.
BTW, preemptive forgiveness for the swipe on Alabama. I guess we earn that, but ignorance abounds across the good ol’ USA.