Seth Milner wrote:Vrede too wrote:Patients today and tomorrow, I volunteered so those with young kids and travel wishes could be off.
You'll be back to your old self Saturday. Happy Holidays you old goat; despite the circumstances!
Not even a thank you? Did I sleep through Saturday?
So, an attempt to convert one person disappoints and pisses him off, instead, makes Christians look bad and risks getting his food spit on. Smart.Teen Waiter Discovers $20 Tip Is Actually A Bible Pamphlet In Disguise
... He has been waiting tables for about a year, and he told INSIDE EDITION that $20 would have been a phenomenal tip for him to get.
He added that the customer has returned to the restaurant and each time he dines there, he leaves the same disguised bible pamphlet instead of a real tip.
Shit, you know what, maybe I ought to just send in bible pamphlets instead of checks when I pay my bills.Vrede too wrote:So, an attempt to convert one person disappoints and pisses him off, instead, makes Christians look bad and risks getting his food spit on. Smart.Teen Waiter Discovers $20 Tip Is Actually A Bible Pamphlet In Disguise
... He has been waiting tables for about a year, and he told INSIDE EDITION that $20 would have been a phenomenal tip for him to get.
He added that the customer has returned to the restaurant and each time he dines there, he leaves the same disguised bible pamphlet instead of a real tip.
A real asshole. I wonder how his church would take it if those pamphlet 20's started showing up in their offering plates.JTA wrote:Vrede too wrote:Shit, you know what, maybe I ought to just send in bible pamphlets instead of checks when I pay my bills.
It would be funny to put them in a collection basket.JTA wrote:Shit, you know what, maybe I ought to just send in bible pamphlets instead of checks when I pay my bills.
Or donate them to the local Republican party. And declare the donations on your taxes.Vrede too wrote:It would be funny to put them in a collection basket.JTA wrote:Shit, you know what, maybe I ought to just send in bible pamphlets instead of checks when I pay my bills.
Bottom line, gimme, gimme, gimme. We got pricey cars, homes, and extravagant lifestyles to pay for.In these times of increasing fanaticism and heated rhetoric,
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That's the bottom line for the those trying to remove the separation of church and state. JUST LOOK at the antics in the Evangelical Christian community, many little more than scams to fleece the elderly and gullible.Seth Milner wrote:Bottom line, gimme, gimme, gimme. We got pricey cars, homes, and extravagant lifestyles to pay for.
rstrong wrote:That's the bottom line for the those trying to remove the separation of church and state. JUST LOOK at the antics in the Evangelical Christian community, many little more than scams to fleece the elderly and gullible.Seth Milner wrote:Bottom line, gimme, gimme, gimme. We got pricey cars, homes, and extravagant lifestyles to pay for.
I see nothing but a pissing contest.
Vrede too wrote:Seth Milner's just making whiny excuses for learning and doing nothing, again.
To use one of your famous lines: "you're projecting again"®. Learning and doing nothing? It's the religious, the atheists, and the liberal's pissing contest, not mine.
One can read the info. and do the actions without giving a cent.
But that's not the preferred method. It's still gimme, gimme, gimme regardless who's agenda it is. Religion and hate for religion is older than time; your dollars, or mine won't make a bit of difference. We'll all go to our graves and the pissing will still be going on. Go ahead, send in your money, somebody's girlfriend needs a new diamond.
I am unable to believe in a God susceptible to prayer. I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits, and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
-Quentin Crisp
A Deal With The Devil?: Phoenix City Council Adopts New Policy To Block Satanic Invocation
The Phoenix City Council voted yesterday to replace its invocation practice with a moment of silence – but members didn’t exactly do it for noble reasons.
“Tonight the Phoenix City Council approved amending the practice related to invocations,” Julie Watters, a city spokeswoman, explained in a statement. “Effective immediately, and from this point forward, the new practice for the invocation will be a moment of silent prayer. The invocation is considered a city practice and the Council has the authority to change a city practice. At the next formal Phoenix City Council meeting on Wednesday, February 17, a moment of silent prayer will begin the meeting.”
The 5-4 vote appears to have been a response to a request from the Satanic Temple. A local representative of that group had applied to deliver an invocation at one of the council’s public meetings. That didn’t go over well with some councilors and with certain members of the public. At a heated public meeting, several citizens opposed the Satanic Temple’s presence, and some cited the Bible to justify their position.
“There are worse things to fear than a lawsuit. There is a Satan who wants to destroy us,” said a local man.
Local television stations KPHO and KTVK reported that the city’s attorneys warned councilors that banning a specific viewpoint opened the door to a legal case they’d likely lose. As per Greece v. Galloway, government bodies that open with invocations may be required to allow representatives from all faiths and none deliver the messages.
But according to city attorney Brad Holm, Phoenix may not have avoided a lawsuit after all. The Satanic Temple’s representative had already been scheduled to deliver her invocation. Since councilors adopted their new policy to block her invocation, she may have a case.
“The Council could change the schedule of speakers in prayer…in the future,” Holm said. “What we couldn’t do is apply it retroactively, in this case, to a person who already booked the prayer for Feb. 17 back in December.”
The Satanic Temple member, Michelle Shortt, has already indicated she’ll sue. “Our goal is to promote religious liberty within our state by demonstrating that all faiths are respected by the government of Arizona,” she wrote on her public Facebook page.
And Holm is correct: Shortt very likely has a point. It’s constitutional for city councils to choose to implement a moment of silence as an alternative to invocations. From a certain legal perspective, it’s actually preferable that they do so. But Phoenix may have wandered into unsteady legal ground when it acted to block Shortt specifically from its invocation practice.
It doesn’t matter, legally, if Phoenix residents and some city council members are offended by Shortt’s membership in the Satanic Temple. The First Amendment applies to all faiths and none, and if public officials wish to welcome God into their meetings they must also welcome the devil.
The wisest course of action would be for the city council to allow Shortt to deliver her invocation as scheduled, then shift to its new practice. It remains unclear if they intend to do so.
Maybe that guy was a serial killer, or maybe he would have grown to become Canada's Hitler.rstrong wrote:Meanwhile here in Winnipeg, a drunk driver going twice the speed limit hit a cyclist, badly injuring him. The defense: The crash was "God's will."
You know, I've always hated the phrase "The Lord works in mysterious ways." or, "everything happens for a reason."Vrede too wrote:. . . or the father of the next Justin Bieber.
God created fermentation.