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My preferred choice of words is 'shoot me'. Goes down a treat in a busy office environment.
Yes. "Somebody please shoot me!" Is my preferred way to put it, but anymore in public these days, someone might just be all too ready to do me the favor...
Yes. "Somebody please shoot me!" Is my preferred way to put it, but anymore in public these days, someone might just be all too ready to do me the favor...
To someone like me that might be a welcome relief.
“FROM THE TOTALITARIAN point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned,” George Orwell wrote in “The Prevention of Literature” in 1946. “A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy, and its ruling caste, in order to keep its position, has to be thought of as infallible.”
Andrew L. Seidel chooses Orwell’s observation as one of two epigrams (the other by James Madison) to introduce his brilliant, ambitious, well-researched, and compelling new book, The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism is Un-American. Calling the claim that America was founded as a Christian nation (or, since the Holocaust, a Judeo-Christian nation) a “fabrication” and “political invention,” Seidel goes further: he demonstrates that “Judeo-Christian principles, especially those central to the Christian nationalist identity, are thoroughly opposed to the principles on which the United States was built.” Christianity is “un-American.”
It's one of the books I'm reading atm. I watched the author's talk on the subject a few months back so decided to get the book. It's not particularly revelatory but I'm curious how, being a lawyer, he would be able to tie it all in.
The father of a good friend of mine is something of a Mormon evangelist...
Also someone close to me, because his son and I spent a lot of time together growing up, so I came to know his father pretty well. He still likes to talk to me about his Mormon beliefs when we get together (like he enjoys talking to everyone who will listen), and I enjoy hearing what he has to say even though we both know I'm an atheist. Pointless, but something to talk about. Not too long ago he gave me a book that he insisted was all I needed to know about how the Mormon religion is a significant part of what has made America the country it is, as per Joseph Smith's Zionist revelation, up to and including the election of Trump. All part of God's plan.
I read the book over the course of a few days while visiting them, in the mornings since I am an early riser before most everyone else, giving me a little time to kill with a book. I forgot to bring mine with me, so I was glad to have the recommended reading to have instead. Anything to read really. I gave the book back to him before leaving with little comment other than to explain how it was a little difficult for me to buy all presented as fact in that book (to put it mildly). Unfortunately I can't remember the name of the book, and I can't look it up, because it is one of those free hand-out church produced books (a Mormon propaganda piece).
What I learned is that people can truly come to believe just about anything, and given the agenda of religions in general, coupled with all the long-tried-and-proven methods to get people to believe just about anything, there really is no point or hope to expect religious people to change or do better. Not sure it serves much point for me to read more about this sort of challenge or whatever else there is to read that helps separate the truth from fiction, because the truth simply doesn't matter. That and/or people simply don't know how to distinguish truth from fiction, or don't want to. I really don't know...
Quick movie recommendation before I sign off today...
Just finished watching this movie, "The Best of Enemies." I highly recommend you do too if you like hard-to-believe true stories. I'd say this is about the hardest to believe true story I've ever heard. Also in light of my Cement Theory, perhaps the greatest example of an exception to the rule I've ever come to know.
It looks a lot more like a parcel delivery company logo than the jackbooted militant atheist paramilitary badge I had expected, but we're not being charged much for it.
It looks a lot more like a parcel delivery company logo than the jackbooted militant atheist paramilitary badge I had expected, but we're not being charged much for it.
Brilliant! How do we copy that and put it on our posts?
Brilliant! How do we copy that and put it on our posts?
To use the logo in posts:
1. Save the image to your computer (*I won’t be leaving it on Google drive indefinitely)
2. Add the image/logo as an attachment to any of your posts (or to your profile photo album)
3. While viewing the image, right-click on it and choose “copy image link/location”
4. Use that link when you click on the ‘add image’ (formatting) button when composing a post (not sure if it’s possible to use an image in your post ‘signature’.)
I think he may merit a rep.
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Look what IWMN did
