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Old 11-22-2012, 09:30 PM
 
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This is stirring a lot of heat. What Obama should be doing is inserting 'Thanking God' back in the Thanksgiving Address. To do so would be respecting the founders traditions and heritage.President Washington thanked God in 1789. President Washington and all of the other Founders did everything they could to secure the blessings of God for our country. What Obama has done is shear blasphemy: For Fourth Straight Year, Obama's Thanksgiving Message Doesn't Thank God
You don't like his haircut? Okay, but I'm not seeing blasphemy.
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Old 11-22-2012, 09:33 PM
 
Location: Rational World Park
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What does "blasphemy" have to do with the Government? Keep your hocus pocus around your dinner table and out of my government.
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Old 11-22-2012, 09:55 PM
 
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Then why ask a non-existen being to "bless" America? Isn't the President whom you cheer on being double-minded or -- worse -- deluded?





Maybe they just pretend they have religious leaders....

I wonder if the people who have these arguments circling in their heads ever realize how convoluted their talk is.
Being tolerant of others beliefs come to mind.......but I believe it only applies when speaking about Allah or Zeus!!
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Old 11-22-2012, 10:01 PM
 
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Here we go again with the "sky god" rhetoric. "Thank science?" - so a scientist sat down one day and invented the universe and all of eternity? The miracle of life is a mystery. No one knows for sure how it started...but we did not make ourselves - that is for sure. In the end..we all sit in diapers if we are lucky and wired up on morphine...no one is anything more than a helpless baby in the beginning and in the end...In the mean time- I ask only for mercy from a creator...cos YOU people will not be there for me in the end...I will have no one but God...whether he exists or not- HE is still more reliable than YOU.



I believe in god because that is how I was raised. I believe in him in a spiritual way though. I don't go to church anymore because the priests are just men...nothing special about them. Maybe god is a higher power, I don't know. What I do know is that you can't rely on an invisible entity even if you do believe. You have to rely and believe in yourself and not use god as a crutch.
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Old 11-22-2012, 10:02 PM
 
Location: Lower east side of Toronto
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Mr SWAGGERS is not thankful for anything. He has become one of the entitled. Now that he has a second term - God can kiss his ass.
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Old 11-22-2012, 10:07 PM
 
Location: Barrington
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This is stirring a lot of heat. What Obama should be doing is inserting 'Thanking God' back in the Thanksgiving Address. To do so would be respecting the founders traditions and heritage.President Washington thanked God in 1789. President Washington and all of the other Founders did everything they could to secure the blessings of God for our country. What Obama has done is shear blasphemy: For Fourth Straight Year, Obama's Thanksgiving Message Doesn't Thank God
Let me get this straight. Your belief system says that if the President does not ask God for blessings for the country, God will take his blessings and move on to another country?
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Old 11-22-2012, 10:10 PM
 
Location: Lower east side of Toronto
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I can hardly wait for the Christmas card threads..........
THERE WILL BE NO CHRISTMAS THREADS! Only polite and politically correct happy festive season threads...ANYONE mentioning Christmas will be banned for life......
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Old 11-22-2012, 10:14 PM
 
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Let me get this straight. Your belief system says that if the President does not ask God for blessings for the country, God will take his blessings and move on to another country?
If a less wicked country is in existence, I think so.
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Old 11-22-2012, 11:04 PM
 
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He actually does thank God

"Today we give thanks for blessings that are all too rare in this world."

Blessings come from God. If you're giving thanks for blessings you're thanking God
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Old 11-22-2012, 11:10 PM
 
Location: Seattle Area
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He mentions God twice in his official Thanksgiving Proclamation:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobile...n_2166941.html
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