How Cool Is Jimmy Carter!

Cleon said:
No, no, it isn't.
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Oh, yes it most certainly is. Carter is using his prestige and influence with the Obama administration, as a former president of the United States, to try to, in effect, elevate the status of Hamas, a terrorist organization with a charter calling for annihilation of Israel and genocide of Jews, within the US State Dep't and in the international community. He's placing his personal stamp of approval on savages who shoot rockets into Israel specifically during the morning hours in order to try to hit school buses. It just doesn't get any worse than Hamas.
 
Mark A. Siefert said:
I do.

I feel it every time I hear some right-wing commentator accuse me and other atheists of being Communist; every time I'm told by my father that "I don't believe in anything" because I no longer go to Mass; every time I have to keep my mouth shut while some religious or woo ass tells me that "science doesn't know everything" or that "evolution is just a theory" when what I really want to do is scream my head off in their face about how wrong they are; every time I read a church sign telling me how I deserved to be tortured for all eternity because I have the brains to see that there are no magic men who live in the sky.

I want to scream. I want act up. I knock the Creationist's teeth down their throats. I want to burn down their churches and temples and build brothels over the top of them. I want their holy books recycled into toilet paper.

But that's not the "nice" thing to do. That would only give them ammo to use against us. They have to whole damn culture on their side to condemn us while all we do is chatter amongst ourselves in our forums and freethought clubs. If anyone dares to speak out, even when using he most milquetoast of language, they're shouted down as being "militant"--EVEN BY OTHER SO-CALLED ATHEISTS!

I feel more than squashed, I feel suffocated.

So you'll forgive me for not being a fan of my theist neighbors.
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Mark,

It's fine and cool if you want to be an atheist. No problem there. I admire your courage for standing up for your beliefs and for being an independent thinker. That's cool.

But why the anger and hatred against those who choose to practice religion? Why do you want to do harm to religious people? That's not cool. What would such violence accomplish? (Other than getting arrested and convicted for hate crimes?) Nothing positive could come out of this type of behavior.

Why can't you believe in what you want to believe and let other people believe what they want to believe?

It seems that your anti-religion anger is making you hurt, depressed, and anger all the time. You seem like a very cool, caring, and sensitive guy. But you might want to consider moving away from the anti-religious hate to finding something cool that you like to do. Your wargaming, writing, models, sci-fi shows/movies. You won't be able to change belief systems that are so embedded in certain people, so why even bother trying?

You can show pride in being an atheist. But IMO you're trying to be one man changing the world when their are Bible thumpers that aren't going to change. As an atheist, I'd say just don't listen to them and find some fun activities and friends that can make you happy, so that you'll feel less angry and stressed.

Jeff
 
maxpower1227 said:
...you mean a Chouist? ;)
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Or a Tungist.

(In those days, it was Mao Tse Tung rather than the "Mousy Dung" pronunciation we are now told is more correct.)

Between Tungist and the "chew and lie, " the Chinese suggest where to kiss and not tell, a bit different from the French. :eye-poppi

DR


(Chou En Lai -> chew and lie)
 
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Mark A. Siefert said:
I would argue that like all liberal or moderate or fundamentalist Christians, Carter is cherry picking and misquoting his holy book in a desperate attempt to white wash over the barbarism of a faith that he's either psychologically unable or politically unwilling to let go of.
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Fixed it for you.
 
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