And I thought I was bad, hoho: But t***h be told I am no better than Trump. By Christ and the Gospel. Maybe that is why I fixate on him. Never knew until into my late 60s (talk about...

rumitoid

But t***h be told I am no better than Trump. By Christ and the Gospel.

Maybe that is why I fixate on him. Never knew until into my late 60s (talk about self-awareness) how selfish and self-centered I was. Focal point of life my bellybutton: the universe was centered there. Even had this fantasy (though, haha, I gave more than some credence to) that I was the only person on earth; it was my stage. People and everything else just props, background. I would laugh at myself about that idea...yet not completely.

Foolishly thought of myself as a pretty nice guy. And that was what many in high school said about me, my tag line: I was a nice guy. But I was then and probably always was to this day in my head. How to look good. How to sound good. How to maintain a good image. Vacuous!

Why admit this, expose myself? Who I am, as I stated in the beginning, may account for my fixation of Trump as an exemplar of evil. Best to know a person's history when they so frequently attack the president. Weight on the issue can go either way.

Liberty Tree

rumitoid wrote:

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You have not changed.

vernon

Liberty Tree wrote:

You have not changed.

Low life free loader.

rumitoid

Liberty Tree wrote:

You have not changed.

According to Christ and the Gospel, neither have you.

rumitoid

vernon wrote:

Low life free loader.

Anything else? I mean something substantive.

Liberty Tree

rumitoid wrote:

According to Christ and the Gospel, neither have you.

You do not know much about the gospel.

rumitoid

Liberty Tree wrote:

You do not know much about the gospel.

You guys with your tiresome attacks and assumptions. How on earth do you know how much I know about the Gospel? Insane to attempt to insult me that way, childish, like sticking your tongue out. Just answer the thread and stop the insults.

Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

rumitoid wrote:

You guys with your tiresome attacks and assumptions. How on earth do you know how much I know about the Gospel? Insane to attempt to insult me that way, childish, like sticking your tongue out. Just answer the thread and stop the insults.

Being a Unitarian, you ought to just burn your Bible and start studying the Koran.

rumitoid

Blade_Runner wrote:

Being a Unitarian, you ought to just burn your Bible and start studying the Koran.

Okay, I will reply to this despicable breach of decency by your blind assumptions. (How can you stoop that low?)

Unitarians have liberal views of God, Jesus, the world and purpose of life as revealed through reason, scholarship, science, philosophy, scripture and other prophets and religions. Many early immigrant groups traveled to America to worship freely, particularly after the English Civil War and religious conflict in France and Germany.[10] They included nonconformists like the Puritans, who were Protestant Christians fleeing religious persecution from the Anglican King of England.

Franklin was a Unitarian. Washington cared little to nothing about religion but conceded the need for a moral code. Most of the rest of the Founding Fathers were Deists or Universalists: t***slated, Liberal Thinkers. Not founded as a Christian Nation, but an escape from it. Why? The wars and oppression of one sect over another in Europe. How many states in America were created because of persecution of a denomination?

Plymouth Colony was founded by Pilgrims, English Dissenters or Separatists, Calvinists.
Massachusetts Bay Colony, New Haven Colony, and the New Hampshire were founded by Puritan, Calvinist, Protestants.
New Netherland was founded by Dutch Reformed Calvinists.
The colonies of New York, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia were officially Church of England.

The Province of Pennsylvania was founded by Quakers, but the colony never had an established church.
West Jersey, also founded by Quakers, prohibited any establishment.
Delaware Colony.
The Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, founded by religious dissenters, is widely regarded as the first polity to grant religious freedom to all its citizens.

Rose42

Blade_Runner wrote:

Being a Unitarian, you ought to just burn your Bible and start studying the Koran.

I wouldn’t say burn it but read it and get someone to help him understand it.

rumitoid

Rose42 wrote:

I wouldn’t say burn it but read it and get someone to help him understand it.

I am going to make you like me finally.

Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

rumitoid wrote:

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Declarations of Founding Fathers and Early Statesmen on Jesus, Christianity, and the Bible

Thanksgiving Proclamation

[New York, 3 October 1789]

By the President of the United States of America. a Proclamation.

Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor—and whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me “to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness.”

Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be dev**ed by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be—That we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks—for his kind care and protection of the People of this Country previous to their becoming a Nation—for the signal and manifold mercies, and the favorable interpositions of his Providence which we experienced in the course and conclusion of the late war—for the great degree of tranquillity, union, and plenty, which we have since enjoyed—for the peaceable and rational manner, in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national One now lately instituted—for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed; and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and in general for all the great and various favors which he hath been pleased to confer upon us.

and also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech him to pardon our national and other t***sgressions—to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually—to render our national government a blessing to all the people, by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed—to protect and guide all Sovereigns and Nations (especially such as have shewn kindness unto us) and to bless them with good government, peace, and concord—To promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the encrease of science among them and us—and generally to grant unto all Mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as he alone knows to be best.

Given under my hand at the City of New-York the third day of October in the year of our Lord 1789.

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