Loki Loc: Georgia

The statement is directed at Lasher, and refers to an apparently contradictory statement he made about race mixing and trophy wives. It was not directed at you. Your choice of a wife, and her choice of a husband is none of my affair, and I doubt you need or are desirous of my opinion in the ordering of your own affairs. I neither condemn nor condone.

Lasher Loc: Georgia

I see no conflict at all.

Lasher Loc: Georgia

Show me a contradiction, old sport.

Lasher Loc: Georgia

That's just your opinion. It is liberals who have historically promoted and furthered race-mixing, not conservatives. Tell me of some social conservative who promotes race-mixing.

AfricanAtheist

Conservatives don't that's my point. If a person has a spouse of another race, they are not r****t.

Lasher Loc: Georgia

Right, one of them is sporting a trophy-wife and the other is a brain-washed, simpleton race-t*****r.

LAwrence

I am beginning to wonder if we have not all been brainwashed. One side believes the liberals are evil. The other side believes the conservatives are the evil ones. Could it be they are both right? Maybe we should be looking at the righteous laws that God has given us both personally and nationally to obey. I think we would be much better off.

AfricanAtheist

If the self professed conservative christians would just follow the teachings of christ which they claim to believe, we would be better off. Human nature should dictate that we treat each other with love and respect. However, too many people are selfish, cold and downright h**eful. Unforetunately, religion with its exclusive dogmas are mostly to blame. Please know I'm speaking of all religions not just christianity. Furthermore, I'm referring to the fundamentalists moreso than the person who uses it as a vehicle for navigating through life.

mmccarty12 Loc: Zionsville, Indiana

I agree that the hypocrisy rampant throughout the practitioners of Christianity is out of hand. I was raised Baptist, but decided as I got older that organized religion was not for me. I spent several years attending different churches trying to find the people who practiced the teachings of Christ. What I found, more and more, was:
We are all headed for hell. If you are not a practitioner of a particular sect of Christianity, you were doomed to hell.
Very few people actually practice what is preached. Even the ministers were notorious for violating the teachings of Christ.

The Catholics, in my opinion, are some of the worst. A person confesses to a sin to acknowledge that sin and ask for forgiveness. That same person then continues to commit the same sin over and over again, each time confessing to it, each time asking for forgiveness. Acknowledging the sin as a sin and asking for forgiveness means you will not commit the sin again. Committing that sin over and over and each time asking for forgiveness through confession does not appear to me to be practicing what is preached.

Religions, like Unions, have their uses, and if practiced correctly, can be beneficial to all. Unfortunately, the human factor being involved usually ends up destroying the benefits and become a detriment.

AfricanAtheist

I agree with what you're saying. However, I, like many others have come to the realization that religions were/are just humanities' answer to the unknowns of the world. It is becoming increasingly more obvious on a regular basis that it is more likely that there probably is no known creator and even if there is it strong appears that humanity has neither any knowledge of nor any relationship with such an entity. Religion, although useful to some seems to be no more than wishful thinking. Unforetunately, right wingers often try to use religion as a basis for law & since there is no factual basis this appears to be a very primitive approach to today's issues. I think the lack of it will eliminate exclusionary views and may be a better chance for world peace.

Lasher Loc: Georgia

I agree completely with you about there being no factual basis in religion as to the claims made by the Z*****ts that "God" promised them the area of Palestine and allowed them to terrorize the inhabitants (Palestinians) for 65 years. How ridiculous can humanity get?

Dave Loc: Upstate New York

You don't get that conservative policies are what created a middle class and are the only ones that will sustain it, and those of us who have attained middle class and understand how cannot understand why you support those that love poor people so much they have policies to sustain and even grow their numbers.