there's just too diddley darn much religion in this here new century here!

[mopaul]

i mean, jeez, what's up with that? i was watching the cbs evening blues and they were interviewing people on the street about the papal election going on, and a little old roman lady said that 'nostradamus predicted if a black pope were elected, it signaled the end of the world' and she was a bit worried.

that report was immediately followed by a report about the rapid rise of evangelical born again religion in brazil, which is predominately catholic. the evangelical strain has given the often distant catholic church a run for it's money.

trent lott and bill frist are fomenting paranoia and persecution complexes among the easily fooled 'people of faith' by telling them WE liberals would take away their religion, or distill it with some of those lesser 'mud' religions.

you can't ignore religion's influence in america and around the world. our government's contemporary assholes have given the zealots too much, and now they want it all. shiites versus sunnis, irish catholics versus irish protestants, bosnian catholics versus croation catholics, jews versus muslims, born again evangelicals versus EVERYBODY ELSE.

there's just plain too ding dang diddley doodley darn much religion in this here shiny new modern enlightened twenty first century. just too ding dang much, that's all.

[Zenlitened]

1. Agreed. For many, many people, it's not a faith. It's a fetish.

:puke:

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

2. Overwhelming and overkill since the election...

Guess the MSM bought into the "moral" voters nonsense and are afraid they weren't doing enough to capture this audience.

Eventually, people will just avoid watching all the religion being shoved down their throats 24/7...guess those who want some in-depth news stories have to seek alternative sources and just wait out the nonsense.

[htuttle]

3. I think it's just come on about 5 years too late

About every thousand years, human civilization gets all goofy and superstitious. Dozens of would-be 'messiahs' roam the streets, people start sacrificing things left and right, dogs and cats living together -- real Old Testament stuff.

Happened around the year '0', again in the year 1000, and now I think the millenial madness was just a bit late. Maybe our calendars just a bit off after being adjusted too many times, who knows.

One would hope humans would have moved beyond the 'angry god who needs to be appeased' stage by now, but that is obviously not the case. At least not here in the US...

[NervousRex]

7. Heehehe...

love the Ghostbusters reference...:thumbsup:

[fighttotheend]

4. What bout -bible code they uncovered according to that we're all doomed

Scientist uncovered these hidden messages, and now there's a TV show about it--9/11 was the end of the beginning, GOD IS PISSED OFF, according to the study, we all doomed and our fate is natural disasters, and there is a web-site you can check it out for yourself but I'm too scared to check it out.

[mopaul]

5. the 12th planet is coming! 2012 approaches! britney is pregnant!

some of the above is true

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

8. Bwaaaahahahahaha....sure. nt

[coloradodem2005]

6. Jeez. I know how it is.

Suddenly, we are abandoning reality.

[Jade Fox]

9. Flanders is cloning himself.....

Where did all these people come from? Can we get them to go back?

Your third paragraph is particularly good. I see that more and more
every day.

[Frederik]

22. someone is cloning him

and it's diddely-dangerous.

[Pacifist Patriot]

10. We recovered from The Great Awakening. We can do it again.

Actually, the Great Awakening was a boon for liberal religion on this continent. I suspect a similar backlash will result.

[indepat]

11. Any religion fomenting partisan politics is too much religion in a land

of separation of church and state: a perverse defilement of both the deity and our Constitution.

[mopaul]

12. .....

....

[Just Me]

13. ,...religion without hope, without spirit,...

,...pulls us into darkness rather than lightens the shadows of human struggle,...

,...it's not the religion,...it's people whose insides are dark and angry and bitter that's causing all the turmoil.

[MisterP]

14. that was very good

[mopaul]

15. kick

[thebigidea]

16. we could always start our own religion and go around feeling persecuted

oh woe! woe!

I wanna wear a Benny Hinn suit and matching wig.

[LatePeriduct]

17. Sorry its hard to wake up to the truth.....

The government was taken over by a cult which is controlled by religion.

Informed people are protected people. http://wmadsen.blogspot.com

All the new junk about the fundamentalist crusades, are the dominionists way of saying we now control the future.

This cult born and bred in arlington virginia, hijacked the elections and re-wrote many laws and now they have center stage. They want to discipline the media until its all become their lapdog.

[ebayfool]

18. JamBoi ? Is that you? n/t

[LatePeriduct]

19. No? If you want to email him you can. n/t.

[moondust]

20. El Popa Dopa.

Highly addictive.

[Frederik]

21. It's scary

It certainly looks like religion - and not religion per se, but aggressive fundamentalist religion - is going to play a more prominent role in the 21st century than it did in the 20th. This was not how we used to envisage the future, was it.

[soup]

23. The writing is on the wall

Mon Apr 18, 1:44 PM ET REUTERS
Bette Shober (L) and Joanne Vrablik (R) take a closer look at what people believe to be an image of the Virgin Mary under a freeway underpass in Chicago, April 18, 2005. Police said the image might have been caused by stains from road salt that dripped from the Kennedy expressway onto the wall, but hundreds of believers have been coming to the underpass to view the image and pray at the spot. REUTERS/John Gress


and there are SIGNS everywhere
(this one says 'Emergency Parking Only' - any significance there?)

A faithful crowd gather around what people believe to be an image of the Virgin Mary under a freeway underpass in Chicago, April 18, 2005. Police said the image might have been caused by stains from road salt that dripped from the expressway onto the wall. REUTERS/John Gress

source:
&e=1&ncid=1756

[mopaul]

24. sigh

one of the oldest and most common visions. she turns up in the darndest places, her and her son.

[mopaul]

25. some Shiite women

ghostly to american standards, normal to them.

[mopaul]

26. ..& they shall take up serpents, & drink poison, & they shan't be harmed

[SweetLeftFoot]

27. Actually

what you say about Irish catholic vs Irish Protestant is incorrect. That conflict is NOT about religion. There are plenty of Irish protestants who live peaceful lives without harassment. they live in the 26 counties of the Republic. The Protestants who live in the north, by and large, would never consider themselves Irish, but British. That fight is about Irish nationalism vs loyalism to the British state.

It shouldn't be forgotten that the great ancestral heroes of the Irish republican movement are Protestants like Wolfe Tone.

[mopaul]

28. thanks for the correction

excessive brain damage.

seriously, i appreciate the info.